A Tattered Scrapbook

@Tattered
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Time for a proper introduction. I am a literature teacher, mostly retired. I love reading, music, baking, nature & cats. I am learning to boost a lot, which includes my passion for a truly inclusive world, so lots of support for Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, Women, Working Class, & other rights. I understand users who want Mastodon to be a quiet corner, but I am more concerned about what happens if we look the other way when people suffer.
That’s it.
Bye, Mastodon.social.
I’ve had enough of shadowy pro-genocide moderation.
I tried to migrate my followers, but the app won’t let me do it and, alas, I have forgotten my password. Maybe I should ask that nice Mr Thiel…
Anyway, if you find this and you would like to reconnect
@Tattered

@gwynnion Yeah.

There's this phrase that keeps popping up for me lately, so much that I've completely lost count. It goes like "Trump [did something monstrous] using a program that was created under Obama and expanded under Biden." Over and over and over again.

"People should have voted for Democrats."

Maybe Democrats should have campaigned on something OTHER than being anti-immigration, pro-cop, pro-genocide, and having "the deadliest military on earth," making it hard to distinguish them from Republicans.

Help a journalist out? I'm looking to talk to researchers, engineers, students or entrepreneurs who are considering leaving the U.S. because they lost funding or are worried about visas or anything like that. I'm at mimsical.94 on Signal
What is more sad is that in some photos of the fire, the ruins of the earthquake which happened 2.5 years ago still can be seen. Total failure of the Turkish state

This week i had a couple of conversations about #Gaza with well-meaning, nice people in which it transpired that they still knew virtually nothing about things that happened before Oct 7.

This factsheet, by the Independent Jewish Voice of Canada, gives a really good overview.

Let’s keep on sharing and informing others. So many here in Europe continue to know very little.

https://www.ijvcanada.org/in-the-week-before-october-7-2023-ijv-factsheet/

Anybody who has been around programmers for more than five minutes should not be surprised that many of them are enthusiastically adopting a tool that is harmful, destroying industries, sabotaging education, and hindering the energy transition because they feel it's giving them a moderate advantage
UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy of genocide’

UN Special Rapporteur Albanese says dozens of companies play a role in ‘sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project’.

Al Jazeera
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" shows the IDF is the world's most evil army

We now know why the BBC wanted to cover this up...

Council Estate Media
@ChrisMayLA6 What stops them just protesting under a different name? It's that particular organisation that has been proscribed, nothing stopping them from starting a new organisation. Are they going to have a parliamentary vote every time?