Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis–trans_isomerism
Here the explanation - but I'm actually not a expert 🤔

Mayor Amer Ghalib is America’s first Yemeni mayor

Hamtramck, Michigan also has a Muslim majority city council

Yay diversity right?

Mayor Ghalib is quoted saying he tries to govern fairly for everyone

…but

He said LGBTQ+ supporters are “forcing their agendas on others”

The Muslim city council added the pride flag clashes with the beliefs of members of their faith

And the city has now banned Pride flags on public property

*A* religion isn’t the problem

All religions are the problem.

When exactly have these fucking assholes at Soundcloud decided to trigger a login-wall when you want to go a different section of a track and how can I get rid of it without signing up to get a basic feature back?

This just in: Mastodon continues to fail at being the thing it wasn't trying to be in the first place

IDK why this is burning a hole in my brain right now but I gotta get it out...

Unisex bathrooms do NOT exist so that trans and non-binary people have a place to pee. They exist so that people with public bathroom anxiety have a place to pee. This is important for two reasons:

They're not just for trans people. They're also for people with social anxiety, parents with small children of the opposite gender, and basically anyone else who wants a bit of extra privacy. Having them available is good for EVERYBODY.
Trans people can pee wherever the fuck they want. If they're still early and not out and want to use the AGAB bathroom to avoid suspicion, that's fine. If they want to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, that's fine. If you're so scared of a peeing trans person that you don't want to be in the same room with them, then YOU can use the unisex restroom.

15 years ago today, we got our wedding license. Here is a photo of me and Bradder from that happy day, smiling and grateful for recognition of our love.

Libraries are civic marvels.

Besides lending books and providing internet access, the Chicago Public Library lets you check out fishing poles, telescopes, cameras, knitting supplies, sewing machines, puzzles, tools, cooking equipment, a (model) human skull, sheet music, instruments, toys, museum passes, laptops, wifi hotspots, craft kits, seeds.

You can book meeting rooms or 3D printers. Some branches have teachers on site for homework help. Story time for kids, literacy programs for adults.

Hi all. I was on kbin.social and decided to create kbin.social/m/WhatsThisBug and then posted a picture because I wanted an insect ID and didn't want to go back to Reddit. #Reddit #WhatsThisBug Boosts appreciated.

Reddit's CEO keeps making inapt, inept, and ignorant analogies to describe its users -- especially the moderators, volunteers who have spent countless hours making the site's communities so valuable.

Here's an accurate analogy: Reddit regards these people as replaceable cogs in a machine owned and absolutely controlled by the company.

I won't use Reddit again unless the top management, and its attitudes, are replaced -- with a genuine community focus.

Meanwhile, I'm finding alternatives.

Okay now that #Mastodon can see markdown now, can we also fix this, please?

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19454 #MastoDev

The intro

Mistakes: a few
Triumphs: my three kids, two boys and a girl (oldest son, Ryan, KIA in Iraq in 2006. He was 20).
Married: Twice
Divorced: Twice
Grandkids: Six
Current job: Newspaper guy
21 years in the Army Guard, retiring in 2011. Deployed twice, to Iraq in 2004 and GTMO in 2008.
10 years of commercial radio experience in the 80s and 90s at three radio stations
Worked at two Deere dealerships over eight years, acquiring a shit ton of toy tractors!