Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

FIRE notes that TPUSA targeted 61 professors in 2021. FIRE doesn’t note that it sponsored a TPUSA “free speech” event in 2017. One of my criticisms of FIRE is that it occasionally has difficulty distinguishing between free speech supporters and people who support speech they agree with.

https://www.thefire.org/news/report-scholars-punished-their-speech-skyrocketed-over-last-three-years

Minnesota lawmakers ban conversion therapy, guarantee gender-affirming care - UPI.com https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/04/22/minnesota-passes-abortion-conversion-therapy-gender-affirming/7311682190390/
Minnesota legislators have passed three measures aimed at protecting the rights of people who travel to the state for an abortion, guaranteeing gender-affirming care and banning conversion therapy.

The Democrat-led state Senate passed the Trans Refuge Act, a bill providing gender-affirming healthcare protections, by a vote of 34 to 30 on Friday.

#Alito wrote a dissent to the order which displays, once again, his utter disregard for the right to abortion and to access to medical care. He cannot understand the legal and ethical asymmetry between putting the brakes on efforts to deny and restrict abortion access and putting the brakes on efforts to deny women’s legal rights to abortions.

So, Twitter decided to pull a DeviantArt move and change its Terms Of Services to include anything you post there on their AI dataset, to re-publish your art and benefit from it without your consent or compensation.

TIME TO DELETE YOUR ART PORTFOLIO ON TWITTER

I will only leave my contact information there, nothing else.

#Twitter #artistsonmastodon #TwitterAlert #AuthorsRights #AI #DeleteTwitter

@Hex it's basically a stereotype at this point. He's ready for the future where he has to kill-or-be-killed but not ready for the future where he needs to borrow a cup of sugar and keep his mom's ventilator running without electricity or petroleum and guess which one is more likely.

I completely lost it when the very people telling me what an N95 was for safety against chemical and biological warfare were the people unwilling to use one for COVID

Two days late, but whatever. Here’s a simple piece for #weedday.
Apparently, transparency isn’t supported here, at least not on the Ice Cubes app, from what I can tell.

#art #fanart #digitalart #humanart #mastoart #fediart #floragato #pokemon #420day #supportartists #ayearforart #artmatters

paying $8 a month for a blue checkmark isn’t enough. print out a picture of the blue checkmark. staple it to your forehead. be blinded not by the admiration from others for your contribution to Elon Musk, but by the blood streaming down your idiotic face

Fishing pier on a cloudy day.
Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA

#FishingPier @OuterBanks #OBX #NorthCarolina #Beach #Art #Mastoart #ArtMatters #ArtOnMastodon #AYearForArt #photo #photos #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #AltText

"Trust me."

The Doug Ford #Conservative govt doesn’t seem to care about learning.
It cares about training.

It’d much prefer a compliant population that packs their lunchbox every morning without thinking too much about what the govt is up to.

If this government wishes to improve education, it can spend more on teachers and reduce class sizes. That’s a fine way to make space for learning that will pay all sorts of dividends to a free and #democratic society.

#OntEd #Dofo #Onpoli

https://www.tvo.org/article/education-isnt-about-job-training-no-matter-what-doug-ford-wants-you-to-believe

Cartoon credit: Theo Moudakis @torontostar

#ElectionsMatter #Ontario #dofo #Onpoli #VoteTO #topoli

@AbandonedAmerica “The Fediverse is a force to be reckoned with.”

…and we’re just getting started. 💪🏼

@Tilopa Yes, if Trump wins again, we're done as a democracy. That's why our focus has to be on getting the vote out when Republicans crown him as their Nominee King.

how you know your brand is in serious trouble: a single friend of mine told a potential date he drove a Tesla and she said "ew"

"Tw*tter has quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove protections for #transgender users, as spotted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (#GLAAD). In a section that prohibits attacking other users, Tw*tter removed a line that specifically includes the “targeted #misgendering or #deadnaming of transgender individuals.”"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/18/23688192/twitter-harrass-transgender-users-policy

Hi mastodon! I’m Buddy and now that I am nine weeks old, mommy says I can join Mastodon.
#DogsOfMastodon

@doctorjaymarie
Sadly, the path to fascism is paved with our own idiocy.

#Elmo Partial Twitter algorithm is open sourced on Github after the leak . This portion show “Ukraine Crisis Topic” was down ranked along with civic integrity misinformation, NSFW, medical misinformation, hateful speech etc
#Twitter #Musk all in with Putin even preventing news of Ukraine genocide from trending.

This site is too normal and useful. Where are the crying billionaires and his fans screeching because I'm not paying $8 a month to put a clown nose on my bio?