essjay

@essjay@outdoors.lgbt

Musician & songwriter based in UK
LGBT+ :progresspride_flag: ACE :ace_flat: and staunch trans ally
Antifa - ¡no pasarán! :antinazi:
Black Lives Matter ✊🏿

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Lazarou, to random
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I get such intelligent and well mannered conversations in my mentions on this place 😁
I forget social media doesn't have to be a battle.

essjay,

@Stoat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyy8lgbhExg

@Lazarou

wfaler, to random
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    essjay,

    @wfaler

    It's all explained here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vMBp6iUJzk

    neurovagrant, to random
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    Just saw someone advocating progressive movements organize on the Fediverse.

    BE VERY VERY CAREFUL ABOUT SAYING STUFF LIKE THIS.

    -Most fediverse tie-ins are not architected to protect you. For instance, Mastodon Direct Messages are not encrypted and admins can access them.

    -Most instances are hosted by ordinary people who don't have the time, knowledge, or resources to fight subpoenas in either criminal or civil actions.

    Meet here. Support each other. Cheer each other on. Show solidarity, and elevate and amplify each other.

    Organize in much more restricted environments, like end-to-end encrypted messengers like Signal.

    essjay,

    @neurovagrant

    🎯
    💯%

    essjay, to random

    It's depressing to see that Mastodon's own Musk wannabe (let's call him 'Biro Spiller') is at it again with his "There are no safe spaces" bullshit. 🤮

    I'm getting very close to blocking that instance all together.

    wfaler, to politics
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    essjay,

    @wfaler

    Shh 🤫

    Don't go giving the idiots ideas.

    renwillis, to reddit
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    essjay,

    @renwillis

    Thank you for sharing this.

    Belle and Sebastian are a very interesting band.

    @alternativenation

    essjay, (edited )

    @renwillis

    Such clever, well crafted songs.
    I have 'The Life Pursuit' album.

    This is one of my favourites from it.
    The video makes me smile too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQwcqwHvrus

    @alternativenation

    essjay,

    @YGathGoch

    I find these lyrics intriguing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpxxQTZ1iOM

    @renwillis @alternativenation

    essjay,

    @renwillis

    It's 'Roy Walker'.

    Try this one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jHSlxTGtSY

    @YGathGoch @alternativenation

    Stoat, to random

    It's a bit weird that an ex-stockbroker who cries and stamps his feet about regulation has created a situation that can only apparently be solved by regulation, isn't it?

    Tories 🤝 Farage

    More to this.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-bank-accounts-coutts-b2379051.html

    essjay,

    @Stoat

    I'm pretty sure they've been leaned on by some Tory or other.

    Stoat, to ukteachers

    They defunded BTEC's (which were brilliant) for T-levels, which Ofsted now says are useless.

    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/20/vocational-t-levels-england-ofsted-report

    essjay,

    @Stoat

    I was studying for a BTEC through distance learning that got me into electronics engineering.

    They were brilliant and vocation oriented.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    The kids in Florida are going to be very fucked up if something isn't done.

    essjay,

    @StillIRise1963

    I think that's the plan.
    A feature, not a bug.

    essjay,

    @StillIRise1963

    TBH, I'm going to stay the fuck away from the USA (much as I'd love to visit New Orleans).

    Likewise the UK as soon as I can sell my house.

    essjay,

    @StillIRise1963

    Iceland appeals to me.
    If I could afford to live there.

    Otherwise the Republic of Ireland (via Scotland).

    StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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    "Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting."

    *Obviously, I copied the text from the article. Now, the article has changed, so I deleted the second paragraph. It said "...violence perpetrated BY African Americans, it now says "on."

    https://www.rawstory.com/ap-black-history-florida/

    essjay,

    @StillIRise1963

    ""Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills."

    🤮 🤮 🤮

    essjay,

    @StillIRise1963

    I know.
    I have no words.

    davidallengreen, to random
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    The Court of Appeal decision in the Carla Foster case, reducing and suspending her sentence for procuring her own miscarriage:

    https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/R-v-Carla-Foster-190723.pdf

    essjay,

    @davidallengreen

    It's good news for her
    It's a tiny step in the right direction.
    However, she should never have been prosecuted.

    The law, once again is an ass.

    MeanwhileinCanada, to random

    Well, that's not a good sign.

    essjay,

    @MeanwhileinCanada

    Just a bird in the sky 🤷‍♀️ :blobfoxinnocent:

    helenczerski, to worms
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    essjay,

    @helenczerski

    "They're wriggly and they're squiggly.
    They make me kind of giggly."

    Stoat, to ukteachers

    Good to see the real reason for shutting down university courses finally coming out.

    essjay,

    @Stoat

    That woman becomes more deranged and unhinged every day 🤪

    renwillis, to mastodon
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    essjay,

    @renwillis

    One only has to follow a few BIPOC folk on here to see the racist hostility toward

    It's completely unacceptable and white people should call it out every time they witness it.

    @BlackAzizAnansi

    essjay,

    @renwillis

    Oh, I've seen white people trolling black folks.

    I've seen white men lecturing black women about what racism is or isn't.

    I always call it out (and if appropriate, report them) if I see it.

    @BlackAzizAnansi

    steve, to internet
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    Blocking all content from is a personal choice. (Any user can block everything from any domain.)

    Demanding that all content from Threads be blocked by all instances for everyone (defederation) is Karenism.

    Justifying it by claiming it's a threat to your culture ... well, I've heard that argument before.

    essjay,

    @folkerschamel

    Such self-important, self-entitled arrogance for you to dictate how instance admins should or shouldn't behave.

    They are responsible for their instances, not you.

    Set up your own instance, run it how you want and stop lecturing the rest of us with your pompous nonsense.

    piglet, to random
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    I think a cast should be taken of Keir Starmer's face the exact moment he realises the tory press are going to side with the tory party in the general election and preserved as warning to the future keir starmers of the party.

    essjay,

    @jackLondon

    Tell me that you don't understand how The Overton Window moves to the right, without telling me that you don't understand how the The Overton Window moves to the right.

    @piglet
    @Stoat

    essjay,

    @jackLondon

    🤦‍♀️

    @piglet @Stoat

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