Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

A decade ago, this image went mega-viral on Google+. In the ensuing years, it has been adapted and reused thousands of times.

@cra1g created this instantly viral image and tells the story of its evolution here:
https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-meme-ddc4e139e0e4
@sociology @politicalscience

Please. Read this.

Even if you think you have realised how bad things are, perhaps there will still be something that shocks you further

For me, it was the man whose benefits were stopped when he couldn’t ‘verify his identity’ on his phone because he had no credit. So he’d been left, with no food, no phone and no electricity, in the cold and dark

How has it come to this?

#UKPolitics #Poverty

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/28/citizens-advice-cost-of-living-emergency

News flash: If you outlaw abortions, criminalize providing gender affirming care for trans youth, dictate what educators can teach in schools, and stop people from voting, you're not the party of "limited government."

"I think we're seeing a tipping point around not just restitution and repatriation, but museums acknowledging their colonial history - and that's better history, I think"

A historic day for a British-based museum to return looted artefacts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63783561

Amazing photo from #China - the people stand up to Xi, some demanding he step down. Photo of two professors from Fudan University.

Carnegie Syndrome is when Americans ignore labor abuse and low wages if a corporate titan shows up in a tux to donate money to a “cause.”

#Unions #Amazon #Bezos #LivingWage #WeRise
#filmmaking #DocumentaryFilmFestival

Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isn’t born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.

Those who state they’ll not vote for Labour because of their ‘Brexit stance’ etc just need to look at actual reality in the UK. We need the Tories out to begin to make the changes we so desperately need - that requires votes. Matt Hancock is in the final of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. The people who vote for him are real voters who vote Tory & keep them in power - without their vote we get the Tories forever. Hard to accept but their vote keeps us all in Tory hell.

Apparently today Apple has pulled advertising from twitter and will possibly cancel the app from their app store.

Muskkk is now having a full blown Trump-style meltdown and declaring war on Apple in a number of childish tweets, of course because as we know this is typical of Far Right Trolls, Musk is King Troll, they don't back down, they try to pretend it's a joke to them.

#MuskMeltdown

In what I think I consider a badge of honor, after generating with about 12 Chinese #Mastodon sites, I was blocked by the Chinese firewall.

Other #Mastoadmins, DM me for what to try, I'll then communicate over signal.

#China #ChinaProtests
#Admin #IndieWebSocial #Fediadmin

Twitter Users Brutally Mock Elon Musk For Trying To Shame Apple Into Advertising - “Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?” the tech mogul tweeted on Monday. #twitter #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-mocked-apple-advertising_n_6385122fe4b0e4c77595ad78

I've watched this on an endless loop for 15 minutes.

Would this happen on #Mastodon?
Time the World moved over, to avoid the belligerence of Authoritarians and the intransigence of Oligarchs.
#China #Urumqi #Twitter