Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

#quotes

RT @carynrose@twitter.com

This is one of the most radical things I have read in a very long time. I’m going to have to read it a few more times but I can already feel some brain cells shifting in a very drastic way. Serious as a heart attack https://twitter.com/andreagrimes/status/1607503845453602816

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/carynrose/status/1607558574892322817

BOOM:

The mega-post on the Book of Judith:

Storytelling, annotations, art, beheadings, cheese.

Enjoy, friends.

https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/beware-of-confident-women-with-swords

Behind Blue Eyes

Did you know that reindeer are the only known mammal whose eyes change seasonally from golden in the summer to a wintry blue? Their eyes also become a thousand times more sensitive in winter, adapting to dim light in the near darkness to avoid predators.

Part of this is because of changes in the tapetum lucidum (TL), a mirror-like layer under the retina. 1/n

#ScienceSunday #ScienceMastodon #Christmas

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit anyone's ever said, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

@LucyWildboots @KimCrayton1 @jab01701mid @taylorlorenz @anildash

Spaces that are safe for Black people, are not automatically safe for trans people. People have to make it safe♥️👍🏿

Spaces safe for Black men, are not automatically safe for Black women. It takes effort.

But sometimes I hear it implied that Mastodon was made to be safe for trans and queer communities, therefore it should be safe for Black folk.

NEW from me: Despite ample evidence, #Christiannationalism mostly absent from final #Jan6 report —> https://religionnews.com/2022/12/23/christian-nationalism-mostly-absent-from-final-jan-6-report/

@daniecleme The basic answer is that Putin's war cost the global economy in the order of $3tn, or about 3% of global growth. That's not evenly spread, and decoding it is a lot of work (the US is more insulated from grain prices, but more vulnerable to, say, oil prices), but the comparable figure in the US is somewhere in the region of $600-$700bn a year in lost growth, or roughly equivalent to the entire US GDP growth for 2022.

A laptop stolen from your car doesn't wind up in a homeless Black person's tent in the Tenderloin. Racism and hate for the homeless makes you believe that lie.

Your laptop goes into a luxury car, then into a Faraday bag, then into a storage container where it is powered down and sits for a while, before being wiped and shipped to another city, where it's listed on Craigslist or another classifieds or auction site.

By volume, that's most of the break-ins. Homeless car smashers are the exception

Oh hell yeah. @mozilla is launching a Mastodon instance in early 2023! I’m very excited for this. Mozilla is really good at what they do. Firefox has over 200M monthly active users, and with any luck they’ll build better support for the fediverse into Firefox itself. Mastodon will greatly benefit from easy to use professionally run instances that can handle massive scaling https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

When I tell parents that secretly spying on their kids' internet activities is not a great look, they ask me "Well, what SHOULD I do?"

There is no all-purpose parenting answer, but this report from Malwarebytes outlines many of the key considerations: https://www.malwarebytes.com/resources/attachments/parenting-and-growing-up-online-10-2022.pdf