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GhostOnTheHalfShell

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opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.

used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript (godot), gnawed on sql, sparql
embedded, ios, mac, *nix, & windows billions of years ago.

tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
enjoys using feet/limbs
prefers not to be run over by cars

I drink Philz.

I do a video or so a week on yt.

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Deglassco, to blackmastodon
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Born 99 years ago today, Shirley Chisholm knew she wasn’t going to win when she ran for president 48 years later in 1972. America wasn’t ready for her. But she was going to get it ready! The fiery former teacher wanted to redefine the realm of the possible and give a voice to those who were traditionally marginalized in the political process.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/400years/p/if-they-dont-give-you-a-seat-at-the?r=1pv9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Image: Mural, Shirley Chisholm State Park, Brooklyn NY

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

I remember he speaking. I miss her.

parismarx, to random
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Yesterday Elon Musk told advertisers to go fuck themselves and threatened to send his mob after them if they pull their ads from Twitter/X.

Over the years, he built a reality where he was a genius who could never be wrong. But as his fantasy collides with the real world, Musk is melting down — and has the power to make us all feel the pain as he crashes back to Earth.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-built-his-own-reality-now

#x

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@parismarx The rich are just as subject to folly as any of us, but have the money to inflict it on everyone.

georgetakei, to random
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Can we please stop giving billionaires the red carpet and allowing them to influence U.S. foreign policy or that of our allies? Things are precarious enough without opening the door to that.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@georgetakei

They are leeches on the economy, having soaked up most of the value of QE, the main reason their wealth exploded since covid and 2008.

protecttruth, to random
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WOW. This is about as close as one can get to saying “I reject Benjamin Netanyahu and his government” without saying it.

Good. Netanyahu is grimly opposed to a two-state solution, and also opposed to Biden/US Dems.
Hopefully this critique is just the beginning from Dem leaders.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@protecttruth

The two state solution was always a failed idea. The idea that Jews could find sanctuary only by carving out a homeland claiming territory simply embraces the idea that ethnic safety can only be won with a blood and soil nation. It embraces 19th century notions of scientific racism, which have almost entirely disappeared after WWII.

If people believe it, the Irish, Germans, Italians etc should repatriate and start fighting over historical borders in Europe. Have at it.

theautisticcoach, to actuallyautistic
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Anakin was and driven to Meltdowns & Shutdowns by the NT Jedi Order and driven to Burnout by Palpatine, capitalizing on his weakened nervous system.

Saved when in the end he could understand his own needs and begin to unmask. It was too much for him though.

@actuallyautistic

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@ginsterbusch @Susan60 @MishaVanMollusq @hosford42 @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

Somebody needs to convince him “sociopath” is the label all the cool kids are looking for.

shoq, to random
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I am really getting angry at my fellow Americans. We KNOW the role that Fox is playing in leading to the erasure of this democracy, and other than a few gestures from Media Matters and a few others, we are doing nothing about it. You want to save this country? Burn that faux news network to the ground. Make everyone working there fear that they will never work again if they don’t just walk out now. Enough is enough. You don’t cure cancers. You rip them out—or poison them.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@shoq They got sued… and are back at it.

TheConversationUS, to histodons
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85 years ago, Hitler set in motion the violent pogrom of Kristallnacht.

It represented the turning point where he decided extreme violence against Jews would no longer be left to the Nazi brownshirts. Rather, it would be wielded by the German government.
https://theconversation.com/kristallnacht-85-years-ago-marks-the-point-hitler-moved-from-an-emotional-antisemitism-to-a-systematic-antisemitism-of-laws-and-government-violence-213327
@histodons

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@TheConversationUS @histodons

Hard to resist comparison to current affairs.

Free_Press, to random
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Egypt is facing mounting pressure to open its gates to fleeing Palestinians.

“Of course we sympathize, but Egypt is already home to 9 million migrants. Safety must be achieved in a manner that doesn’t cost us much.”

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Free_Press

Israel can open its own damn borders.

but it won't.

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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In 1381, King Richard II said these words to the defeated leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt:

“You wretches detestable on land and sea: you who seek equality with lords are unworthy to live. Give this message to your colleagues: slaves you were, and slaves you are still; you will remain in bondage, not as before, but incomparably harsher. For as long as we live we will strive to suppress you, and your misery will be an example in the eyes of posterity.”

I appreciate it when elites are honest and straightforward about their intent, their contempt, and the system of privilege they fight to preserve.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@HeavenlyPossum

Also note he states they will HARM the economy to do so.

Their intent is not to function in a system that “optimizes prosperity” and all the other BS pillars of capitalism that have been demonstrated as false.

Whatever they claim as a benefit of markets and free exchange, is largely wrong, and the destroy markets, and destroy free exchange.

When they say capitalism is the best system. Shout back !

Peternimmo, to theology
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A new book on , 'The Great Dechurching', has a survey of “dechurched ”, of whom 68% said their played a role in their decision to stop attending . The top 5 issues:

  1. Emphasis on (14%)
  2. Lack of , , ,# kindness, and (14%)
  3. Inability to (14%)
    4.Inability to engage with other (13%)
  4. Attitudes or actions to (13%)
    https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/great-dechurching-whos-leaving-why-are-they-going-and-what-will-it-take-to-bring-them-back-jim-davis?variant=40244991197262
    @theologidons @theology
GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Peternimmo @theologidons @theology

There are many fault lines in conservative churches. The rejection of the Sermon on the mount as weak by conservative congregants and young adults quitting.

https://youtu.be/5Bo6rFjpIt

It’s contrasted by pastors like Ed Trevors or the efforts of Rev Bishop Barber. The latter is organizing to refute hate. I think all people (of faith) should join in.

We really need to a have you no shame moment when the people rise and repudiate hate.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Oozenet @Peternimmo @theologidons @theology

fixed. thank you for the heads up

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Peternimmo @theologidons @theology

I have to wonder how congregants drifted that way. If they came to the idea from what their pastors said, it’s quite the indictment of the latter. If it’s from social media, it’s an indictment of the community (some might think this sentiment is harsh, but it’s reality), but the megaphone of contempt is well funded. They started with greed is good and then made vilification (false witness) a business model. We’re all living in that world.

Deglassco, to blackmastodon
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The March on Washington was the product of a long and arduous journey. Each moment built upon the previous one, generating momentum and solidarity among civil rights activists. By the time the march occurred in 1963, it stood on the shoulders of decades of activism, struggle, and resilience.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

Rev Bishop Barber is working for a new movement much like this, the poor people’s march, 3rd reformation.

It is a movement to join up with. everyone. especially in the face of a rising tide of billionaires moving to seize control of the nation (project 2025). They are now speaking publicly that all billionaire organizations will work in unison to take control of the US if a republican gains the WH. Expect they will move state wise as well.

Deglassco, to blackmastodon
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60 years ago this week, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, delivered “I Had a Dream” at a seminal event in American history. The idea of a march of thousands of people united in the search for justice, equality, and equal opportunity percolated in the minds of organizers for decades. Years before Black Americans had been thinking and strategizing.

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@blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

Civil rights are human rights and a struggle against poverty. It’s disturbing that he was assassinated not long after voicing the idea that a fight against poverty of anyone was the true struggle.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@CheechakoChuckles @Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

lord and I am thinking this was from watching a direct attempt to try… 😂

MikeDunnAuthor, to bookstadon
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Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries.

The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

Michael Moorcock’s “A Nomad of the Time Streams” is a steampunk/alternative history novel where Makhno survives into the 1940s.

@bookstadon

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@MikeDunnAuthor @bookstadon

The hidden history of the USSR and IIRC China is their destruction of worker controlled resources, replacing them with party controlled communes, farms and factories. The popular idea today of socialism are authoritarian societies which is an oxymoron.

When there’s an autocrat or a hierarchy telling people now to organize, it’s authoritarianism. In this sense, rather than left v right, the proper eternal confrontation is authoritarianism v socialism.

AlexSanterne, to academicchatter
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I have the feeling that this paper is motivating even more to quit #X than all 's decisions over one year.

So many of my colleagues are now joining other social networks... 🤣

R.I.P. #X

"Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1692188707-1

@academicchatter

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@AlexSanterne @pieist @academicchatter

We’ll see. If sky drops blocking and especially when the Nazis flood in when Xitter unravels.

It is possible it stays afloat as a vanity project of bots all groveling before Musk

deborahh, to libraries
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Microfilm degrading? Yikes! :-(

"From the 1950s through the early 1990s, most film was cellulose acetate-based and known as "safety film," because it replaced the highly unstable and flammable nitrate film widely used before it.

But in the years since, libraries, archives and collectors have discovered "safety film" actually poses a huge threat to film-based archives and collections because it eventually breaks down. "

#history #libraries #librarydon @libraries
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/vinegar-syndrome-acetate-film-1.6939032

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@deborahh @libraries oh go and the cellulose film deteriorated into a toxic goo too. The worst place is or was the Pacific Film archive. As a state facility it was never subject to storage regulations for cellulose film

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@deborahh @libraries * nitrate film

Deglassco, (edited ) to blackmastodon
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In 1943, U.S. forces in Britain expected to export racial segregation. When white American Military Police (MPs) insisted a local pub segregate, the owner said he would. When MPs returned next day, they were met with “Blacks Only” signs & British barmaids telling white soldiers to wait their turn when they thiught they would be served before black soldiers. This set the stage for the epic Battle of Bamber Bridge.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

glad i wasn’t sipping beer. It’d be out through my nose and all over the couch.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@beecycling @Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

They were also told how to feel about people.

The choice of response is, as they say, absolutely brilliant.

Deglassco, to blackmastodon
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Paul Robeson’s courage in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee made him a symbol of resistance for subsequent generations of civil rights activists & dissenters, who saw in his actions a model of courage in the face of political intimidation. He stood firm for his beliefs, despite the significant cost, and pushed back against the violation of civil liberties.

https://youtu.be/VhnCrHZkgNk

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

oh lord, red scare times, right? modern witch hunt in every sense. the end of the first in a very real sense (gov suppression of political views).

the US never quite recovered.

Barros_heritage, to academicchatter
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FINDING CEREMONY FOR OUR ANCESTORS HELD IN PENN MUSEUM’S “MORTON CRANIAL COLLECTION” by Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad & Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro.

"Barely one year after we learned that the Penn Museum had the remains of two children murdered in the 1985 MOVE bombing, the University of Pennsylvania tried to quickly and quietly bury the remains of over a dozen other Black Philadelphians whose bones they had kept in the basement of the Penn Museum for decades. Recently, the museum acknowledged that their research showed they actually have the remains of 20 Black Philadelphians in the Morton Cranial Collection."

@academicchatter
@culturalheritage
@anthropology
@histodons

https://intersectionist.medium.com/finding-ceremony-for-our-ancestors-held-in-penn-museums-morton-cranial-collection-c7580a98064a

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Barros_heritage @academicchatter @culturalheritage @anthropology @histodons

Christ. WTF is wrong with people?

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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This is the kind of faith that never gets on corporate media anymore. I guess it sounds “preachy” to them

Dr Rev Bishop Barber working to end poverty.

Poverty 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S. as Calls Grow for Third Reconstruction: Bishop Barber

12 min video

https://youtu.be/Gn-ffCRWfgA

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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I wonder how the far right will react to a black preacher speaking about the white poverty as well.

This is important because it is moral, a common cause and goes straight after white racism.

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