Todd Battistelli

@FromTheRostra@hcommons.social
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How do our disagreements go? #rhetoric, #writing, and #education. Viewpoints that I express are my own and do not represent the views of organizations with which I'm affiliated. Boosts are not endorsements.

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LocationLocation - The traditional lands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Ute Nations and peoples (Denver metro area, Colorado, USA)
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Todd Battistelli1h ago
Tay walked so grok could run.
Todd Battistelli22h ago
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)23h ago

I've had a couple of people say to me "we should just let people be illiterate" or "maybe they're just a new kind of literate" or "this era of literacy has been an aberration in the trends of time." I even had one person tell me that expecting kids to be literate was ableist.

That's just not a view I can get behind?
Literacy is a positive thing. It measurably improves people's lives. Most people have the capacity for literacy and most people with the capacity for literacy would benefit significantly from being able to read.

I'm so confused as to why this is not a universal opinion.

Todd Battistelli1d ago
Mindbreaking: The Most Eldritch Entity You Know Just Made a Great Point
Todd Battistelli1d ago
Thinking you’ll be the one enjoying a tasty omelet instead of being the egg broken to make it.
Todd Battistelli2d ago
politics meme, conflict among allies
Todd Battistelli5d ago

Entry from The Devil’s Dictionary of the Workplace:

Learning and development. - n. A one-way process whereby bosses enact their will upon those whom they can coerce through threat of joblessness.

Todd BattistelliJun 29

Reading Solidarity by Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix and reflecting on timeframes and scales of change.

When bad things happen at scale, what local good are we doing for each other?

If we can’t immediately end the greatest threats we face, we can immediately engage the challenges of working with those closest to us, setting out to sustain first steps toward long-term solutions.

#AmReading #solidarity #coalition #dialogue #facilitation #TheoryOfChange #change #organizing

Todd BattistelliJun 27
Todd BattistelliFeb 19
A consensus reality if you can keep it
Todd BattistelliJun 26
Show threadTofu GolemJun 26

Ex-Muslim atheists living in Christian-majority countries are in a peculiar position. To whatever extent Islamophobia is real in that country, they get it almost as much as the Muslims because they have the same appearance and the same last names as the Muslims.

So if you live in a Christian-majority country and you suddenly notice ex-Muslim atheists complaining about Islamophobia, THAT IS THE TIME TO SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE. PAY MORE ATTENTION.

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Todd BattistelliJun 25
If we can’t afford policies that will help, we shouldn’t pay for policies that’ll make things worse.
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Todd BattistelliJun 13
#bloomscrolling #Thornton #Colorado #parks