Notices by RustyBertrand (rustybertrand@mastodon.social)

@Gargron @jetton
Fake news.

"One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us."

- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

📷 Ulf Andersen

This is almost 50 years old.

International Women's Day.

#internationalwomensday

"Civilized man knows of hardly any other way of understanding things. Everybody, everything, has to have its label, its number, certificate, registration, classification. What is not classified is irregular, unpredictable, and dangerous... We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos."

-Alan Watts, The Wisdom Of Insecurity

I'm going to keep re-posting this until #Mastadon stops putting me on silent mode.

HAPPY WOMENS DAY!

Mastodon is putting all my posts in silent mode automatically. Check before you post.

@thanius
Maybe they lied. Like all the others.

@thanius
Only mutuals can see me, and I can't use hastags.

Mastodon.social is silencing women.

If you can see this and are not following me, please check my account.

This is set to public , but it shows up as quiet mode. Hashtag unsearchable.

HAPPY WOMENS DAY!

#internationalwomensday

@RickiTarr
But seriously. The observer effect.

Live Weapons Expo: Israel testing new #AI weapons on Palestinians

In its strikes in Gaza, Israel’s military has relied on an AI-enabled system called the Gospel to help determine targets, which have included schools, aid organization offices, places of worship, and medical facilities.
More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/israel-ai-warfare-gaza-00144491

@RealJournalism Biden is funding the war. Those are American bombs.

Be blind
I dont care. But do not pretend you don't know what you are doing.

Who YOU are killing.
NO FORGIVNESS.

Biden vetoed 3 ceasefires.

I'm on the other side of the line in the sand.

NO GENOCIDE.

One of the greatest wonders of the world is the fortress of Mount Shaqroof in #yemen

#startrek #maps

Dorothy Day with her prison dress. In November 1917, Day went to prison for being one of forty women in front of the White House protesting women's exclusion from the electorate. She's one of the reasons why you can #vote and a reminder that voting shouldn't be taken for granted.

"The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit."

-Richard Pryor

@selzero

We old, bold and full of mould.

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity...

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-WB Yeats

@black_flag @kcarruthers

1885: Unboxing the Statue of Liberty

“I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”

- Patrick Stewart