Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Congress passed the CROWN act that would prohibit employers from discriminating against natural Black hair in jobs.🙂 But of course, GOP Senators are blocking its passage.😑

In 2022 USA, hair as it grows naturally out of a white head can be considered "professional," but out of a Black head is "unprofessional."

The search queries include Black folk trying to figure out "You mean I can't get a job or get into college with unprofessional hair? But I just got a haircut? WTH is professional hair?"

Sandy Hook happened 10 years ago today. At the time, people said "how many more children have to die before we do something to stop the killing?"

The answer: 25,000

25,000 children killed by guns in America in the last decade.

And still virtually nothing has been done.

Look, if you’ve shouted into one abyss, you’ve shouted into them all.

In today's New York Times a Homeowner Association tried to force a Maryland couple with a native garden to change to a tidy lawn. The complaint was that their garden was "attracting rodents, deer, snakes and bats, and that they were planting shrubs and bushes in no particular order." Yes, in no particular order!

Legal proceedings ensued and there's now a state law forbidding homeowner associations from banning eco-friendly gardens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/climate/native-plants-lawns-homeowners.html

#biodiversity #gardens #urban #nature

Kids this is a reminder to collect physical copies of your favorite media. Corporations will axe your favorite show/movie/book in front of its family and make it a felony to retrieve it. Have a library.

I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo! Groups unceremoniously nuked every single LGBT mailing list overnight, leaving people completely untethered from communities they had relied on and loved. When that happened, we got angry at Yahoo. And yet when people flee from Twitter, anger is directed at those "defectors". Twitter is not a country, and we were not its citizens. It is a corporation. If Twitter is driving people away, it's Twitter's fault. It's not our job to fix it. #noxp

pov im going to dump you in a lake

@ami_angelwings Yuri is for everyone and can be by anyone and no one (not even me) should gatekeep media.

@ami_angelwings The idea of Kayfabe in Professional Wrestling needs to end. We all know it's fake, just treat it like any other show.

(forgetting the word "furry") oh yeah she's really into dogpunk

I think the Saturday Supercade writers had a huge task before them, worldbuilding for 8-bit arcade games

when did starship viewscreens replace hologram calls

Uncertain if this product is from France

The world is awash in a poisonous tide: the irrational, the hateful, the greedy, the venal. I vow to push against it, in my words and in my actions, in my thoughts and in my deeds. As long as some of us are willing to fight, as long as we stand together, this tide can be turned.

once I referred to ñ as 'you know, the catgirl squiggle' on a discord and three Hispanic friends spent the rest of the day clowning on me

Inspired by Mastodon, my partner and I have gotten boosted.