jenifer daniels ♎ :verified:“These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. I’m not on trial no matter how hard you try to put me on trial.” - Fani Willis
in America, Black women's mere presence is political.
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Stimpunks FoundationWe split our front page again.
The front page is now an intro to us and our scrollytelling style.
The rest is on a new page: “Take Them Together: Neurodiversity and Disability Justice”.
It’s punk AF.
Did you know that overwhelming majorities of Deaf, Blind, Autistic, and Disabled people prefer Identity-First Language and resent the term “special needs”?
Learn why in these two pieces.
https://stimpunks.org/language/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/special/
“Language is also a place of struggle.” —bell hooks
💬 Identity First Language: Thinking differently requires speaking differently.
Words have the power to change attitudes toward autistic people. Keating et al., 2022 You have probably been taught to use Person-First Language (PFL) despite the overwhelming preference for Identity-First Language (IFL) among Blind, Deaf, Autistic, and Disabled people. We proudly and defiantly use IFL all over our website. The label “disabled” means so much to me. It means I […]
NonilexFani Willis is tearing shit up!!! (In a VERY GOOD way)
Every word #FaniWillis speaks makes me admire her more.
BTWs my papa told me the same. He told me other things too. Not money related - to do - to protect myself.
Maybe it was cuz he was poor maybe because later we found out we were not “white”
SaraMGRadio: A record percentage of home owners own their homes outright, with no mortgage.
Me: What? Really? That's surprising, but great...
Radio: ...this is likely because zoomers and millennials can't even afford a mortgage to buy a home in the first place, causing retired boomers to skew the numbers.
Me: Aaaand there it is.
Eric TopolGaining life expectancy up to a decade longer with a healthy diet https://nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00868-w
Jason YipIn #California ’s Central Valley, a massive carbon removal factory is pulling #CO2 from the air https://www.fastcompany.com/90979568/in-californias-central-valley-a-massive-carbon-removal-factory-is-pulling-co2-from-the-air
TC💖Today is one year on mastodon.
SelzeroI come from a generation of computer nerds that got suspicious when a single character appeared where it didn't belong. "Stop everything we must have a virus". Our little Commodores didn't even have important info in them.
People installing apps at will on their personal devices that include banking / biometric details, is mind blowing to me.
WhatsApp is the most advanced virus spyware malicious code ever made. People install it *willfully* I have lost a lot of connections because I refuse to.
Nina Bernstein“Virginians understood the extremism of Youngkin’s abortion ban and the threats to democracy posed by MAGA Republicans,” said Dan Helmer, a Democratic House delegate in Virginia and the chairman for his party’s House campaigns. “That’s why they turned out to vote.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/us/politics/glenn-youngkin-virginia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
