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The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

09.01.2025 20:09 — 👍 10337    🔁 3407    💬 418    📌 477

This advice is important now, and will be even more important in two weeks, when the next administration is going to flood the zone with horribleness, with the intent of overwhelming everyone into compliance. Pick your battles and keep your focus. Trust others are doing the same elsewhere.

09.01.2025 21:01 — 👍 2152    🔁 556    💬 31    📌 17

Meta’s Moderation Modifications Mean Anti-LGBTQ Speech Is Welcome, While Pro-LGBTQ Speech Is Not On Monday, Taylor Lorenz posted a telling story about how Meta has been suppressing access to LGBTQ content across its platforms, labeling it as “sensitive content” or “sexually explicit.” Posts wi…

Another post about the Meta Moderation changes, focusing on the signaling that they're fine with hatred around LGBTQ issues the very same week it was revealed they were suppressing LGBTQ content in search www.techdirt.com/2025/01/09/m...

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I appreciate your patience as I set this up.

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