Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin. -Kurt Vonnegut Finnish/Swedish Laplander, writer, vagabond, science, atheism, and books. I escaped a cult at age 17. Running ever since. #NewOrleans #NewCastle #India
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Last Notes npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Protesting #Mastodon Blacklisting women. #shadowban @LALegault is also shadowbanned. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/083/471/385/499/102/original/d70369e718db8795.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/083/471/949/131/927/original/43464ddb95528884.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/083/472/577/983/412/original/fc47592e0fd16b6e.png npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand It's the easiest thing in the world to hate women. Thinking you're special is the most common human trait. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1ks4…x88p To where? Again? I've been running my whole life. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Shere Hite said, whenever a male you feel like a like a stereotype, unlike yourself, or invokes deep resentment; "Spend 3 days alone, surrounded by what you love." Remember. You are not what they think, what they imagine. They see only themselves. Petty, small, pretenders. Killing what they are not. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt24078380/ npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Don't get too comfortable here on Mastodon. They'll come for you too. The whiners have arrived from Twitter and they can get anyone shadowbanned. Anyone, anywhere. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Fuck these fake ass liars. Mastodon totally blacklists women. Just like Elon Musk. Petty lil tyrant bitches. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/062/443/727/976/826/original/d598ee84c39462d1.png npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Happy women's day! Mastodon blacked me out. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/062/318/357/834/658/original/61558bff778e453e.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/062/318/927/672/638/original/9677f870c5a9209b.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Mastodon blacked me out for women's day. They are cutting me off from hashtag searches. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/062/315/554/530/108/original/1823513a846a9825.png npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand 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 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/062/209/807/378/839/original/632370c90677033d.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand 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. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1lgy…aefg Yes, I fell off the back of a donkey in Jordan. I was looking up so hard I somersaulted off! #petra npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand The “Tunnel of light” in Petra, Jordan. It is the ancient main entrance leading to the city of Petra, starts from the Dam and ends at the Treasury. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/061/133/648/864/136/original/e98becd89930271c.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Ancient Iranian Home. Still occupied. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/061/107/683/369/259/original/751eec6c99bf0ac7.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Venus of Brassempouy, oldest known human face, carved in mammoth ivory over 25,000 years ago. #internationalwomensday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/061/096/334/587/727/original/af67147e192afc38.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/061/053/740/411/982/original/45f1bc78a850bf72.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Happy International Women's Day! No women's liberation without class struggle, no class struggle without women's liberation! #internationalwomensday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/060/747/670/102/954/original/1ff2028b5c8a990c.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/060/747/677/759/464/original/e896fc9b79586d3d.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/060/747/672/440/968/original/1efbcec2c8da9cf0.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/060/747/697/391/679/original/6fd831f29a056c4e.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand This is almost 50 years old. International Women's Day. #internationalwomensday https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/060/617/038/478/423/original/d5a102534b7f7dfe.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1su4…a0dw Wasting earth's resources procured by slavery for bullshilt walled gardens that ca never be repaired. #PlannedObsolescence npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub132h…f594 Smash that overpriced idol Warren! npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand “Once, there were witches. No. There were never witches. Not in the way men said, anyway…” “It became a major public project to humiliate and subjugate women, or to get women and girls to testify against their accused mothers and then stand at the front as they were executed.” -Rock The Slut Vote https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/049/564/839/946/857/original/8c6203b8100baed2.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand #IDF terrorists celebrate the destruction of Gaza’s nonprofit Society for #Deaf Children. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/046/483/048/073/653/original/0a9b75381871fdcc.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/046/483/063/112/680/original/070a5722c0f02a26.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1mmf…eknq Ah, this is a German server. Have to get off. Wrong side of the Genocide line. And too many Americans. What's a good server? npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1mmf…eknq Some man dick just flagged me for "Nazi Content" Sad little men. That is a problem on this site. We are allowed on here, but only to entertain them. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1sfh…9gqj Swiss banks hold all the Russian oligarchs money. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1yuj…4axc Someday you'll be disabled too and you'll understand what connection means. I wish you a long and happy life. Good bye! npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand When is the final election? For how long do we have to listen to these two sides of the same coin praise their Dear Leader? npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1cus…6789 How old are you? npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1yuj…4axc Not here buddy boy. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1yuj…4axc it's still down in Europe. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1yuj…4axc Because our families and friends are sick and dying. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1cus…6789 Who? The women who stopped the cops bombing the hostages in Sweden? Don't believe copaganda. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1cus…6789 No. Most fight for justice for others or kill themselves. I know 10 suicides. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1cus…6789 Except Stockholm syndrome does not exist. It was coined by cops who couldn't bully some women during a heist. Leaving a clut is not fear of what's outside. Its terror of losing community, of thinking "bad" thoughts. Things you're not allowed to think about much much less say out loud. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1trd…ussx Someday your American bubble will burst. You're the terrorists. Always have been. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1cus…6789 It's called brainwashing. The fear of leaving the #cult "Why didn't she just leave?" Know you know. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Vote harder suckers! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/045/795/428/854/233/original/8e5be41347662454.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/045/764/863/819/494/original/ff129c7674c6fa5d.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Mossad caught trying to set up an "Islamist" terrorist attack in Turkey https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-790263#790263 npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Instagram is back, but FB says I cant log in to FB because WhatsApp can't receive codes. Disclaimer, I don't post on FB, it's just the only way to reach my dying mother. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/045/536/414/402/226/original/5c7e0d4033b35af6.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1rn4…gy2y https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/045/478/334/855/036/original/07b3e6745d87594c.png npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Palestinians ‘beaten and sexually assaulted’ at Israeli detention centres, UN report claims “Methods of ill-treatment reported included physical beatings, forced stress positions for extended periods of time, threats of harm to detainees and their families, attacks by dogs, insults to personal dignity and humiliation such as being made to act like animals or getting urinated on, use of loud music and noises, deprivation of water, food, sleep and toilets." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/05/gazan-detainees-beaten-and-sexually-assaulted-at-israeli-detention-centres-un-report-claims npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1s5q…4t4w Mossad caught trying to set up an "Islamist" terrorist attack in Turkey https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-790263#790263 npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Remembering Lucy Found on the ground. She ate so much, we went for walks, the children would stare at the loud nightingale on my shoulder. One day she flew away. Love you Lucy! #iceland #photography #birdphotography https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/044/752/617/150/699/original/605abebd9f3d49db.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/044/752/632/965/489/original/6ed84683e472b9d4.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/044/758/033/850/363/original/46a91e0542f9fbc6.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/044/758/037/364/583/original/77c51e0d171a2fc3.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub18lj…80hq But seriously. The observer effect. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/044/660/998/625/076/original/b0c3fc2141a7faa0.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand This song popped into my mind when the internet went down. "Its a dirty Job But Someone's Gotta Do It" But can't for the life of me find the lyrics. Google would not let me go to the song either, it would ONLY go to Bonnie Tyler. Which has a different title. What is going on? It's like wrestling a serpent. Are we fighting some kind of #AI ? Why does it feel like it is pushing back? Over something so stupid. I mean, I am STUBBORN!! I know it exists. Aarrgghh! https://youtu.be/KcjDw4M7LGE?si=zhO0_u4SmAWz_6GB npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1tel…4v4v Solar Movies is fine. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1tel…4v4v I hope Wall Street goes down. I hope the Iron Dome and The Gospel go down. I hope the banks go down. I hope the Pentagon goes dark. Why are hackers attacking dumb shit when there are still billionaires? npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand UK to Expand Extremism Definition "Organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain and protest groups such as #Palestine Action are among those that could be affected by the non-statutory move to block groups from funding or accessing venues if they are regarded as promoting an ideology that undermines “British values”. - Guardian https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/043/957/375/758/588/original/474049f72312f77c.mp4 npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Gullliani's new venue. Photo by Ivan Pope https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/043/743/031/704/599/original/d9c1df71155e47a5.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub132h…f594 Zionist trash. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand As people come over from Twitter, I'm having to block people trying to stir up hate campaigns about people they don't like. This isn't high school. Don't follow that person. Mute them. But starting gossip groups and shit bonding over someone you dislike is a disgusting trait. Especially when you do it against a woman. Warning people off and starting a mob to get them kicked off. The worst aspect of humanity. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub132h…f594 “I’ve never been supportive of, you know, ‘It’s my body, I can do what I want with it,'” Biden added, for quite literally no reason. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1u3t…c6ug Vote harder! Lol. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub132h…f594 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/039/945/332/115/061/original/33cc55f9576dc815.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub132h…f594 wasteful corporate trash. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub12ld…d8ag obsolete hardware, solar flare, EMP. Most people can't even build a radio by themselves. Eventually we could rebuild our tech, but... npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub12ld…d8ag I did warn people when this all started that it could lead to a "dark age". Where people in the future might not have access to our time because nothing was physically stored. A hole in history. They laughed and laughed. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub12ld…d8ag I should start a blog for my rants. So no one can delete them. Seems they can delete anything now. Back to pen and paper. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Stop telling people what to do. It does not work. Stop telling me what to say. I'll say the opposite. I grew up in a fucking #cult You sound EXACTLY like them! Watch your own damn mouth, not everybody else's. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand How do some people get longer posts? I'm always one or two characters short. Threads don't always connect. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1grx…uxfe https://abdelmoumenchouichi.medium.com/bertrand-russells-last-message-israel-palestine-war-694eb7a7a99e npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Victorian children's books went hard. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/032/874/694/919/591/original/0f18fc533271e33c.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/032/876/656/345/721/original/1f78e654aa1a0b6f.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/032/877/312/677/038/original/4be5a0641d55ac34.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/032/877/887/208/382/original/b9610d73041fecbe.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1t7d…pqpp Hello from the North Sea! #catsofmastodon https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/031/844/186/347/107/original/b8f8730b2f638282.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1hjn…vfr7 Nope. He is paying for it. Those bombs are AMERICAN. He vetoed a ceasefire 3 times. He has been a Zionist for 30 years. I will not repeat myself or argue over this. You should know. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand It's a bit sad when people block you for a post without even looking at your bio. Liberals on Twitter are so used to trolls that they continue playing whack-a-troll in here. Not really understanding that some threads are people learning & collaborating. Being free to discuss, even criticise Biden, as a way of understanding solutions to the fuckery facing us. I get these "Fuck you Russian troll!" messages, then the account dissappear. I hate Putin just as much as they do. I also hate genocide. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand This is the way https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/030/280/647/019/553/original/05d34a4322ed1ea5.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1mmf…eknq This is nasty. Pure inhumanity. O m g! npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Yeah. No! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/029/401/011/735/163/original/d21e945015ea07c1.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1nn8…8sed https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/029/312/741/756/767/original/aa8d945f3e3273c6.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand St. James Infirmary by New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band King Britt Jimmy Tancill TancoToons https://youtu.be/XN8SR96pAiQ?si=7KbCeWtsJYhMbvNb npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand "Few could capture emotion like American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1865). Here with one of her most famous photographs - "Migrant Mother" from 1936 "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California." -David Sandum David is the author of "I’ll Run Till the Sun Goes Down: A Memoir About Depression & Discovering Art." Also a long time friend of mine. https://www.davidsandum.com/book https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/029/129/936/871/094/original/c0059321520b4717.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand The ingredient list for the human body. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/029/087/290/176/668/original/9e2cecef7ed246ba.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Learn about Goldman and more women in history here: http://bit.ly/1DHO3Ds "When Emma Goldman Entered the Room: Dealing with the unexpected in a role play" by Brian Gibbs: https://rethinkingschools.org/archive/ Above Image: UC Berkeley npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Emma Goldman, U.S. anarchist, feminist, compelling advocate of free speech, the eight-hour work day, and birth control, was arrested in New York City on Feb. 11, 1916, just prior to giving another public lecture on family planning. She was charged with violating the Comstock Act, an 1873 statute banning transportation of "obscene" matter through the mails or across state lines. At the time, federal courts interpreted the statute as prohibiting distribution of contraception information. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/029/025/476/777/228/original/6cc2a029fceb9f69.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand “The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz and Terrified the FBI https://www.narratively.com/p/native-radio-alcatraz-fbi (paywalled) https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/radio-free-alcatraz/ Original cassete tape cover via https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/series-list/Radio%20free%20Alcatraz I've listened to some, so it must be online somewhere... hmm https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/028/639/613/651/089/original/df1b863ad4166f7e.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand "People are most susceptible to conspiracy theories when they don’t feel they have any agency or influence over their lives." Sefton Delmer worked to push Nazi propaganda “one step further into the ridiculous” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand FINALLY The US confirms that it has airdropped 38,000 meals to Gaza in coordination with Jordan, but experts say the aid does not make up for Israeli restrictions on the transfer of food into the enclave via land crossings. HOWEVER At least 11 killed and 50 wounded after Israeli air attack on a tent housing displaced people next to the entrance of a hospital in Rafah City, the Health Ministry says. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/2/israels-war-on-gaza-live-un-medics-say-many-gaza-aid-attack-victims-shot npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Kingfisher catching a fish underwater. Photo: ChazDoge #photography https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/026/919/355/058/032/original/8405427f2c286324.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand "The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed." -Ernest Hemmingway #quotes #AaronBushnell https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/019/766/041/717/067/original/5408e29ddd5d31ca.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1gtt…dvp6 did it work? npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1g53…v0hh Iceland has 12 Santas, a child eating cat and their monster mother Grylla. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand In his celebrated little book On Liberty, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in "its collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/018/498/450/819/913/original/0b9012a03ed87413.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand One of the greatest wonders of the world is the fortress of Mount Shaqroof in #yemen https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/018/460/777/306/726/original/e6c5728075df7842.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand More than a hundred Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Thursday morning, when desperate crowds gathered around aid trucks and Israeli troops opened fire on them. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/more-than-a-hundred-dead-after-israeli-troops-opened-fire-near-aid-trucks-say-gaza-officials npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand The Jazz and the TikTok https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/018/286/967/014/328/original/6a0c259ed8067318.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Alfred Rethel, Death the Strangler - The First Outbreak of Cholera at a Masked Ball in Paris, 1831; 1851 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/018/279/420/249/709/original/8fd92435de743eab.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Pearl Kendrick, Loney Gordon and Grace Eldering studied pertussis in the 1930s. They developed and ran the first large scale study of a successful vaccine for the disease. The first vaccine against pertussis was developed in the 1930s by pediatrician Leila Denmark. #women #science https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/017/922/568/698/733/original/b6e54a5fbfcb5378.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand February 26th 1996, 28 years ago, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released Henry Lee, a duet featuring PJ Harvey. From 1996 to 1997, following their musical collaborations, Harvey had a relationship with Nick Cave, and their break-up influenced Cave's follow-up studio album The Boatman's Call (1997), with songs such as ‘Into My Arms’, ‘West Country Girl’ and ‘Black Hair’ being written specifically about her. #nickcave https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/017/176/283/855/713/original/9c0b702d3f3cb754.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand “Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory. Only when we forget what we were taught do we start to have real knowledge.” —Henry David Thoreau npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Imperial feminism. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/976/379/528/865/880/original/c7fd014a5aadf11e.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1cus…6789 it's still there. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Israel grants gas exploration license in areas considered to be within Palestine's maritime boundary Israeli government grants licenses to six Israeli and international companies to explore for natural gas in areas recognized under international law as Palestinian maritime areas https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-grants-gas-exploration-license-in-areas-considered-to-be-within-palestines-maritime-boundary/3138367 npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub1cus…6789 that sounds great! After 2 years alone it would be great to have support. People can be cruel. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/939/511/868/176/380/original/e04b9fae05fcc718.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Meanwhile, on Twitter.... https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/939/359/964/740/953/original/fd8604b9ff5ba77e.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/939/359/971/280/026/original/045a25175d4bd6d6.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand @npub132h…f594 While moving to Texas to avoid regulations. npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand Oh noe! #catsofmastodon https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/938/403/192/458/140/original/5e2d8ae498012915.jpg npub1e2gewj5fp8ec52mkevkaga6xf0lul9m4kzazudm94vf4enc7gz2qdrdxrs RustyBertrand https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/937/033/768/304/971/original/2b6f05ea7c03036b.jpg