Lavender Gooms

@zachgateshere
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Hammers for their teeth, bolt cutters for their fingers.
Beardstache? Beardstache.
Oh shit the explore page is a LOT more robust now. I might be able to use this.
So apparently 4.2 lets you search for things more robustly? I might have to stick around.
I really do wonder if it's possible to put together some kinda method to like... find people to follow beyond just randomly searching. Communities?
Arising from the grave...
Couple new #tattoos though
I really want to kick back into this place, and I'm wondering if my problem is not thinking in terms of communities, and if I should hop on a more specialized instance.
Buckle up Mastodon, Twitter is shitting the bed again. People are comin' in.

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

After 1 white parent complained about "controversial ideas" from Nat'l Book Award finalist Derrick Barnes speaking at three Alabama elementary schools as part of Black History Month in February—Barnes' lectures were cancelled😳

It was never about CRT. It was never about protecting our children. It was always about advancing white supremacy.

Now, hundreds of Black & white children will be deprived meaningful education, because of the whims of 1 white racist parent. smh

https://t.co/0acZhaLAIk

Alabama Schools Cancel Black History Month Event With Award-Winning Author

Award-winning children's book author Derrick Barnes was scheduled to visit three schools in Alabama during Black History Month. But just before Barnes' planned appearances in February, the invitation to Hoover and Alabaster City Schools was abruptly canceled.

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