@Infoseepage @suzannealdrich @cstross I binged through the @empirepoduk podcast, haven't finished it, but listened to 150+ episodes. It's good.

There was a fascinating one where a British woman brought the concept and technology of #smallpox #inoculation home with her from #Turkey...

Here it is:

'She was a pioneering scientist, proto-feminist, and letter writer extraordinaire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu escaped a marriage to Clotworthy Skeffington to become one of history's most incredible women. Listen this week as William and Anita are joined by Katie Hickman to tell the tale of her life.'

https://youtu.be/Ji8JlFNz1rA

'Clotworthy Skeffington,' I think that might be my next fake name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu

@Infoseepage @suzannealdrich @cstross bringing this back to it's origin; the gall of rfkjr and his enablers thinking they can rely on privilege, wealth and influence to survive the hell they're bringing down

@suzannealdrich @Infoseepage @cstross I was coming here to say exactly that. Just five generations ago, in Germany, my ancestors lost six of eight children before the age of three. Two survived to adulthood.

@darwinwoodka @rasterweb

Ten or so years ago, I heard a kid speak at an awards ceremony. He was being awarded for his contribution to the community, in this case, as a trail builder / maintainer. He used this phrase as the keynote of his speech.

"There is no they. They is us."

He talked about how trail users would complain that "They should..." when it was apparent to him that there is no they, they is us. We should.

@darwinwoodka please don't take this as anything other than me trying to find a way forward.

There is no them. They is us.

@rasterweb ideology will be our undoing. Finding common ground among the thick overgrowth of ideology will lead us to the path through.

Really tortured metaphor there

@rasterweb a "MAGA for Mamdani" supporter was interviewed for this episode, from #MorePerfectUnion, and he said his awakening to the values of socialism was a visit to Japan, and needing to get healthcare while there, and discovering how well it worked for him, the human who needed healthcare and got it.

https://youtu.be/ICroxl2r1B8

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

- #MarkTwain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

@KimCrayton1

https://youtu.be/Pdn5OlMZDTo

Chance The Rapper's new song, The Negro Problem is about just this. I'm a white American citizen, and I know I'm not safe.

#terror
#racism
#music
#ChanceTheRapper
#WEBDuBois