Mike Burns @mikeburns@octodon.social

@bvtsang Yeah, I'm with @zigg on this one, as I just mentioned to someone else (copy/paste ahead): I feel like I honestly read *more* toots with CWs than I do those without, because it's a time saver! "Ooooh, I like dogs! I like selfies! I feel like reading about assistive tech today! I'm in the headspace to handle being angry about homophobia!" Otherwise, I generally scroll past if it's more than a single sentence, if I'm honest.

Stop getting your news from white dudes, it's making you less informed.

TEEN VOGUE REALLY OUT HERE INTRODUCING KARL MARX AND COMMUNISM TO ITS READERS

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-is-karl-marx

“However, in a Marxist revolution, the proletariat will come together to overthrow the bourgeoisie and ultimately, win the class conflict by taking control over their work, or striking. And if such a revolution occured in Brunt’s classroom, his students would overthrow him as a teacher — and the principal, the superintendent, and so on.”

If white people worried about the inherent racism in their communities as much as they worried about not being able to say nigga, America would be a very different place.

So with all these news stories about racist WW calling the cops on Black ppl over some bullshit...I think now is a good time to remind people about the book "Beyond the Pale: White women, racism and history"

It's from a British historical context that still informs how WW in America are complicit in upholding white supremacy. There is also an article by Olivia A Cole that would be a good read:
https://oliviaacole.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/while-wearing-their-pretty-dresses-they-ruined-lives-12-years-a-slave-and-the-role-of-white-women-in-american-slavery/

My son was asked to make a model of the solar system, so we did. It took 7 miles to make a scale model. We measured in relation to the sun being 2m. wide in the middle of his playground & found objects the right diameter for each planet and took photos of them the right distance away. Walking this gave some semblance of scale. The distances and diameters of each object-planet are under the cards.

This homework was fun for parents too. It was based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4524AAZdE #smallstories

Just as important as destroying the material frameworks of capital is the ideological and affective task of allowing our revolutionary political assemblage to unlearn all our past ways of living, from those instilled under capitalism toward a truly communist alternative.

public domain police pig emoji

The latest Steven Universe episodes appear to have hit the net, in 720p:

Can't Go Back:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6j2k4q

A Single Pale Rose:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6j2k5o

#StevenUniverse

Hello. I've just set a up a new instance that will (hopefully) be focused on the #solarpunk and sp-adjacent movements. This includes...

#Ecology
Social #Anarchism + #Anticapitalism
#Intersectionality

..amongst other things. Registration is open and I would love for you to join! Although I don't plan on the server growing very much, I think it will provide a much-needed niche for the Fediverse. Feedback is welcome.

PS I'll still be active on the other instances I frequent.

I think we should all just adopt that saying Sir or Ma'am to someone is incredibly rude in any context.

here, we commonly use short hand for cws!
here's some common ones:
"-" means negativity
"+" means positivity
"~" means a neutral level of negativity or positivity, or that the poster is unsure
"mh" means mental health!
"pda" means public display of affection
"birdsite" means twitter
that should be most of them, feel free to reply if you know any other ones!