Daryl Gibson @dgibson36@librem.one

Memo to the media:

Stop letting politicians get away with calling asylum seekers "illegal immigrants" or saying they're not coming to this country "the right way." Seeking asylum is legal. Presenting themselves at the border & requesting asylum is "the right way" to seek asylum.

@GovTrack Thelma Harper was the first African American woman in the Tennessee senate and worked on issues including low income students, breast cancer, and elder abuse. #BlackTwitterAllies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Harper_(politician)

how many times am I going to have to prove I'm not a robot? I wonder if there's a way to automate it

#Ukraine calls for #Russia to be kicked out of the #UN. https://mfa.gov.ua/en/news/zayava-mzs-ukrayini-shchodo-nelegitimnosti-perebuvannya-rosijskoyi-federaciyi-v-radi-bezpeki-oon-ta-organizaciyi-obyednanih-nacij-u-cilomu

A true hero in the fight to save voting rights

The NORAD Twitter account has been suspended for doxxing the location of Santa's sleigh.

The thing Bob loves most about being a werewolf is when his wife takes him on a car ride.

Not missing #Twitter anymore but still feeling upset about #elonmusk absolutely destroying my favourite social media

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter and Medium, is now on Mastodon

Welcome @biz!

It is that time of the year. The Wreath of Khan.

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

Actually, the tax returns of all Supreme Court justices should absolutely be made public. That should be a requirement to be one of the nine people with lifetime appointments who make final legal decisions for the rest of the country.

“He who justifies the wicked & he who condemn the righteous are both like an abomination to the Lord.” Proverbs 17:15. #evangelicals #christians #religion #bible #theology #apologist #exposed #blackmastodon

'The Taliban took our last hope': College education is banned for women in Afghanistan - On Tuesday, the Taliban announced the women could no longer attend university. One educator in Afghanistan called it "gender apartheid." The highest grade girls will be able to attain now is grade 6. #npr

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/12/20/1144502320/the-taliban-took-our-last-hope-college-education-is-banned-for-women-in-afghanis

The best way to get into mastodon is just start posting stuff nonstop without thinking about it.

live your life in such a way that the whole nation doesn’t break out the popcorn because your taxes are about to be made public

Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ

These days so many people want to be 'verified' on the internet

I grew up in a time when we where told 'not to use your real name on the internet'

tihi

Told the kids we were going on a trip. Then took them to Aldi. Teaching them life is full of disappointment

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