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Too many to count, so I'll just link to the tag on my Mastodon server:

https://mas.to/tags/HandsOff


Total attendance at the #protests now estimated by Alt National Park Service at 2.3 million people, with some events on the West Coast still to begin.
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Watch the moment Cory Booker ended his record 25-hour Senate speech

When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear;
so do people’s faults when they speak.

The furnace tests the potter’s vessels;
the test of a person is in conversation.

The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had;
so speech discloses the bent of a person’s heart.

Praise no one before he speaks,
for it is then that people are tested.
Sirach 27:4-7

A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles. A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
Luke 6: 43-45

ETA:

So, I fell into the rabbit hole of Kendrick Lamar's superbowl halftime show. (Disclaimer: I have never watched the superbowl - or the halftime show - ever before, and could not have named a single Lamar song before this. My interest is cultural rather than musical.)

That said, I have watched a number of Josh Johnson sets about the Lamar and Drake feud, so I had some background knowledge. However the performance itself turned out to be this dense and complex thing, full of symbolism, and well. That's my jam. ^_^

ETA: Outside the cut. Here is Josh Johnson talking about Kendrick, where he came from and why he does what he does. As always, starts as a fun set and then... digs into stuff far deeper than you would expect:




( Videos under the cut )

Now the thing is that Kendrick Lamar is obviously coming from this from within his own culture, the struggle of his own community. And I think this is why it resonates? If you speak your own truth, others will recognise it.

And I think all of it ties in with this Black History Month thread about The Black Panthers.

Snippet:

To this day, if you find a white trades person over the age of 50, and ask them what "It's not race, it's class" means, many can tell you. If you ask them "Who is Fred Hampton" many can tell you. If you ask them what a "rainbow coalition" was, many can tell you.

Why does an old, white, union steel worker in Detroit know who Fred Hampton is?

'They not like us' the whole stadium chanted with Trump right there.

If you want an anthem against the oligarchs and the 1%, there it is.

Under a cut, I realised that some people need to get away from it all. 🫂 Take care of yourselves.

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Outside of the cut, because we need good news also:

Tumblr link: JD Vance managed to fuck up theology so badly that the fucking pope had to issue a statement saying he got it wrong

(Read the whole thread. <3)

ETA: Direct link to the Pope's letter:
Lettera del Santo Padre ai Vescovi degli Stati Uniti d’America, 11.02.2025

The parents have been visiting for the past week (it was my mother's 75th on Sunday), so I have barely looked at the internet for... days.


A few things/random links:

Kerk wrote fic (200 word/double-drabble):

Fics for 2025 # 001 ~ Chasing Cars (written for Halfamoon)
FANDOM: GL's / Kdramas

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UK Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations

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Washington Post (article from 2017 - back when they still had a spine): The 12 Early Warning Signs of Fascism
Guess how many Trump has already checked off.

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Is Somebody Doing Something?!
Yes. Let me break it down for you.
(Substack link, sorry 🙁)

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Came across this on a friend's DW (and am now subscribed)

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg linked to this in her 3rd of Feb post:

Who Goes Nazi?
Famous Dorothy Thompson essay from 1941

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Al Jazeera: How Sudan and Palestine made it to the Super Bowl
The Sudanese and Palestinian people have made it clear they will not let systemic suppression silence them.

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I realised that I never posted here about posting Chapters 4 and 5 of In the Sight of Angels (and Ghosts), mine and promethia_tenk's Good Omens/Dead Boy Detectives cross-over.

(There were only supposed to be 5 chapters, but we split the last chapter because it became unwieldy...)

From Mastodon:

By popular demand, a single post to boost global switch day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025.


For those who can no longer get behind Musk or Meta's new policies and feel like switching (e.g. from #Whatsapp to #Signal, from #Instagram to #Pixelfed or from #X to #Mastodon) I made you some graphics to use freely in communicating with your contacts.

Let’s lead by example 🙂








And on that note, a few other useful guides:

How to permanently delete a Facebook account

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

The Cyber-Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint

"Trump and Melania show their unbridled passion for each other in celebration of their strong marriage"

Josh Johnson (not surprisingly) has an excellent, thoughtful and insightful take on the CEO shooting:



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Also UK residents, please sign this petition:

An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services