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

You come across some disturbing things when you browse old newspapers. Case in point is the New York Times Amusements This Evening section from December 30, 1851, where they highlight an exhibition of “Two Living Aztec Children“ at the Society Library.

Later on in 1852, the Times goes in much greater detail about how these two children were kidnapped and then sold in San Salvador to an American and brought to New York City to be exhibited.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter

The title of this thread is called "Angry Black Women".

On January 20, 2017 this picture was my Facebook avatar. It is Michelle Obama at the inauguration of the 45th president. About a month later, a white female person I know texted me "Can you change your avatar photo, now." Which I did. The following is a selection of the Angry Black Women avatars I used since. These Angry Black Women changed out lives for the better.

To ensure cars didn’t take back control of #Paris streets as the pandemic was “ending” (no, it hasn’t ended), like they have in so many cities, Mayor #AnneHidalgo made sure that 60k parking spaces and many streets were permanently transformed into seating for restaurants, people places and bike-lanes.

Leadership.

#cities #urbanism #streets #streetsforpeople #peopleplaces #placemaking

I have a thick skin. I’m not unaccustomed to attacks. And I surely don’t mind reasonable people raising opposing views. But the bird app has been swamped with MAGA Republicans determined to drive away progressives with false narratives and ad hominem attack. A dispiriting display of the human condition and a waste of time. Alas.

🍑Georgia voters — reminder that these counties have early voting TODAY!
Baker
Baldwin
Bartow
Bibb
Burke
Chatham
Clarke
Cobb
Crawford
DeKalb
Douglas
Fulton
Gilmer
Gwinnett
Hancock
Henry
Macon
Mitchell
Muscogee
Newton
Randolph
Rockdale
Screven
Terrell
Troup
Walton
Ware
#gapol

@marcelias here’s 3 of them. Waited 53 minutes in Walton County. First time it has taken me more that 10-15 mins. Line was around the bldg when they opened at 9:00.

A white supremacist was at Mar-a-Lago. And then he invited two anti-semites to join him for dinner.

This is what true leadership looks like—when you always speak up for universal human rights because you recognize the inherent humanity in every person. This is yet another example of why @georgetakei is a true leader. ❤️✊🏽

As a human rights lawyer I've worked on religious discrimination issues for decades—including how nations normalize violence against minorities via silence against their dehumanization.

GOP silence at Trump hosting a literal Nazi is devastating for American Jews & US democracy.

I was able to get a good night's sleep and woke with limited pain. I was able to shower by myself and shave!! Granted I love when I have help, but the ability to have a choice in the matter is always preferred. #disabled #smallthings #sofreshandsoclean

WOW. After yesterday's appeal to stand up for DACA recipients, more than 600 people signed this petition. I'm re-upping the appeal to get us past the 1000 signature mark.

DACA recipients need permanent protected status. Dems can deliver. Let's hold them accountable. Thank you for using your voice to speak up.

SIGN HERE: https://bit.ly/3D77KKv

"Every histrionic warning, every red-faced speech in Congress, every bizarre and creepy and disgusting claim, every threat to life and limb directed at queer people, every bullshit "study" fabricated at the Heritage Foundation -- all of it has been dead wrong."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/they-have-always-been-wrong

#success #twittermigration #twitterexodus #Mastodon #inspiration

A Proper #Introduction: Aging backwards while getting better. A woman transcending gender in the ebb of the Diaspora. Mostly pics of me, my garden, and the sky. Work-safe, although vapor clouds will be present. Will make random references to anime, music, and instruments made in Japan. African-Ojibwe-German-Scot from Potawami land, living in Southern Cascadia. I'm Ayila Jamie Bailey. And I Matter.

Hi!

#bio #wordy

@ScottSoCal Well, when in Rome, you know.

Next time, I’ll bring the pets along!

Bulb garden ages ago.

@QasimRashid

We are a non-profit food bank based in New York City, and we’re sending you one of our favorite dad jokes in the hopes of getting a boost.

A customer walks into a shoe store and approaches the sales clerk. “I need a pair of those orthodox shoes, please.”
The clerk responds, “I think you mean orthopedic shoes.”
“Oh,” said the customer. “I stand corrected.”

Please follow us if you’d like to help promote #FoodJustice in #NewYorkCity. We may even tell the occasional #DadJoke.

Now Musk is saying if Apple and Google block Twitter on their app stores, presumably for failure to moderate hate speech and for safety, he will just create a new phone.

So it’s going well, right?

Every millennial I know seems shocked and offended that we're entering middle age, and I completely agree with them.