Phillip Winn @pwinn@qoto.org
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
Joined Nov 2022
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Boosting this with alt-text because #librarians rule! 💪
I love the last panel. 😊
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1/ Many potential users complain about Mastodon's sign-up process.
So I'm going to put this under the microscope right now.
To be sure, I'm not going to say it is "bad" or that there shouldn't be a barrier to entry.
Just pointing out ways the sign-up process can be easier. 🧵
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So thrilled to discover my EYE ON SCI-FI Podcast named by FeedSpot as one of the "100 Best Sci-Fi Podcasts." I'm so humbled to be included in such esteemed company!
Check out the listing here:
https://blog.feedspot.com/sci_fi_podcasts/
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Yall can't handle this. Listen. Feel this.
I Made Myself Lonely - The Dramatics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kAijYwb3aA
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Once you understand white US history instead of Black history, you'll understand why the following interventions will do much more to improve US Black educational achievement than most of the nonsense we're trying today:
• Bail reform
• Fire racist teachers, including the Bill Cosbys
• Retain anti-racist Black, white, AAPI, Latinx teachers
• Get rid of school cops
• Provide all students free lunch. And breakfast. And afternoon snack.
• Transfer police budget to school budget. Bring back art.
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Oh! I almost missed an opportunity to plug Hair Love again!
"Toxic masculinity" doesn't mean that masculinity is toxic, any more than "rabid dog" means that all dogs are rabid. Some masculinity is toxic, and some dogs are rabid.
If you're comfortable with your masculinity, you get to be a better dad.👍🏿
Matthew Cherry. Former NFL player. Martial artist. Black dad. Decided he wants to write children's stories.♥️
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28
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Another #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth appreciation post
Salute Mark Dean 🫡 — computer scientist/co-inventor of the color PC monitor & processing devices that made PC plug-ins possible (disk drives, vid gear, speakers, & scanners)
He also led team of IBM engineers in creating the 1st gigahertz chip—a revolutionary innovation enabling a billion calculations/second. The man holds 3 of IBMs original 9 patents & now has 20 patents under his belt 👊🏾✊🏾💪🏾
@I_Choose_Exile@mastodon.social Exile has switched servers since I composed that list, my bad!
Mastodon isn't going to push people or posts at you or try to guess what you might like to see, so it's up to you to follow many different people and boost many different posts. One thing that helps with that is #FollowFriday!
During Black History Month, I'm suggesting Black people, whether they post mostly about Black History Month or not. Some post mostly about music, or nerd stuff.
@seanalan Sean Gonsalves
@venitamathias Venita
@Shells@mastodon.world Michele
@Deglassco D. Elisabeth Glassco
@Maggie Maggie
I think I missed a post earlier this week, so instead of a Friday Five to Follow, I'll give you ten accounts:
@TlanetteRoget BovaryCee
@JMadFour@blacktwitter.io Jay Madison
@KFuentesGeorge Prof Kemi FG
@I_Choose_Exile@mstdn.social Exile
@anxiousrage Abeni
If you're wypipo like me, a more diverse timeline is a Good Thing™, and having control of your Home feed is also a Good Thing™, so take advantage of it!
It's Friday! An R. Kelly song comes to mind, but we won't talk about that. Instead, let's celebrate Black History Month at the Tiny Desk!
There's an official playlist I'll link below, but it's short, so I'll start with some of my favorite Tiny Desk concerts. Like most people eight years ago, I mostly knew T-Pain as one of the first to really push Auto-Tune to the limit. So this Tiny Desk concert was a revelation.
He demonstrates clearly that he never needed Auto-Tune, not even a little bit. It was always all about style.
Another favorite of mine from six years ago was Anderson .Paak. How he manages to play the drums perfectly while singing is amazing to me.
Both of those videos start with an "explicit language" warning, so listen at your own risk.
The official NPR playlist seems to include only concerts released during February, and it's growing this month! Lady Wray and Lee Fields have both been added for 2023, and the playlist should keep growing.
Celebrating Black History Month At The Tiny Desk
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2PCKGkKRVZuSGgyxGCqQnEH6gNjnAcq
Lee Fields is a very worthy addition, in my opinion. Great stuff!
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackExcellence #BlackFriday #MusicVideos #blog
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"Embrace the color, embrace the chaos, embrace the joy." #blackart #blackanime #afrofuturism #aiart #blackjoy #blackhistory #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfriday
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Whoa, this is interesting to learn, as a non-American #BlackFriday #USA #History
"Most people are familiar with the 1863 popular version of Sojourner Truth's famous, “Ain’t I a woman” speech but they have no idea that this [...] is vastly different from Sojourner’s original 1851 speech. [...]
"The popular but inaccurate version was written and published in 1863 [...] by a white abolitionist named Frances Dana Barker Gage. [...] chose to represent Sojourner speaking in a stereotypical 'southern black slave accent', rather than in Sojourner’s distinct upper New York State low-Dutch accent. [...]
"By changing Truth's words and her dialect to that of a stereotypical southern slave, Frances Gage effectively erased Sojourner’s Dutch heritage and her authentic voice. As well as unintentionally adding to the oversimplification of the American slave culture and furthering the eradication of our nations Northern slave history."
I started this Black History Month with a plan to posting something every day about Black History, and boost Black people doing the same. After all, I went through what I once called an "awakening" as an adult, but since "woke" is now a word that means "anything Republicans don't like," I guess I'd say my eyes were opened, instead. If I can help other wypipo open their eyes, that's good, right? And most of us could use a reminder of things we already know, which is why we have annual events like birthdays and Black History Month.
Boosting is easy. Mastodon depends on people boosting posts, and I follow a lot of Black people already, and I've started following more this month. My list of follows has a lot of nerdy people, since I'm heavily into #nerdery myself, but also writers and teachers and just people living their lives.
I'm not sure how well the "Black History for wypipo" approach is going, to be honest. Every day I post things I think are interesting or educational, and shortly before or after that, I witness a masterclass in How to Do It from @mekkaokereke, who was previously on my list as a nerd, but it turns out is so, so much more.
I don't want to center this on myself, which is why I'm avoiding talking much about my own history of learning Black History. I took an embarrassingly long time to learn what I should have learned in elementary school, and I think many other wypipo could say the same. I've read a lot of books, and I have some *very* patient and well-educated Black friends who haven't pointed and laughed like they had every right to do, but have instead patiently recommended more books and pointed out areas of my staggering ignorance. In our modern age, it's amazing what you can learn for free online, and there are books on almost everything that can be delivered right to your door!
So maybe I'll recommend some books I've enjoyed, but I'm just a wypipo who has read some books. I hope others might chime in with books they recommend, and then I won't have to talk too much about many times I've bought Michelle Alexander's *The New Jim Crow*, because I keep loaning it out and not getting it back!
Crash Course: Black American History, with Clint Smith
https://youtu.be/xPx5aRuWCtc
This is a series I like so much, I linked it in my bio for Black History Month. Clint Smith takes us through 51 videos, each in the neighborhood of ten minutes, all in Crash Course style.
The six-minute video above is an introduction and overview, with the other 51 episodes in a playlist.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNYJO8JWpXO2JP0ezgxsrJJ
The presenter also wrote a book, which you can order in your choice of formats here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-the-word-is-passed-a-reckoning-with-the-history-of-slavery-across-america-clint-smith/15485196?ean=9780316492928
On a recommendation from a friend, I've ordered another book, *Slavery's Constitution* by David Waldstreicher. I expect to have something to say about that one when I've finished it.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I'm still not talking about Black history. I'm still talking about white US history.
Q: Why do Black kids not do well in school? Is it because their dads are uninvolved and uncaring parents? Bill Cosby and Herschel Walker told me that, and they are good and wise men that we should listen to! It's Black dads' fault! Boo Black men!
A: No. Black kids only do poorly in school *in extremely racist countries.*
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@Jaden2@mstdn.social I go back and forth on this.
YES! Black history *is* American history, and American history is Black history. No doubt about that! Anybody teaching a history course should look long and hard to include Black people if possible, since they've been whitewashed out of most places they belong.
So in that sense, we should all be exposed to Black history as often as we're exposed to any history at all, which is very often for students, and not often enough for adults living their post-school lives.
But I sometimes think of it like birthdays. You're a person every day. You reflect the hopes and dreams of the people around you, and the love and care of your family and friends 24/7/365, right? You life matters *every* day, not just one day. But still, one day out of each year, it's worth taking stock of the passage of time. It's worth celebrating your life in a special way, with cake! Which doesn't mean your life doesn't matter the other 364 days of the year.
So all of American history is Black history. But I think it's still good to take one month out of twelve to remind people that Black lives have ALWAYS mattered, and that we wouldn't be where we are today without the contributions of Black people to this country, and we'd be in a better place if we'd not spent so much effort trying to keep Black people down.
Does that make sense?
All months should include Black history, but also, Black History Month is a Good Thing™.
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2000-2005: Blogs are great and so are comments!
2005-2010: Blogs are still great but comments are not.
2010-Present: What if we didn't have blogs but just had a website full of nothing but comments?
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"During World War I and World War II, the fear of combat-trained African American soldiers returning from deployment overseas to Jim Crow and segregation in the United States so threatened white supremacy, these soldiers were often made the specific targets of racially-motivated, violent attacks."
https://medium.com/an-injustice/in-service-to-our-country-eb7112d893d1
#BlackHistoryMonth2023 #BlackHistory365 #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse
In 1923, the New York Times Magazine published an article about one exception to the then-current prohibition against alcohol sales: foreign embassies.
Charge of the Little Embassies at Washington
https://sundaymagazine.org/2023/02/05/charge-of-the-little-embassies-at-washington/
Of course, the location of most of these foreign embassies (Washington D.C.) means that the politicians responsible for prohibition were not themselves without access to alcohol. Some things don't seem to change.
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Rosa Parks wasn’t the first person to take a stand with the Montgomery Bus Line.
Nine months earlier, 15 year old high school student Claudette Colvin refused to give her seat to a white rider. She became a co-defendant on the Browder v. Gayle civil suit which eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. In 1956 they ruled that racially-segregated seating on public buses in Alabama was unconstitutional.
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