LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

The first objection to teaching these things isn't "they are not true" --because they are true. No, the objection to this content is:

- it makes kids feel bad
- it's sexual and grotesque
- it's complex and confusing
- It makes kids hate America

The objections center around fears of the emotional impact of true information.

It ignores the emotional impact of not learning these things.

The horror a little girl will feel having her first period with no information.

The shame and inferiority little Black children will feel learning a history where their ancestors did nothing but serve until graciously freed by their betters.

The disgust a child will feel when they see themselves as an abomination since in all of nature they have been taught gender is simple and binary.

The alienation to living things that comes from not seeing humans as a part of the tree of life.

"Studies have shown that a mere 10% shift from car drivers to bike riders has resulted in a 40% reduction in traffic congestion. Even if you never touch an e-bike, you would benefit from supporting their increased use."

https://electrek.co/2023/08/22/electric-bike-craze-future-of-transportation/

Your favourite task manager now coming to the wrist this September! Tasks on the Apple Watch will never make you feel like you need to install the iOS/macOS because you could not complete an action! A true independent app! Here's a quick demo!
(It took about only 16 hours to make the watch app 🤯)

Learn from developers like @_Davidsmith who have attended the Apple Vision Pro developer labs — and how their experiences are helping them build apps for #visionOS. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=5nn2hddv

I realize I'm shouting into the void, but I'll say it again: El Niño is not the cause of every extreme weather and climate event. El Niño does not have time travel capability to cause events that started in February when El Niño only emerged in June and has (as is typical) taken a little while to couple to the atmosphere. 😱 #Climate

It’s fucking wild how much more attention a person of South Asian descent gets in politics for being part of the tiny anti-Black group that embraces Republican fascism instead of, say, being the actual serving Vice President of the United States. (Or any of the millions of others who don’t buy into the farce of respectability and the model minority myth.) For anyone asking, I’m the official spokesperson for South Asian people in America, and we don’t fuck with Vivek or “Nikki”.

This summed up my thoughts in a pithy format.

#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #Cycling #WomenCycling #AmericanHistory #ThrowbackThursday

'They Will Never Change on Their Own': Top Oil Giants Have No Serious Plans to Curb Emissions.

"Instead of providing desperately needed clean energy, they feed us greenwashing garbage."

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-company-emissions

When cities invest in good cycling infrastructure and safe cycling, a rapidly increasing share of people use a bicycle for their trips around town. (By now 62% of commuters in Copenhagen.) It's fun, efficient, clean, silent and fast. Car drivers benefit, too, from uncongested roads.

🚨 #Xcode15 Beta 7 is out! 🚨

⬇️ - https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/Developer_Tools/Xcode_15_beta_7/Xcode_15_beta_7.xip

📝 - https://developer.apple.com/go/?id=xcode-15-sdk-rn

There are updated runtimes for iOS, watchOS, and tvOS as well. The latest visionOS runtime is still the Beta 2 runtime from July 25th

All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

"NASA has declared automobiles are officially the largest net contributor of climate change pollution in the world."

Cars aren't part of the problem—they *are* the problem. 🧵

Please stand with us on Tuesday for real change on our streets.

This is a moment where we must be loud.

Spread the word -- flyers to print are at http://walksf.org/neveragain.

Zooming. #comics #funny #zoom

You might not think water is a big issue in Hawaii -- but fresh water is a precious and constrained resource on these islands. Big farming companies have taken water rights from Natives -- and this also impacts the diverse ecologies where fresh water flows to the sea.

Hard fought political fights won some of those rights back in the 90s-- but now those same companies are using the fire as an excuse to roll back the clock.

https://news.yahoo.com/disaster-capitalism-finest-fights-over-212939558.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

When a 26-year-old Deputy Mayor proposed a 1977 plan that made the centre of Groningen virtually impenetrable by car, his party was the subject of outrage, protests and death threats.

Decades later, no one regrets the change or remembers the controversy.

Fortune favours the brave.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/how-groningen-gained-and-hopes-to-retain-the-title-of-the-worlds-cycling-city-photos-video