Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as "that impossible-to-use website." First of all, it's an app. C'mon. Second of all, aren't these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?

22 December 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Margaretha de Groot, was born in Amsterdam.

In July 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

She was 3.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Amsterdam #Netherlands #girl #children

@brontegrimm Ugh, although you’re right about #antisemitism eventually rearing its ugly head here. For anyone who wants to know more about how it comes from both the left and the right, please check out Amb. Deborah Lipstadt’s most recent book, Antisemitism Here and Now. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533182/antisemitism-by-deborah-e-lipstadt/

ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/

#Ohio So happy baby #KasonThomas found alive in Indianapolis. The kidnapper was arrested at 2pm & refused to identify herself or give the infant’s location😡 A woman ran into Papa Johns & told police she saw a baby in a car. That sweet boy was left in 13F temps in the stolen car. If there wasn’t a 4 hour lapse between the 911 call & Amber alert maybe he would have been found 3 days ago.

https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ohio-amber-alert-suspect-could-face-federal-charges-as-days-missing-stack-up/

Today I learned that actress/singer Penny Singleton, best known for the 28 BLONDIE films she made in the 40s, as well as being the voice of Jane Jetson, was also a badass labor activist. She was an active, vocal member, & twice president, of the American Guild of Variety Artists, speaking out against the exploitation of women in the variety arts, & supporting the rights of strippers and exotic dancers. In 1967 she led a successful strike by the Rockettes for better working conditions. #labor

Back in the 90s, we all collectively said, "Hooray! The Internet is going to cause a grand creative epoch! Imagination will thrive!"

Fast forward 30 years later, and everything is boring and literally flat.

The tech industry is almost entirely Corporate Memphis.

What a great day! Very cold.
#dogsofmastodon

Small #CatsOfMastodon

Stormageddon was the cutest as a kitten. I have a Photoshop edit coming up for this one.

It's Cold Outside
I hope everyone stays safe and warm out there!

#AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #winter #trees #cold #artodon #artofmastodon #artonmastodon #art #mastoart #photography #digitalart

See it here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/its-cold-outside-windy-craig.html?newartwork=true

When an amazing photo is taken, like this photo by Grayson Kisker, it’s a sin to post it without credit.

Studio Apartment Available:
- Pet-friendly
- Located next to bridge
- No strings attached

Muslim mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi is known as “The Father of Algebra” so here's a "halal" way to say Merry Christmas to our Christian friends :)

@flexghost I think you may have mistaken the victors in that war.

Sure, the Union won the military contest and the Confederacy did not secede. Slavery, "the peculiar institution" that the South sought to protect, was abolished.

But the South did not remain subject to occupation for long. What for all practical purposes amounted to slavery continued in the sharecropper system. (I'm leaving aside the controversy over prison labor.)

And the South has been an obstacle to human, civil, and labor rights in the entire country ever since. Some even argue that today's political polarization amounts to a continuation, by non-military means, of that war, and given the not insignificant chance that that war might resume in "hot" form, I can't tell you they're wrong.

One example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/11/gop-political-violence-militias-jan-6-democratic-breakdown/

More at https://disunitedstates.com/2019/12/30/this-is-america/

A teenager in the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack. The police arrested him.

Couldn't make bail. Would spend 2 years on Riker's island awaiting a trial.

--only for the charges to be dropped. Many were appalled, they set it up for him to go to community college. That's where I met him once-- Came to electronics club. He made an LED Christmas tree-- he seemed... so so so sad.

He took his own life later that year.

Anyways. Uh, Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250 million bail.

This 👇👇

What an amazing photo!
Check out the reflection.
#Zelensky #speakerpelosi

So, I'm finding out the hard way that if you start a new Mastodon server, nobody can find you.

This is a shameless request for some boosts so some of the bigger instances see me.

#mastodon #twittermigration #mastodonserver #findme #helpimtrappedinawell #imlonely

The #Toronto District School Board has reported 205,000 student absences due to illness in the last three weeks.

#TheKIdsAreNotOkay #WearAMask #CovidUnderTheXmasTree
#flu #RSV
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/12/20/student-absences-surge-across-the-gta-amid-triple-whammy-of-viruses.html