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Tattered

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Time for a proper introduction. I am a literature teacher, mostly retired. I love reading, music, baking, nature & cats. I am learning to boost a lot, which includes my passion for a truly inclusive world, so lots of support for Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, Women, Working Class, & other rights. I understand users who want Mastodon to be a quiet corner, but I am more concerned about what happens if we look the other way when people suffer.

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mrcompletely, to music
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Via the group chat homies

Akira Sakata on sax and voice, with, get this lineup

PETE COSEY on guitar
Bill Laswell on bass
Hamid Drake on drums

what genre is it? mfer, this doesn't need no fucking genre

https://akirasakata.bandcamp.com/album/fishermans-com

Tattered,
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@mrcompletely Fantastic! Thanks for posting this.

dmoser, to random
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🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗

➡️ If you are in traffic, you are traffic.

HT @_roman

Tattered,
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@dmoser @_roman I used to love public transport; before COVID and the mass refusal to wear masks. All social issues require sensible government.

kate, to random
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British politics at the moment:

Conservatives: We’re going to do X!

Labour: We oppose doing X. It harms the most vulnerable in society, damages the economy and the environment, and violates our international treaty obligations.

Conservatives: We have a huge majority, so we’ve done X!

Journalists: Will Labour reverse X if it wins the next election?

Labour: No.

Tattered,
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@kate If Labour can actually work up the energy to pretend to oppose X in the first place…

internetarchive, to random
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“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.” - @brewsterkahle

Read our full statement about the recording industry lawsuit against our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

Tattered,
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle Might I humbly suggest that the Archive be moved to a country with a greater commitment to public well-being than that current in the USA? Perhaps a European country where the relevant court might consider your collection to be to the benefit of humanity?

caseynewton, to random
@caseynewton@mastodon.social avatar

After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, it’s time for the press to take a more skeptical approach to stories about Elon Musk’s social media posts. https://www.platformer.news/p/its-time-to-change-how-we-cover-elon

Tattered,
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@caseynewton Wait! We’re supposed to believe Zuckerberg because Musk’s not trustworthy?

This is like the wrong answer to an old school logic problem.

Brendanjones, to climate
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Fossil fuel companies need to be acquired so they can be phased out.

“Rather than cashing out flows of income as profits, a public energy company could – and would – reinvest cash flows in delivering a decarbonised grid and lowering bills. Lower capital costs for publicly-owned companies, including the lack of a need to pay out dividends, only bolster the fiscal and economic case for public ownership to deliver this urgent task.”

https://labourlist.org/2023/08/energy-profits-oil-gas-clean-energy-renewables-public-ownership-climate-crisis/

Tattered,
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@ChristineMalec @LordCaramac @Brendanjones @simon_brooke That is some cold, cold eugenicist BS.

Tattered,
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@simon_brooke @ChristineMalec @LordCaramac @Brendanjones Sadly, elections are a capitalist game, designed to hide the oppression of the working class. Whoever you vote for will maintain the capitalist rape of the planet. Starmer is as anti-climate protest as Sunak. Biden just sent the navy to protect tankers. I agree that we need to act, but unless a new party appears, voting isn’t acting.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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"Balls on my face" - Donald Trump's next tweet before the court hearing where he will have to explain his threatening tweets over the past few days.

Tattered,
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@BlackAzizAnansi You’re right. Still, you probably have more white folk listening to you than DeSantis does on his campaign events. Keep preaching!

davidaugust, to books
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📖📚😃

context: https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.0980090c/

Tattered,
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@davidaugust When Eisenhower seems like a liberal hero, you know how far your country has drifted to the right…

DeanObeidallah, to random
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Orlando Magic basketball donates $50,000 to Ron DeSantis PAC. This is how the DeSantis SHAKEDOWN works. If you stand up to him like Disney or the Tampa Bay Rays did, he punishes you. So if you don't want to get "roughed up" you pay DON DeSantis protection money https://www.huffpost.com/entry/orlando-magic-donation-ron-desantis-super-pac_n_64cae65de4b03ad2b89cad11

Tattered,
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@DeanObeidallah No sympathy for those who support fascists.

“Magic” are a Nazi team. They deserve to lose respect, following, sponsorship, players of conscience.

Everyday now is a fight against GOP Nazism. Magic are doing the opposite of fighting.

cpoliticditto, to random
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    Tattered,
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    @cpoliticditto Or, simply, not an American.

    flexghost, to random
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    Biden is up against a twice impeached adjudicated sex offender under indictment for espionage and a Florida man who has good things to say about slavery

    …and it’s close.

    What’s that tell you about america?

    Tattered,
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    @flexghost If I were a US citizen, I would like to vote for the candidate who would take bold firm action against the industries contributing to the climate crisis.

    But I guess I’d have to vote for Biden, for the chance of boiling to death rather than being murdered by Nazis.

    Politics in the Anthropocene.

    GrimmReality, to random
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    Juliet Capulet was fucking 13 and we're all awful people for being ok with this story for this goddamn long.

    Tattered,
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    @GrimmReality It is supposed to be a warning. We are supposed to avoid the errors of judgment made by the tragic heroes. But somehow, popular culture has decided that Romeo and Juliet are different from Macbeth and Hamlet and Othello and Lear. Weird, huh?

    MarkRuffalo, to random
    @MarkRuffalo@mastodon.social avatar

    When your home burns, floods, or is destroyed in an extreme climate weather event, when someone in your family dies from heat waves, or when crops fail and people starve—come for these three people: Wael Sawan (Shell CEO), Darren Woods (Exxon CEO), and Patrick Pouyanne (TotalEnergies CEO). They knew what was coming and did it to you anyway. Sue them, shame them, heckle them, despise them. These are choices. They are to blame, not society.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

    Tattered,
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    @MattMastodon @simon_brooke @MarkRuffalo You are correct; but first you might need to find a political leader/Supreme Court who isn’t in the pocket of the people that it is necessary to prosecute.

    Tattered,
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    @simon_brooke @MattMastodon @MarkRuffalo Then somewhere with a Green-ish government might work. Iceland, perhaps?

    JoshuaHolland, to random
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    CT state troopers entered up to 60K fake tickets, issued to imaginary white people, to game a database designed to ferret out racial profiling. (And didn't enter real tickets issued to Black people.) One in 4 troopers were doing it. And it seems like nobody is being punished for this crime.

    https://archive.ph/jTv5E

    Tattered,
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    @JoshuaHolland You know when people talk about systemic racism, and “centrists” get uncomfortable and defensive…?

    This, right here, is the system, being racist, using more racism to try to hide the initial racism, and, caught, going unpunished by the racist system.

    Connecticut. Not Florida. Democrat governor. Democrat senators.

    How do you fix this?

    Green_Footballs, to random
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    It’s probably a good idea to repost this incredibly prophetic cartoon from 2014 at regular intervals because every day I see people who still haven’t fully imbibed its message. Apologies if it’s old hat to you.

    The Terrible Sea Lion.

    https://wondermark.com/c/1k62/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondermark#Sea_lioning

    Tattered,
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    @Green_Footballs I enjoy flipping the meaning by replacing “marine mammals” with “people”, and “sea lions” with a minority group (Pick your own, by ethnicity, gender orientation, or other).

    Then, it’s a neat little parable about trying to educate bigots. :)

    GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
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    Tattered,
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    @GossiTheDog And I quote, from a Musk-groupie-boy yesterday, “No human could match his intellect”, though it is,on evidence, that of a below-average 12-year-old.

    HeavenlyPossum, to random
    @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social avatar

    How, I’ve been asked, do people in nonstate societies prevent bad guys from taking over?

    It’s a bit of question begging: it presumes that the state (bad guys who have taken over) is required to prevent other bad guys from taking over.

    But let’s take a serious look at some of the scholarship on how and why nonstate societies aren’t quite as vulnerable to this as people seem to commonly assume.

    This is neither exhaustive nor comprehensive.

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    Tattered,
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    @HeavenlyPossum So, in democracies, our leaders can act swiftly to prevent climate change getting worse, without any interference from private interests? Cool.

    Tattered,
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    @HeavenlyPossum My apologies, Possum-san. I was responding to my own obsession with thinking about a way to prise power away from the oligarchies wearing the masks of democracy, rather than responding to your well-thought-out thread on alternate forms of self-regulating societies.

    I suppose I am guilty of being too like Marx; focusing on the need for revolution, and not thinking about the conditions that would then follow; which, alas, proved to be an error.

    andrewstroehlein, to random
    @andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social avatar

    Mainstream politicians thought adopting far-right policies would keep the far right away from power.

    But beating people at borders, sending them to torture, letting kids drown en masse - all Europe’s immorality & illegality - it’s only fed the bloodlust at the core of far-right extremism.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/world/europe/netherlands-refugees-government-collapse.html

    Tattered,
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    @andrewstroehlein I disagree, Andrew. I think mainstream politicians wanted far-right policies, to keep the imbalance of wealth. And, just like 1930s Germany, people like von Papen didn’t really understand who they were really giving power to.

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    Things seem to be going just as Musk planned over on Twitter

    Tattered,
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    @taylorlorenz Well, we know what Twitter is for, now.

    So, the truth is, if we stay, we are complicit.

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    I don't expect Threads to ever have iPad or Mac apps, so it could never be 'the' service for me. But if they follow through on ActivityPub, and we can all just use it as a part of Mastodon, via the great third-party clients we know and love, it really will be the best of all worlds. And the things it will focus on — like quote posts, working search, high quality & fast media hosting — may just push the rest of Mastodon to catch up

    Tattered,
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    @stroughtonsmith Along with selling data to manipulate elections, pushing right-wing propaganda disguised as “philosophy”, giving details on trans people and those seeking abortions to authorities in MAGA states…

    A hard pass on anything Meta!

    mattsheffield, to trans
    @mattsheffield@mastodon.social avatar

    As the right-wing voting coalition ages out, Republican elites are resorting to dangerously stupid lies to juice voter engagement, lies that have and will endanger innocent lives:

    💣 Top Trump adviser Roger Stone talks of "demonic portals" at the Biden WH.
    💣 "Satan himself" supported Democrats per Glenn Beck.
    💣 Daily Wire religious fanatics routinely pretend demons possess people
    💣 Fox's hosts are copying Alex Jones's rhetoric of demonic possession

    Much more:
    https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-figures-prepare-spiritual-war-2024-claiming-their-opponents-are-demonic

    Tattered,
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    @mattsheffield Man, what a backward country!

    gruber, to random
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    Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.

    Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.

    Tattered,
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    @gruber Postmodern irony?

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