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I would take an animal, any animal, over a human anyday... except chihuahuas .. fuck them assholes.

I'm pretty sure this is already the only reason I go outside...

In the wake of the riots the only thing that saved one business/home from destruction was the sign "minority owned".

This is what happens when people take what should have been a unifying cause against police brutality, which effects us all of any race, and turns it into a race war where the police officer embodies the whole of the whites and all whites are inherently guilty.

No one is right in any of this, not the rioters, not the people who dismiss the riots, not the people drawing the lines on racial terms and certainly not the police officers.

I've been having the same dream that continues night after night for 3 days now. Not a recurring dream exactly.. just the same "universe" every time and each time in the dream I have memory of where things left off from the last dreams.

Very odd, this is unusual for me.

Goodnight fediverse!

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I wonder if i should start using my jeffrey.freeman@acm.org email... thoughts?

hot take on whites and racism 

White people don't need to apologize for racism if they didn't do anything racist, and didn't facilitate or enable racism. Other people's racism is not their fault.

WOOT, she is installing Amaroq!!! She is commmminnnnngggg!

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I've been trying to get my most favorite person in the world (my closest friend) to join QOTO.. I think I might have convinced her :)

I can't stand Twitter these days, and while I have strong political views I'm not gonna waste energy in shouting matches. I'm here for STEM, and cool people. Which is everyone on this platform.

to all our new users, if you havent already read out about page to see several of the additional free services we offer. Everyone is welcome to use them and we can offer some pretty generous quotas in terms of space (next cloud) or processing power (gitlab CI)

qoto.org/about/more

@freemo, I had a little conversation with a USAmerican who I (still) believe to be sort of a role model for intelligent online conversation and a leading authority about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,
that left me firmly convinced that The Medium Is The Message,
i.e., that the social dynamics of conversations in Social Media make even the best of us overlook the most obvious facts in all the incessant partisan bickering.

We got into a bit of a dispute about the proper context of Bret Stephens's New York Times OpEd article,
80 years after 1 September 1939.
At some point the USAmerican got annoyed and blocked me,
which prompted me to shoot back at around 05:45 his local time, immediately before boarding the plane for an extended USA trip.

Long thread, and twitter tries very hard to censor the thread for hate speech (which is technically correct) just short of blocking it,
but maybe worth the read precisely because of that:

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In a case of ridiculously unlikely serendipity, I met the guy, immediately before boarding the plane for the return trip from LAX to Germany:

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"You remind me of Hitler." — "Very funny."

@IntegralDuChemin Have you tried being a decent human being and approaching them like equals? I hear that's their kink!

I swear to god americans have gotten dumber since i left. Its at the point they seem to be struggling to follow along in even simple conversations anymore. I keep needing to repeat myself and they just hear something totally different.

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