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In an un-Mastodonly move I think I posted this first behind a pay wall, now hopefully removed. A Jewish friend, with whom I’ve sung many a sea song, casually suggested I write a Red Sea shanty. An invitation to quirkiness and whimsy is seldom lost on me. Therefore, I offer this unorthodox retelling of the parting of the Red Sea. Spoiler alert, it involves an irreverent Phoenician sea captain and a flying ship. #HappyPassover! https://www.patreon.com/posts/red-sea-shanty-55271545

—@ChristineMalec

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We're commandeering your uterus for 9 months and we're doing everything we can to ensure you're forced to give birth no matter where you are or how you ended up in this position in the first place or no matter how old you are, and you're on your own when it comes to making sure that birth actually happens safely because Murica! Fuck Republicans and the Christian fundamentalists pulling their strings.

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A Florida School Banned a Disney Movie About Ruby Bridges. Here’s What That Really Means. by Charles M. Blow
This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New Orleans in 1960, because of a complaint lodged by a single parent who said she feared the film might teach children that white people hate Black people. The school banned the film until it could be reviewed. So I decided to review the film myself.
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news announcement at @fediforum: #flipboard has launched their Mastodon integration on Android!

This means you can follow Mastodon posts via Flipboard, and add them to your magazine, or share articles from your magazines directly to Mastodon.

Even better, full #ActivityPub integration is coming for the coming months, so it can work with the full fediverse (Pixelfed, anyone?).

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/mastodon-on-android-flipboard-integration-is-here/

—@fediversereport