How to Social Media, a Guide

1. If someone is obnoxious then block them.
2. If someone is wasting your time then mute them.
3. This is community building as it also helps prevent them attacking or distracting your allies.
4. If you want to monitor obnoxious people then get a burner account.

As Auntie Toni said, and this also applies to -isms other than racism:

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” - Toni Morrison

#antiracism #praxis #CultureWars #ToniMorrison #quotes #quote #quotation #quotations

Congrats to the person who created the fake Eli Lilly Twitter account and igniting a PR shaming cycle so intense that they had to cave
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/business/insulin-price-cap-eli-lilly.html

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs — we always changed names… until we met Pringles. I think technically his name was “Pringle” but whatever. I dont know why it fits him, but it absolutely does. I have no idea what we’d call him otherwise.

🥹 Timmy, a 20-year-old cat, is looking for his 'retirement home' through the RSPCA

Timmy is described as a "very special boy who, at the age of 20, might not have long left but certainly has enough love to give in the meantime"

https://www.nationalworld.com/news/offbeat/cat-rspca-oldest-age-20-home-4046088

#UK #News #Adoption #Pets #Cats #RSPCA

COVID isn’t over, not that you could tell from most peoples behavior.

it truly blows my mind how completely the pandemic has vanished from most people’s radar, barring the exceptionally vulnerable. which i guess includes me! hooray!

if i got #LongCovid on top of the already existing “mild” #MECFS i’d be in really big trouble.

So few cis people seem to appreciate just how hard it is to obtain puberty blockers and hormones because conversations about "regret" frequently rely on the built-in assumption it's quick and easy and kids especially are being "rushed" through the process without adequate safeguards, which is untrue, but it's exactly the idea being planted in people's heads by these anti-trans moral panic "just asking questions" concern troll articles in mainstream media.

learning that Ron DeSantis helped run the Guantanamo Bay prison makes his current actions and trajectory make so much more sense https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/ron-desantis-force-feedings-guantanamo-bay-laughing/

"There is no epidemic of trans teens being rushed through medical transition by overly permissive doctors; trans people struggle to access healthcare at every age, and it has never been easy, let alone too easy, to be a trans child in the U.S. The articles claiming otherwise are recycling talking points that recognizably and overtly originate from anti-trans groups."

https://xtramagazine.com/power/what-went-wrong-at-the-new-york-times-246409

Wow. The NYPD are trying to criminalize wearing a mask.

https://pix11.com/news/local-news/police-want-nyc-businesses-to-require-customers-show-their-faces/

#COVID

According to the experts
when it comes to the bird flu
now is not the time
to panic
but rather the time
to pay attention
and while I understand
this is meant to be reassuring
the last several years
have greatly diminished my faith
in our ability to pay attention.

Welp... if NYC gets rid of outdoor dining half the year, that's going to mean me visiting NYC a lot less, and only in the warmer months. I love the Big Apple, but I don't love covid.

https://slate.com/business/2023/02/new-york-city-outdoor-dining-streets-cars-pandemic.html

For one last #BlackHistoryMonth moment, let’s remember one of the trailblazers who have faded from memory:

Allison Davis was the first Black American to earn tenure at a predominantly white university, and his pioneering anthropological research (conducted with his wife Elizabeth Stubbs Davis) had substantial real-world policy impact, by showing the effects of racism and the discriminatory nature of IQ tests.

https://theconversation.com/allison-davis-forgotten-black-scholar-studied-and-faced-structural-racism-in-1940s-america-71933
#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #Histodons

📷: Davis family

Not sure who needs to hear this today, but remember, your local public library benefits from being used! Usage statistics are how librarians argue for funding! By using this shared service more, you are making it BETTER for everyone else!

It's the glory of the commons, not the tragedy of the commons. Go to the library!!!

In Los Angeles, children stitch “Made in America” tags into J. Crew shirts. They bake dinner rolls sold at Walmart and Target, process milk used in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and help debone chicken sold at Whole Foods. As recently as the fall, middle-schoolers made Fruit of the Loom socks in Alabama. In Michigan, children make auto parts for Ford and General Motors.
Searing investigation of the new US child labor.
https://nyti.ms/3IuqkNV?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Last of Us is a brilliant game and the Last of Us is also a game told from the perspective of white pessimism about the world and their hopelessness in trying to improve it.

That's problematic for many reasons, and I'm glad to see people talking about those themes in the show.

White creators always seem to have the same version of the apocalypse.

And that's usually them experiencing what whiteness has been inflicting on the world for centuries.

I like that a very compelling conversation about perspective is coming out of it.

Have you noticed appliances and cars fall apart far quicker than antiques? Capitalism convinced you to be cool with that. There is no reason, besides getting you to pay again, a washing machine can't last your whole life and beyond.

Capitalism, as well as racism - throw that in for good measure here, has convinced you to add a little fee to your meal so the restaurant can pay the staff even less than poverty wages!
Yes, tipping started with making sure black people got paid less since they couldn't legally have slaves now. Well, at least not blatant obvious slaves.

Regular TV has been playing shows a little sped up so they can cram in another ad, and capitalism convinced you to tolerate this.
Oh, streaming? Capitalism has convinced you to tolerate splitting the libraries up all over the place. $10 here, $15 there... might as well have that $80 cable package.

Capitalism has convinced you RSS is antiquated. The real reason it's fading is because it doesn't have ads and tracking. You going to tell me the news article is truly better on a browser with ads than on a little program you can open any time, on or offline?

very funny to me that people want strong-AI robots to replace workers to not have to deal with unions, when like... they've got the information of the world in their brain, they're def gonna understand unions bro

i mean strong-AI is a pipedream this century anyway (if at all) but like.

bro you want to make things that are intelligent, that doesn't mean they're going to be docile. all the wild rationalist-led fears about AI are about how bad it would be if they hated you remember?