Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
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#Fensterfreitag #Windowfriday #BlackAndWhite #Photography pic from #Banff #Canada some years ago
Keep on nerding! 😀
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It seems the only hope left for gun control in red states is to hide all the bullets in books written by Black people, Wajahat Ali writes.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/florida-gov-ron-desantis-pushes-guns-state-rcna68938
Your many books are an inspiration to me! I need to get back to writing long-form again.
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While Amazon celebrates its record breaking revenues, they want you to forget about the worker death that happened during Prime Day.
Especially since they didn't help the victim over 20 mins after he collapsed, and told his coworkers to just keep working.
Amazon has always picks profits over people. #FightCorporateGreed #UnionsForAll #DemCast
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All this #BlackHistoryMonth, I'll be sharing from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC. Some pics I took and some from their collection directly. The lead designer for the project was Sir David Frank Adjaye, a Ghanaian-British architect born in Tanzania. The design is Yourba inspired. It sits on the last spot left on the National Mall.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/building
I can't believe I forgot to use the word "Five" in that post! Doh!
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Police do not save lives.
Doctors save lives. Emergency medical technicians save lives. Firefighters save lives.
Police do not save lives. They take them.
Thank you for being a great person to follow!
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Disappointing to see an ISP strategically filing false information to the FCC to block funds to potential competitors.
But even more Infuriating that the FCC knew this would happen and has no plan except to say it would be nice if everything worked out.
Millions of Americans won't get better Internet access that they need because FCC Commissioners refuse to take their job seriously.
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“Each note that Jake Blount plays on the banjo is a step toward helping his audience better understand a piece of Black history he believes has been lost.
Blount is a professional touring musician who plays traditional Black Folk Music.” https://www.denver7.com/news/national-politics/the-race/meet-the-musician-teaching-the-banjos-african-roots
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How do people at this church not think to themselves, maybe gun rallies and election-denying political rallies and political party meetings aren’t the most appropriate activities for a church?
Mekka is schooling us daily, and today's thread answers "Why do Black people see racism in everything?"
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109801619225078087
Any of of the posts in this thread could be a book or two, and many of them are.
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! I'm still not ready to talk about Black history. I still want to talk about white US history. Q: Why do Black people se...
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There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.
/ octavia butler
@nataliedavisgdread If it's truly a balloon, with no means of propulsion, why are people acting as if there was any choice about where it goes? It's at the mercy of wind currents, is it not?
"Local" social media, whether Facebook or NextDoor, is the worst of all possible media.
With non-local media, you might be able to convince yourself that the unhinged racist sexist homophobic people who hate the poor are at least people you don't have to interact with on a regular basis. You can stop loading the page or app and retreat into the warm embrace of the kind-hearted people you interact with in the real world.
With local media, you are forced to confront the reality: it is your neighbors, people who live near you, who are hateful. When you are putting out the trash bin on trash day, and wave to your neighbor, they're the one calling the police because someone "undesirable" was walking down the street minding their own business.
Maybe it would be better to know, except what are you going to do with that information? It's not like anywhere else is any better!
The only way to win the game is not to play.
It's the First Friday of February, a Fantastic time For Following Fine Folks. The mastodon experience is better when you Follow more people, and these are some people who are worth Following:
@nataliedavisgdread Natalie Davis
@kyra_davis Kyra Davis
@dtgeek Anthony Dean
@funcrunch Pax Ahimsa Gethen
@midnightcommander@linuxrocks.online midnightcommander
I've interacted with Natalie Davis for many years on several different platforms, so I can promise you: she's the real deal!
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Here is the original inventor of rock and roll—and the steel guitar. Sister Rosetta Thorpe doesn’t get the credit—and she really should. Many of the rock and roll “inventors” need to pay their respects to her. Little Richard and Chuck Berry others owe a great deal to her. 🙏🏿
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Love conquers fear
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