Helen Pugh @helenpugh@mastodon.online

#OtD 24 Jun 1763 William Trent in Philadelphia recorded an attempt to use biological warfare against Native Americans. He wrote that British troops gave blankets and a handkerchief from a smallpox hospital to 2 chiefs during peace talks. More here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill

which podcasts would you recommed for a 13-year-old who one day ago discovered there's actually excess food and empty apartments enough for everybody and people routinely die of hunger and exposure for no reason, just to appease the 1% who also burn twice as much carbon as the whole 50% poorest, and kid in question is feeling quite, political, about the world they just found themselves living in

I did put together a list of my #interests , in lieu of a more proper introduction rn

I don't really like thinking about them as interests so much, but more this is a list of the type of stuff I tend to share and talk about
I hope that's helpful!

#music #movies #tv & #literature
#art ( #abstract #digitalart #comics )
#anime & #manga
#gaming (on #nintendo & #xbox , #rpg and #simulationgames mostly)
#lgbtqia ( #trans #enby #genderfluid #abrosexual )
#anticaptalism
#disability (esp #invisibledisability #ptsd & #nd )
#science ( #tech #medicine #octopuses etc)
#communitycare

so yeah, that's pretty much what I talk about
yes I put octopuses under science cus they're nifty

Seeing some unfortunately-common and very shoddy reporting based on "we asked people what they thought of the economy and here's what they said" but framed as "this is what is happening in the economy". You can replace economy with any other complicated question, but journalism should be more than asking people who are not qualified to make statements without evidence and then reporting said statements as fact.

Not sure how to actually fix this problem though.

Speaking of #lesbianvisibilityday here’s a song of mine that was featured on The L Word.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSocLOQuxZw

Young Afghan Boys Work in Dangerous Mines As Afghanistan Prioritizes Coal https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dy7gg7/afghanistan-boys-coal-mining-taliban-child-labor #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #Afghanistan #childlabor #worldnews #Taliban

Is there any #indigenous Mastodon users here? Wanna follow more women and IBPOC...

From 25 May: Lidar reveals networks of pre-Columbian cities and towns in Bolivia - Enlarge / Cotoca, a 125 hectare settlement, sits at the center of a network of causeways l... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/lidar-reveals-networks-of-pre-columbian-cities-and-towns-in-bolivia/ #aerial-archaeology #airborne-archaeology #ancient-people-did-stuff #archaeology #bolivia #casarabe-culture #indigenous-south-america #lidar #pre-columbian-civilizations #science

New #poem inspired by the #vss365 prompt #trail.

https://tanweerdar.com/poetry

#Indigenous #NativeAmerican #AmericanIndian #TrailOfTears #Poetry

#DemocracyNow 🇧🇷
#Indigenous Expert #BrunoPereira and #Journalist #DomPhillips are Missing in Brazil

British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have still not been found, after being reported missing Sunday in one of Brazil's most re...

#FUCKBolsonaro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2VO0CsEdc

Hello! I'm B.K. Bass, author of over a dozen works of science fiction fantasy, and horror. I also have short fiction published in seven anthologies and am a member of the SFWA.

I also work as a freelance editor.

You can find out more about my books, plus a lot of articles about writing, worldbuilding, genre studies, and more at https://bkbass.com.

#writingcommunity #introduction

CatchOfTheDay:
Paraplesiops bleekeri

AKA:
Eastern Blue Devil

PhotoLookUp:
gbif.org inaturalist.org australian.museum fishesofaustralia.net.au

MyLocalDiveShop:
frogdive.com.au

#shoredive #coral #coralreef #dive #diver #diving #macro #macrophotography #marinelife #ocean #oceanlife #reef #scuba #scubadiving #underthesea #underwater #underwaterphoto #underwaterphotography #underwaterworld #uw #uwmacro #uwphotography #nature
#australia #sydney