RustyBertrand

GottaLaff , 2 days ago to random

Thou shalt separate church & state, you power-hungry ChristoFascists.

“#Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry”

https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-ten-commandments-displayed-classrooms-571a2447906f7bbd5a166d53db005a62?taid=66731eff5988a9000164aaff&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

RustyBertrand , 4 days ago to random

RustyBertrand , 4 days ago to random

"Clothes off, face down, in the coffin. You can read it to me while I fuck you."

Louie to Armand in Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire.

"Not the first vampire capitalist."

Lol. I was about to post that the series What We Do In The Shadows was a better spin-off than this shite, but it has it's moments. #WWDITS

I love New Orleans, walked by her house every day and probably moved there because of that movie. #oldschool #goth

RustyBertrand , 6 days ago to random

RustyBertrand , 10 days ago to random

How is there a reply that I can't see? Did they block me, but reply first?

I've noticed a few of these today.

video/mp4

RustyBertrand , 10 days ago to random

9th of June 1956, Woody Guthrie, homeless and suffering from Huntington's disease, was arrested for vagrancy in Morristown, New Jersey. He was sent to nearby Greystone Park Psychiatric hospital and spent the rest of his life in care facilities, passing away in 1967 at age 55.

Guthrie: "I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you."

Many folk singers saw the light through Guthrie, but his most notable acolyte was Bob Dylan, who tracked down Guthrie less than a week after moving to New York in 1961. Dylan's tribute tune, "Song To Woody," was included on his first album in 1962. When Dylan's career erupted a few years later, many fans dug into his back catalog and learned about Guthrie.

As Woody's behavior became erratic, he was incorrectly diagnosed with everything from alcoholism to schizophrenia, until he finally received the correct but devastating diagnosis, Huntington's chorea, a genetic disease that forced his mother's institutionalization 30 years earlier.

RustyBertrand , 10 days ago to random

RustyBertrand , 11 days ago to random

This library-on-wheels is Italy’s Smallest Library…
“Without a book, so often the child is alone” says Antonio La Cava.

The retired schoolteacher converted his three-wheeled van into a mobile library, the Bibliomotocarro. Driving the hills and mountains of Basilicata, Italy, La Cava can reach children in remote villages like San Paolo Albanese, which only has two children of primary school age.

“I was apprehensive about growing old in a country of non-readers.” La Cava believes it’s essential to spread the joy of literature to as many children as possible:

“carrying out such action has a value, not only social, not only cultural but has a great ethical meaning.”

La Cava hopes his Bibliomotocarro brings the message that culture is made by and for everyone, not just a privileged few.

RustyBertrand , 11 days ago to random

Ha! I snuck in to .social and retrieved my follow list.

RustyBertrand , 12 days ago to random

oatmeal , 13 days ago to palestine group

#Gaza / Israel rescues four hostages in Gaza raid that Hamas says kills 210 Palestinians

The only thing true from the #IDF spox this time, and probably every single time they bragged about killing X “terrorists”, was this:

[…] "We know about under 100 (Palestinian) casualties. I don't know how many from them are terrorists,"

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-rescues-four-hostages-gaza-palestinians-say-50-dead-israeli-assault-2024-06-08/

And the there’s also this:

"by committing horrific massacres, was able to free some its hostages, yet it killed some others during the operation," al-Qassam Brigades' spokesperson, Abu Ubaida, said in a statement on his Telegram channel.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-armed-wing-says-israel-killed-some-its-hostages-operation-central-gazas-al-2024-06-08/

The actress Israeli-Palestinian Lama Tator, who hosts an Arabic culture program on #Keshet, shared a photo of Argamani after her release from captivity, commenting on appearance after long months in #Hamas captivity and the massacre the IDF carried out to release her and the others.​​​​​​​​​​​​

"Are these the faces of a hostage for nine months?" the actress wrote in a story she shared on social media. "Are her eyebrows more groomed than mine? Her skin? Her hair? Her nails? What's going on? And for her they need to kill and slaughter children, women, and innocents?"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@israel
@palestine
#Iseael#warCrimes

BeAware , 16 days ago to random

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RustyBertrand , 16 days ago to random

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope."

-Ursula K. Le Guin

RustyBertrand , 17 days ago to random

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

-George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

RustyBertrand , 17 days ago to random

#Mastodon instance #vivaldi deleted all my followers and who I was following.

I was following 4k
Same amount of followers.

Please boost.

I have memory problems and can't find my friends. #longcovid

I am deeply wounded.

Also, turn this off in mastodon setting because if someone has a personal grudge against you, they can go in and delete anything or add anything they want.

#Iceland is a small town. I chose a local instance. They deleted everything, locked me out, and will not respond.