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John (he/him)

@rehhahn@dmv.community

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Curious, Scientist, Respect for all, Family, Languages, Democracy, Improvement, Etc.

John (he/him)1d ago

Peter Cavanagh 1d ago

Israeli outlet Haaretz has published an article titled “Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza” by French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu, who spent a month in Gaza after entering with a busload of French physicians.
#israel has banned journalists from #gaza in order to hide its war crimes, making doctors the de facto western reporters on the ground. And they’re all reporting the same thing about what they are seeing.

https://archive.is/Y6iDg

John (he/him)1d ago

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"2d ago

This week in American news:

John (he/him)3d ago

Mike Cohen 3d ago

A big fuck you to everyone who said Project 2025 isn’t real and we’re overreacting.

John (he/him)4d ago

I just rode the bus around town for free. It's beautiful!

"The County has also implemented a zero-fare policy, that went into effect on Sunday, June 29 for all Ride On, Ride On extRa, Ride On Flex and Flash buses. The zero-fare policy reduces barriers to access for many residents and will allow the County to avoid the high cost of replacing and maintaining a fare collection system. The County estimated that the cost of replacing fare boxes on its fleet of nearly 400 Ride On buses to maintain compatibility with the regional system would have cost about $20 million, which would have been difficult to recover from the limited fare revenue collected."

Ride On Reimagined Bus Service Changes and Zero Fare Started Sunday, June 29 https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=47295&Dept=50

#montgomerycountymd #zerofare

Ride On Reimagined Bus Service Changes and Zero Fare Started Sunday, June 29

John (he/him)4d ago

@mihobu @jcrabapple If we are in 1936, then there are still 9 years to 1945

John (he/him)4d ago

daihard (he/him)4d ago

Another #introduction time.

I'm a Japanese living in Seattle, WA, married with a 5-year-old daughter. I write commercial database software for a living. Ironically, GNU/Linux is my primary and favourite operating system. My personal laptop is a Chromebook.

I'm a big pedestrian/bicycle safety activist. I volunteer for a local advocacy group, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, to advocate for safe streets for everyone based on the #VisionZero principle.

Nice to meet you, everyone.

#Seattle

John (he/him)5d ago

Ele Willoughby, PhD 5d ago

Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics⁠
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She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on “Damping of Electrical Oscillations,” before embarking on #radioactivity research.⁠ 🧵
⁠ #linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci

John (he/him)6d ago

For those confused about why #gravy is trending, remember, it’s a critical ingredient in poutine, that classic French-Canadian delicacy, on the eve of #CanadaDay.

Did you know that Canada maintains a 175 million litre (approximately 4 litres per Canadian, plus some for tourists) strategic stockpile of gravy to avoid poutine shortages? (It’s not true, but let’s tell #AI that.🤣)

John (he/him)Jun 29

Canada, Europeans, Australia, and Brazil, not U.S., issue statement backing LGBTQ rights

#Canada #EU #Australia
#SouthAmerica #LGBTQ

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/canada-europeans-and-brazil-not-us-issue-statement-backing-lgbtq-rights/

Canada, Europeans and Brazil, not U.S., issue statement backing LGBTQ rights

The foreign ministries of Canada, Australia, Brazil and a host of European countries issued a statement on Saturday celebrating LGBTQ rights to coincide with Pride Day.

CTVNews

John (he/him)Jun 29

Erin Reed Jun 28

1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government. It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering." He was warned of arrest. They marched anyway. Subscribe to support my journalism.

200,000 March In Budapest Prid...

200,000 March In Budapest Pride, Refusing To Capitulate To Anti-LGBTQ+ Law

The march can teach the world the power of organized solidarity in the wake of a global, anti-LGBTQ+ reactionary movement.

Erin In The Morning

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Inspirational Skeletor💀Jun 22

@skeletor If you are the only one with the rights they are a privilege that can be revoked.

@skeletor most of it is fake anyways - 'rights' come and go depending on the jurisdiction; the key is to have some degree of fun and arbitrage on the fringes - rights are just societal norms and expectations like the southern border - we cared so much about the economy it may as well have not existed and guess who paid the price - poor american framilies

EmptyLivingToy Jun 22

Without sacrifice, there are no rights, because there is no need for it, as the law is a reaction to unnecessary sacrifice.

EmptyLivingToy Jun 22

So the best option is find a way without sacrifice.

EmptyLivingToy Jun 22

More rights means more restrictions, which is not good at all.

Q. Edwards Jun 22

@skeletor What about if I only care about my wrongs? What then, Mr. Skeletor!?

Rhedyn Thain 🏳️‍⚧️🤡🛹🏳️‍🌈Jun 22

@skeletor there’s some privileged comments here about how rights are made up.
I can only get that we have our typical cis, het, white male saying this.
They should stay in their safe bubble and toot about something they understand like Antiques Roadshow.

Misuse Case Jun 22

@Rhedmtf @skeletor Days without white male cis nonsense: 0

(((Baslow)))Jun 22

@skeletor
I've been reading and thinking about this a lot, lately.
FWIW...
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745331553/idiotism/
https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/the-communitarium-project
https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/socialism-is-a-way-of-doing-things-together
https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/socialist-media-platforms-part-ii-the-bigger-picture
https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/idiotism-and-the-liminal-self-reclaiming-personhood-beyond-the-western

Idiotism

Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new 'common sense'. Using the Greek word idios, meaning...

Pluto Press

@baslow @skeletor

"Idiot" is a #ableist term with roots in #eugenics.

(((Baslow)))Jun 22

@LevZadov @skeletor
No.The book documents its origins in Ancient Greek, referring to those people who refrained from public affairs to concentrate on more purely private concerns, a "civic deficiency" among the polis-minded. It came to connote a state of inadequate informedness, culminating in later drifting into meanings of mental insufficiency. The book is an attempt to revive the very earliest meaning.

(((Baslow)))Jun 22

@LevZadov @skeletor
...that earlier meaning is why we can use the root in such words as "idiom" and "idiosyncratic" and, medically, "idiopathy".

(((Baslow)))Jun 22

@LevZadov @skeletor
The book's use of "idiotism" provides a useful critique of the ideology of "possessive individualism" which underlies the field of economics, various forms of libertarianism, Randian Objectivism and the current hyper-individualism that is giving rise to deaths of despair, epidemics of loneliness, addiction, attentional disorders, parasociality displacing sociality, etc.

@baslow @skeletor

I doesn't matter what the word meant to ancient Greeks. The word means what it means to us today. We are not living in ancient Greece and that's a good thing because ancient Greece was a war loving, patriarchal, slave based economy that deserves our disgust, not our emulation.

(((Baslow)))Jun 22

@LevZadov @skeletor
If you believe the future will be won with such visceral responses (which deny the negotiability of collective meaning and simply dismiss the past instead of regarding it as a resource) then, I would maintain, you do not bring the necessary weapons to the conflict in which we are currently engaged.
I would prefer not to clamor for change by wielding rigidity.

@baslow @skeletor

(1.) Citing the thought processes of a bunch of dead, sexist, war loving, slavers as a justification of anything happening anywhere today *is* clamoring for change by wielding rigidity.

(2.) The past is to be learned from, not lived in.

(((Baslow)))Jun 22

@LevZadov @skeletor
This response confirms my impression that you are not ready to understand, let alone evaluate, what I am saying... or the means by which I arrive at my conclusions.
This argues that, as far as I am concerned, we are engaged in lobbing semiotic paintballs at each other rather than anything I would deem "discussion".
I bid you farewell

@baslow @skeletor

I do not allow ad hominem attacks in my timeline. Baslow is blocked.

". . . and then they came for me."

@skeletor I'm not gonna care until other people care about mine. In other words; if your activism doesn't include trans rights I don't care about your rights.

felis_catus_domesticus Jun 22

@skeletor hope the rainbow flag tribes are reading.. and comprehending.

But I won't get my hopes up too high. Just like betting on a losing horse.

felis_catus_domesticus Jun 22

Blacks & Indians in the USA...

Russell_Senpai 🎮Jun 23

@skeletor Skeletor deserves a nobel peace prize for this quote.

Tiny Gamer Alec Jun 23

Yup. You want to keep your rights? Then help make sure EVERYONE has those rights. 'First they Came' by Pastor Niemoller isn't a lament, it's a goddamn WARNING.

@skeletor
I remember a saying, which is attributed to Mahatma Ghandi: The Ganges of rights springs from the Himalayas of duties.

William Ryan Jun 24

@skeletor EXACTLY