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betsyvr

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Mana fefine = “powerful woman” in Tongan.

I talk a lot about #labor and indigenous #Pasifika (Pacific Islander) issues in relation to capitalism and tech.

I’m also campy and a bit dramatic.

Located in the Bay Area, California / Ohlone Land.

Profile picture text: A tan person with long dark hair wearing a white mask. The background is a blue sky.

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    betsyvr,
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    @divya this really heated me this morning. I used to follow her, but I unfollowed because she seemed like an unethical person who does anything for clout.

    She’s really profiting off of Nex’s death considering the timing of her interview. Just disgusting all around.

    kevbob, to random
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    Come to the Kia’Palano totems in the next 15 minutes if u want an ass kicking.
    #dogsofmastodon

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    @kevbob wow! These are so cool

    skinnylatte, to random
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    I just saw a post about an American who is so disgusted by the political shift to the right that he moved to.. wait for it.. Italy

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    @skinnylatte People will do everything except fight fascism in their own country

    betsyvr, to random
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    Workers at Popeyes are whistleblowing on child labor that took place at their restaurants. https://www.kqed.org/news/11975129/teen-whistleblower-calls-out-child-labor-at-popeyes-in-oakland-newark-and-tracy

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I wonder how things are going on Twitter...

    Portal X @Portal Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire and founder of X has sadly passed away this morning at the age of 52. 74 Readers added context they thought people might want to know Elon Musk is not the founder of X, formerly known as Twitter. The original founders of Twitter are Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter, ... britannica.com/topic/Twitter LU NIRRT [
    Ron DeSantis & i @RonDeSantis “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill I T " @ Not shown on X The quote is actually from a Budweiser ad in 1938
    Andy Boenau @Boenau It's often safest for a cyclist to go through a red light. Here's an example of safely keeping momentum. Bicycles and motor vehicles should never be treated as equals, so "but red means stop!" isni't a useful reaction. Readers added context they thought people might want to know As per the Highway Code rule 69 cyclists "MUST obey all traffic signs and traffic light signals." With further guidance in rule 71

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    @RickiTarr this is embarrassing

    mattblaze, (edited ) to random
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    Question 12 from the official USCIS Civics exam that must be passed to become a naturalized US citizen. (Example correct answers shown.)

    Just saying.

    betsyvr,
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    @mattblaze I helped my mom with this exam. They ask you three out of 100 questions. Luckily they asked her things like “Who is our current president” which offset weird ones like this.

    It’s route memorization but with American exceptionalism. The entire process of getting citizenship here is to prove that you “deserve” it.

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    @CStamp @mattblaze yeah, they ask a lot of ridiculous questions. On the application they ask you if you’ve ever been part of a terrorist organization. As if anyone serious would say “yes” to that.

    betsyvr, to random
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    Mass incarceration is an AAPI issue. https://medium.com/

    skinnylatte, to random
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    One of the reasons I very much dislike some of the anti-progressive candidates running for elections this year, is that for the entire six months they were campaigning to recall Chesa, their (not Asian) campaigners were yelling at ME outside Trader Joe’s constantly and telling ME I was anti-Asian for not wanting to recall Chesa. So the ‘lean into AAPI race politics and make it conservative’ angle is very obvious to me

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    @skinnylatte These conservative groups also tend to ignore how mass incarceration affects specific AAPI communities, like SEA’s and PI’s, who are more likely to be incarcerated than other groups in that category.

    A lot of us cannot rely on policing for safety. We are already over policed!

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is the hardest you've ever worked?

    If you want to tell me the hardest you've ever worked it, please provide photos.

    betsyvr,
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    @RickiTarr I worked in a cat kennel cleaning cages and helping the employees groom cats. I had to wear leather mits because the kitties were sometimes not nice

    betsyvr, to random
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    I’m watching videos from previous Labor Notes conferences and here I see @Tevitauhatafe holding the mic for Bernie Sanders.

    C’mon cousin!! 👏🏼 Love seeing us Islanders in the labor movement.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Worst Date Ever:

    betsyvr,
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    @RickiTarr never date a man who can’t reach your Q4 goals

    betsyvr, to random
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    #BHM books on my reading list (so far):

    • Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
    • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
    • All About Love by bell hooks
    • Moving Towards Home: Political Essays by June Jordan
    • Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System by Cyntoia Brown Long
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    I always prioritize the writings of Black women in my lists because they are often overlooked and/ or not properly cited for their work.

    Having experienced this gap of women’s voices missing in my own history, it feels important to me.

    divya, to random
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    @divya yes! It always trips me out when I see cognate words in various Austronesian languages.

    Words like “mata” (“eye”) are still the same or similar in these languages. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/1-Selected-words-in-scattered-Austronesian-languages_tbl1_242767316

    bluestocking, to random
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    Walton and Chan’s responses to this are so funny

    also I know I’m an anarchist, but it feels strange for Mission Local to describe Tan as a “moderate” when his stances are pretty right-wing? I know SF politics are weird for the US because we don’t have a local Republican party with any real power so everyone is a Democrat, but we might as well call people with conservative stances what they are: conservative

    https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/111829849048970739

    betsyvr,
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    @bluestocking I noticed that language too and was put off by it. It seemed like it was downplaying his views.

    I’ve had issues with how Mission Local describes things in the past, so I thought I was being biased.

    betsyvr, to random
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    A really good article about the ICJ ruling here: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/26/icj-israel-decision-a-new-world-order-in-the-making

    betsyvr,
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    "This case is a major turning point for humanity, because it marks the first time in history when a Global South country bravely crossed a red line drawn by the colonial West and demanded its favourite settler colony, Israel, be held to account for the crimes it has long been committing against an Indigenous people.

    Today, thanks to South Africa, the entire colonial West, and its centuries-long history of theft, dispossession, and injustice is on trial at the World Court."

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    I know there are some valid critiques that ICJ only administers "white man's justice". They did not call for a ceasefire and well, they ARE the colonial west.

    But this is still a huge, unprecedented step. This isn't the only form of accountability, but a good step for getting closer to a ceasefire and eventually, freedom.

    sidereal, to random

    Seeing a lot of people saying things like "why don't Americans protest more." I'm not exactly sure how to respond because:

    1. In 2020 America had the largest sustained series of protests in world history. Americans protest plenty.

    2. American activists are shot by police at a very high rate. Don't forget this.

    Americans protest at a very high rate already. We don't protest more because so many of us have been murdered and our police are very dangerous. Hope this helps.

    betsyvr,
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    @sidereal We've BEEN protesting! Everything. But it's only one tool in the toolbox. There are plenty of people who are organizing, doing survival work, and legal work that moves the needle.

    Not everyone can attend protests either. I hope that people can confront ableism in the movement-- that you don't have to be an able-bodied revolutionary at the frontlines to get things done.

    Plenty of people are doing great work in the capacity that they can.

    IceCubesApp, to random
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    The bigger touch zone for the lefties is also out, left me know!

    betsyvr,
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    @IceCubesApp hey! The touch is too sensitive for right hand scrollers. I’m often triggering the menu and accidentally blocking accounts.

    Is this something that could be fixed?

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    I’m going outside to throw my hat up in the air like Mary Tyler Moore did

    ml, to plantscience
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    Plant awareness disparity: A case for renaming plant blindness

    https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10153

    @plantscience

    #Botany #PlantScience #DisabledAndSTEM

    betsyvr,
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    @ELS @ml @plantscience Here is what the author states in the conclusion:

    “Thus, I am proposing a new name for “plant blindness”: plant awareness disparity (PAD). I have specifically chosen this term for a few reasons. First, PAD is not a disability metaphor, and as such, removes the ableism associated with the term “plant blindness.”

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    @ml @plantscience yes! I think it also leads to climate change denialism. A lot of times people aren’t aware of how connected we are to our environment.

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    @ml @plantscience sadly, I don’t think a lot of people learn too much about that. My religious family told me God put animals and plants here to feed humans and I believed it until I was a teenager.

    I didn’t really learn too much about this interconnection until I went to community college. It finally clicked once I learned more.

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