The contagious social network

When you post something sad on your social network, it actually tends to make your followers sad. Ditto for happy.

Remember that next time someone claims all that online stuff is just isolating us and is a sign of how we're all detached from each other. Because people are people.

In a bad mood? Your social networks might be to blame
Contagious effect of sad and happy messages in real life also observable in virtual networks, survey of Facebook data reveals

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2 days ago

A sad #RIP to Dame #MaggieSmith the delightful British actress, at 89.

Though better known these days for Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, she nabbed Oscars earlier in her 70-year career for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978).

A hearty thank you, ma'am, for all the hours of entertainment you provided me.

https://people.com/maggie-smith-dies-at-89-harry-potter-downton-abbey-star-8719438

5 days ago

"In #abortion fight, #Florida Gov. #DeSantis says he's exempt from election interference law"

Autocrats R Us!

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/23/desantis-lawyers-defend-interference-claim-over-abortion-amendment/75353512007/

6 days ago

"Why the circumstances surrounding Trump's new flip-flop seem familiar"

#Trump is a man without principles, just quid pro quo, transactions. Give him money, give him outward signs of respect, and he is yours to command.

And both wealthy donors, industry lobbyists, and foreign leaders know it.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/circumstances-surrounding-trumps-new-flip-flop-seem-familiar-rcna172197

1 week ago

What I don't understand is how #KrogerAlbertsons position is "We need to merge because each of us individually is too weak to compete successfully against Walmart and Costco and Target" ...

... while at the same time saying, "And to close the deal we will go ahead and spin off these outlets to avoid monopolies in areas, but we assure you that they will be able to complete successfully against us!"

https://www.supermarketnews.com/mergers-acquisitions/analysts-ftc-should-win-kroger-albertsons-merger-case

1 week ago

"#DeSantis deploys government resources to fight #Florida #abortion amendment"

Authoritarians R Us!

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/20/desantis-florida-abortion-amendment-government-resources-00180054

1 week ago

Time for "Waitress" at the #ArvadaCenter! Yay,

1 week ago

"#Trump presses to change #Nebraska election law, in fight for a sole electoral vote"

What's remarkable here is how baldly it's being presented as a way to gain 1 #ElectoralVote. No high principle. No effort to come up with a reason why it will make things more fair, more democratic, more in line with what voters want. Just "change the law so I get more votes."

Disgusting.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/politics/nebraska-trump-harris-republicans-electoral-vote/index.html

1 week ago

#RTO mandates, like Amazon's, are always couched around and driven by what makes *management* feel comfortable. Employee preferences are automatically treated with suspicion, or, at best, dismissed as irrelevant.

https://fortune.com/2024/09/19/amazons-new-rto-mandate-is-a-triumph-of-traditional-management-over-innovative-management-says-former-google-exec/

2 weeks ago

#Republicans: "The #ElectoralCollege is sacrosanct because the Founders gave it to us, so messing with it for a #partisan cause is tantamount to treason."

Also Republicans: "Hey, #Nebraska, you should totally change how you award Electoral College votes because it would help our partisan cause."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/lindsey-graham-visits-nebraska-push-electoral-vote-change-rcna171760

2 weeks ago

"Trump launches another business full of potential risks and conflicts if he wins"

I'm not going to say that #grifting is Donald's only, or even primary, reason for being in politics (I blame massive narcissism and insecurity for that), but it's certainly a big reason.

Also, I can't imagine anything more horrifyingly risky (for customers, not the #Trump fam) than Trump-branded #crypto. Good Lord.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/politics/trump-cryptocurrency-business/index.html

2 weeks ago

I could write a multi-toot screed about the state of the US electorate and #election2024 , but #TomTomorrow has already gone to the effort.

#undecided #independent

2 weeks ago

Just back from a week-long vacation up into Yellowstone and back down through the plains of SD, WY, NE.

And since we were in Nebraska, and so much brouhaha has been raised of late about #Runza ... we stopped at one to try it out.

I will not say it was life-changing, because it wasn't, but the car consensus is that it was tasty and worth stopping at again in the future ... should we be again in Nebraska.

2 weeks ago

This lying, hateful man will end up ordering federal law enforcement, if not the military, to do horrible things -- should he end up back in the White House.

#Trump

2 weeks ago

"Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets"

While much of what #Vance and #Trump says is gobsmacking, their insistence ondouing, tripling, and quadrupling down on this discredited rumor of an allegation of a gossip of a report of a calumny AND threatening to use the power of the federal government to "solve" it just confirms they can never be allowed near the reins of power again.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/15/nx-s1-5113140/vance-false-claims-haitian-migrants-pets

2 weeks ago

"#Trump posts ‘I hate #TaylorSwift’ days after her endorsement of #Harris"

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to see Donald peevishly lashing out at someone he feels dissed him. Sort of like an angry five year old would.

Wonder how he'll behave if he actually attains power again.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4880725-trump-posts-i-hate-taylor-swift-days-after-her-endorsement-of-harris/amp/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17264278433809&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

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