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I’m watching a 12 year old trans girl testify to lawmakers that the bills they’ve passed are a constant reminder that she doesn’t belong in her own state.

No kid should ever need to do something like that, and the people responsible for putting her in that position deserve to hear her words echoing in their heads for the sleepless nights I hope they suffer for the rest of their lives.

“I should be in school learning history, not out here making it”

—@quinn

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Let me put the unbearable pain of mass shootings into its’ proper prospective. As a retired federal agent, I have had the sad misfortune of cleaning up after a few of these “events” as they were called. Try to lift a dead child (or adult) from the ground to put on a gurney, and their head falls from their body. Or you have to collect body parts to “complete” a victim for analysis. It hurts the strongest of us. Let republicans come into scenes and do this job. Not one would last a minute.

—@AliensAbound

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Toot Global, Browse Local

The Local Timeline is key to the #Mastodon experience. It’s a community of like-minded individuals sharing what they find interesting. Local is a human-curated alternative to the infamous #algorithm for discovering the best content. When a toot goes viral, it’s usually because people saw it on Local and boosted it hard! To make the most of it, find a server that focuses on topics of interest to you and migrate there.

—@baruch

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Morning everybody, I guess we’re doing Monday. Right now I’m wishing for mid-April, because honestly I’m thoroughly over the cold and especially the added dampness that comes with the rain. I’m still trying to figure out what today’s work playlist is going to be, although it’s probably going to be something chilled out. State College
38 °F Scattered Clouds (https://acarson.wtf/?p=251465)

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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Sunday. John and I are just waiting on some groceries which include lunch and reading a book. I almost typed “listening to a book” but I caught myself in time to continue my policy of refusing to make a distinction between reading in the typical way and reading in alternative ways like listening.

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Oh man I think I’ve got the WordPress activitypub plugin set up just the way I want it and so my content (or at least the note content) looks like I want it to on Mastodon and other fediverse apps and I get to completely ignore everyone’s character limits and I’m kind of proud of this accident.