Notices by John McChesney-Young (jmccyoung@mstdn.social)

@kwramm @afrozenpeach "For the next round you'll be meeting with our staff phrenologist."

Mask Bans Insult Disabled People, Endanger Our Health, and Threaten Our Ability to Protest | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mask-bans-disabled-people-protest via @broadwaybabyto

"But it gets even more bizarre. According to the 2022 Cooperative Election Study, 14 percent of Muslims (and 12 percent of Hindus and 5 percent of Jews) described themselves as “born-again” or evangelical Christians. This is not a joke." 2/2

https://wapo.st/4c2GhIU

Trump has changed what it means to be evangelical
https://wapo.st/4c2GhIU (gift link)
"The idea of evangelicals who don’t go to church was once unusual. Now, it is surprisingly common. In 2008, only 16 percent of evangelicals said they never or seldom attended church. By 2020, 27 percent did.
Evangelicalism, in short, has become about shared political convictions. In one survey of Christian attitudes ... 43 percent of evangelicals said they did not believe in the divinity of Christ." 1/2

At this #Oakland basement bookstore, customers browse with cocktails in hand
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/06/11/clios-bookstore-bar-oakland
"Bibliophiles will likely notice the shelves of books at Clio’s are not organized alphabetically or by the Dewey decimal system. As helpful chalk markings above the shelves indicate, the books at Clio’s are arranged by decade. This makes for some odd bedfellows: you can find Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde sharing space with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the 1880s section..." #sfba

@ScottSoCal @ElleGray And Google's AI is still recommending it: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176490/mm-delicious-glue

Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/caribbean-nation-of-aruba-backs-itself-up-to-internet-archive/
"The Internet Archive is now home to the Aruba Collection, which hosts digitized versions of Aruba’s National Library, National Archives, and other institutions including an archaeology museum and the University of Aruba. The collection comprises 101,376 items so far—roughly one for each person who lives on the Island—including 40,000 documents, 60,000 images, and seven 3D objects."

@pausingplace I'm here, but I think a good number of people I followed on the bird site went to Bluesky (I'm not there myself). Unrelated, I wonder whether I'm the only person who unthinkingly reads it as BLOO-ski, rhyming with brewski?