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@ScottSoCal @KimPerales Here's an excellent resource on sundown towns for anyone interested in learning more.

James "Loewen started working on sundown towns in 1999. Having grown up in Illinois, he knew he would do more research in that state than any other, simply owing to his familiarity with it. He anticipated finding maybe 10 sundown towns in Illinois and 50 across the nation. He had no idea." https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/

Many people are surprised to learn that ants sleep. Even more surprising is the evidence that suggest they may dream (RAE is a sleep state found in ants and bees chattered by Rapid Antennae Movements and possibly similar to the REM sleep in mammals)

Ants sleep frequently and in funny locations. Generally they will rest their thorax and gaster on the ground, fold their antennae and be very still. They nap for 10min up to an hour. Queen ants will sleep for up to 4 hours at a time.

@ScottSoCal Yes, you’re correct, it happens throughout America. We need to continue to expose the horrific behavior & crimes & work toward eradicating systemic racism.

@toxtethogrady

We cannot afford winning close elections, Georgia, Montana, Nevada, and all the many places where attempts to defeat majority votes with bad faith are red flags that voting alone is not enough. Vote like your life depends on it, because it does!

cc: @StillIRise1963

Aldean’s song has resonated with ppl who idolize small-towns, but he’s actually legitimizing vigilantism & violence, blaming Black people for crime & more diverse big cities. #DEI can lead to unity, respect & a stronger nation: There’s a reason that Black people still talk about “sundown towns” in the South & Midwest, places that aren’t safe for us to be after dark -it’s precisely bc of a kind of glorification of small-town tribal violence that’s in Aldean’s song & video. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/tulsa-race-jason-aldean-true-crime/

Berlusconi dies and suddenly Italy has a cocaine surplus

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@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic

Reminded me of the scene with the Grissini (T'Pol using fork and knife to eat it).

After recently rewatching TNG, I feel as if these scenes are little discourses about personal/social perspectives.

Archer IMHO is the "typical American", who takes his (personal) culture for granted.

"Why are foreign delegates offended by a shared meal?"
"Why doesn't T'Pol eat meat?"
"Why are people offended when my dogs pees on their holy tree?"

#StarTrek #SNW #Spock

Yes, dear, strikes are *supposed* to disrupt the status quo. They're *supposed* to make things difficult.

That's the fucking point.

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@JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic estranged due to being gay here. Arguably the old man is the source of autism in my family 😅

@actuallyautistic
I have lived all my life under the tyranny of should. Perhaps because I knew I was different, but without any explanation I didn't know why and so I stuck to the shoulds. You should be this, you should do things this way, this is how you should be. My life in other words was composed of what I should and shouldn't be. I should be hard working, I should be masculine, I shouldn't stand out, I shouldn't be strange. This was, of course, in part self-defence, the masking I learnt early to be able to exist. But it was also the only guide I had. The only way I knew how to be, that wasn't frowned upon or so outlandish by all that I could see about me that it had no place in the world. But only in the quiet places, in the night and the woods. Where I could listen to the silence that was never silent. Feel the connections to the wind and the trees and to the life about me, to the very universe of being that I could sense and feel without words getting in the way. There, briefly, I could be myself. But elsewhere, in the world of man, all I had was the should that imposed, that restricted, that never made any sense or allowed me to flourish, but that never allowed me to be.
But since realising that I am autistic I have been slowly releasing myself from these shoulds and more importantly the shouldn'ts. You shouldn't eat the same things all the time, but I like them. You shouldn't watch the same things over and over again, even though you've watched them a thousand times, but I enjoy them. You shouldn't stand and sway and smile where others can see you, as the world enchants and informs and fills you with wonder. That you shouldn't stand out, that you shouldn't just be yourself. I finally have an answer that makes sense, not an easy answer, or a safe one. But finally access to another way of being, a way that reflects who and how I can be. That doesn't judge or condemn, that doesn't restrict and confine me. I can finally embrace my own way of being, learn and adapt, change and grow how I actually want to and not because I feel I should do. I am finally free of the shoulds and as I am slowly realising, so much happier because of it.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic

Didn’t take long 😂

PS on these topics all credit goes to Black people who keep holding the mirror up so we can see who we really are here. Not listing (for safety) but if you’re paying attention, you’ll find who to follow and boost. I will credit Mekka Okereke for making the point that it’s not enough to say oh too bad, fedi doesn’t work for BIPOC at scale. Millions of Black and Indigenous and other people need good off ramps from twitter and the fediverse needs to fulfill its promise and become one of them