Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

spoon theory, dnd-ified 🥄

Americans lose more money to civil asset forfeiture than to burglary every year now, and the wage theft dwarf that.

You're far more likely to to be robbed by your employers and the police than you are by your neighbours.

"US law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people in 2022, making it the deadliest year on record for police violence since experts first started tracking the killings, a new data analysis reveals.

Police across the country killed an average of more than three people a day, or nearly 100 people every month last year according to Mapping Police Violence."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022

Happy Jan 6th! Remember, 1st coup always fails!🙂

Hitler. Saddam. Castro. All the big names took at least 2 shots, regardless of political philosophy!

And in the USA the rules of civility discourse meant that after Jan 6th, Biden had more to say to Black folk than he did to the far-right politicians that supported it.🤡 He made a big show of saying that he would fire any member of his admin that was "rude" to a member of the far-right.

He asked us to move on. Our answer was no.

It's still no.

OK let’s talk about That Op-ed. The one that insisted not only that privacy is dangerous, but that not affirmatively building surveillance into communication tools is a radical ideological position.

Dunking on the op-ed’s arguments is easy. They’re SHALLOW. And dunk many have, often with the gentleness of a professor grading a draft essay from a student they didn’t want to completely discourage. I’ll direct you to the great threads from others...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230101194846/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/opinion/jack-dorseys-twitter-signal-privacy.html

I don't feel as strongly about quote posts as I did in 2018. Personally, I am not a fan, but there is clearly a lot of demand for it. We're considering it.

Today insulin is capped at $35 for those on Medicare. Democrats unanimously voted for this, yet so-called "pro life" Republicans unanimously opposed.

There are MILLIONS of people w/diabetes too young for Medicare.
Insulin needs to be free & accessible for ALL. #MakeInsulinFree

You get people going, "Phew, we left the bad people behind us. But one day....ONE DAY--" *waggles fingers threateningly* "--They are coming!"

They already came, got defederated and sorted by the sorting hat into House Asshole.

New assholes will find that server is the only house for them, and that they are defederated.

Smart assholes put their money on mastodon.social and simply quietly and subversively fuck shit up.

Acceptance is overrated and keeps you from focusing on revenge.

Only a US citizen could believe that we can afford $858 billion 🤡 for our military budget, but we can't even afford to put thermal scanners at every airport in the US.

NYC can afford $11 billion for its police budget, but it can't afford to stop me from getting off a plane at JFK airport with a 102 degree fever, getting on the airport subway maskless, coughing and sneezing on everyone I see, and stepping off in Times Square, shedding virus on everything in sight.

RT @GlennonDoyle@twitter.com

We don’t really know how to fix harm.
We ask folks who’ve been wronged to forgive but rarely ask wrongdoers to repair.
@TheRaDR@twitter.com is sharing a 5-step process to repair relationships & what to do if you want to make amends.
Listen to today's #WCDHT at https://apple.co/3vkSFAk

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GlennonDoyle/status/1607774149363093506

@folduptoys The only reason mass schooling is even tolerated at all is because its victims are children and young people, i.e. demographics whose lives society believes don't really matter.

“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