ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm old enough to remember that respecting and defending the Constitution was the most basic expectation of every citizen, let alone someone running for president. Even after everything we've been through, the idea that Republicans will stick with a man who flagrantly demands the Constitution be discarded to install him into office: Infuriating.

The big project right now is (IMHO) to build well-governed, cross-cutting digital public spaces — spaces that bring people into relationship across difference but are not a free-for-all apocalyptic wasteland.

On Dec 2, 1859, Abolitionist John Brown was the first American ever executed for treason. The second ever executed for treason was Aaron Dwight Stevens (March 15, 1831 – March 16, 1860).

Their crimes? Attempting to free the enslaved. The first Americans executed for treason was for the crime of freeing the enslaved.

Legality is not always a measure of justice & morality, but a measure of power. This was only two life spans ago.

May we learn from these atrocities & uphold justice forever.

Unpopular opinion: we should normalize black people coming to Mastodon, being safe and speaking their minds.

They might talk about internal discomfort and biases we might hold.

It's not their responsibility to educate us. It's our responsibility to create a place where black people are accepted.

I was looking at the news this morning and I think it's the perfect time to bring this up.

#unity #responsibility #blackpride #minoritized #black

The incoming GOP majority is going to try and discredit the work of the Jan. 6 Committee. Remember the courage of honorable conservatives like Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger when the extremists begin their assault. They had nothing to gain by opposing their party and Trump, and everything to lose. But they stood up anyway for the rule of law and for democracy.

Periodic reminder: there is no labor shortage. There is a shortage of jobs that treat workers with dignity and an excess of corporate greed.

Can not say this enough ⬇️⬇️⬇️

On #InternationalDayOfDisabledPersons, please remember that not all disabilities are visible.

#IDPWD2022 #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities #IDPWD #IDDP2022

Trump's comment about how it should be made president despite the constitution and losing the election is not helping to convince me that he's fit for the job.

repost if your sleep schedule is fucked up too

When Mark Hamill comes to Mastodon (the new hope) we're going to party like it's May 25, 1977.

#twittermigration #mastodon #starwars

Hey Fediverse:
I am a `developmentally disabled/physically disabled` adult, who is looking to hire a part time assistant. To help me run errands, clean/cook and stuff. And if your computer savy i have a pile of abandoned projects that need attention. I live in upstate NY. Syracuse area.

No prior experience with working with the disabled community is required, but it is helpful in some situations.

What is required is a positive attitude toward Neurominoriies. A drivers license, and a willingness to undergo fire safety and abuse prevention training before starting.

Pay starts at $17/hr but varies quite a bit DOE.. hours start at 15/hrs a week, but will be going up to 20 sometime in the next six months or so. Interested. DM me for contact info

Please boost it would really help me out
#getfedihired

Musk is a white supremacist clod and a fuck up.

‘Deeply Underwhelmed’: Right-Wingers on Musk’s Overhyped ‘Twitter Files’
#Elongate #Muskgate

https://www.thedailybeast.com/deeply-underwhelmed-right-wingers-on-musks-overhyped-twitter-files

"I think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself."
ROD SERLING, LA Times, 1967

Hooooooo boy. Student spouting misinformation about Covid vaccines in their microbiology homework. Makes me want to fail them from the class (this student should NOT become a nurse without some re-education, oy). I won't, of course, but I'll send them a message with my concerns, for what good it will do. There are times when I hate the Internet.

This is your daily reminder that free speech is not a synonym for hate speech.

Hate speech is the anti-free speech, weaponised speech intended to intimidate and silence others. People who call hate speech "free speech" do not support or protect the speech of others.

When you use free speech as a euphemism for hate speech, you help them spread the idea that free speech is bad into popular culture, which is the first step in dismantling it.

Call hate speech what it is.

@fyrfli @tchambers @krnlkule

It was the best platform I found, and I looked at all of them. For many reasons. Mastodon is a great goto product for onboarding users and new admins, but there will soon be a rich landscape of tools that serve a wide variety of needs, tastes and use-cases. I want a highly extensible platform to plow those fields while adding some value "on the side" of existing networks like Masto.