lavaturtle @lavaturtle@sunbeam.city

LB

gripe: they need to include ABA in that, from what I'm hearing. (which can include forced gender complicance, apparently).

that's based off of something in a book, haven't traced it down online yet.

still, good news

I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.

You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.

But the science is sound.

This: https://mastodon.social/@hntooter/100296054464714193

Is one of the reasons I am completely against attempts to try and get payment processors to cut off service to various people, groups, or industries. It is, as far as I am concerned, simply not a thing payment processors should be legally allowed to do.

RT @GabrielCGentile@twitter.com: "Whatever happened to #civility?"
"You labeled it #politicalcorrectness and decided it was something bad."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GabrielCGentile/status/1011710349848952832

In the #NY14 democratic primary, Democratic Socialist and Latina Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat out incumbent establishment Democrat Joe Crowley, while running an outsider campaign that included calls to abolish ICE months before the family separation crisis.

Not only did she win, she won in a landslide (Up ~15% near the end) against a 10-term incumbent with deep pockets. Now she's running for House in a deeply blue district.

tired: gender binary
wired: building gender from source

It's almost like it's difficult to morally support the existence of modern nation states if you firmly believe that all children deserve an equal opportunity to grow up happy

An open letter to a number of local businesses and organizations:

Please the only reason I ever visit your site is to check your hours why do you make them so hard to find

When I tell people to stop repeatedly denigrating Trump as 'fat', it is not out of concern for Trump.

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS LIKE LIBRARIES OR HOSPITALS GENERATE A SENSE OF COMMONALITY, COMMUNITY AND MUTUAL NEED AND ARE ONE OF THE LAST FEW BONDS OF BELONGING IN A SOCIETY WHERE PEOPLE ARE NOW ALMOST TOTALLY ATOMISED AND ISOLATED FROM EACHOTHER AS WORKER-CONSUMERS (WHICH IS A HUGE REASON WHY EVERYTHING IS TURNING TO HELL)

PRIVATISATION AND PROFIT ARE DESTROYING COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES, NOT GAYS OR IMMIGRANTS OR FEMINISTS

"move fast and break things"
"pet cats and bake things"

@gingerrroot I think the tone is the thing I take issue with, more than the method.

Intentionally bypassing the methods in place to help people deal with surviving on social media because the author has decided it is important rubs me the wrong way.

If you start a toot with "I'm not adding a CW because I think this is important" then I may think it is important to block your ass.

You don't get to decide what topics people can or can't deal with.

libraries are such an important space

not only for free information, but especially for at risk populations and homeless populations

they offer free or very cheap internet access (which allows for finding resoucres, job applications, etc), free access to information, bathrooms, often places have refreshments for relatively cheap as well, etc. etc.

wanting to make public libraries obsolete is classist and just an incorrect viewpoint tbh

FFS can people stop putting all community information on goddamned facebook??!

Friendly reminder that the original Pride was a riot started by a black trans woman who threw a brick at cops. Never forget Stonewall.