We love you, Pee Wee. #peeweeherman #paulreubens #peeweesbigadventure #cabazondinosaurs

#EllaIrwin bent over backwards to dismantle any trust and safety at #Twitter in her rush to appease #ElonMusk, and now she's bailing.

Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-head-trust-safety-says-she-has-resigned-2023-06-02/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter

Law & Order: Library Crimes Unit??!!! Sign me up, Ken. I live it, so I’d watch it too. #library #libraries #librarian #jeopardy

When storytime and a construction project outside the library collide, of course you go outside and ask the foreman if the kids can come look at the machines. They turned everything off, lowered the buckets on the digger to the ground to be safe, and let the kids get up close and takes pics. #libraries #nationallibraryweek #librarians #storytime #construction #diggers #librarianwins

This is grotesque. #zooeyzephyr #letherspeak #montana #mtleg #silenceequalsdeath #translivesmatter

Okay, hit me Mastodonians. I fell off the pachyderm for a bit, but am reading again. What are the best reader apps for iOS and Android? Is the Masto web interface still a preferred way to go?

Is it just me or did Ted Lasso inject an homage to Donald in Mathmagic Land into tonight’s episode? I also got little The Dot & The Line vibe as well. This show is truly pure art. https://youtu.be/U_ZHsk0-eF0. #tedlasso #donaldinmathmagicland #thedotandtheline #triangles #illustrators #illustration #animation

Fox’s lies damaged (and continue to damage) all of us, but we didn’t all sue. We couldn’t.

Only Dominion sued. They got a gigantic amount of money, for a little company with 100 employees. They have every right to be happy.

We have every right to remain unsatisfied.

"Though no one died in the accident, the catastrophe serves as a wake-up call to the potential for more deadly freight rail derailments, public health advocates warn. By one estimate, 25 million Americans live in an oil train blast zone, and had the derailment occurred just a few miles east, it would be burning in downtown Pittsburgh, with tens of thousands of residents in immediate danger."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/ohio-train-derailment-wake-up-call

@anxiousrage “though no one died”…yet. Talk to us again in a couple years when the cancer death lawsuits come.

Explore the Library of Congress’s digitized archive of rare 19th-century photographs of African American women activists.

#Art #Photography #History #Activism #BlackActivism

https://hyperallergic.com/370345/19th-century-photographs-of-black-women-activists/

RT @ninaturner
Yes, a minimum wage worker should be able to afford rent and groceries with their paycheck.

@smaran Thanks for the clarification. So sad that The College Board ignored it.

This is a disgrace. The College Board literally erases LGBTQ+ African Americans from their AP AA History framework. One fleeting reference to Bayard Rustin being gay and one to black lesbians feeling left out of the civil rights movement. That's it, in 230+ pages! No James Baldwin, Marsha P. Norman, Audre Lorde or Lorraine Hansberry. Then the College Board gaslights that DeSantis had no effect on these cuts. #AfricanAmericanHistory #CollegeBoard #LGBTQHistory #Erased https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html

@smaran @litstudies Were the signees the academics who were putting together the framework? Because what was released today is a disgrace. The letter here calls out the homophobia of DeSantis and his goons and bemoans the intended erasure of queer black voices, and yet LGBTQ African-Americans are almost entirely erased from the framework. Literally one fleeting reference to Bayard Rustin being gay and another to black lesbians feeling excluded by black male voices. That's literally it.

One thing that Mastodon newcomers may not realize is how easy it is to turn Mastodon for web into essentially a Tweetdeck clone, with columns for search/compose, home, notifications, and any lists you've set up. It takes literally seconds.

Here's what mine looks like right now:

So. What are you reading right now?

@monostich I have John Waters' Liarmouth...A Feel-Bad Romance on top of my TBR pile, and it sounds like a delightful novel to start this holiday weekend.

@Popehat I'm irritated by the misuse of "common sense" in relation to most conservative and far right rhetoric. If they don't understand the what the First Amendment covers, then their sense is not very common. Or, maybe it is far too common, but it's not sensible or correct.