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I don't mean to be unkind, but if there *are* any teenagers wandering about saying they're going to be the Archbishop of Canterbury, they need to be in secure care.

'Teenage me could not have imagined this' says first female Archbishop of Canterbury

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20356v74k7o

#Dilley #ICE #detention🚨#torture:💔You can’t drink the water here -smell is bad -hurts our stomachs a lot -have to buy it at the comsy -guards say “all that there is. If you don’t like it, buy it at the store.”
—26-year-old mom of 5-yr-old *30th day

My younger son💔doesn't eat the food -hungry all the time. He'll only accept breast milk🚨-not enough for him. He's growing, 2 1/2 -I worrry *stop being able to produce breast milk."
—Mom of 2- & 7-yr-olds *36th day

#DHS #USPol
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dilley-family-detention-center-immigrant-children-liam-ramos-trump/

a short story

#catsOfMastodon #whiskersWednesday

"At trial, Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified that “harms to children, such as sexual exploitation and detriments to mental health, were inevitable on the company’s platforms due to their vast user bases,”"

Umm... if the problem is your platform is too big that it has to harm people then maybe the answer is "you can't be that big"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/meta-loses-trial-after-arguing-child-exploitation-was-inevitable-on-its-apps/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Bernie Sanders just created a video to make a point about issues of privacy in AI (a real problem). His supporters on Muskrat's platform came for me when I quote tweeted his post saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic."

So I'm going to elaborate on the corporate psyop that has been happening since the beginning of time and how no one seems to learn their lesson.

Be a little weirdo today....or a big one...or a medium one. Just be your awesome weird self, okay?😉

#weirdisawesome #blackcats