Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

The profits of ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell have skyrocketed by 169% so far this year to $125 billion.

While you were paying through the nose at the gas pump, Big Oil companies were using the cover of inflation to line their pockets.

It's time for a windfall profits tax.

Future Americans will look back on this as the era when billionaires ruled U.S. elections. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/billionaires-provided-15-percent-funding-midterms

Would you send money to support a company engaged in years of world-wide bribery and corruption, that was just fined over a billion dollars for this?

I did! You probably do too - via your bank or pension.
My pension fund (#USS) has £161m in Glencore and supported them all this time.
The highly-paid execs running USS saw no red flags!
Glencore is a huge trading and mining company, including #fossilfuels. Most pension funds and many banks support them.
#climate
#climateemergency
#divest

“A whole way of life has disappeared for my people and culturally modified trees are part of demonstrating that we have been here for thousands of years, using different resources in our forests.”
- hiwus Calvin Craigan, Hereditary Chief, shíshálh Nation

Story from The Narwhal: https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-logging-culturally-modified-trees/

#archaeology #logging #BritishColumbia #FirstNations

@georgetakei so glad to see you here. And I’ve been meaning to tell you that hearing you talk about your childhood helped embolden me to write about my father’s painful childhood in Jim Crow Mississippi.

Your reminder that Amazon warehouse workers suffer serious injuries at twice the rate of competitors.

This worker safety crisis is at its very worst during the holidays.

Don't let the Black Friday deals cloud your thinking.

You know, the thing that gets my attention concerning how safety concerns have become a sticking point as more and more people join the fedi is how white people are defiantly defending what is rather than envisioning what could be.

The refusal to see outside of what they see is best is one of the most defining characteristics of white people in the fedi and one of the main obstacles to progress, as we are clearly seeing the need for an improved fedi experience across the board.

This is a microcosm of what Martin Luther King Jr. said about how the white moderate is the greatest obstacle to progress because they continuously side with order over justice.

Any thinking person can see we need better adaptable experiences in the fedi and platforms that better serve the safety concerns of the people.

The way I see white people bitterly fighting to keep a status quo that no one agreed on is the main driver of conflict as the fediverse grows, underscoring yet again the challenge of this space is not technology.

It's culture. And whiteness, as Du Bois identified years ago, is committed to fighting to assert itself in yet another new space.

Americans should name mass shootings the way they do hurricanes but after Republicans who accept payments from the NRA.

I just dipped into Twitter to read the fantastic news that the Snowdonia National Park Authority has voted to use the original Welsh names Yr Wyddfa #YrWyddfa and #Eryri rather than the imposed English #Snowdon and #Snowdonia. It's a massive win for reclaiming our #Welsh cultural heritage. I honestly can't believe the amount of hatred, abuse and racism in the Twitter comments from English people. I've no idea why they are so angry that another country wants to use its own language. #Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The guy who promised Twitter will be the most reliable source of information and not tolerate false information…is currently leading the way on tweeting unreliable and false information.

There is no Thanksgiving without farm workers. Thank you & Solidarity!

QOTTO has been ttaken off the malware list we were mistakenly added to... yay!

https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qoto.org

Really awoken to the possibility of teaching/learning more about the actual history Thanksgiving based on posts I saw today. I will try using this guide with my son tomorrow.

https://neaedjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NASS-Thanksgiving-Booklet-Print-Ready.pdf?_ga=2.170064416.1279652381.1664808613-734908655.1664808613

Which I found through this article:
https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-thanksgiving-thoughtfully

I know at least some of the massacres, land theft and genocide that we as Americans have committed against Native Americans but oddly I never really saw how badly I was taught/learned about Thanksgiving as a child. Hopefully I will build a stronger foundation for my children in understanding and reconciling with the past.

It's ripe for abuse. The intention is good, but there's no way to shield it from abuse and money.

Check the thread, some even suggested:
1. a scoring system for accounts (a.k.a. China's National Social Credit system) (federated or local)
2. labels (federated or local)
3. If a server doesn't block a user, the server should defederate, or the other admins will block the entire server
4. Algorithms

Etc.

If inflation comes up at the dinner table tonight, don’t forget to draw attention to the deeper structural driver of inflation: the concentration of the American economy in the hands of a few corporate giants with the power to raise prices, even as they rake in record profits.

#OnThisDay, 24 Nov 2015, mathematician Katherine Johnson receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on the American space programme. She personally calculated the trajectories for the first American manned space flights by hand.

Her story has been told in 'Hidden Figures'. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #Histodons

Today is a good day to remind you that whitewashing American history is how white supremacy thrives.

I’m #thankful for all of the volunteers running all of the #Mastodon instances out there who are trying to build safe, positive, productive communities. Who willingly give of their own time in addition to their family, work, and other obligations. Who put people before profit. Who believe that when we build bridges and connect with one another, we can accomplish anything together.

#thanksgiving #Fediverse

This Thanksgiving, make sure you honor the Wampanoag people who have lost 66 of their Tribes from genocide since 1621, when the pilgrims held the first Thanksgiving.

In 2020, Trump had the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe disestablished, stealing 321 acres of their reservation land. It has been the first time a tribe lost recognition since the Termination period of the 1950s. While they regained their land, settler colonial spirit of the pilgrims is still alive in 2022. #indigenous #thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving Day, and it is also the National Day of Mourning, which remembers the genocide of millions of Native Americans and their ongoing erasure today.

In giving thanks today, let us also reflect and act to stop the ongoing genocide of America's Indigenous Peoples.