Notices by Muirén (muiren@sfba.social), page 2

In Finland, speeding fines are linked to salary. The Finns run a “day fine” system that is calculated on the basis of an offender’s daily disposable income – generally their daily salary divided by two. In 2002, a Nokia executive got a ticket of $103,000 for going 45 in a 30 zone. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/in-finland-speeding-tickets-are-linked-to-your-income/

Any recommendations for an active, politically progressive, online trans support group that isn't mostly a safe white space featuring one or two pick-me BIPOC who willingly serve as DEI beards?
#trans

Senate Democrats Do NOTHING About Corrupt Supreme Court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr4M8rce-oU

In the 1970s I was told by neoliberal keepers of the true faith that their oligarch meritocracy would not allow alternative sources of power, like solar, until they could sufficiently profit from sunlight.

This was leading up to the resurgent privatization of the common good, that morphed from sporadic bursts below the radar, to full on national campaigns during the Era of Reaganomics and Thatcherism.

Here we have a monologue where perfectly valid scientific progress appears virtually inconceivable outside the paradigm of oligarchic privatization.

How This Fusion Tech is Solving the Geothermal Energy Problem
#Science #Engineering #CriticalInfrastructure #Democratization vs #Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psyCWvavYt0

David Tennant Tells Transphobes To 'F**k Off': VIDEO - Comic Sands
#Trans #TransJoy
https://www.comicsands.com/david-tennant-transphobes-nonbinary-rant-2668189391.html

Where are the voices of Black, Indigenous, and other Parents of Color
Trans Kids Are Fighting for Their Rights in Texas
#Trans #ProtectTransKids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1gc8hTWEcg

more concerned with appearing racist, than actually being racist

polite white supremacy sounds like
"I don't see color." • "My best friend is Black." • "You are so intelligent." • "You're so well-spoken, articulate." • "All Lives Matter." • "Black on Black crime"
#BlackMastodon

I often meet people claiming to be Center or Left, including those of the LGBTQ+ engaging in racial gaslighting, promoting a distorted color-blindness that defends "whiteness"/

An American Ideal of Remedial Justice Hijacked by Social Regressives
#BlackMastodon #EqualJustice #EqualOpportunity #DEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCoG5mlwa74

Ghana’s parliament unanimously votes to criminalize LGBTQ+ identities & allyship. Legislators claim that homosexuality is a Western import, but that's a lie!
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/ghanas-parliament-votes-unanimously-to-criminalize-lgbtq-identities-allyship/

Every time somebody starts whining about hair or clothing styles, how long hair is or high or low pants re worn, this kind of thing immediately comes to mind.

Why did the Romans ban pants (trousers) in 397...399...& 416?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGtBqs7eoRA

Beyoncé and The Appropriation of Black Radicalism • Anansi’s Library
#BlackMastodon #CapitalistPredation #BlackRadicalAppropriation #BlackPuritanism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyuFxZRNWIM&t=168s

Most Black LGBTQ young people have experienced racism within the LGBTQ community and feel they are unable to trust white LGBTQ people, according to findings from a forthcoming report by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
#BlackMastodon #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #AbolishWhiteness
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/02/12/hrcs-forthcoming-2023-black-lgbtq-youth-report-finds-intersectional-challenges/

@atomicpoet I found the larger Fediverse deeply anti-Black, with most Queer instances warmly embracing aspirationally white model minorities, while being unwelcome spaces to Black Trans Women and Femmes just like their real life communities.

The exceptions being when a token is needed or a self-anointed community Black hero wants to project the illusion of our being one big happy rainbow family.

Maggot Brain • Funkadelic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xby5467EbdU&list=PLJfwklRIOOp0kajwFW7Lyo-Ofvb3GsoLI

Black Coder Trolls Critical Race Theory Tip Line Until It Quietly Shuts Down
#BlackMastodon #Blerds #BlerdsLoveToScience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1WVdcSolUU

I transitioned over 20 + years ago and a majority of attacks I’ve experienced for not conforming to gender norms have come from other, mostly white trans women.

Every mention of reverse discrimination, Black on Black violence, every denial of a racialized class hierarchy, every reframing of systemic racism as unrelated, isolated individual experiences, every insistence that color-blindness is the answer, every claim that discussion of race is itself is racist, have been expressed to me by hundreds if not thousands of trans and nonbinary people, both white (including white Latino) and Asian.

Calling Out TERRIBLE Liberal and Leftist Takes on Israel-Palestine (hbomberguy/Neil Druckmann)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0oolqyG2hk

A castle in Italy has braille etched in the railing that describes the view for blind people?