Will Murphy 🌹 @datatitian@social.coop

"We should delicately and subtly undermine the idea that truth and facts are possible in the first place. Once people have become doubtful about the truth of anything, all kinds of things are open to us."
I am so impressed with how Pullman has, with the 20 year gap since the Golden Compass / #HisDarkMaterials, seamlessly updated the themes of his work to deal with today's pressing issues in The Secret Commonwealth.
@books

Oh wow it's a video of the origin of the quote in my bio. I had no idea this existed. Thanks, @ike. What a treasure she was and will always be.
https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk

Bus gang upping their propaganda game

Frederick Douglass, 1883

Live theater plus #vr? Yes, please
https://voicesofvr.com/924-tender-claws-live-immersive-theater-show-tempest-creates-a-new-fusion-of-vr-storytelling/
@vr

This is what we in the states call "a well regulated militia"

Do we have any members in these congressional districts? The house is planning an antitrust hearing including FB, and I've often pondered whether we might be uniquely positioned with standing to press an antitrust case against the social media giants for coordinated refusal to implement W3C standards & federate with us. #socialcoop @SocialCoop

https://www.8toabolition.com/

We believe in a world where there are zero police murders because there are zero police

@bucksgt fixed link https://orb.farm/

@bucksgt have you seen orb.farm? An addictive simulation like this could be a good immer project

@Leftists Ok this seems to be working. I'd received a report that this group wasn't functioning. Seems ok after a server restart. Let me know if there's any more trouble

@GuppeGroups SSL cert renewed. Sorry 😬
Also, I'd had some reports of groups not working and they seem to be functioning now; however a Mastodon patch changed behavior for Group type actors so you no longer see the boost of your own posts in your notifications or TL, so it may seem like it's not working even though it is delivering your messages

Buffalo PD shove an elderly man to the ground and step over him while he bleeds from his ear

Cop forces a stick into a protester's hand while he is restrained and then proceeds to beat that protestor for holding a stick

Sorry my feed is quite brutal. Using it as a safe place to upload & share videos that don't last long on the corporate platforms

Collection of unprovoked police violence via NowThis