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Bobby Brown

Interesting that Mastodon for iOS does the right thing putting the alt text entry field front and center like so many clients should, and yet I can't figure out how the hell to actually **read or hear** alt text in posts. I can't display it onscreen from taps, long-taps, or the ellipsis menu, and the iOS screen reader doesn't read it, instead saying, "Show Image".

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Bobby Brown

$2,400/mo plus utilities, no street parking

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Scot Hacker

View from the inside of a cello (photographer unknown).

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Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫

"If we switched to renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half. Because they're just carrying #coal and #oil and gas" -Bill McKibben on Bird.

Port of Long Beach exports a good deal of #petroleum coke & coal that are deemed too dirty to burn in the US. #Shipping fuel is itself filthy (dirtier than diesel).

Map is a screenshot of global marine traffic (red vessels are #tankers), via marinetraffic.com

EDIT: for my reply guys: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

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mx. crum pudgin

just trying to make sure everyone who followed me for my politics understands the mistake they've made

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Ricky Mondello

Please stop using “mom” as an example of an unsophisticated user of technology. This reinforces harmful stereotypes.

Instead, I suggest using “congressperson”.

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Bobby Brown

Unpopular opinion: If you actually understand Marxism it should basically ruin your life

(for the better, of course -- both immediately and in the long term)

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Bobby Brown

Can we pursue a greater justice -- inclusive of the herbivorous animals I am entirely forced to eat every day -- without completely erasing disabled people yet again? Can my own distress and motivation to stop living as a horrifying predatory monster be enough, and not also flippantly trashable such that we reinforce capitalist medicine's decades-old profitable false notions of how our digestive systems function? Wh -- Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your dunk on lab-grown meat. Carry on…

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Bobby Brown

Of course the recipes are simple. Herbivores have to eat a diverse diet if they are to obtain sufficiently broad nutrition, while carnivores just eat the herbivores that already collected all the various resources in the environment. This is why claims of deficiencies among meat eaters are largely mythical. The recipes are also simple because many dieters undertook carnivory after plant-based food made them chronically very ill. For some, the "balanced diet" is unsurvivable. Ask me how I know!

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Bobby Brown

I understand why lefties want to unreservedly mock the reactionary cultural phenomenon, but that does more harm to disabled people, to vegans' ideas and praxis, and to people's understanding of their own bodies than it will ever do to Jordan Peterson.

If you closely analyze the human GI tract and primate evolution, it's clear that we are physiologically carnivores w/adaptations. We have none of the structures of ruminant species. Mocking simple recipes demonstrates ignorance of basic nutrition.

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NanoRaptor

Dual USB-C

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Scott Campbell

AK Press has made the following ebooks available for free for the time being:

- "The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition" by William C. Anderson

- "As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation" by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson

- "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America" by Kristian Williams

akpress.org/featured-products/

@bookstodon @abolition #abolition #ftp #acab #anarchism #books #reading #bookstodon #BlackAnarchism

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Chad Loder

The Problem With Police Reform Is That Police Already Know It's Bad To Beat People To Death

Like most flavors of police reform, these measures presume that the police officers who kill do so only because they simply don't know what else to do, because they haven't been trained to do anything else. It presumes that they won't use a chokehold if they are told to not use chokeholds. It presumes that if we just tell police officers "Hey, stop murdering people who are no kind of actual threat to you," they will stop doing that. It assumes a certain amount of good faith that is not necessarily applicable to the kinds of police officers who kill people. wonkette.com/tyre-nichols-poli

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Amy Dentata

In the game I was working on before my health crashed, the internet had become a bottomless pit of meaningless bot-generated noise for average people while empowering the rich, and that was why a distributed, secret group of activists bombed key infrastructure until it ceased to function. I had meant for the premise to be outlandish

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Alex P. 👹

tooting is better than tweeting because you can get nuck tats that say "TOOT BOYZ," "TOOT LYFE," things of that nature

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blackle mori

never change, the onion, never change

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Chad Loder

@CrimethInc It's ridiculous

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers

Ahead of the release of video footage documenting the police execution of Tyre Nichols, the authorities are deploying all the standard tactics in the counter-insurgency playbook:

—Delay the release of the video

—Appeal for calm while mobilizing the same police forces that carried out the killing to be prepared to carry out more violence on a massive scale

—Permit some family members and activists to view the video in order to enlist them as spokespeople demanding a certain kind of response and delegitimizing those who do not comply

—Spread fear about an invented identity ("outside agitators," "gang members," "antifa") in order to preemptively justify violent repression

—Fire the officers involved; if necessary, initiate legal proceedings (these can always be dropped later)

All this has become standard practice. This is how they hope to suppress unrest, even in the most egregious cases of police murder.

But they have no intention of diminishing the amount of violence that police employ, nor addressing the disparities that render that violence inevitable. This is obvious because they are putting all their energy into managing the public response to police violence, not into seeking any sort of change.

If there is to be any change, it will have to come from us.

#AbolishthePolice

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SwiftOnSecurity

This is an amazing 12min presentation about how the internals of the most obscure but critical technologies are unfortunately being lost as the generation who built it and know the dark magic retire. (via @tiffsequence)

youtube.com/watch?v=3zaq56QsX2

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carith s. pumpkins

#VerseThursday TO LOVE SOMEONE LONG-TERM IS TO ATTEND A THOUSAND FUNERALS OF THE PEOPLE THEY USED TO BE., by Heidi Priebe

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