heh i grew up in this church

they said no thank you to illegitimate power at every turn and nearly got kicked out of methodism for it

looks like I can’t or I wouldn’t bug you in public, feel free to DM me though!

Yo! I have a Jim Varney problem and you may be the only person on the internet who can solve it. Is it okay to contact you somehow?

Hypersomnolent Franzbrot is going to sweep the triple crown

All of these stories are brilliant, but this one in particular makes me choke up every time

Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe

All of these stories are brilliant, but this one in particular makes me choke up every time

Language as a gift given to a child who may never know the world of rivers and flowers that language used to describe

When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?

When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards

this thread resonates a lot

Guest opinion: "Three years after the Normandale Park shooting, I have the uneasy feeling that my city has moved on, failing to absorb important lessons about its most expensive bureau."

The recently concluded Yoorrook Justice Commission found that the colonization of Victoria, which involved "massacres, disease, sexual violence, child removal, cultural erasure and linguicide," amounted to genocide. This thread provides the report's text on the loss of First Nations' languages.

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.

They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.

Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.

Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Okay. Once again we're doing this the harder way.
The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.

do not use the "make everything permanently worse for my entertainment" machine. do not use the "steal air from black people in tennessee" machine. do not use the "poison all information everywhere" machine. do not use the hallucinating machine. do not use the "dispossess the poor" machine.

pleasantly surprised at how much space and thought that article gave to the key points of 1) community ownership of language tech projects 2) risks of fraudulent/bullshit output 3) extraction and commodification of language 4) how limited the abilities of those tools currently are

"So yes, dead languages can absolutely be recovered, but to do it manually would cost huge amounts of time, money and resources."

IOW: "so yes, things can be done in a way that actually advance broader goals of decolonization, sovereignty & healing, but we don't wanna. magic bullet AI pweeze"

love it when a headline is a question that's very, very easy to answer:

NOPE

oh wait nvm just remembered our protagonist is also a cop, acab includes vikings (but I still enjoyed it)

I enjoyed the first season, a funny little Norwegian drama about immigration policy except it’s about time travel refugees and our protagonist is a reverse-isekai’d viking having to drive a toyota and pay bills and shit

this is kinda Beforeigners

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.