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But that’s an aspect of the fedi that remains glaringly anti-Black.

Despite the mountains of evidence that shows Black folks specifically being run out of this space, the brave souls that remain here are expected to be unendingly polite and respectful of people and communities that have never given that same consideration.

For some magical reason, Black folks are expected to bear up under the hate, harassment and abuse and give bigots opportunity after opportunity to attack our spaces unprovoked.

That expectation is not applied to any other community or space in the fedi. A bigot can harass someone for weeks and simply apologize for having a bad day and it’s accepted.

Meanwhile, Black folks are demonized for standing their ground against hate and not allowing it to go unchecked.

You don’t get a gold star for defending harassers. There is no righteousness in allowing hateful people to continue abuse people for no reason.

If your alleged progressiveness includes giving people space to continue harm, then you’re just an accomplice for hate masquerading as something you are not.

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Queer people styling themselves as punk turned out to care more about the pronouns of serial racist harassers and antisemites.It is a shame. I almost thought I'd met white queers online who could be normal about shit.

I swear to G-d even if fucking David Duke had non-default pronouns these people would be advocating for his ass. Willingness to overlook everything in the name of a single 'cause' ain't intersectional y'all...

Do they not have tech.lgbt blocked already? Do they just not care with wave after wave of reports?

I think some people just want a channer-lite culture on here and not much else. Just enough backbone to block alt-fedi, but anything disguising itself as a 'inclusive queer space' that just happens to be all white and harboring antisemites and racists anyways is seen as just fine. If you complain about it, you get a shot in the back from the BLM in bio 'queer punks'. All the words of support shown to be hollow over the course of 24 hours or less. No wonder black fedi is so fucking jaded. You did your 80th callout post against some dipshit deserving of no respect slightly wrong! Get defederated! Fucking hell...

The means-testing of intersectionality is fucking REAL. 🤮

New Yorkers have been protesting the police shooting by hopping the turnstyles at subway stations and chanting "fuck the NYPD".

#nypd #nyc #DerellMickles #F12

I intend to press criminal charges and file a civil lawsuit against the assailant and accomplices, which will require significant funding for legal fees. I am also fundraising to help cover the costs of lost work during recovery, hiring additional help with my child, and the extensive time that will go into this battle. All of your support will help me continue my vital work as a local activist, and ensure that a violent act of modern-day racism does not go unanswered.

chuffed.org/project/114004-sup

We serve incarcerated readers in 35 US states. We don't send books to people in Wisconsin, because people there have long been served by Wisconsin Books to Prisoners (WBTP).

Unfortunately, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections has banned WBTP from sending books to people in their custody. With ironic timing, they announced this just a few weeks before Prison Banned Books Week!

Learn more at wisconsinbookstoprisoners.org/ (Scroll down to "News & Events")

#BooksNotBans
#PrisonBannedBooksWeek
#Books

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Who would you kiss sloppy-style at ground zero?
:gwbush: 💬

Remember "Oxygen Bars"? My household does. We searched it up, and they are re-emerging in the suburbs in the Chicago area. These things used to be in malls everywhere before the respiratory virus pandemic hit. It seems the subrubanites really need that kick of sharing the respiratory equipment during a contagion to start their day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_b

The new thing seems to be sharing an IV instead of a cannula. I bet the het white suburbanites are still gonna talk shit about gays and addicts " sharing needles" though 🙄

help me identify this cactus 

for reasons, i developed a kind of hyperfixation on plants around half a year ago. as such, i'd like to take better care of this cactus i was gifted in 2017 or so.

the only love i gave it so far was a bit of water whenever it occurred to me that plants do in fact need that to live, which was every couple of months. can any of you botany enthusiasts out there tell me what species this is? also, why is one of the branches so brown and shriveled? should i repot it and, if yes, what pot size and substrate? feel free to infodump, i'd love to learn! :3

The Editor in Chief of a prestigious political magazine used the N-word on live TV yesterday to refer to Haitian immigrants, and somehow it's not even a blip in the national news cycle.

But there are like 5,000 stories about new Apple Watch features.

What even is happening.

im normal about magical girls being dark side corrupted. i'm not weird about it, don't worry.

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So many ppl I know have been badly affected by this attack. None of them have anything to do with Hezbollah. They’re in fact all anti-Hezbollah. Not that this ever mattered to Israel.

A close friend’s sister almost died just bcs some Hezbollah dude was near her and his pager blew up

#Lebanon #pagers #Hezbollah

Last year the NYPD spent $150 Million to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They collectively owed just $104,000 in fares.

Instead of funding cops to shoot people, why not use the money to make public transport free for people who can't afford it?

hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent

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