John Faucett
@jafaucett.bsky.social
Retired, liberal, UU. Current avocations: volunteer museum docent, hiking, ballroom dancing. Formerly, an experimental physicist (10 years), software developer (33 years).
So proud! In response to Bluesky's post about the new logo, I replied "Consider it to be a transification." Too radical, I guess, they deleted it.
October 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
So proud! In response to Bluesky's post about the new logo, I replied "Consider it to be a transification." Too radical, I guess, they deleted it.
It's a nice echo chamber–kitties and all
October 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It's a nice echo chamber–kitties and all
Oops! After banning gender-affirming care in 2023, Utah also commissioned a study about the outcomes of such care. Guess what? Scientific processes are so inconvenient!
www.intomore.com/culture/utah...
www.intomore.com/culture/utah...
Utah Republicans just f-ed around and found out - INTO
They didn't get the bigoted results they'd planned on
www.intomore.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Oops! After banning gender-affirming care in 2023, Utah also commissioned a study about the outcomes of such care. Guess what? Scientific processes are so inconvenient!
www.intomore.com/culture/utah...
www.intomore.com/culture/utah...
I'm confused–are we great now or do we have to wait until July?
April 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I'm confused–are we great now or do we have to wait until July?
I'm surprised that DOdGEy hasn't yet fired all the cattle guards—there must be tens of thousands of them.
April 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I'm surprised that DOdGEy hasn't yet fired all the cattle guards—there must be tens of thousands of them.
What terrifies Musk and many of the other industrialists is the possibility that Americans will discover that they don't need cars.
What if the 'Tesla Takedown' Is Only the Beginning? — Streetsblog USA
Tesla's cars have become symbols of Elon Musk's controversial role in U.S. politics — but they're also instruments of a violent system that long predates his time in the White House.
usa.streetsblog.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
What terrifies Musk and many of the other industrialists is the possibility that Americans will discover that they don't need cars.
There's no Arizona law specifying which bathroom a person can use, but this does not stop the cops from taking action.
Cops burst into women's restroom to remove butch lesbian, accusing her of being a man - LGBTQ Nation
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
There's no Arizona law specifying which bathroom a person can use, but this does not stop the cops from taking action.
Are today's Democrats too stuck to effectively counter the current challenges?
"The people in charge are so out of touch": Pelosi challenger pitches a "new" Democratic Party
AOC's ex-chief of staff and co-founder of the Justice Democrats warns the GOP is "moving too fast" for Dems.
www.salon.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Are today's Democrats too stuck to effectively counter the current challenges?
When brains get too full...🧪
Scientists Tested AI For Cognitive Decline. The Results Were a Shock.
It's barely been two years since OpenAI's ChatGPT was released for public use, inviting anyone on the internet to collaborate with an artificial mind on anything from poetry to school assignments to l...
www.sciencealert.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
When brains get too full...🧪
Many articles about the Toronto crash say the airplane "flipped" upside down. That may get lots of clicks but, sorry, the plane "rolled over" while traveling along the runway. See the video.
February 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Many articles about the Toronto crash say the airplane "flipped" upside down. That may get lots of clicks but, sorry, the plane "rolled over" while traveling along the runway. See the video.
There's about 500 English words that start with trans. If you hyphenate all such words in your ordinary writing, then perhaps you'll be wasting the time of computer programs that are looking for targets.
February 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There's about 500 English words that start with trans. If you hyphenate all such words in your ordinary writing, then perhaps you'll be wasting the time of computer programs that are looking for targets.
The unpopularity of diversity is an illusion. The article says, '... while about 82% of participants in these studies agreed with statements like “Racial diversity benefits the country,” participants believed only around 55% of Americans would agree.'
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
MSN
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February 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The unpopularity of diversity is an illusion. The article says, '... while about 82% of participants in these studies agreed with statements like “Racial diversity benefits the country,” participants believed only around 55% of Americans would agree.'
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
One can buy black t-shirts on the web that say ICE on them. What would happen if millions of people bought $5 ICE shirts (surely someone can make them for less than $19)? Would that dilute the authority of ICE thugs enough to slow them down?
February 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
One can buy black t-shirts on the web that say ICE on them. What would happen if millions of people bought $5 ICE shirts (surely someone can make them for less than $19)? Would that dilute the authority of ICE thugs enough to slow them down?
I'm wondering if the real motivation for all those anti-trans actions is that "if one is going to be grabbing, one wants to be sure what is being grabbed"
February 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I'm wondering if the real motivation for all those anti-trans actions is that "if one is going to be grabbing, one wants to be sure what is being grabbed"