ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@qoto.org

135,000 Canadians have already signed this petition to grant asylum to trans people facing horrific laws in their own countries. Canadians, your signature is needed. https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268 #canada #canadian #transrights #trans #transgender

@ZingerLearns @edutooters totally agree…love the poster!

Whenever someone points out racism on mastodon.

If you’re going to have a list of dead people in your awards ceremony, it should probably include someone who died in 2022 who is the lead actress in a film nominated for Best Picture this year. https://uproxx.com/movies/charlbi-dean-oscars-in-memoriam-segment-triangle-of-sadness/ #oscars

Journalists must leave Twitter now!

That's the opinion of Celeste Headless of Current. Since Elon Musk has bought Twitter, he has been attacking the platform's most active content creators: journalists.

Which is why journalists need to find an alternative and migrate elsewhere.

She notes that Mastodon is one alternative, although it requires some knowledge and comfort with the technology.

https://current.org/2023/03/why-journalists-should-act-now-to-create-an-alternative-to-twitter/

I love how Silicon Valley Bank is being portrayed as a "woke" bank, and their failure is blamed on being too woke.🤡

There is absolutely nothing that the US won't try to blame on Black folk.

Less than 2% of VC money even goes to Black folk. By assets, it was an anti-woke bank.

Black. Woke means Black.

Be the person that both Mr. Rogers and George Carlin would be proud of.

Empathy is good

One of the cleverest ways the capitalists who destroy the environment distract us is by promoting a narrative of individuals "doing their part" and "pitching in," which predictably leads to us yelling at each other over things that amount to less than a drop in the ocean while corporations continue on pouring more carbon into the atmosphere than millions of individuals ever could.
They brilliantly coopted Earth Day in this manner, brainwashing children into fretting about how much time they spend in the shower rather than taking direct action against corporations.

Study of top 100 highest-grossing US films of 2022 finds male-speaking characters outnumbered female 63% to 37%. Women were the protagonist in just 1/3 of movies.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywood-gender-study-women-1235342517/

Dad. Warrior-nerd. Fugitive pedagogue. Urban cyclist. Video game, HipHop polymath. ATLien. Bringing pens to swordfights since 1978.

@MisterMinor joins our flipped keynote lineup for our Conference to #RestoreHumanity, July 24-27, 2023: https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference #satchat #education

There are only 14 counties in the world that offer full legal rights to women. The US is not one of them.

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/only-14-countries-have-full-equal-rights-for-women

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn’t necessary. If they’re absent, praise won’t help.

• if you need an abortion (or had one) in a state where it’s illegal, don’t discuss it on social media at all, but ESPECIALLY not on Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp)
• if you need abortion pills, DO NOT search for them on Google. It sucks anyway. Use DuckDuckGo or another search engine.
• if you buy abortion pills, do it through a trusted third party who lives in a blue state.
https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2

One cool thing about #JonStewart going viral again for another basic, research-grounded interview with a genuinely malice-driven "traditional-values" neo-Nazi cretin is that it gives 98% of journalists another 101 lesson in the actual good work they could do if they didn't have to worry about "losing access" to disingenuous shitsacks they 100% know to be lying in order to make America a shittier, more violent reactionary cesspit than it already is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuIxIJBfCY

Probably one of the kindest things you can do for your community is internalize the idea that things can be true for other people without being even legible to you, and that those epistemological differences can be accepted.