Kent Steinbrenner (he/him)

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Graphic & video artist, liturgist, typographer (I analyze the typeface on everything!); EVs are the future (e-Golf driver); Episcopalian; CBC, NPR listener; Mac/iOS, but still remember webOS! 🏳️‍🌈
If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

Share to honor the life of Rep. Melissa Hortman! 💙

Know that she wasn't killed by a "mad man", she was killed by a Trump supporter in a political act of violence...

Réformer l’orthographe plutôt que l’enseignement

« Avant le XIXe siècle, même les grands auteurs français faisaient des fautes, corrigées par leur imprimeur. Pourquoi les enfants du XXIe siècle devraient-ils être meilleurs ? »

Jean-Benoît Nadeau
https://lactualite.com/societe/reformer-lorthographe-plutot-que-lenseignement/?mfid=aHR0cHM6Ly9sYWN0dWFsaXRlLmNvbS9zb2NpZXRlL3JlZm9ybWVyLWxvcnRob2dyYXBoZS1wbHV0b3QtcXVlLWxlbnNlaWduZW1lbnQv

Réformer l’orthographe plutôt que l’enseignement

Avant le XIXe siècle, même les grands auteurs français faisaient des fautes, corrigées par leur imprimeur. Pourquoi les enfants du XXIe siècle devraient-ils être meilleurs ?

L’actualité

Curiosity has a natural predator.

It’s called optimization.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-convenience-kills-curiosity/

How Convenience Kills Curiosity

I’ve been thinking about the death of curiosity. Remember when you had to figure out how a new piece of software worked by poking around its menus? When finding an obscure fact meant wandering through library stacks, accidentally discovering three unrelated interesting things along the way? When getting somewhere

Westenberg.
I have a coworker I talk to on the phone a lot, and one time I said GLUTEN MORGEN!! to her coz I was eating bread, and she speaks German, so every time we call each other now we say that

I’m not forgiving the Debates Commission.

It’s a scandal, and a travesty, that the Green Party’s Jonathan Pedneault wasn’t allowed to take a podium.

I wanted to get to know him. And a nation facing wildfires, floods, and atmospheric rivers needs to pay attention to what the Parti Vert is saying.

Reposting with #AltText, because y'all keep posting and boosting without making things accessible.

Trans lives intersect with disability in many ways, and both cis and trans folk with a vision impairment deserve to see this just as much as everybody else.

Resistance without accessibility is bullshit 🚮

Trans women are women, trans men are men, and between and around the two is a rich tapestry of intersex, non-binary and other gender diverse folk. All of us deserve to live whole, wholesome lives without hate or fear ✊🏻

#Accessibility #TransRightsAreHumanRights

"In regular democratic politics, passing on one battle to fight again another day is normal. But when fighting for democracy, you never know if there will be another day. Fight everywhere you can, always, or you will soon be as irrelevant as the Russian Duma became under Putin’s centralized executive authority."

I'll be forwarding this to Senator Fetterman.

How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/04/america-russia-trump-putin/682473/?gift=ZIT7NMCmIj_IC4HqpIXYJilqavGxV668RCo_Ownw804&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia

Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.

The Atlantic

BOYCOTTAGE DE LA CULTURE AMÉRICAINE
Plus complexe que le choix des patates

« Depuis samedi, on assiste à un mouvement pancanadien hors du commun. Achetons 100 % canadien ! Tenons tête à l’illuminé de Mar-a-Lago ! Soyons solidaires ! »

Mario Girard — Arts
https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/chroniques/2025-02-04/boycottage-de-la-culture-americaine/plus-complexe-que-le-choix-des-patates.php?mfid=MGRlZDk1ZTllOTE3M2EwZThhNjczNmFhOTZmNTcwNDM%3D

Boycottage de la culture américaine | Plus complexe que le choix des patates

Depuis samedi, on assiste à un mouvement pancanadien hors du commun. Achetons 100 % canadien ! Tenons tête à l’illuminé de Mar-a-Lago ! Soyons solidaires !

La Presse

"Apart from independent commentators on BlueSky, Substack, and YouTube, no one in the mainstream press has called Trump's actions a 'coup.'”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #coup #EconomicElites #oligarchy #SuperRich #media
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-resistance-begins-to-coalesce

The resistance begins to coalesce.

February 4, 2025

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