Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Like Malcolm X, Nina Simone was a passionate activist and dedicated to the Black liberation struggle. She posed in this photo very intentionally as an homage to Malcolm. 🖤🙏🏿 #BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #Mastodon

BREAKING: Shots fired at #Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles; possible hostage situation

"Man Up, Hercules by Nikita Gill

When I was a child, my worst nightmare was to see my father cry. Until I was older, I never really thought nor asked why.

It occurs to me now that the world around me doesn't want men to feel. It emphasizes stoicism till they bottle up their feelings, only one part of them is allowed to be real.

And if ever one of them falters, 'man up' becomes the dark magic to charm them back into line. 'Man up' is that villain who shows up with lackeys 'grow a pair' and 'boys don't cry' uninvited to parties.

We tell our sons stories about heroes like Hercules, but forget to mention how Hercules' rage caused him to murder his entire family.

And by telling them stories where anger becomes the only acceptable way they can express themselves, we are teaching them shouting, punching, yelling is all they can ever do to release themselves from hell.

And this is how cursed phrases like 'man up' contribute to the greatest killer of men under 45.

Repression leads to depression, depression leads to trying to find ways to be alive and after years of being told not to feel, the only way to truly feel it all becomes suicide.

We have created nooses with words and watch passively as our sons tighten them around each other's necks.

So I will tell my son, I will say, Cry, let the dam burst, and let the rivers you are holding back run free. It will release everything that hurts you and finally you will be able to breathe.

The definition of who you are as a man is too powerful to be swayed by a phrase, it doesn't have to be proven through self-hate.

When they tell you to 'man up' look them in the eyes and just say, 'I will not, no.' Become the earth, the rebellion your heart needs for your love of yourself to grow."

-- "Fierce Fairytales", page 127

#Browsers, time to bring back the RSS/Atom feed icon displayed when a website has an RSS/Atom feed.

It's long past-due!

Wanna know what my main wish for Mastodon is?

Making credibility matter again.

I'm just so tired of living in a world where the people who do solid work posting factually solid and insightful material are quickly shunted aside for people who post attention-grabbing crap. Where the people who are proven right are shunned, and those proven wrong are still turned into celebrities.

It just depends on what kind of ethos we build here.

For #FossilFriday check out this gorgeous #fossil #insect! This 49 million year old beauty is Pulchritudo attenboroughi, a #beetle found in the rocks of the Green River Formation, Colorado. what's particularly striking about this fossil is the pattern on its wing cases.

#palaeontology #paleoentology #entomology #arthropods #science

@futurebird For some people, particularly in activism, it helps to call it "Treating yourself as you work to make sure others are treated." Like, if you spend your time making sure that people can have dignity and autonomy and wellbeing, that ought to include yourself.

"Self Care"

Is this hugely important concept that gets treated like a joke. I think a large part of that is the way that's it's been coded to be "for women" and what happens to things "for women?" They get devalued and trivialized.

Some of the people in most desperate need of improved practices of self care are men.

I was trying to think of a more masculine coded name for self care ... "mental hygiene" sounds... creepy and probably gross/evil. Thoughts?

Dear academics: If you're allowed to email people copies of your paper if they ask, consider setting up a mail rule for yourself that autoreplied to any mail you receive with the DOI of a paper you wrote in the subject with a copy of that paper.

https://mastodon.social/@EposVox@glitch.lgbt/109531796578961888

You’re not supposed to put a Qtip all the way into your ear because that’s where the reset button is

EU wants to require "easily" replaceable batteries:

> Three and a half years after the entry into force of the legislation, portable batteries in appliances must be designed so that consumers can easily remove and replace them themselves.

This is fundamentally pointed at Apple, but will apply to the whole range of overly-disposable gadgets.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20221205IPR60614/batteries-deal-on-new-eu-rules-for-design-production-and-waste-treatment

72 pencils arranged into four intersecting hexagonal prisms. Took me a bit to figure out how to assemble it after seeing a picture. Original design by mathematician/sculptor George Hart. #Geometry #Pencil

@fencoul @fbpe

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe
Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/?s=09

I love that everyone is basically wandering around Mastodon right now wearing their weirdest hashtags and trying to find their people.

"Are you #Apiarist ?"
"No, sorry, I'm #ArduinoMusic ."

#ArduinoMusic turns around.

"ANYBODY INTO BEES?"

A hand goes up in the back of the crowd.

"NICE."

The first day of winter is definitely coming in strong! It’s important to find unconventional beauty, even when the land is encased in ice.
#lichensubscribe #mosstodon #ice #macrophotography #magicworlds

@catvalente I especially like this bit: "Us weird geeks making communities in the ether? We love. We love so stupidly hard. We try to be happy. We get enthusiastic and devote ourselves to saving whales and trees and cancelled science fiction shows and each other. The energy we make in these spaces ... people like Musk can never understand or experience, which is why they keep smashing the windows in to try and get it, only to find the light they hungered for is already gone."

Yesterday, I told you the #IronAge was weird.... well, here's the categorical proof!

Yes, a #Torc with a knot in it! Yes, it would appear it's an Iron Age knot. We have absolutely no idea why someone would tie a knot in a torc (there aren't other known examples), but my suspicion is it was done because they could - this is not easy thing to do & my gut feeling is this is a goldsmith showing off their skill set.

But whatever it is, I love it! ❤️

#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs

📷 British Museum

Me: I’m returning this ice “cube” tray. It makes cuboids

Cashier: you’re . . . cuboids?

Me: yes, rectangular parallelepipeds. Trapezoidal, really. clearly not functioning as advertised. how is this confusing

Cashier: you know what I was gonna quit today anyway

Years ago I bought a collection of IBM Selectric Typewriter ‘golf balls’ (including some rarer ones) from a typewriter repair shop. Once upon a time this was how fonts were stored for the machine. The owner literally used his arm to shovel them into a cardboard box like he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough, in a shop full of hundreds of them. A good memory. #design #typography #typewriter #fonts