AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
#JinJiyanAzadi
#SlavaUkraini
#BLM
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#YIMBY
#Neurodiverse
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Joined Nov 2022
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BREAKING | Filings indicate that Republican former VP Mike Pence is running for POTUS.
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As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.
Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.
Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.
Period.
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I gave a glib answer when my daughter asked what I wanted for #Christmas . I now have world peas.
Today is my first test of the reporting system. I found an antivax post on my feed, looked into that person’s posts, and immediately came across not only more antivax accounts but racism and anti-queer bigotry complete with some vile slurs. I reported a few accounts; time to see how those kinds of things are handled on #Mastodon and the applicable servers.
All right, I’m getting used to many of #Mastodon ‘s quirks, but I’m still bummed about an unexpected feature: the lack of thumbnails when I or others post links. I don’t know why it matters so much, but I just have a complete disinclination to click on a bare url, I can’t really QT someone into my feed even if only to add context and hashtags, I can’t swipe from other social media sites without directing traffic to them, and sharing news stories looks like a feverish forum post.
#newbie #help
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Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay - Photographer Dmitry Kokh discovered polar bears living in an abandoned weather station in Kolyuchin, in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation, while on a trip to Wrangel Island, a Unesco-recognised nature reserve that serves as a refuge to the animalsUS editor’s pick: best of... #theguardian
Why do armies commit atrocities? An exploration by Foreign Policy
#warcrimes #psychology #history #brutalization #trauma #abuse #cruelty #russia #wwii #sparta #dedovshchina
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/06/russia-ukraine-atrocities-war-crimes/
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Muslim mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi is known as “The Father of Algebra” so here's a "halal" way to say Merry Christmas to our Christian friends :)
Via @helmickeymouse
Christmas songs be like, "I am happy. It is snowing now. It is snowing and I am happy. Things never get better, every year is the same, but today I am happy. Nostalgia will keep me alive. Nostalgia will keep me safe. These are tears of joy. This is healthy. Everything is fine."
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RT @BBCYaldaHakim@twitter.com
“They closed the schools, the world remained silent, they closed our universities, silence, now they’ve come for our courses. What are we supposed to do? Kill ourselves?” Devastated Afghan girls mourn the loss of their education after the Taliban’s ban
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BBCYaldaHakim/status/1605844417386106880
https://hrmtc.io/@omniumgatherum/109558002013345590
Somehow Uvale keeps getting worse. The egregious police delays cascaded into delays getting medical responders in place to help anyone, and the complete lack of leadership was catastrophic for coordinating their resources.
#uvale #schoolshootings #texas #denial #nobottom
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Face Recognition Tech Gets Girl Scout Mom Booted From Rockettes Show — Due to Where She Works
"Conlon is an associate with the New Jersey based law firm, Davis, Saperstein and Solomon, which for years has been involved in personal injury litigation against a restaurant venue now under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment."
Imagine the reaction if a wartime leader who emphasizes being in this together with his armies fighting an existential struggle and his people freezing in the dark glided in in a tailored Armani suit. I’m sure he would have been beyond criticism then.
Apropos of nothing, here’s Churchill visiting the White House in plain war fatigues:
#war #solidarity #humility #nofucksgiven #slavaukrani
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Oh. my. god.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.
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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but Governor Hochul hasn't signed it and it might die. This would be a travesty. If you're in New York, visit https://eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!).
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Zelenskyy tells Congress: "Your money is not charity. It's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way."
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
#JinJiyanAzadi
#SlavaUkraini
#BLM
#NeverTrump
#YIMBY
#Neurodiverse
#ADHD
#law
#gardening
Joined Nov 2022
