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Nothing is better than learning something interesting, except for maybe planning a new project.
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If you care about the way we interact with technology, and how it effects us, you should watch this. youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA?...

Humanity created a massive tool for social control and placed it in the hands of the worst people possible techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

Shop local, buy used, support local mutual aid societies, use a local credit union, join a community garden or farm co-op, switch to open source community built free software.

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

Only an idiot would think we should eliminate: - Emergency response in natural disasters - Education and healthcare for disabled children - Clean air and water programs - Gang crime investigations - Monitoring of nursing home abuse - Nuclear reactor regulation - Cancer research

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Today is Audre Lorde's birthday! A revolutionary poet, essayist and autobiographer, Lorde described herself as "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," her work is must-read for anyone passionate about liberation. www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

Iran in 1979. And then the religious zealots came to blame women for their erections. This can happen anywhere.

Today is the 155th anniversary of Esther Hobart Morris' appointment as Justice of the Peace, the first American woman to hold that office. www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia...

What happens over there happens over here. When America’s foreign policy is brutal, inhumane, a fascistic, America’s domestic policy will reflect that, too. Why? Because the same policy makers are setting the policy.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

MAGA Farmer wants us to “come together” now that he’s facing the consequences of his vote. “I didn’t read project 2025 because it was my understanding that wasn’t what he was running on” 🙃🐆 youtube.com/shorts/9LtSM...

Happy Susan B. Anthony Day!

Happy Martyred Priest who we associate with romantic love for some reason day!

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James Madison wrote of the necessity of the separation of powers: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

These words of Bill Mollison, the founder of permaculture, could not be more appropriate for this moment in history: "To accumulate wealth, power, or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state."

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. -Maximilien Robespierre youtu.be/hXICHhQ7r70?...