Think about things before they are said
Years ago, when my son was about 4, he suddenly began expressing worries that "Indians" were going to "scalp" him and "take his hair". I couldn't figure out where he got this from, as we knew a LOT of Native Americans from a variety of nations and nobody at home had ever said that.
I thought.
After months of re-education, I finally figured it out.
It was the song "Please Mr. Custer". It was on a whacky hit tape.
It's that simple.
#Prejudice #racism
Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the White House said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price — and left behind an American jailed for nearly four years in Russia.
When I hear about the coup attempt in Germany & the desire of these violent extremists to insert Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss as the leader after a planned execution of the German chancellor, it sounds ludicrous, laughable. But that's the thing: These people are deadly serious.
Because the plots of these anti-democratic extremists often seem so ludicrous, they can succeed because the public--& too many leaders--don't take them seriously enough. This tendency is how Trump got as far as he did.
#StarTrek For @CaptBobbers and anyone else who is a Trekker, here is my collection in pieces. (Multi post)
@AlliFlowers @rbreich I understand why those who have a large Twitter following feel abandoning that platform is counterproductive to the goal: keeping an info network going because there is no comparable replacement. That's why Musk and his gang of Davos plutocrats bought it: to shut Democrat and Independent party opposition down.
I still check for news while joining other sites like this to rebuild, as Musk's toxic Twitter has already reached Dante's Fifth Circle of Hell.
@CaptBobbers Remind me tomorrow (I’m going schluffy now) to post pics of my ST collection. I think you’ll be impressed.
@JenRoberts I know many excellent teachers who are not good test takers. I don’t accept that bad test taking is always a result of stress or that stress is always responded to in the same way, regardless of context 🤷🏻♂️
@rbreich @AlliFlowers I came to say the same thing. It’s time to let go of that platform. At the very least, post directly here instead of cross-posting.
Neal Katyal throws Justice Clarence Thomas' own words back in his face during Supreme Court hearing
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-katyal/
Hands-on: How to use Apple Music Sing karaoke feature in iOS 16.2 https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/07/how-to-use-apple-music-sing-karaoke-feature/
I'm curious if there is any sense of whether #mastodon has or is developing a generational identity?
Anecdotal or data-driven takes welcome, but as a start, indicate your #generation below and boost. Discussion of the assumptions behind this welcomed!
(I had to lump older generations in with boomers because evidently surveys are limited to four choices.) #generation #GenX #GenZ #millenials #Boomers
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