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The true meaning of Easter, by Stephen Collins (who writes his own amazing #AltText)
"PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!
BECKY: You mean … Jesus …?
PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky."
Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.
https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy
🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded the "Madaraka Express" on Madaraka Day (1 June 2017), the 54th anniversary of Kenya's attainment of self-rule from Great
Media release: Papers please!
Three govt announcements to further erode our civil liberties and make people prove their right to exist in public: https://nzccl.org.nz/media-release-papers-please/
“The majority of New Zealanders should be reeling after the quick succession of announcements by the government this week,” said Thomas Beagle, chair of the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties (NZCCL), in reference to the Immigration (Enhanced Risk Management) Amendment Bill, the Policing Amendm
What I'd like to understand is why, on a rainy day, you, a driver, feels the necessity to accelerate towards a pedestrian crossing the rd rather than progress at a sedate pace that will allow them to finish a crossing they commenced before you even arrived at the intersection?
1. FFS it's raining your brakes will be shit
2. FFS it's raining they're already miserable
Natasha 
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Tara Tarakiyee
BlueShiftNZ
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Lori Emerson
NZ Council for Civil Liberties
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