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gratefuldread
@gratefuldread@gratefuldread.masto.hostAdministrator of gratefuldread.masto.host, Fediverse instance of Grateful Dread Peace Media - Diverse Spectrum of the Left: aggregated LEFTIST news, arts, culture, activism, peace - always monitored #RevolutionaryLove - Natalie Davis, owner/editor
"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." — Eugene V. Debs
"Way too fine to be this stressed." -- Lizzo
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br00t4c
@br00t4c@mastodon.socialWoke Antifa Mobster. 24/7/365 stream of: news, salty commentary and vitriol from a mostly leftist/progressive perspective. News feed is my own custom, hippie-biased algo. Commentary is me. I try to answer in a somewhat timely manner but often fail, so... sorry. #fedi22 #news #resist #antifa #woke #politics #socialjustice #fbr #ifb #science #openscience #openaccess #opendata #reproducibility #opensource #foss #privacy #based
prismnpen
@prismnpen@stranger.socialAn online journal of compelling LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Calling on all readers and writers with LGBTQ+ flair to join us on
https://medium.com/prismnpen
#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #2SLGBTQ #2SLGBTQIA #Queer #QueerWriters #Writing #Storytelling
Susan_Larson_TN
@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.onlineFounder of Susan's Place Transgender Resources, the world's largest and one of the oldest #transgender support websites. I am a #PostOp #Trans #woman living her #AuthenticLife in #Tennessee. (She/Her)
wdlindsy
@wdlindsy@toad.socialInterested in building a better world and standing in solidarity with others who share that goal.
For biographical information, please see https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/109539508828689842
"Writing is the way I fight." ~ James Cone
jeffowski
@jeffowski@mastodon.worldCreative Analyst, Philosopher, Philanthropist, Humanist
JRBuckley
@JRBuckley@mastodon.coffeeUS Army Veteran, Retired IT Professional, and Apistevist. He/Him.
slcw
@slcw@newsie.social🌈 Just another #gay, #atheist, left-wing SocMed refugee from the Rocky Mountains. 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈 ⚛️👽
⚠️ I have ZERO tolerance for personal attacks, insults, ad hominems, or other expressions of incivility. If you can't separate the argument from the person making it, then we can't be friends.
🎯 Follow me... I post daily! 💯
#LGBTQ #Denver #cannabis #IT #politics #gunControl #transRights #atheism #humanism #popCulture #UFO #deepThoughts #dogs #cats #bigotsFuckOff #VoteBlue #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy
SteveThompson
@SteveThompson@mastodon.socialPhD. Rhetorics of terrorism, media, and AI. Taught at Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, UC Davis. Independent.
goldmanmill
@goldmanmill@gratefuldread.masto.hostFediverse instance for Goldman Mill, the Virtual Microstate of Peace (fictional country dedicated to peace, art, activism, & demsocialism is in a virtual RPG - https://Yoworld.com . It's free: join, search GOLDMAN MILL, tour more than 1000 sites that comprise our peace-focused island microstate.)
ttpphd
@ttpphd@mastodon.socialApplied and translational sensory scientist. Advocate for bodily autonomy. Nonbinary feminist killjoy.
Alt-text: me, a chubby faced white person with long dark brown curly hair, giving side eye behind some glasses.
Banner: a person in a denim jacket on a bike with a life sized plastic skeleton attached to the rear carrier.
JoshuaHolland
@JoshuaHolland@mastodon.socialI used to write for Moyers & Company, The Nation, Rolling Stone & elsewhere.
Now a dedicated dog dad, scuba diver and the host of We've Got Issues.
Subscribe! http://weve-got-issues.simplecast.com
GottaLaff
@GottaLaff@mastodon.socialBite me, Musk.
Progressive political commentator (print, radio, podcasts) for years. I post a lot: breaking news + legit info you can use, prone to snark. My mini Australian Labradoodle, Hamilton, has trained me well.
Now where's my trough of wine? 🍷🇺🇸🇨🇦
#Progressive #USPolitics #VotingRights #legal #WomensRights #CivilRights #BLM #climate #Canada #journalists #politics #news #LGBTQ #DogsOfMastodon
stevesilberman
@stevesilberman@newsie.socialAward-winning science writer, author of "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," which became a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 25 languages. My TED talk, "The Forgotten History of Autism," has been viewed nearly two million times. My next book will be "The Taste of Salt," on cystic fibrosis.
#autism #neurodiversity #cysticfibrosis #science #GratefulDead #BeatGeneration #LGBTQ+
transactualuk
@transactualuk@mastodon.socialAdvocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people. https://www.transactual.org.uk Press: press@transactual.org.uk Social media policy: http://transactual.org.uk/socials
MikeDunnAuthor
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.socialWorking Class Historical Fiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Social justice. An injury to one is an injury to all!
https://michaeldunnauthor.com
https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/michael-dunn
Pronouns: He/him
#Solidarity #Sabotage #GeneralStrike
#HistoricalFiction #WorkingClass #LaborHistory
#WomensRights #antifascism #AntiImperialism #LGBTQIA+ #EndAbleism #TransRightsAreHumanRights #SelfDetermination #ClimateChange
MediaActivist
@MediaActivist@kolektiva.socialLong-time guerrilla journalist and documentarian (ex-#IndyMedia) – powered largely by #Linux (and coffee!) in the UK’s Steel City.
#Freelancer and unpaid carer for partner with #LongCovid. Hire me you cowards!
Part tech geek. Part pop culture nerd. 100% punk.
Avatar: Me smiling awkwardly at the camera. Banner: Me again, documenting a protest with a video camera.
Searchable via https://tootfinder.ch/ #tfr #fedi22 #queer #punk #straightEdge #vegan #anarchist #IWW
CharlieMcHenry
@CharlieMcHenry@connectop.usFormerly DonCarlitos@mastodon.lol - Thinker, writer, activist, ally, tech veteran, co-founder Trilobyte Games (the 7th Guest) & Green Econometrics. Former RN & educator. Former OR State Telecommunications Councilor. Amateur ethnomusicologist with a YouTube channel. https://youtube.com/@charliemchenry - he/him AVATAR: older, long-haired nerd with facial hair. Missing are my round glasses. HEADER IMAGE: Oregon’s Rogue Valley, looking south from my back porch. #TwitterRefugee #BLM #PFLAG
Jeremiah
@Jeremiah@alpaca.goldI work in tech, fight for digital rights and the environment, kiss dudes, cycle, lift heavy things, and don’t eat animals. Swedish immigrant, US American emigrant. Occasionally shirtless. (he/him | they/them)
Working on https://restoration.software/@restoration.software
🇪🇺 🇸🇪 🏳️🌈
#ADHD #environmentalist #EU #fedi22 #fitness #gay #GSRD #LGBTQ #openSource #plantBased #plants #privacy #programming #Stockholm #Sverige #tech #technology #webDev #WebMonetization #YesBot #searchable
skinnylatte
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.ioQueer Southeast Asian in California working on #civictech. I lead the product team at San Francisco Digital Services.
I write about food, immigrant life, pets, steel bikes, photography and other analog hobbies.
CultureDesk
@CultureDesk@flipboard.socialWelcome to Flipboard’s culture and entertainment picks. You'll find insightful interviews, revealing reviews and thought-provoking features. Posts are handpicked by Flipboard editors. Boosts do not imply endorsement, but are used to highlight posts we think the community might find interesting. #Culture #Entertainment #TheArts #Food
For more culture picks, follow Flipboard's federated Culture Desk (@theculturedesk)
Header photo: Group of people having fun at concert. Photo by Getty Images
danwentzel
@danwentzel@urbanists.socialActor, Writer, Transit Advocate, Gay and Proud, Disco/House/EDM, animal lover, Practitioner of the Science of Mind and Spirit, Angel in disguise
https://www.threads.net/@danwentzel1
JamesFinn
@JamesFinn@stranger.socialLGBTQ columnist. Publisher of Prism & Pen. Gay man. Cat person. Emotional and proud of it. Former member Act Up New York, Queer Nation. Fierce advocate of LGBTQ equality. Trans folks rock! Black lives matter!
TheConversationUS
@TheConversationUS@newsie.socialA nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.
Pictured: just a few of our recent writers.
Free to read, without paywalls or ads (and free to republish, too, under Creative Commons license).
We combine academic rigor with journalistic flair.
dtgeek
@dtgeek@mastodon.socialI'm the owner of Diverse Tech Geek (a tech blog) and Diverse Media Notes (a media blog), both also covering diversity issues. Interested in comics and animation. Pronouns: he/him. 🏳️🌈
#media #technology #blogging #diversity #comics #animation #BlackMastodon
BigAngBlack
@BigAngBlack@fosstodon.orgComfortably #Black. Escaped the South, currently enduring the #PNW. Just out here chillin trying to be a little less dumb every day
follow https://chirp.social/@BlackMastodon & https://a.gup.pe/u/blackmastodon
KrissyKat
@KrissyKat@hoosier.socialPhotographer. Writer. Parent. Trans woman. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️ Don't vote for fascists!
☑️🇺🇸Register to vote in Indiana: https://indianavoters.in.gov/
Banner photo: KrissyKat in white and outlined in pink on a light blue background with a small heart above the letter i.
My selfie pic: Me, blonde hair, pink floral dress.
Trans-friendly hair stylists: https://strandsfortrans.org/
I live in the land of the Miami and Potawatomi.
LALegault
@LALegault@newsie.socialIntersectional Feminist. Former print (research)/television/comms. ≠Legal advice. Liberté, égalité, fraternité
(And that includes you.)
🇨🇦 🍉 🇺🇦 😷 📚
0xabad1dea
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchangethe hex is silent
professional source code complainer, Pwnie Awards 2014 Best Song
she/her
BruceMirken
@BruceMirken@mas.toWriter and media relations consultant for several organizations, but all ravings here are strictly mine. Known troublemaker, transplanted from California to Hilo, Hawaii. I often post pics of the cute #reptiles who hang out near my house. Escapee from #Xitter. Do NOT patronize any business owned by Elon Musk.
#RacialJustice
#LGBTQ
#EnvironmentalJustice
#BlackLivesMatter
#DrugPolicyReform
#ProtectTransKids
#ElectricVehicles
#EvacuateTwitter
#LongCovid
#CovidIsNotOver
#OctaviaButler
#MarkTwain
Stoat
@Stoat@mastodon.scotScottish person with a greyhound. Hard drive full of mouldy memes. :flag_enby:
NewsDesk
@NewsDesk@flipboard.socialWe share stories, explainers and analysis to offer context for the top news of the day. All posts are created and curated by Flipboard’s editorial team especially for Mastodon. Not a bot.
Boosts do not imply endorsement, but are used to highlight posts we think the community might find interesting.
For much more news, follow Flipboard's federated News Desk (https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk) and Politics Desk (https://flipboard.com/@ElectionCentral).
Header photo: A newsstand. Photo by AP.
bun
@bun@disabled.socialmid-30s working-class trans, queer person. midwestern (US). has multiple disabilities and chronic illnesses. married, polyamorous, happy. wife of https://hachyderm.io/@katculator; i love cats.
[Profile photo ID] photo of me, a white nonbinary person, showing off my curly brown hair. [end ID]
[header photo ID] Screenshot of Sailor Moon and her black cat. [end ID]
DemLabs
@DemLabs@newsie.socialI worked in Silicon Valley and since 2017 have been applying innovative tech and storytelling apps to social justice and voting rights causes. The facts are easier to explain with maps and infographics.
SrRochardBunson
@SrRochardBunson@universeodon.comBe excellent to each other.
Except for #Fascists. They can get fucked.
If you aren't a #Nazi but I annoy you, you can mute my #Boosts
"Help grow your #local #bee & #Butterflies polulation"
Make Punching Nazis Cool Again
#MPNCA
"The Resistance Will Be Federated"
🙏 Take my Stuff (Original posts CC-BY-SA 4.0)
#TheResistanceWillBeFederated
🐝
Also at https://firefish.social/@SrRochardBunson & with Resistance International
No TERFs or astroturf
JaniceSelbie
@JaniceSelbie@mas.to#ReligiousTrauma #SecularHumanist Former fundy, current religious trauma recovery consultant FOUNDER: Conference on Religious Trauma, Shameless Sexuality. HOST: Divorcing Religion Podcast
universalhub
@universalhub@mastodon.onlineAll #Boston, all the time.
jennie_kermode
@jennie_kermode@toot.communityAuthor - http://amzn.to/2kqeKwz - journalist, filmmaker and human rights campaigner. Strategic advisor at Trans Media Watch, commissioning editor at Eye For Film and LGBTQ+ lead at Bylines Scotland. #NUJ #OFCS #CherryPicks #binders #fedi22 #writer #author #journalist #LGBTQ #goth #netgoth #Scotland
MediaActivist
@MediaActivist@todon.eu"We will only truly be free when we destroy hierarchy."
Longtime #anticapitalist guerrilla journalist and documentarian (ex-#Indymedia) whose camera shot fascists from Britain to Turtle Island.
Now, in the “Roaring Twenties,” trying to help develop a Fediverse-driven radical media network inspired by the French Mutu model.
#WFH freelancer mostly working for https://floss.social/@freetechproject and https://tech.lgbt/@EDEN_F_P while caring for my disabled partner.
Member of https://todon.eu/@sheffieldmaskbloc https://todon.nl/@mitosiscollective https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup plus #IWW and #Acorn.
Enthusiastic about #Fediverse #FediPact #FOSS #Linux #Comics #ProWrestling (I'm the one behind @theleftfist).
Searchable via https://tootfinder.ch/ #tfr #fedi22 #Queer #Punk #StraightEdge #vegan #anarchist #FreePalestine
jmb
@jmb@okpeace.orgPronouns: he/him
#Peace Activist
#Attorney
#Editor of #HumanisticJudaismMagazine #WeddingOfficiant
#Polymath
#Leftist
#Autistic
#Ebicyclist
#OKC , #Oklahoma
https://mastodon.radio/@kg5jst
Posts = My opinions only
Boosts = Interest, not my opinion
Nothing I post is legal advice.
I admin the okpeace.org server, a home for several peace/justice groups and friends.
Blog: www.JMB.mx (part of the #fediverse)
Work: www.JMBranum.com
thorncoyle
@thorncoyle@wandering.shopA professional writer and amateur photographer. I take a lot of walks and talk to squirrels, trees, and crows. I believe in the power of mutual aid to help build strong communities. I write books. A lot of books. Like, really a lot of books. Magic is real. Justice is worth fighting for. Many Gods. No Masters. Queer with a chronic illness. They/Them #AmWriting #IndieAuthors #Writing #SFF #SocialJustice #Magic #SpiritualPractice #bookstodon #photography
qblueheart
@qblueheart@smutlandia.comUpright professional by day, kinky author of empowering erotic tales of Femdom, Hotwives, Denial, Humiliation, and Submission by night. Explore forbidden fantasies and desires. I boost other salacious writers and related creators. My toots marked with #qblueheart. Followers are hidden for privacy. 2+ He/him. #Submissive exclusively to my Temptress/Muse/Wife Alt: https://smutlandia.com/@qblueheart and @qblueheart #Books #ShortStory #Hotwife #BDSM #Femdom #Sex #Erotica #NSFW
bicmay
@bicmay@med-mastodon.comShe/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Surfing Hallyu | Boosts ≠ endorsements - I share what I'm reading, but it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with it | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with
Header picture: Sunlight pouring through clouds above a landscape of mountains and volcanic crater
Profile picture: Person with black shoulder-length hair and glasses, purple top in front of colorful backdrop
kayeluvian
@kayeluvian@the.voiceover.barI make noises for money. Proud fat bi trans woman. Chameleon, comedian, Corinthian & caricature 💗💜💙🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴 SAG-AFTRA/Equity #vo #voiceactor #voiceover
transworld
@transworld@masto.aiTransgender and queer news and resources curated by Jack Molay. Link ≠ endorsement.
Miro_Collas
@Miro_Collas@masto.aiMale, gay, introvert, nonconformist.
I post things I consider to be interesting in some way. That does not necessarily mean I share the opinion expressed in the article/video. Similarly, a boost does not imply agreement.
Areas of interest include:
#History
#Archeology
#ClimateCrisis
#Languages & #Lingustics
#Astronomy
World #Music
#SecondLife
#LGBTQ issues
thejapantimes
@thejapantimes@mastodon.socialOfficial account of Japan's most widely read English-language news source. Est. 1897. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/
teacherbuknoy
@teacherbuknoy@masto.aiBisexual Filipino who makes things on the web and teaches other Filipinos to do the same. I write blogs and produce videos for https://tambayan.us/@antaresphdev
Toots include:
- #GenshinImpact
- #Pinoy ukay-ukay finds
- Gawking on red carpet events and outfits
- Religious trauma as an ex-Jehovah's Witness
- Pinoy #drag excellence
- Philippine politics
- Living alone
ZhiZhu
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social"All mimsy were the borogoves..." Avid reader, occasional world traveler, raises chickens in Texas.
Interested in #Journalism #News #USPolitics #Books #SFF #Photography #Travel #Nature #Science #Ukraine #Etymology and other things.
I create threads of news articles I find interesting, and occasionally share a #GiftArticle so those without subscriptions can read the whole article.