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I love when people participate in their local government, and I wish more people would do it.

Literally anyone can go to a regularly-scheduled public meeting and talk about a thing they care about, and you’d be surprised what a small group of engaged people can accomplish.

The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue In truth, massacres, disease and American Indian tribal politics are what shaped the Pilgrim-Indian alliance at the root of the holiday

Harvest festivals centering gratitude & celebrating abundance are an ancient & widespread tradition that we should continue in the US. But not on this day. Today is a #NationalDayOfMourning for the historical & ongoing settler colonialist violence committed against #Indigenous peoples.

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️

How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

As someone whose lungs are messed up from growing up in a working class industrial Detroit neighborhood, this makes my blood boil.

Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.

“Mr. Charlie, cracker, peckawood, hoojah, and so on—nice words and bitter. The stock is always increasing because as the whites get on to the old words we invent new ones.”
Banjo, Claude McKay, 1929

An open sketchbook page on a wooden table features a simple drawing of a bird by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, with a piece of red cabbage creatively positioned to appear as if the piece of cabbage is actually the bird's beak. A black pen and a partially visible plate with red cabbage pieces are also present. The artist's signature and website, DebbieOhi.com, are visible on the sketchbook.

For those who need it, I've updated my #Uplift feed:

bsky.app/profile/debb...

Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.

New teacher snitch line opened up. You know what to do. Spread it far and wide.

Doing my part 🫡

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

Terminology Style Guide This is a version of the style guide that Native Governance Center uses to guide our communications so we are respectful and consistent in talking about Native nations.

A source that can be helpful and backs up everything Frances Elizabeth has noted.

nativegov.org/resources/te...

Alrighty, so, since a lot of folx suddenly want to discuss Indigenous peoples a couple of reminders:

* capitalize the “I” on Indigenous;
* don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more;
* you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1

Department of Defense cancels National Native American Heritage Month American Indians and Alaska Natives serve in the military at the highest rates per capita of any group but celebrations of their contributions are being erased by the Trump administration.

Native people serve in the military at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group.

The Defense Department will not celebrate Native American Heritage month this year.

indianz.com/News/2025/02...

Alt text serves as a lot of different purposes, too! All of which improve accessibility (for more than just people with vision-impairments).

I use it quite often to understand memes and read fine-print screenshots.

The DIY HRT Directory All the information you need to be informed on DIY Hormone Replacement Therapy

you should be saving these locally if possible as links can easily be deleted.

browser > Ctrl + P > save as PDF

or download the DIY HRT webpages as PDF's from the internet archive

live website link: diyhrt.info

archive:
archive.org/details/the-...

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.

Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

A woman once suggested cornering her in an elevator at 4am and inviting her to your room wasn't a great way to make a good impression and now the CDC won't publish current bird flu spread warnings.

It's always a good time to share this phenomenal TEDTalk by the late Stella Young. We are not your inspiration porn.

Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...

Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine

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Wow what’s that like, must be awful to find someone ripped off your hard work to make a buck

YouTube video by TED I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young

Good talk by Stella Young on the unexceptional nature of #disability. H/t @kitchencollective.bsky.social

#DisabilitySky

I’m off to unplug my brain after a tough week. I hope you all get the rest and joy you need. You deserve to recharge on your own terms.

We literally have enough resources in the world that every single person alive should be able to live in comfort without having to spend the lion’s share of their week / year / life at work

In person.

#HellaInaccessible #DisabilitySky

The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

"New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices."