#Medium – the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter – now has a #Mastodon server.

It might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the folks who bequeathed you Twitter.

US: There have never been more women in Congress than there are now yet women are still only 28% of the 118th Congress.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/01/03/118th-congress-has-a-record-number-of-women/

29 December 1923 | Hungarian Jewish woman Lily Ebert was born in Bonyhád.

In July 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz. She was then transferred to an ammunition factory near Leipzig where she was liberated.

Today she turns 99.

“I never thought I would survive Auschwitz and have another birthday. At 99, I celebrate to show that the Nazis did not win!”
(Lily Ebert)

Photo: courtesy of Dov Ebert

#Auschwitz #birthday #survivor #otd #people #woman #Hungary #Jews #99 #Remember #memory

An easy hour down by the river this morning. Felt really good, weather is warming up a bit. I’ll take it before the rain comes in this weekend.

#running | #runoutside | #december | #iphonephotography | #hudsonriver

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, that’s not satire, it’s bullying.”
- Definitely not Sir Terry Pratchett.

#GNUTerryPratchett

What is the dictionary meaning of "trumpery"?

#atheism #progressive #evolution #philosophy #sciencehumor #politicalhumor #sarcasm

Work I’ve done for a 2023 calendar.
Watercolor on 100% coton paper.

#mastoart @Curator #art #artist #queerart #trans #watercolor #illustration

Interesting story of how a fake story gets propagated and amplified in mainstream outlets like the WSJ that a university like Stanford is imposing some kind of speech code.

https://mastodon.social/@adriandaub/109577031998660554

(Pasting this link might work as a quote toot?!)

What I especially appreciate about the account is the continuity it shows between what was actually going on at Stanford (spoiler: not a speech code) and what happens in any modern corporation doing brand management…