Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

In 1843, an election in Salisbury, Connecticut was won by just one vote. The result proved controversial, because one of the voters was an intersex person. This is the story of Levi Suynam.

A blanket content warning applies to this thread about anti-intersex discrimination, body policing, and gender policing.

i wonder if there is an artist out there whose whole deal was painting photorealistic vaguely askew scenes of humans with too many fingers and now their life is super annoying

Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, has roots in a tradition established by Black-Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War. On May 1, 1865, the formerly enslaved, with profound gratitude for Union soldiers who fought and died for their emancipation, began commemorating that sacrifice by decorating Union graves. This remembrance and gratitude eventually gained support from communities across America.

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This safe rest village looks lovely. It is a shame #pdx can't spend our resources producing as many of these as possible instead of dumping millions of dollars into large tent camps that concentrate folks experiencing #homelessness without adequate shelter.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2023/05/5th-safe-rest-village-opens-in-portland.html

Setris - play Tetris with sand!

https://www.freegameplanet.com/setris-downloadable-game/

by #gamedev mslivo #indiedev #indiegames #gaming

My wife showed me this from FB and I love it.
#visiblemending

Many folks have been taught about “The Tragedy of The Commons” in school. But what most folks don’t know is that it was complete bunk written by a white nationalist and eugenicist to justify colonization and genocide.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-how-ecofascism-was-smuggled-into-mainstream-thought/

Commons can be successful. Many long-standing and successful commons exist. Many were studied by Nobel Prize-winning Political Scientist Elinor Ostram, who codified 8 principles for how commons can be governed sustainably and equitably in a community.

https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons

I’d really like for folks to stop using the term “tragedy of the commons” that assumes inevitable failure, and start calling them what they are. Commons with improper governance or “Failed commons”.

#socialism #economics

Mind. Blown.

I'm new to The Cornell Lab. They sure do have a lot of cool #bird stuff! This morning's discovery was Project FeederWatch. It's a nifty visual database where you can mix and match region, food, and feeder type to figure out what birds you might attract to your yard.

https://feederwatch.org/learn/common-feeder-birds/

Having gone to the office today (my employer's slowly transitioning away from letting folks work from wherever/whenever), I was late for the train back home, so I took a detour by the river and met this very friendly pair of mallards.

(These are barely-cropped phone shots! Didn't have my camera with me nor a tele lens in my phone – they got really close.)

#birding #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

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