Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith@mastodon.social

I’m very proud that California has ratified this kind and humane law. This is what a functioning government should do: create public goods and services that benefit every citizen, especially its most vulnerable.

https://abc7.com/california-free-lunches-school-lunch-food-access/12119010

This is a good piece about the importance of the bill: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/opinions/climate-victory-inflation-reduction-act-sobel/index.html

Right now is easily the most optimistic I have ever felt about our chances of mitigating climate change. (Not that I fee entirely optimistic, but, ya know, salty more so than just a few weeks ago.)

Two sections of the Espionage Act (different from the one in my first post in the thread, though) apply even to people who have legitimate access to classified information: https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1558176721970597891

You don't need to use other people's servers on Mastodon or the Fediverse. Anyone can set up their own server, even non-technical people. It's much easier than you think, and much cheaper too.

I run a website helping non-technical people create their own servers at https://growyourown.services and you can follow its account at @homegrown

There are many Fediverse server types you can set up without tech knowledge:

https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network

There's also an in-depth tutorial about making your own Mastodon server without tech knowledge, and most of it applies to any kind of Fediverse server:

https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server-in-10-steps

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SelfHosting

Terrible news about Salman Rushdie. This sword has been hanging over his head for so many years.

"We have decoded the latest missive from the Humans," Scrp'x said. "It appears to be a diplomatic commitment of loyalty."
Behind them, the gold plaque found on the Humans' first probe was shown.
"They undertake to never: give us up, let us down, or run around and desert us."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

Clara Immerwahr's husband developed chemical weapons during WWI.

She called his work a “perversion of the ideals of science.”

She shot herself at a party in his honor, and died in their son's arms.

The next day he left to oversee a gas attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Immerwahr

Skepticism came to a fork in the road: the high road involved taking a principled stand, while the low road led to self-aggrandizement & the IDW & fascism. Guess which path Michael Shermer took?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/08/12/shermers-brand-of-skepticism-rotten-to-the-core/

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
(IH: bit.ly/TeamDancingBug)
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God-Man, the Omnipotent Superhero, in "BOOK 'EM!!"
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Lie down with dogs…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/08/12/two-wackjobs-met-in-a-podcast/

Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser #deleteInstagram

https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook-can-track-anything-you-do-on-any-website-in-their-in-app-browser

in the fall, i think there are going to be states that vote to protect abortion but elect anti-abortion republicans anyways

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/09/abortion-michigan-midterms-ballot-measure
MASON, Mich. — Sitting next to …

But her emails.

So the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago for documents regarding NUKES?

Cool cool cool.

How the hell people still find it in their charred and shriveled souls to support this absolute traitor is beyond me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/