Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

The best way to combat anti-vax isn’t with logic or facts or debate. It’s by launching our healthcare system into the sun and building something compassionate, universal, and affordable.

Conspiracy theories about health gain traction when everyone accurately associates formalized healthcare with bankruptcy, surprise medical bills, and organized crime. There’s no trust, and I don’t blame them.

The reason Republicans go after trans people, CRT, etc is they have professionals who have done polling & focus groups & examined the psychology telling them there are effective targets.

As with everything they do, the goal is to get the public to move power to them so they can use that power to benefit their benefactors.

Tax cuts, get kill regulations that protect the public but impede profits, privatize public goods, etc.

This is why they do it.

#Republicans #power #trans #crt

Glad to see Republicans doing everything they can to protect (white) kids from dangers like "seeing gay people be happy" and "learning racism exists," so they can be shot to pieces in school in between floor shifts in the factory. You know. Like God intended.

#politics #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #labour #labor #LaborRights #LabourRights

https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/5/3/23702464/child-labor-laws-youth-migrants-work-shortage

Libraries are civic marvels.

Besides lending books and providing internet access, the Chicago Public Library lets you check out fishing poles, telescopes, cameras, knitting supplies, sewing machines, puzzles, tools, cooking equipment, a (model) human skull, sheet music, instruments, toys, museum passes, laptops, wifi hotspots, craft kits, seeds.

You can book meeting rooms or 3D printers. Some branches have teachers on site for homework help. Story time for kids, literacy programs for adults.

People who can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words.

Job interviewer: What's your greatest weakness?

Me: Honesty.

Job interviewer: I don't think it is a weakness.

Me: I don't give a fuck what you think.

For the most part, this place has been great. And in part due to that, my expectations of people here were higher than Twitter. Over there, hate is normalized and easier to dismiss. Here, I hadn't seen much hate or unpleasantness.

So when someone says something really shitty, it's a lot harder to ignore. I don't fucking care if "it's a joke." That's not something anyone should joke about, regardless of your opinions. Is kindness really so hard? Or even simply remembering that other people have emotions and lives too?

#mastodon #twitter

@AnarchoNinaWrites Actually, I'm writing a song titled "*redacted*ing nazis and why creepy rich eugenicists mean to boil us all to death even if I don't think they can *actually* escape to Mars", and it's going to be a pretty good one.

FACT: Donald Trump has now been arrested more times than he has won an election.

these are almost mandatory at this point.

So Berlusconi, Italy's precursor to Trump and Johnson, has died. No tears shed here. He was a deeply malign toxic influence on Italy.

#SilivoBerlusconi #ItalianPolitics #Italy

https://www.dw.com/en/former-italian-prime-minister-silvio-berlusconi-dies/a-65888192?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf

If you've never microwaved ice cream to put in your coffee because you were too lazy to go to the store, I really don't have time to hear about your fancy trust-fund Harvard MBA name-brand-groceries life in Windsor Castle or wherever.

The power of the terminal

I'm a lot like Henry II but less in the sense that I've created a cross-channel Anglo-Frankish land empire and more in the sense that everyone who loves me wants me dead.

"When cis people try to understand what it is to be trans, I think they often try to imagine what it would feel like to want to be 'the opposite sex'. What they should be trying to imagine, instead, is how it would feel to wake up and find that the whole world insists they *are* the opposite sex. That would be a much closer scenario to how it feels to be trans." Sage

(Alt Text: Picture of Sage's feet in the water. Text as above)

#Trans #NonBinary #LGBTQI

Me: *texting* I'm sorry but I need to feel a connection.

Autocorrect: I'm sorry but I need to feel a cinnabon.

Me:

Autocorrect:

Me: *send*

For #WorldOceanDay - a recommendation:

I've been reading this book by @al_humphreys with my kids and it's not only a pretty engaging read, by turns funny, informative, serious and gripping, it also deals very sensibly with the massive issues facing the ocean, though with a light touch.
Pollution, plastics, overfishing, marine biology are all covered but never preachily*.

Highly recommended to introduce some difficult issues to 8 year olds +

#ocean #GirlWhoRowedTheOcean

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

LOTR trilogy but just the scenes where two female characters interact.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqdDUTsNDwc/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==