David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

You can get away with pretending this does not exist on tiktok but twitter requires users to be able to read at least 20 words together

Will the murders never cease?
Are they men or are they beasts?
What do they ever hope
Ever hope to gain?
Will my country fall
Stand or fall?
Is it too late for us all?
And did Martin Luther King
Just die in vain?

—Nina Simone, “Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)” #MLKDay #MLK #BlackMastodon #Mastodon

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it,” King said. “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
https://america.substack.com/p/to-tell-the-truth

On Dr. King's birthday, his far-seeing lost lectures on technology and the 3 ways of resisting the system https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/10/07/mlk-massey-lectures/

Lots of ways Republican government sucks, here’s a quieter one: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/skipped-showers-paper-plates-an-arizona-suburbs-water-is-cut-off.html

Stop playing the “I Have A Dream” portion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s speech. Some in the news media, etc. who play that portion of the speech and some politicians who repeat that portion of the speech are the same people who spit in his eye and yours the other 364 days of the year. The entirety of that Aug 28, 1963 speech must be played. #MLK #BlackMastodon #MLKJr #MLKDay #Mastodon

Pica-pau-do-campo/Campo Flicker
Colaptes campestris
#animal #animais #animals #fotografias #photography #BirdsSeenIn2022 #photograph #photo #photos #birding #birdwatching #passofundo #passofundors #riograndedosul #bird #birds #Ave #aves #asavesqueeuencontro #patricianicoloso

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

#MLK #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #MLKJr

I can’t remember the last time two Black female sideline reporters for the same network appeared in the same game in the NFL, let alone in the NFL Playoffs. Perhaps because this may be the first time it has ever happened. The legendary Pam Oliver and Kristina Pink representing! Great to see! #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #nfl

You can read about it here https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.853606/full

Musk has lost his effort to relocate a trial from SF to Texas over claims of a "tainted" jury pool. Judge sided with prosecution, who said: "What they refer to as 'biased' coverage is, in fact, factual reporting about his management of Twitter, Inc., and has no bearing on the jury's ability to render a fair verdict. If 'negative' attention was all that was required to disqualify a jury pool, Musk would effectively be untriable before a jury given his knack for attracting 'negative' coverage."

Once you start to live your life with this view, you really start to live your life. 🙏

#life #mindfulness