The Buddha's Socks
Judd LegumBetween July 2021 and June 2022 Texas school districts banned 801 books in 22 school districts
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-year-we-banned-books/
This is the kind of thing you'll never hear about from the self-appointed champions of free speech on this website
White Gandalf@juddlegum you mean that other website?
Beeks@whytgndlf @juddlegum mastadon is just a reposting of his Twitter feed. I doubt he even looks over here.
Melissa Burn@whytgndlf @Beeks @juddlegum Well, if the Twit crashes and burns, a whole lotta peeps be showing up over here!
WhoMe?@whytgndlf @Beeks @juddlegum I assume most are to addicted to the attention or financially dependent to cut ties.
Chris Maler@whytgndlf
He must be reposting from the turdbird. Which is pretty crappy imo. I will unfollow if true.
@juddlegum
He must be reposting from the turdbird. Which is pretty crappy imo. I will unfollow if true.
@juddlegum
@Thegreenman @juddlegum Yeah, I get it. But I wouldn’t unfollow just yet because he is doing amazing journalism on an ongoing basis. His newsletter is great. He just needs to value and grow his audience over here too.
@whytgndlf
I've been following him for years, just really dislike when people/journos use social media to broadcast instead of converse.
@juddlegum
I've been following him for years, just really dislike when people/journos use social media to broadcast instead of converse.
@juddlegum
jj mac@Thegreenman @whytgndlf @juddlegum Do you think that great journalists have time to have at length conversations with all their followers on multiple platforms though?
@jjma6686 @Thegreenman @juddlegum I think all I’m hoping for is that if he’s over here and all he’s doing is reposting from there, just say that. Put it in the profile. Then we know what we have followed over here.
@jjma6686
No, but I contend they should just be linking to their original posts elsewhere. Without giving the pretext of starting a conversation that doesn't exist here.
@whytgndlf @juddlegum
No, but I contend they should just be linking to their original posts elsewhere. Without giving the pretext of starting a conversation that doesn't exist here.
@whytgndlf @juddlegum
SomeoneOnlyWeKnow@Thegreenman @whytgndlf @juddlegum By that do you mean he posts the same things here and on twitter? Why is that "pretty crappy"? Makes complete sense to me
@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow
It's fine if he is actually posting to each platform, but not if he is just using software to duplicate his tweets here. Mastodon is not the bird site and the content here should be unique to this platform.
@whytgndlf @juddlegum
It's fine if he is actually posting to each platform, but not if he is just using software to duplicate his tweets here. Mastodon is not the bird site and the content here should be unique to this platform.
@whytgndlf @juddlegum
@Thegreenman @whytgndlf @juddlegum I'm new here but I moved here from twitter and I'm sorry but that's what a lot of people want to use this platform sort of like. It makes complete sense to post the same thing to twitter and here when the purpose is just to reach people with it. Do you want them to type out the same thing twice instead?
@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow @Thegreenman @juddlegum
He says, "...from the self-appointed champions of free speech ---on this website---." Which website does he mean? This is the kind of posting that should not just be copied over. If he's got it set up to do so without accounting for the fact that Mastodon is a different site, that just makes him look like he's not paying attention.
Would be better if his bio clearly stated that these are duplicate tweets from Twitter.
@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow
Social media isn't social if you are just broadcasting and not interacting. It becomes another source of noise, if you have a question and the OP isn't available for a conversation.
@whytgndlf @juddlegum
Social media isn't social if you are just broadcasting and not interacting. It becomes another source of noise, if you have a question and the OP isn't available for a conversation.
@whytgndlf @juddlegum
@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow
If you can't be bothered to spend the time to post and interact, What is the social value offered?
@whytgndlf @juddlegum
If you can't be bothered to spend the time to post and interact, What is the social value offered?
@whytgndlf @juddlegum
@whytgndlf @juddlegum What do you mean?
@whytgndlf @juddlegum White Gandalf, Judd is referring to Texas Monthly!
@openminded @juddlegum it’s his second post, not the first, that started our discussion here
Brian R. Sala 🍻@juddlegum or on...the bird site?
justin ferguson@juddlegum Huh? (Hoping this was a poorly-thought-out cross-post.)
stiffelman@juddlegum If they can't own slaves of a certain color they can make slaves of their women and children, control their action and even their thinking. Fear of the world. Freedom for weapons and weapons fetishists. The people enacting this vile idiocy have about them the same stench as the mullahs in Iran.
Afzal Najam@juddlegum Banning books, not banning guns. Really question what their priorities are.
Shari Henry@juddlegum This is a growing and terrifying trend across the country. All eyes on bills being proposed in state legislatures, and also the policies coming forth based on last year’s session, i.e. Virginia’s SB656.
russell robson@juddlegum shame they didn't ban guns
***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@juddlegum Because, remember: Texas is all about FREEDOM!
Tom Bellin 
@juddlegum that'll definitely solve their problems.
Laurie Bruno@juddlegum there’s so much that they don’t want the people of Texas to know.
Pippi & ObiJuan Pups@juddlegum I am the incoming democratic club Prez for our tiny CenTex red county. 37000 peeps, 4400 dem voters per most recent election. Thank you for this. If we're on it? Well find a way to make these books available to everyone here. My promise.
sOlOw-NH@juddlegum Maybe...just maybe...the Alamo wasn't worth dying for...
MFTech@juddlegum Very grateful that my teen years were spent in a TX that hadn’t yet become a laughingstock. Glad I read Anne Frank’s Diary, To Kill A Mockingbird and Vonnegut. Texans need to find a way to overcome gerrymandering for their children’s sake.
Hal O’Brien 🇺🇸🇾🇪🇭🇰🏴🏴☠️@juddlegum Has anyone checked the Bookscan data for these titles? Because I bet this has promoted sales.
LordMelbury@juddlegum
How many guns did they ban?
How many guns did they ban?
Mark Douglas@juddlegum Republicans are cowards! They're afraid of anything they don't understand or agree with. And when they're in power, they take away our own choices. But it's all done out of fear. Can't imagine living like that all of my life.
NorthernWolfie@MDfromNY @juddlegum
That is why they pack guns to go to Cracker Barrel.
They talk freedom, all I see is fear, and carrying a gun makes them feel less afraid.
That is why they pack guns to go to Cracker Barrel.
They talk freedom, all I see is fear, and carrying a gun makes them feel less afraid.
Rocky 💜💙When all this trickles down into the future, I am hoping my well read educated children will create a better world and these angry, racist and hurtful people will soon be far outnumbered.
Wishful thinking? I hope not.
Le Joon@juddlegum I once read a description of politics and how it affects the world around it that I’ve found quite apt.
If the world were a vehicle, right leaning politics would be the break, and left leaning politics would be the gas.
Burning books shows this metaphor clearly.
@juddlegum how does that go, those who deny, refuse to acknowledge, think history was the good old days are doomed to repeat it.
SFborn1940@juddlegum Texas is, in some ways, still living in the 19th Century.
ZZ Bottom
Eloise42@juddlegum it's never good to burn books. You see this on television and in history books and think they must filled with so much hate to want to burn books. Books are reference and for learning to want to ban them or set fire to them is saying you are not allowed to learn. You must only know what I tell you. It is just wrong.