Phillip Winn @pwinn@qoto.org

#Fensterfreitag #Windowfriday #BlackAndWhite #Photography pic from #Banff #Canada some years ago

It seems the only hope left for gun control in red states is to hide all the bullets in books written by Black people, Wajahat Ali writes.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/florida-gov-ron-desantis-pushes-guns-state-rcna68938

While Amazon celebrates its record breaking revenues, they want you to forget about the worker death that happened during Prime Day.

Especially since they didn't help the victim over 20 mins after he collapsed, and told his coworkers to just keep working.

Amazon has always picks profits over people. #FightCorporateGreed #UnionsForAll #DemCast

All this #BlackHistoryMonth, I'll be sharing from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC. Some pics I took and some from their collection directly. The lead designer for the project was Sir David Frank Adjaye, a Ghanaian-British architect born in Tanzania. The design is Yourba inspired. It sits on the last spot left on the National Mall.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/building

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi @BlackMastodon

Police do not save lives.

Doctors save lives. Emergency medical technicians save lives. Firefighters save lives.

Police do not save lives. They take them.

#BlackLivesMatter #BlackMastodon #PoliceViolence

Disappointing to see an ISP strategically filing false information to the FCC to block funds to potential competitors.

But even more Infuriating that the FCC knew this would happen and has no plan except to say it would be nice if everything worked out.

Millions of Americans won't get better Internet access that they need because FCC Commissioners refuse to take their job seriously.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/cable-company-tries-to-block-grants-to-rivals-by-lying-about-coverage-area/

“Each note that Jake Blount plays on the banjo is a step toward helping his audience better understand a piece of Black history he believes has been lost.

Blount is a professional touring musician who plays traditional Black Folk Music.” https://www.denver7.com/news/national-politics/the-race/meet-the-musician-teaching-the-banjos-african-roots

Spring time in Cole Valley in SF

There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.

/ octavia butler

Here is the original inventor of rock and roll—and the steel guitar. Sister Rosetta Thorpe doesn’t get the credit—and she really should. Many of the rock and roll “inventors” need to pay their respects to her. Little Richard and Chuck Berry others owe a great deal to her. 🙏🏿

#BlackMastodon #SisterRosettaTharpe #BlackFriday

samson and delilah #blackart #aiart #afrofuturism #conceptart #blackhair #blackhistory #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfriday

Fix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czzt48s8Ej8

#BlackFriday
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#90sRnB
#90sR&B
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The next time you use any navigation device, software or Google Maps thank Dr. Gladys West. Her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite models that were eventually incorporated into  the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth

We all admire Amsterdam for having the vision to replace car infrastructure with bike infrastructure. We see the positive uplift in small business activity, and livability. 🙂👍🏿

Now imagine doing that in reverse. Replace relatively safely walkable and bikeable infrastructure with car infrastructure. In fact, put in freeways. Demolish entire thriving wealthy neighborhoods with freeways that don't serve the neighborhood.🙃

That's what we did to Black folk. That's how we destroyed Black wealth.

Remember: A billionaire is just a billion dollars that has taken possession of a human body and is using it for purposes of murder.