armed agents raiding schoolbuses to harass the kids who look different

I gave a deck of your oracle cards to Sally, who found them beautiful.

From my notes last night:

“I can’t give in to depression. Need to stay strong. For the next four years, I must be a bacon of hope for others.”

It was unintended, but henceforward I shall be A BACON OF HOPE

Facebook emotion study breached ethical guidelines, researchers say Lack of 'informed consent' means that Facebook experiment on nearly 700,000 news feeds broke rules on tests on human subjects, say scientists. By Charles Arthur

Facebook deliberately induced depression in 155,000 people and nobody talks about it.

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Cassie was not actually a Maine coon, though she may have had some in her DNA. (She was also the inspiration for Mao’er when she was a kitten, but she mellowed out with age.) I’m so sorry for the loss of Crusoe and Shadow. :(

This was supposed to be attached to the OP, but I don’t really know how to use BlueSky yet.

Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Jews in Budapest Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg led an extensive rescue effort during the Nazi era. His work with the War Refugee Board saved thousands of Hungarian Jews.

Every year on 1/17, an announcement in the NYT commemorates the Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews, and his chauffeur Vilmos Langfelder. They disappeared in 1945.

Who places these memorials? Who pays for them? It isn’t known.

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Airport bookstore features THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD in their frontmost display and I am HERE for this! Can you imagine grabbing an inflight-read with dull disinterent and spending the next hours experiencing the love of Janie and Tea Cake FOR THE FIRST TIME?

We criticize, because we want to gain understanding; we want to gain understanding, in order to create profound and truthful works. Been so frustrating seeing people conflate criticism with censorship.

The Techbroligarchy is terrifying.

Hairy man smiling with the world’s best fluffy beautiful cat on his shoulder

This is me and Cassie, eight years ago today (I’m the human). That magnificent creature helped me through the last reign of tyranny. She’s gone so now I need to find my strength elsewhere. I need to help, and that means I need to be able to help.

striving to understand the stranger whom you happen to love

the weird culture in which you happen to exist

the cultures of others who are not like you

the people whose bodies are not like yours, whose identities are not like yours, whose orientations are not like yours

you will never be able to see the world from the perspective of anyone else, not fully

but you can see more than you currently do, if you try

and this effort, this beautiful struggle to comprehend the people who share a world with you —

it’s everything.

Everything.

This is my credo.

Please add me as well, M. H. Boroson.

I said I find it consistently worth reading even if I don’t agree with it. If I’d realized you were considering sending them money, I would have pointed out that I read their articles via archive.is . I don’t give them money.

Hmm, no way to edit posts here?

Thank you!

“Now. I will say this. I believe Mark Zuckerberg, he called me, he called me a lot. They are working and I think they fixed it.”
— Donald Trump to Maria Bartiromo this summer, saying his friend Mark Zuckerberg tweaked Facebook’s algorithms to fix the election for him.

First post, “hello world!” and all that. Forgive the pointlessness but I need to test character count, etc., before I share meaning or funnies. Protect innocent people from Trump, please!

<3! Forgive the clumsiness of my reply, still learning the interface….