ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

@Blackfist

Probably the quickest, easy summary of "we don't have universal health care because of racism" story was in huffpost:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/when-racism-stands-in-the_b_264823

More generally, Heather McGee's celebrated "The Sum of Us" is about a longer list of things that everybody doesn't have as public services, because Black people might get them.

Most head-shakingly, towns filled in public swimming pools so nobody could swim, rather than integrate them.

The "Little Rock Nine" saga began on September 4, 1957, when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering Little Rock Central High School. The nation watched in shock as angry white crowds harassed these students.

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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise #BlackHistory
#Music

Absent an agreement on the #seabed being the common heritage of humankind, the UN mandated International Seabed Authority (ISA) has been licensing #deepseamining projects in international waters; #China has the most successful applications

Guy Standing (FT) thinks 'there is a distinct risk that we could see what would amount to the biggest resource grab in history'!

Some have argued for a moratorium on #ecological grounds, but the #mining lobby citing the #GreenTransition is gaining ground!

Yoooo! An #introduction: I'm Chelle, a #speculativefiction #sff (why am I seeing so little love for the H in everybody's hashtag use?) editor and reviewer in #Canada. Formerly of #FiresideMagazine (RIP) and #Readercon (I'll be back when the burnout subsides!), also former #teacher, #sexeducator, #librarian, and #DJ. I love #reptiles, #camping, Oxford commas, bougie-ass sodas, #games of all kinds, and my diminutive editorial assistant (an anxious elderly #rescuedog). Don't be shy; say hi! 😉👋💜

Nobody who recognizes them is entirely sure why Taylor the Swift, a bard of such skill that they have their choice of royalty to play to, would leave it all behind to take up an instrument they had never played and busk in the streets, moving from town to town like a common gleetort, but leave they did.

Mini by Bite the Bullet: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-tortle-bard-262247

Print by @mollymetroid

#paintingMinis #miniatures #painting #paintingMiniatures #miniaturePainting #3dprinting

Justice Elena Kagan must be rolling her eyes so hard right now. She once told her friends not to send her free bagels and lox because she'd have to report the gift.

Meanwhile, Clarence Thomas is a one-man pay-to-play shop for billionaires with private jets and luxury vacas.

“Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name | Books | The Guardian”

The dynamic tech cos are creating is one where the only thing that works to address misbehaviour is a raging mob with pitchforks

Which is just going to result in a lot more raging mobs. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/09/amazon-removes-books-generated-by-ai-for-sale-under-authors-name?CMP=share_btn_tw

Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 08/10/23!

Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.

#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork

Here have an alpaca

Sharing our radio hallway with an alpaca today, ama

WAITUP!

1. so today the Clarence Thomas bombshell drops.

2. then SCOTUS all of a sudden has a conscience and blocks the #PurduePharma bankruptcy due to that little detail of the criminal liability

3. and then just like that, Joe Manchin, the guy who sent a letter in 2022 to Merrick Garland asking DoJ to investigate the Sacklers

(PDF) https://www.manchin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_doj_urging_investigation_into_sackler_family.pdf?cb

that Joe Manchin, ONCE AGAIN, is shaking down the Democrats cuz they won't meet his protection price

SOMETHING IN THE MILK AIN'T CLEAN

@benjojo

No! The Gods are alive! The priest lies sleeping. In his sunken city below the sea. When the stars are right the priest will awaken to bathe the world in the glory of the Truth and Madness for those too small to Comprehend. This "MS Teams" is but a small Sign of the Truth leaking into the infinitesimal perspective we call "reality"

IA! He will awaken soon. IA! There is no hope. All we can do is Pray to be eaten first...

@benjojo

The terminator robot's eyes glow red as it aims it's weapon at your head.

"Save-as, named: "CON", you shout.

It's eyes go blue. It freezes.

I reallyyy thought that we moved past the "Republicans and Dems are both the same" discourse after these past 7 years. Like, yes, the Democratic Party is still very shitty (although less so in many ways than they were a decade ago but that's a low bar) but like, we have Republicans sending lawyers to right wing indoctrination classes and forcing children to be taught that slavery was a good thing.

Kim Berly @berly3kim
Still haven't heard from my Dad...lives in Lahaina and is known as "Shadow" to the locals. If anyone has any information please reach out.
😪💚🤙
#MauiFires #Maui

#Shadow is missing if anyone is near #Lahaina & see him could you contact his daughter up above please?

#MauiFires #Lahaina #lahainafire

Mistodon: this #ASCIIart illustration of a #beetle in vaporwave colours was drawn by @vermileonhart and included in the MIST0822 artpack collection released one year ago this month.

This digital piece started as a poem by my oldest daughter who had been inspired by a webcomic. I ran my favorite lines through mage space and one particular image really struck a chord with both of us. So I redrew it using ink and watercolor brushes in Procreate, using Koi photos I’ve shot over the years as reference. #art #mastoart #procreate #collaboration

OLD EGG-THEMED THREAD REPOST

It took almost a century between the platypus becoming known to western scientists and conclusively proving that they laid eggs. Oh, and there were a few existential crises along the way.

For the first couple of decades of knowing about platypuses, quite a lot of them were convinced it must be a hoax, because look at it.

Huge thanks from the rest of the country to my Ohio friends who got out the vote and defeat Issue 1! 🎉

Ooh, a good one by way of @davidgerard — screecaps show what happens when you ask ChatGPT how many sunflowers you need to process to extract 1 litre of sunflower oil. By page 3 we're well into straitjacket territory …

(NOTE: Unfortunately I can't provide alt-text for these images, I tried but they each contain over 1500 characters; you'll need to OCR them yourself. They're in sequence, 1-4.)