Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org
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Love conquers fear
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Joined Nov 2022
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🎍明けましておめでとうございます！🎍
Happy New Year! 2023 is year of the water rabbit. Japan celebrates with the Gregorian calendar, which is why you might see a bunch of Japanese rabbit art earlier than other East Asian cultures.
🌊🐇🌕
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No one challenged me to a duel when I was in high school
I feel like student councils in anime are somewhat exaggerated
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I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.
Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.
The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.
The place: 1920s Portugal.
The crime: Counterfeiting.
The obvious mistake: That the money is counterfeit.
(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)
More than 33 years ago, Jeff Beck (RIP) shouted that "NOTHING IS BEING DONE" about the environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQvnzW_HV4I
Not enough is being done now, but I hope he saw that we are making some progress.
I bought this CD as a teenager, and listened to it on repeat. Today, after hearing of his death, I'm doing the same, but via Apple Music streaming.
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One thing I really hate about the whole Passion of the Christ 2—and I mean I do hate virtually everything about it—is that the story of what happened to Jesus’s followers after the Crucifixion is potentially a fantastic story, and I would like to see it told well by people who aren’t complete garbage?
Sometimes I think about how much trouble I have fully re-contextualizing the past. For example, I know now that Reagan was a bad person who said and did bad things, but he was also the first political figure I ever looked up to. As a result, even though I can list for you (in person, never online) many, many, many bad things about him, it's still hard for me to think of him as bad. Rather, my *initial* response when I hear his name is positive, then replaced by a more negative and reality-based assessment based on what I know and understand today.
This makes me wonder: assuming I live long enough and continue to be open to re-evaluating things in the future, who today am I going to have the same trouble with? I'm not sure I have positive feelings about any political figure today as much as I did about Reagan. Maybe Obama.
I think my previous re-evaluations have made me less likely to support anyone quite as ardently today. I'm in awe of Pelosi's effectiveness as a politician while still being very aware of her eerie effectiveness as an investor, the latter of which would seem to require unethical dealings. The caveats are there currently, rather than being layered on later.
In fact, having seen so many people brought low by additional information, I think I'm less surprised when new information is released about people I like now. I mean, I guess the Channel 5 is (allegedly) a serial harasser of women. Okay. I learned some crazy stuff about Bill Cosby some years back, hearing similar things about people now just doesn't hit the same way.
Having learned to see the racism and sexism clearly present in the world today, it can't shock me to find that heroic figures are guilty of perpetuating racism and sexism.
Maybe this is why I couldn't get very excited about Bernie Sanders.
Maybe this is what it's like to be old.
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a footprint in the snow is a seasonal depression
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Today’s Laziness Level: Receive notification of Amazon delivery. Searches on my iPad from my couch to see what it is instead of opening the door and picking up the box off my doorstep.
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Nearly missed this sign while walking along 120th Street near Malcolm X Blvd in #Harlem, during my visit home for the Yuletide season.
This is an excerpt from MLK Jr’s “Where Do We Go from Here?” sermon at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference annual convention in Atlanta, GA in 1967.
Hate is a poison that afflicts both those who weld it and those they target. Can America finally rid itself of this toxin??
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↖Moon (2009)
↗Moon Zero Two (1969)
↙Moonfall (2022)
↘Moon Man (2022)
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Now as I think about it, we might be better of if computers become self aware and take over.
anti-racism
Today I saw yet another example of someone online stating that such-and-such means that "we have copletely [sic] abandoned NLK's [sic] values in favor of something disingenuously called "anti-racism" (It should be called reverse-racism)."
This stuff is exhausting! How about an analogy:
I have a dream in which we are all marathon winners. We are done running. We have medals and confetti and cake. It's a joyous time, and whether we finished the race in four hours or fourteen hours doesn't matter, because we have all finished it. That's my dream!
Right now, though, right now some of us are moving at a good pace, while others aren't even moving in the right direction. Some of us are incapable of moving on our own. Others are being held back. Helping those who are struggling most right now makes sense, right?
You wouldn't interrupt a marathon to object that encouraging the slowest runner isn't fair, since the dream is for everybody to have a medal and cake.
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A man shot & killed a 13-year-old Black child named Karon Blake in Washington, DC—claiming he thought Karon was breaking into a car.😳 Police confirm Karon was unarmed.
Police have not yet ID’d or charged the shooter. Karon is the 426th person killed by gun violence in 2023.😓
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I hate it when people accuse me of lollygagging, when I am clearly dilly dallying.
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I keep seeing articles, about people trying to violently overturn election results, that use phrases like “motivated by election lies”.
They aren’t motivated by lies, they are motivated by not liking the result. Repeating the lies just makes them feel powerful because it makes them part of the grift. They think they’re fooling people.
Blaming the lies lulls us into thinking that this is an education/disinformation problem which, if addressed, will eliminate the violence.
These folks aren’t deluded. They’ve learned from their leaders that violence and lying are the route to power.
For most of my life I thought these problems could be solved by education. I no longer do. As far as I can tell, about 30% of the population believes that getting away with grifts and bullying people is proof of power and leadership that should be respected, worshiped, and emulated.
We can’t educate these folks. We can only build a society that ensures that they cannot gain control. Unfortunately, the entire human race has largely failed to do so, and we’re suffering the consequences on a planetary scale.
Every day we act as though they don’t *know* that the elections were valid, is a day we risk losing the fight for democracy, equality, and a stable environment.
Sick days are for naps and #GenshinImpact but mostly naps.
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No one should be getting their information from joke memes.
You also don't need to correct them.
Because they are jokes.
Class dismissed.
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Morning Good people! Giving thanks for another 24. May you all receive new opportunities and strength this new week. Have a Marvelous #Monday folks!
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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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