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
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.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.
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
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.
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
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.