Getting my lovely gf set up on nostr tomorrow and taking her to the range 😎

Demilitarize the police

"Open intox" laws are bullshit and pointless

"Police often think of themselves as soldiers in a battle with the public rather than guardians of public safety. That they are provided with tanks and other military-grade weapons, that many are military veterans, and that militarized units like Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) proliferated during the 1980s War on Drugs and post-9/11 War on Terror only fuels this perception, as well as a belief that entire communities are disorderly, dangerous, suspicious, and ultimately criminal. When this happens, police are too quick to use force." -Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

Just because something affects some white people as well does not mean it is not rooted in racism against PoC.

#bloomscrolling

"Well-trained police following proper procedure are still going to be arresting people for mostly low-level offenses, and the burden will continue to fall primarily on communities of color because that is how the system is designed to operate—not because of the biases or misunderstandings of officers." -Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

Abolish the 1033 Program

I may not be a professional, but here are some cellphone quality point-and-shoot photos from my walk. Welcome to the neighborhood 🫂🤝

I wonder 🤔 If public libraries were made private, how much would they need to charge for monthly memberships, at thier current user base, in order to stay afloat and turn a profit? And how much of this user base would immediately unsubscribe, forcing them to raise prices? How many would completely disappear or go 100% digital within a decade? I'm not trying to be cynical here or say that libraries should be govt funded at all. I think everything should be privately owned. Just pondering some shower thoughts I had.

"Of course, 'white tears' does not refer to all pain but to the particular emotional fragility a white person experiences when they find racial stress so intolerable they become hypersensitive and defensive, focusing the stress back to their own bruised ego." -Cathy Park Hong, in "Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning"

Current read #bookstr

What a pleasant surprise to wake up to! So pumped for the new album. ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME

Spotify

Imposing Will

Nails · Imposing Will · Song · 2024

#tunestr #newmusic #metal #nails

I spend way too much screen time on nostr, yet I feel like I never know what's going on. I didnt know what Corny Chat was until I explicitly asked. I still don't know what nostr nests are, idk what the drama about "nostr elites" was all about, and idk what happened to fiatjaf

Kansas and Nebraska are not the Midwest 🤣

#memes

People born the same year "Tha Carter 3" came out are old enough to drive 😳

For those of you who use a third party keyboard on your phone, which do you use?

It is great getting out of the fiat mines while the sun is still out. #summer