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.
A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
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
A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Show threadJenniferplusplusJul 3, 2025

@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.

A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Nowhere GirlJul 3, 2025

"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.

A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Christopher MimsJul 3, 2025
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
A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Ali İhsanJul 3, 2025
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
A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Pauline von HellermannJul 3, 2025

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/

A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Baldur BjarnasonJul 3, 2025
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
A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Al JazeeraJul 3, 2025

UN expert calls on world to end trade with Israel’s ‘economy of genocide’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/3/un-expert-calls-on-world-to-end-trade-with-israels-economy-of-genocide?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera

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
A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Council Estate MediaJul 3, 2025

this is not debatable

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/gaza-doctors-under-attack-shows-the

"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
A Tattered ScrapbookJul 3, 2025
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaJul 3, 2025
@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?