@pexl It's kind of infuriating, because they're a community pillar for a lot of local activism. The straight activists I know here, in general, have an issue with not taking gay rights seriously. The local UU is just a symptom of it, not a driver, but it certainly does not help -- especially if you are trying to organize an action and they're one of the few places you could get a room to run a fundraiser or plan an action

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 14:00

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 14:00

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@pexl My local church, which was founded by abolitionists, etc etc

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 13:54

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 13:54

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

church stuff

@pexl My family attends a UU church, even though they're Jewish. I can't stand going because the local community is homophobic in this creepy smiling way. They're currently debating, in 2019, if they should display a rainbow flag or if it would ruin wedding photos. And going to sit in a church is also super uncomfortable for me, since I was raised by Catholics who did not like my Jewish background.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 13:48

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 13:48

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On the one hand, the local UU was founded in the 1800s by abolitionists. On the other hand, the people who attend there in 2019 are liberal white homophobes.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 13:43

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 13:43

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I get why a Christian would find Unitarianism appealing. I don't get why people from other backgrounds would want to attend a literal Church on literal Sundays, with none of the music or pageantry or cannibalism of a traditional mass.

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 13, 2019, 22:06

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**Mo Martin** @MoMartin@playvicious.social · Oct 13, 2019, 22:06

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Mo Martin @MoMartin@playvicious.social

If you center Black Jews and Jews of Color in your thinking about Judaism/Jewishness, you can begin to piece together how anti-Judaism and antisemitism led to the creation of White Supremacy, but more importantly, you can begin to piece together an overarching theory of Diasporic studies that includes Jewish history AND the African Diaspora, you see the falseness of distinctions between peoples, which is to say the falseness of borders, and the richness of points of contact.

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 13, 2019, 14:09

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**Lyds, (gender) envy demon** @sireffe@iam.lydi.as · Oct 13, 2019, 14:09

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Lyds, (gender) envy demon @sireffe@iam.lydi.as

We jokingly say "between the three of us we equal one adult" but really it's just that no one can know everything and communal living makes for more resilient people.

The whole you should live alone thing is awful convenient for Capitalism that tries to sell you things to replace people in your life.

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 18, 2019, 12:45

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**dave** @dthompson@toot.cat · Sep 18, 2019, 12:45

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dave @dthompson@toot.cat

the new thinkpads have moved away from the ultra-slim trend in favor of a thicker, cuter aesthetic.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 03:02

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 03:02

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

A League of Their Own ends with the Peaches losing because Penny Marshall could not allow a Staten Islander (Doris's/Rosie O'Donnell's dad) to be happy.

She did it specifically to spite Staten Island. Because it's a bad place, and does not deserve happiness.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 01:03

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 01:03

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@melissasage It's always the [citation needed] that gets me.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 00:58

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Oct 14, 2019, 00:58

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

History's not built by great men, but fuck King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 14, 2019, 00:46

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Oct 14, 2019, 00:46

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melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

1492 history

also, around the same time, the Spanish royalty issued the Alhambra decree, officially expelling all of the Jews from Spain, after centuries of pogroms and forced conversions as part of the campaign against al-Andalus, where Jews were relatively tolerated and had built up a prosperous community. This included setting up Inquisitions to make sure that *really* converted.

The Jews expelled from Spain are the ancestors of today's Sephardic Jews, from Hebrew "sefarad", meaning Spain.

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**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 14, 2019, 00:44

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Oct 14, 2019, 00:44

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melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

1492 history

a fun fact in honor of Indigenous People's Day: Columbus was sent on his voyage essentially as a celebration of the Reconquista. Spain wanted to flex its muscles in new ways now that they had finished killing, expelling, or converting the remains of al-Andalus, and Columbus was a beneficiary of that.

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 12, 2019, 16:28

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**『VRISKA』** @vriska@lizards.live · Oct 12, 2019, 16:28

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『VRISKA』 @vriska@lizards.live

holuy fucking shit

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**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 13, 2019, 20:48

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**Transbian Alliance** @transbian@computerfairi.es · Oct 13, 2019, 20:48

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Transbian Alliance @transbian@computerfairi.es

⚠️ new release ⚠️
amiga italo mix [vol. 3]

we're not done yet.

https://soundcloud.com/transbian/amiga-italo-mix-vol-3
https://youtu.be/jr66g48w72A

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**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 13, 2019, 20:32

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**mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓** @monorail@glaceon.social · Oct 13, 2019, 20:32

Oct 13, 2019, 20:32

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

a quote from jim davis: "By virtue of being a cat, Garfield's not black, white, male or female, young, or old or a particular nationality."

this just in: jim davis thinks all cats are nonbinary, but more importantly, garfield is canonically nonbinary

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 13, 2019, 18:01

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**twilight sparkle** @zoe@sleeping.town · Oct 13, 2019, 18:01

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twilight sparkle @zoe@sleeping.town

hey if you're running linux and have the full mono runtime installed, check to make sure http://127.0.0.1:8084/ isn't an http server, for some reason the full mono runtime includes an at-boot web server