Neekerbreeker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Neekerbreeker@qoto.org

My pronouns are she/her, I follow science, and I support Dr. Fauci.

@elonmusk@twitter.com’s one player (albeit with influence). We must address a much larger global problem of anti-science rhetoric, #disinformation, and #hate.

#introductions

I haven't done one of these in a while. My friends at Democracy Town introduced me to the Fediverse. We also sought refuge from the bird site.
My bio tells you most of what I'm about and that URL, climatemarch.org is my family.

Here's a trailer to the documentary I played a supporting role in. If it was a movie, I would have been part of the stage crew; low-key and behind the scenes.

http://climatemarch.org/the-race-to-save-the-world-earth-day-2021/

Join us at 1pm ET live to figure out what @joinmastodon can and can't do for you in building a more sustainable world - and social web. https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/can-thriving-online-include-thriving-on-mastodonquestion
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RT @revkin
@kairyssdal Doing my live @columbiaclimate #SustainWhat #ThrivingOnline chat on making the most of #mastodon at 1pm ET today! @SethBaum will share his learning. 3 ways to watch (no signup). htt…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1602354715949502468

Trying to post a youtube video i made a while ago.
Jamming with a guy in Big Sur.
https://youtu.be/Zbnh78qCMdk

If you know my history, you know I grew up as part of ACT UP, the AIDS activist group in the 80s and 90s. I've protested every President, multiple drug companies, and federal officials. 1/

Will Musk’s latest antics (targeting Dr. Fauci and mocking inclusivity) reignite the #TwitterMigration to #Mastodon?

Trooper, trucker, sailor, fishwife: What we swear like when we swear like a something.

New for Strong Language, with thanks to the many Mastodonians who helped with #translation:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/trooper-trucker-sailor-fishwife-what-we-swear-like-when-we-swear-like-a-something/
#swearing #language #languages #linguistics #etymology #CorpusLinguistics #sociolinguistics

Welcome @WardQNormal to Mastodon! Happy to see you here! *waves*

The intro to my talk today at the Data for Policy 2022 meeting in Seattle.

We know what happens when organisms who evolved to forage in a world where sugar and fat are rare develop the capacity to fulfill their evolved desires and put a junk food aisle in every store.

What happens when information foragers who evolved in a world where information was sparse are able to construct a media ecosystem to feed their evolved desires?

Ummm....

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

When challenging someone's perspective stop and ask yourself these questions...

1) What do I understand about the others perspective?
2) What do I understand about my own perspective?
3) Could I be wrong?
4) What do I want the other to understand about my perspective?
5) What do I want the other to understand about their own perspective?

If you find yourself skipping the first three, you're not really trying to have a discussion and may want to check your ego.

Today's blog post is a little odd. If we wanted to change the common name of a species, could we? I looked at data from three real attempts! https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/can-you-change-a-species-common-name/

Looking over the parapets of #Carisbooke #Castle we can see the #boneyard beyond. This castle was once the living heart of the Island, but now it is but a broken one. Windswept and grey, a hulk that has stood in one shape or another for over a millennia. 
How many have died on these walls and how many #shades stand here looking at the #graves? The #shadows of the past clinging thick with the restless dead.
#Ghost #GhostStories #Folklore #Cemetery #Folklore #MythicMonday #TombTuesday