Dan but with an emoji, I guess @Sowkrdan@tabletop.social

A bit of context on likely societal impacts of forced childbirth. The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world, and unlike other wealthy countries, the rate is rising, not falling: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/health/maternal-mortality.html

"According to the CDC, black mothers in the U.S. die at three to four times the rate of white mothers, one of the widest of all racial disparities in women’s health…The disproportionate toll on African Americans is the main reason the U.S. maternal mortality rate is so much higher than that of other affluent countries." Like many racial disparities, it cuts across educational and income levels, too: "A 2016 analysis of five years of data [from NYC hospitals] found that black college-educated mothers who gave birth in local hospitals were more likely to suffer severe complications of pregnancy or childbirth than white women who never graduated from high school." https://www.propublica.org/article/nothing-protects-black-women-from-dying-in-pregnancy-and-childbirth

For more background, see the rest of ProPublica's "Lost Mothers" series: https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers

Town.

I get that we are all on edge right now.

I am trying my best to be understanding about the emotional content we all possess today.

Please maintain our standards and CW your USPOL.

I promise to boost your signal if you do, and you will reach far more eyes this way.

CWs get you better engagement, and that is exactly what we need right now.

This actually made me tear up a little.

It has to be considered that this leak was on purpose by this court to distance the anger they knew it would generate a bit farther out from the midterms, with hopes that some of the anger dissipates before November.

Don't let that happen, either way.

The original Roe v. Wade decision also was leaked to the press:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/02/leak-time-magazine-roe-wade/

It would be great if Ron DeSantis would address a real problem in my state instead of non-existent ones over and over.

He had a chance to do something it and passed. Too busy being angry, I guess.

He doesn't do one thing that makes Florida better.

Florida is the least affordable place to live in the U.S. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-least-affordable-state-us-miami-tampa-orlando-naples/

I do get a lot of questions from people about being on a certain instance(server) and if that matters for communication with their friends on different instances.

Short answer: No!

You can see Mastodon / Fediverse communication like email! For example, if you are on mstdn.social your FULL handle will be:

"@handle@mstdn.social" and if you are on mastodon.social your full handle is:

"@handle"

You can use this "full handle" to search or communicate with people on other instances.

You can read more about how this works here https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/network/

coincidence? I think not!

The War of the Worlds - art by Frank R. Paul (1927) https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/179984662383/the-war-of-the-worlds-art-by-frank-r-paul

Security chips have not reduced US credit-card fraud
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/11/emv-fubared.html

this is a mood

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and they're like "wow this is delicious and affordable" and I'm like "thank you for supporting my small independent business"

https://knzk.me/media/zSSuayCKZ0vIVAr0I6k

Ed Emshwiller http://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/179989774517/70sscifiart-ed-emshwiller

Death the graduate. The Epistaxis. 1920. Cover of magazine published by the Medical Society of the University of Toronto. http://theremina.tumblr.com/post/179989554581/nemfrog-death-the-graduate-the-epistaxis-1920