zx3 @zx3@driveinsaturday.org

#Library #Libraries #Books #MoreThanBooks #Community

Know what the absence of racism would look like for Black folks?

Ordinary-ness.

Just life.
Ordinary life.

I think we deserve that.

Don't you?

#BHM
#AntiRacism

Here is the original inventor of rock and roll—and the steel guitar. Sister Rosetta Thorpe doesn’t get the credit—and she really should. Many of the rock and roll “inventors” need to pay their respects to her. Little Richard and Chuck Berry others owe a great deal to her. 🙏🏿

#BlackMastodon #SisterRosettaTharpe #BlackFriday

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."

Ursula K. Le Guin

The skyline above the port was beautiful on fire
Uh, the sunsets were.
Purple and red and yellow and
tuned to a dead channel

🧵 For #BlackHistoryMonth I want to recognize contributions made by Black people to some of the things I care about. I'm gonna kick things off by shining the spotlight on #MikePondsmith, best known as the creator of the #Cyberpunk tabletop RPG. Pondsmith enjoyed playing traditional games as a kid, went to school for graphic design and behavioral psychology, and ended up working in publishing. [continued]

the Voight Kampf test scenes in Blade Runner, but instead it's just Harrison Ford like "please try to draw a woman with correct number of fingers or teeth."

We all want the same things.
Physical safety.
Economic safety.
Love.
Happiness.
Some of us just want it for other people too.

Black men deserve to grow old.

Is it too late to amend the whole “punch Nazis” directive? While less environmentally friendly, this just seems way more efficient:

Word on the tweets is that Ngo is coming to Mastodon, look out for suspicious new follows!

#antifascism #antifa #Fediverse #FediBlock

Make art. Anything. Just make life more beautiful. We need it.

On this day in 1945, Auschwitz was liberated. Today, the world marks International #HolocaustRemembranceDay.

We can say “never again” all we want, but only constant effort to defend universal human rights has a chance of making that ambition a reality.