Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@social.cleverlibre.org

News flash: If you outlaw abortions, criminalize providing gender affirming care for trans youth, dictate what educators can teach in schools, and stop people from voting, you're not the party of "limited government."

"I think we're seeing a tipping point around not just restitution and repatriation, but museums acknowledging their colonial history - and that's better history, I think"

A historic day for a British-based museum to return looted artefacts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63783561

Amazing photo from #China - the people stand up to Xi, some demanding he step down. Photo of two professors from Fudan University.

This is why #unions are so important. No one should be having to donate plasma just to get by—and it's doubly disgusting given how much profit these universities make.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/14/university-california-strike-academic-workers-union/

Carnegie Syndrome is when Americans ignore labor abuse and low wages if a corporate titan shows up in a tux to donate money to a “cause.”

#Unions #Amazon #Bezos #LivingWage #WeRise
#filmmaking #DocumentaryFilmFestival

Whether it be Tony Stark wannabe, Tories in the UK, or Republicans in the US, we're in a mess because far too many people think 'these people are rich, they must know what they're doing,' but NO, they made money from being in a privileged position and actually couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. 🍺​

#ToryCostOfGreedCrisis #Midterms2022

So pleased to see Stars of Orion by Andy Oppenheimer (aka Orion 🏹​) in the latest issue of Astronomy Now magazine. https://t.co/rdtlp3o7db

I'm proud to have contributed to this wonderful book. Andy worked so hard putting this together, so it's awesome that it's getting some well-deserved attention.

#astronomy #astrophotography #writing #books

Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isn’t born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.

Those who state they’ll not vote for Labour because of their ‘Brexit stance’ etc just need to look at actual reality in the UK. We need the Tories out to begin to make the changes we so desperately need - that requires votes. Matt Hancock is in the final of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. The people who vote for him are real voters who vote Tory & keep them in power - without their vote we get the Tories forever. Hard to accept but their vote keeps us all in Tory hell.

Apparently today Apple has pulled advertising from twitter and will possibly cancel the app from their app store.

Muskkk is now having a full blown Trump-style meltdown and declaring war on Apple in a number of childish tweets, of course because as we know this is typical of Far Right Trolls, Musk is King Troll, they don't back down, they try to pretend it's a joke to them.

#MuskMeltdown

In what I think I consider a badge of honor, after generating with about 12 Chinese #Mastodon sites, I was blocked by the Chinese firewall.

Other #Mastoadmins, DM me for what to try, I'll then communicate over signal.

#China #ChinaProtests
#Admin #IndieWebSocial #Fediadmin

Twitter Users Brutally Mock Elon Musk For Trying To Shame Apple Into Advertising - “Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?” the tech mogul tweeted on Monday. #twitter #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-mocked-apple-advertising_n_6385122fe4b0e4c77595ad78

I've watched this on an endless loop for 15 minutes.

Would this happen on #Mastodon?
Time the World moved over, to avoid the belligerence of Authoritarians and the intransigence of Oligarchs.
#China #Urumqi #Twitter

These are the Biden holiday decorations, just unveiled by our first lady, Dr. Jill Biden.
My first thought was, “What, no blood red scary trees, symbolizing the blood of our enemies?!”
It’s sure nice to have normal back. In so many ways.

Twitter was never a healthy "public square" for most of us. Let's not rewrite history while eulogizing the hellsite.
Twitter was a frightening battleground where we managed barely to claw out an uneasy existence amidst the worst violent neo-Nazi extremists who constantly published our home addresses, threatened our kids' lives, and sent hordes of racist trolls into our mentions.
The same principles that allowed us to survive uneasily on Twitter will be required here in the #fediverse. Community defense, thoughtful pressure on moderation policies, and eternal vigilance.
There are no safe spaces but those we make safe through constant effort. We keep us safe.

I was just chatting with a friend about this, and we were both saying that we’re not even Jewish and the recent mainstreaming of antisemitism in the Republican Party, from Trump to Kanye to the GOP House to Musk’s flirtations with the far right — are absolutely chilling.