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Sarah W

@Sarahw@mastodon.green

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Vegan in France. Planet, animals, music and dancing.
I still love my dog.
She/her.

Avatar is black and white medium sized dog playing with a stick. She's inside the flat in front of the open door showing its dark outside.
Background pic is sloping country garden with edge of house to the right, trees at the rear and foxgloves and marguerites in the foreground.

#vegan #anarchism #politics #France #gardening #permaculture #theArchers #ballet #music #punk #ska #disco #funk #reggae
#dancing

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 436
dies otiosus est; Silvius in litore stat, situlam palamque tenens (It's a day off; Silvius is standing on the beach, holding a bucket and spade). bracas natatorias virgatas, petasum stramenticium et risum gerit (He's wearing stripey swimming shorts, a straw hat and a smile)!

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦14h ago

evangenitals (evan-gen-i-talz): fundamentalist christians who are constantly interested in what’s in someone else’s pants.

#politics #LGBTQIA #ChristianTaliban #Evangenitals #religion #tyranny

Mark A. Rayner 2d ago

Happy International Day of the Potato!

#InternationalDayofthePotato #potato #humor #humour #meme

Hannah Howe 16h ago

There are plenty of new potatoes around at 6d to a shilling. Good scrapers are a luxury at 1s 9d a pound. Tomatoes are dear - 5s a pound. Oranges are reasonable at 5d each while grapefruit are 5d or 6d each.

Bunnies are the latest thing in night club hostesses. However, you mustn’t touch them or date them. When you dance with them it must be the Twist or the Cha-Cha. Waltzing is out because that would mean holding them.

Hannah Howe 16h ago

Television highlights: Thank Your Lucky Stars with Freddie and the Dreamers and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Checkmate - detective series. Grandstand - cricket from Cardiff.

Radio highlights: Sports Service. Holiday Music Hall.

Summer time in 1964 will be from March 22 until October 25, a week longer than this year.

Weather: very warm and sunny. Outlook - similar. 27c, 81f.

Hannah Howe 14h ago

I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1960s-1970s Summer Number One Poll

Group Three
Knock Three Times - Dawn
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle of the Road
Get it On - T Rex
Band of Gold - Freda Payne

Multiple choice.

Please vote below 👇

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll #1960s #1970s

	Knock Three Times
	Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
	Get it On
	Band of Gold

Poll ends at 1:44pm.

Hannah Howe 14h ago

I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1990s Top Twenty Chart Poll

Match-Up #141
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve v Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) - Cyndi Lauper

Please vote below 👇

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll #1990s

	Bitter Sweet Symphony
	Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)

Poll ends at 1:46pm.

Hannah Howe 14h ago

I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1990s Top Twenty Chart Poll

Match-Up #142
It’s The End of the World - REM v If You Tolerate This - Manic Street Preachers

Please vote below 👇

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll #1990s

	It’s The End of the World
	If You Tolerate This

Poll ends at 1:47pm.

Hannah Howe 14h ago

I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1990s Top Twenty Chart Poll

Match-Up #143
Doctor Who Theme - Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire v No More I Love Yous - Annie Lennox

Please vote below 👇

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll #1990s

	Doctor Who Theme
	No More I Love Yous

Poll ends at 1:47pm.

Hannah Howe 14h ago

I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1990s Top Twenty Chart Poll

Match-Up #144
Man on the Moon - REM v Road Rage - Catatonia

Please vote below 👇

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll #1990s

	Man on the Moon
	Road Rage

Poll ends at 1:48pm.

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iamBullivant 1d ago

From 31 May through 1 June 1921 the Tulsa Massacre took place. Deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses.

White deputies and members of the National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 Black Tulsans who were released only upon being vouched for by a white employer or other white citizen. 1/2

iamBullivant 1d ago

Nine thousand African Americans were left homeless and lived in tents well into the winter of 1921.

This assault was met by a brave but unsuccessful armed defence of their community by some Black World War I veterans and others. 2/2

#America #Tulsa #TulsaMassacre #Racism #OnThisDay

Martin Vermeer FCD 1d ago

@bullivant "Pogrom"

HighlandLawyer 1d ago

@bullivant It was also the first time that there was an aerial attack on a US city, shooting and dropping fire bombs from planes.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-lost-manuscript-contains-searing-eyewitness-account-tulsa-race-massacre-1921-180959251/

Andrew J Spaulding 1d ago

@HighlandLawyer @bullivant That was a horrible event for anyone. Under this administration in America, it's possible to be repeated.

HighlandLawyer 1d ago

@AJ_andrew69 @bullivant
The African slave trade was the "original sin" of the USA. Apartheid, from a refusal to come to terms with that, held back the USA in so many ways for over a century and, despite its nominal de jure removal by the 1970s, laid the seeds of the current collapse.

@HighlandLawyer Is it possible to have two original sins? The African slave trade, yes. And the colonization of Native lands and cultures is the other.

(There's probably more now that I think of it, having to do with religion and capitalism, which are related to the top two, but slavery and colonization are the gravest hits to the soul of the nation, imo.)

@AJ_andrew69 @bullivant

HighlandLawyer 1d ago

@fembot @AJ_andrew69 @bullivant
Firstly, it is probably easier to list nations which *haven't* at some point stolen & settled someone else's land. But secondly, without the slave trade, colonisation of North America would have gone a lot slower due to lower populations, slower accumulation of wealth & exploitation of resources. Whether an accomodation was reached with the native nations by negotiation or warfare, it wouldn't have the same cultural impact that slavery & consequent racialism did.

@HighlandLawyer Right, interesting. I think both are foundational and convergent. Food for thought — a lot of truth there.

@AJ_andrew69 @bullivant

Asbestos 1d ago

@HighlandLawyer

@fembot @AJ_andrew69 @bullivant
I would say the impact of the forced and deliberate destruction of native cultures by settlers, the church and the government had a pretty lasting impact on native culture. there were "Indian Schools" until the very recent past.
the point is not who's suffering is greater. it's not a zero sum game. The violence of one does not diminish the violence of the other.

HighlandLawyer 1d ago

@Asbestos @fembot @AJ_andrew69 @bullivant
Oh certainly the genocide & cultural devastation of the native nations had a massive (& often terminal) impact on them, but what I was analysing was the impact on the USA itself.
Though arguably without slavery the USA might have conducted a less aggressive imperial policy against its neighbours & been more diplomatic reaching mutual terms, in any event giving the native nations more time to develop effective countermeasures.

Asbestos 17h ago

@HighlandLawyer

@fembot @AJ_andrew69 @bullivant
OK, I get it. I'm often a beat behind

HighlandLawyer 14h ago

@Asbestos @fembot @AJ_andrew69 @bullivant
Any lack of understanding is the fault of my lack of clarity

Andrew J Spaulding 13h ago

@HighlandLawyer @Asbestos @fembot @bullivant Sometimes I have that problem.

Asbestos 5h ago

@HighlandLawyer @fembot @bullivant
you're doing well if it's "sometimes" and not "often"

Andrew J Spaulding 5h ago

@Asbestos @HighlandLawyer @fembot @bullivant Just every so often.

Asbestos 12h ago

@HighlandLawyer

@fembot @AJ_andrew69 @bullivant
Naw.

@Asbestos Me too

@HighlandLawyer @AJ_andrew69 @bullivant

iamBullivant 1d ago

@HighlandLawyer That's interesting, thank you for the share HL!

Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽1d ago

@bullivant
#NeverAgainIsNow

readermom 1d ago

White males seem to need someone to blame for challenging how they view their own superiority. As evidenced by their war on the rights of Blacks, immigrants, Hispanics, women, trans, the homeless, the poor, seniors, veterans, children, people with disabilities, etc.

DragonBard 1d ago

@readermom @bullivant I'd say white male _culture_ in America is to blame. Lots of white males the world over aren't this bad. But now I'm steering dangerously close to CRT.

contrasocial 1d ago

A similar event for those unaware is the Wilmington Massacre, in which a white mob carried out a successful coup against a bi-racial local government.

The mob formed to make a "white declaration of independence" then roamed in gangs killing black people, destroying black businesses.

It's an example of why Reconstruction failed to go far enough in stopping confederates from coming back into power and why in our time now "forgive and forget" won't be enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

Wilmington massacre - Wikipedia

iamBullivant 1d ago

@contrasocial Thanks for the share. I wasn't aware of that event.

@bullivant thank you for this reminder. We aren’t so different today, if at all. A truly destructive and horrible day

Come On Giant Asteroid!1d ago

@bullivant I lived in Oklahoma for 20 years. It's only been in the last 10 or 15 years that people stopped calling it the “Tulsa Race Riot” …

Asbestos 1d ago

@bullivant
the current regime will find a similar name to call it. Or just remove it from the textbooks, because it's "Woke"

Court Cantrell prefers not to 20h ago

@VE2UWY @bullivant My parents both grew up in Oklahoma, both born in the 1940s. They and my spouse & I have now lived in Oklahoma again for the past 17 years. They had never even heard of the Tulsa Massacre until about 10 years ago. Their parents' generation of white people simply never talked about it. And it certainly wasn't taught in schools.

We teach our daughter. And my (white) husband is a member of the Major Taylor Cycling Club of Oklahoma; our OKC chapter is predominantly Black.

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Court Cantrell prefers not to 20h ago

@VE2UWY @bullivant

#MTCCOK had a huge part in yesterday's #RideToRememberBlackWallStreet in Tulsa. The sheer existence of that public event is a testimony to how many people people are aware of what happened in 1921 -- aware, and unwilling to let that horrific knowledge stay in the dark.

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