ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Every single time someone talks about improving Mastodon software for the sake of inclusivity towards Black people, *every single time*, the comments grow a bunch of concern trolls that are like "Everything's fine (for me)! Let them go make their own thing!"

And that's why Black people don't fuck with this place.

Signs you have carpenter ants

1. keep finding tiny tools
2. city sends a very tiny permit to affix to baseboard
3. try to move a book and are told “keep this entrance clear, ma’am” because of the “cement delivery coming later”
4. Your dish rack is dismantled “because it’ll be cheaper to rebuild from scratch”
5. no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
6. husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower

(my new drawing for this PSA)

I keep thinking about this conversation from a few years ago... #KamalaHarris #politics

It's amazing how quickly the "fuck your feelings" crowd has pivoted to "😭 Don't call me weird. You're hurting my feelings. 😭"

The racist attacks you’ve witnessed directed at me since Friday, particularly by instances with 1 or 2 individuals, SHOULD cause you to ask “why?” and here’s the part “good white folx” often miss…these attacks are about YOU…these attacks are INTENDED to keep me from putting a mirror in your faces and showing you that YOU TOO are harmed by white supremacy and anti-Blackness…these attacks are no different than banning books…they’re INTENDED to keep you IGNORANT about the fact that you’re COMPLICIT

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And now #petebuttigieg is on the #whitedudesforharris call. It's really interesting how the party has pivoted to "the vibe" as opposed to wonkish policy positions to motivate voters. I think that's gonna be a winning move. But that's like, my opinion, man. #TheDude

#uspol

Trump can't figure out what to do about Harris https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/29/2259039/-Trump-can-t-figure-out-what-to-do-about-Harris?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Great news: the GOP mayor of Mesa AZ endorses Harris. "Now more than ever, we need leaders who will put country over party." [de-paywalled link from @azcentral] http://archive.is/KC91o

I'd like to see more "lets reflect on what the culture of the community that has been curated on the fediverse is, and how the tooling has enabled that culture," and less "its just about switching instances" or "do this one thing and the racism bug will be fixed."