Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

This is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.

The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.

The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.

@evan @markallerton @ks

The analogy that several Black users have said, is "Mastodon is the digital equivalent of fleeing 'regular' racism in the deep South, just to experience 'racism doesn't happen here!' racism in Boston." 🙂🙃

Mastodon has more cultural norms around not talking about racist abuse, than around preventing it from happening. I don't know how to convince y'all that this is bad.

So yeah, this creates an opening for centralizers.

@Birgitomo this 💯

As a corollary, many white folks who have confronted racism in themselves will feel OK admitting that they probably are a little racist and that doesn't mean they are a terrible person, it just means there's more work to do.

Growing up in a white supremacist society leaves us all with a little bit of racism from our upbringings. Part of the real anti-racism work is acknowledging that internalized racism, working through the shame, resisting the urge to duck responsibility, and actively trying to recognize and counter it in one's daily life.

Once you get used to that type of self-reflection, listening to people describe their experiences of racism starts being an exercise in sympathy, solidarity, and learning. You stop reacting to discussions of racism as if they're scary personal attacks, or at least if that is your initial reaction you're prepared to deal with those negative feelings and recognize them as the byproduct of white supremacy, before dismissing them as unproductive.

TL:DR the OP is right, it's white people's job to deal with these hangups, and doing so is anti-racist

We don't know much about how people dealt with their periods in the past, because due to taboos, it often wasn't written down. This means one of the most direct accounts of dealing with periods in the 18th century comes from... a murder trial. Let's explore, was Sarah Malcolm a murderer, or just on her period?

My first contribution to #FossilFriday in the fossil-named social network.

Cross section of a Cyathealean tree-fern (probably a Cibotiaceae) from the Aptian (Early Cretaceous) of Livingston Island, Antarctica.

#Cretaceous #Fossil

One aspect one should be mindful of is that in the transience towards a #solarpunk future (both real as well as fictional), a lot of it will be made from scrap and junk and waste.
This means the age old saying of Reuse, Repurpose, Reclaim, Repair, Recycle (and a couple of other Re's).
Bicycles salvaged, and franksteined cars. Homes built from the demolished material of another. Abandoned malls converted to indoor farming or libraries.
We have SO MUCH already, it's just sitting there, waiting.

"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.

My grandmother began sewing ribbon skirts as part of her healing from the trauma of residential schools.
She and my mother have always been fantastic seamstresses, frequently making my Halloween costumes.

She's now moved on to making regalia, and this is her first Plains-style regalia dress.

#NativeAmerican #Regalia #Indigenous

Jumping off what @blaine is saying here:

https://mastodon.social/@blaine/109400462722746600

I work in professional fact-checking and content moderation for my day job at https://meedan.com and I have begun conversations about ways to do content moderation as a federated service that admins can pay to subscribe to (where moderators are paid a living wage, maybe in worker owned coops even, as opposed to big social media companies using basically sweatshop moderation labor)

My wife saves every sea creature she finds stranded on the beach, knowing that most won’t survive

Had me thinking about horseshoe crabs, bled for research then released. How many survive that?

Something like 4-30% of bled crabs die in the process. How many make it alive into the ocean and stay alive?

This long-term survival study is surprisingly encouraging— bled crabs survive better than unbled crabs, perhaps because that acute mortality culls less-healthy ones!

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.607668/full

#ThrowbackThursday
Kipper-the-cat in a tree in Portugal, probably winter 2007. She travelled across France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Czech Republic, England, Scotland and Wales with us. She was buried in Yorkshire in 2016 at a grand old age.
Probably needs a #CatsOfMastodon hashtag too.