Lil_bit_lzbth

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You're allowed one vowel. Plan ahead. Degreed horticulturist (aka plant jock). Nerd adjacent. People, nature, architecture, ha-ha's, listener of "Cassandra's."
Trying to work on being happier more easily, to have a heart too soon made glad. Accessible contentment may be the route to a better life. So many Americans seem to find such joy at easy, simple things, like killing a homeless person or something good on tv.

Jordan Neely’s homicide reminded be of this 2012 post so I fished it out of the Internet Archive. It grieves me how much the discussion of how we justify brutality still applies.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/deserves-got-nothing-to-do-with-it

Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It

Thoughts From 2012 Seem Relevant in 2023

The Popehat Report

Mozilla is bringing a different perspective to moderation in the Fediverse. After years of working on these issues elsewhere and feeling handcuffed by pre-existing incentives, I'm incredibly proud of this.

https://www.theverge.com/23710406/mozilla-social-mastodon-fediverse-moderation

Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation

Mozilla.Social, a new beta Mastodon server from the team at Mozilla, brings a new take on policy to the Twitter clone. It’s not worried about censorship or free speech — it’s just trying to make a better place to be online.

The Verge

That weird feeling when you live in an oligarchy, but you’re rooting for a mega corporation like Disney

…Because they are coming for Ron DeSantis in court over political retaliation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65405312

Disney sues Florida governor Ron DeSantis

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Disney alleges it has been the target of "government retaliation".

BBC News
Folks do know that David Koresh raped numerous teenage and pre-teen girls in his cult, right? He was a rapist. He called these girls his "wives" and raped them. Girls as young as 11. I know there's this bizarre effort to paint him as a martyr, but he raped children.

Congressman and ex-sherif Clay Higgins of Louisiana says the nation needs to get rid of its libraries and install church-owned organizations instead

Excellent idea, Clay Higgins

Since Louisiana is almost dead last in the nation for education, healthcare, opportunity, fiscal stability…

The only thing we have to do to be a success? Is do the opposite of Louisiana.

More libraries, less churches.

Florida Republicans have proposed to bill to kidnap trans children away from their parents

Full stop.

This is how Nazis galvanize their base

Scapegoating the most marginalized citizens and inciting violence

The book burning photo from May 1933? Nazis were burning books from Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexology including works on transgender studies. Right before all out genocide commenced.

#TransRightAreHumanRights

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254/?Tab=RelatedBills

Michael Knowles is calling for the eradication of trans adults and children during his speech at CPAC

"Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely."

He has a podcast distributed on Apple and other major platforms. Report it.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-michael-knowles-show/id1266577963

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

‎The Michael Knowles Show on Apple Podcasts

‎News · 2023

Apple Podcasts

It’s interesting that on #twitter I didn’t even know about @possumeveryhour. Now that the Twitter api is borked they moved here.

I’m now getting a possum every hour, and my life has dramatically improved.