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

Juneteenth (June 19th) is not a "holiday celebrating when news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." No. Just no. Y'all make it sound like network latency! Like we were playing Fortnite, and all the Black players were lagging.🤡

Juneteenth is when the racist state of Texas took another very public L. Texas did everything it could to keep slavery going as long as possible. They gave up land to Oklahoma, so they could be below the slavery line. The Alamo was a victory for abolitionists.

`git blame` tells who put a line of code the way it is, but I need `git wtf` to tell me why 😩

In underreported news, the EPA reversed a Trump-era decision on plastic processing, which closes a major loophole that allowed the chemical industry to pass off toxic disposal as sustainable recycling. It isn’t.

Elections affect who runs the EPA. That also matters.

EPA opts to maintain existing pyrolysis air rules-
https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2023/06/06/epa-opts-to-maintain-existing-pyrolysis-air-rules/

Remember: the cultural heritage of America isn't only white supremacy, sexism, racism, bigotry, and capitalist greed. Our heritage is ALSO abolitionists, labor unions, civil rights, women's suffrage, environmental activism, etc.

Don't look at history just to find the mistakes. You can also look at history to find the victories and inspiration. We stand on the shoulders of generations of people working together towards a more perfect union. Sure, there's a whole lot of shit that's fucked up, but there's a whole lot of people who are also going out there every day to try and fix stuff too.

On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmbteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".

The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.

What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.

Remember, they came for trans people first.

Japan train captain carries cat off train, causes a 30-second delay https://mustsharenews.com/cat-board-train-in-japan/ #Trains #Cats #Japan

That checks out. #lotr