Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org
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Mostly reclusive and carrying slightly damaged goods. A survivor by some accounts. Definitely in need of much therapy. ;)
Staunchly anti-fascist
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"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers".
-Elric
Joined Nov 2022
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https://mastodon.scot/@DavidB@firefish.social/111011107408422497
This thread reminds me of the situation I had when delivering to the US Navy ship in Scotland. One of the sailors asked me where is the nearest walmart. I asked him what he needs. He needed some socks. I told him to go to the local shop and they will have plenty to choose from. No, he insisted, he needs a Walmart. "Don't you really have any walmarts here in this place"? he asked.
I recalled Asda is a part of Walmart. So I sent him to Asda. Nearest one was one town over
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Two Hours Before Neptune
Credits: Voyager, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography
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Something I'd never seen before but isn't super uncommon in SoCal is this plankton that glows neon blue when disturbed. It causes the ocean to glow in the dark and is completely safe to swim in.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwp7CpjJhey/
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I’m at the parenting stage where my kid gives me pep talks (and they work).
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Or, figure it out from context. Stop with the fucking rules. Control freak.
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When people post diatribes about how one should post, makes me think they have too much time on their hands, and that they need a control freak intervention.
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Black Mastodon users are writing in frustration that people don’t believe that #racism exists on Mastodon. As a new moderator, I can assure you that racism is very real here. Be sure to report it when you find it so that we can stamp it out.
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THREAD: This is harrowing. Saudi Arabia wanted the names of 6000 anonymous Arab Spring dissidents from Twitter. At first, MBS tried to get their names using EDRs - requests under emergency circumstances. When that proved cumbersome, KSA basically bought Twitter.
▪️They did so by threatening to pull twitter out of their market (biggest in the Middle East) and by offering to invest in heavily in Twitter. They also positioned two spies inside Twitter who helped funnel the personal information on dissidents out of Twitter to KSA
▪️In 2011, they invested $300M. In 2022, MBS bought that investment for $1.5B, worth $1.9B later that year, making KSA (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) the biggest shareholder of Twitter behind Elon Musk.
▪️The two KSA spies inside Twitter INFORMED Twitter that the personally identifying information they were gathering was for the Saudi Government. One received money and gifts from the KSA in exchange for the user data including $300K and a nice job after he fled the US.
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I think it stunts people's emotional development to only be put in the position of sympathizing with people who look like them. I think it contributes to men who can't conceive of women as main characters in their own lives and white people who don't think anyone besides themselves have stories of value.
Again, representation will never magically make the racism and misogyny disappear, but I think lack of representation is one of the conditions that allows them to thrive.
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"If you aren't going to call a guy who murders Black people using a gun with swastikas on it a white supremacist, then you're no longer invested in telling the truth in any meaningful way."
David Dennis
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@JosephMenn mang, if the ADL kills your site you deserved to die. if only we lived in a world where that was possible
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Good to see my little Labor Day poem is still making waves all these years later.
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Star Trek #art by Jim Steranko #arts #artists #startrek #scifi #startrekstuff #artist #illustration #psychedelic #psychedelicart #artlover #arts #geeks #nerds #geek #nerd #trek #artnet #scifi #startreksnw #stsnw #startrekstrangenewworlds #sciencefiction #retro #vintage #artwork #comicbook #comicbooks
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- he/him
Mostly reclusive and carrying slightly damaged goods. A survivor by some accounts. Definitely in need of much therapy. ;)
Staunchly anti-fascist
Bear in mind that, while I may "like" your "toot", about a person, event or particular topic, if it links to the "bird-site" I will no longer boost and inadvertently contribute to their grift. Everyone has a choice and a part to play when crimes go unpunished.
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers".
-Elric
Joined Nov 2022
