Teacher of children through string instruments. Performer of cellos both electric and acoustic. Husband and father to two boys.
Joined June 2009
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Andrew Travers retweeted
The David Lynch Presents Interview Project Team has just re-released all 121 of the original episodes to celebrate the 15 year anniversary of the original series launch. Here is a short clip from their IG channel of Batso. Give the team a follow! instagram.com/reel/C9fJsnsul…
Andrew Travers retweeted
Elon Musk has unblocked every account you have blocked.
Allows those accounts to stalk you and take notes for Trump/Musk.
All of the creepy offensive Trumpeteers and MAGATs you cut off ,Musk just unlocked your front door and invited them into your thoughts.
Musk is a political voyeur working for a narcissistic lunatic.
Musk wants desperately to buy a President.
Opening your account is just another offering to Trump.
Freedom of speech really means you speak in front of an audience you choose ,as you choose.
Musk has chosen for you to have to speak to those you don't care to.
I'm sure he is giggling, whispering to Trump on the phone even now.
@elonmusk
#VoteHarrisWalz2024
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Andrew Travers retweeted
No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems. For example: your personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate emergency.
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ALT A rifle-bearing, bearded rebel with crossed bandoliers stands atop a mainframe. His belt bears the RSS logo. The mainframe is on a floor made of a busy, resistor-studded circuit board. The background is a halftoned RSS logo. Around the rebel is a halo of light.
Andrew Travers retweeted
The FBI actually created a sting operation to expose the dirtiness of the crypto "ecosystem." They found that the exchanges, "market makers" and other seemingly rock-ribbed institutions where suckers are enticed to buy, sell, track and price cryptos are classic Big Store cons.
It's Saturday and any fule kno that this is the day for a linkdump, in which the links that couldn't be squeezed into the week's newsletter editions get their own showcase. Here's the previous 23 linkdumps:
pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump…
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ALT A page from a 19th C catalog of ornaments cast in wood fiber, showing a miscellaneous assortment of these ornaments.
Andrew Travers retweeted
We organize with Haitian-origin farm workers in NY. They’re as American as the apple pie their work makes possible, but right wing racists are spreading dehumanizing lies.
Haitians are not eating pets.
They’re feeding America.
The anti-Haitian bigotry we’re seeing is repulsive.
Andrew Travers retweeted
Anyone pushing it is a straight up Nazi.
Yes, Elon, that includes your apartheid ass.
Andrew Travers retweeted
Trump's GOP including his VP pick are busy pushing this racist lie because of vague connection between Haiti and the Caribbean generally and religious rumors of animal sacrifice, despite Haiti having no tradition of eating cats or dogs.
It is flagrantly and intentionally racist.
Andrew Travers retweeted
So we're clear, the whole "Haitians are EATING YOUR PETS!" thing is straight out of the Nazi propaganda playbook. It's an adaptation of "blood libel" against Jews; false accusations of sinister rituals and sacrifices meant to turn a defenseless minority into the "Other."
Andrew Travers retweeted
Let's give a shout out to the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables.
Mandemosle un saludo a la gente que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas.
#WeFeedYou #LaborDay
Thank you @ignaciogomezart for letting us use this art
ALT A piece of art by artist Ignacio Gomez of farm workers laboring in the fields
Andrew Travers retweeted
whenever someone says 'left can't meme' or 'MAGAs aren't weird', I think about this painting that a Trump supporter made and it's not, like, a @GaryPetersonUSA parody
That is a painting a MAGA made that they are proud of
want me to explain why this is bad?
let me explain:
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Andrew Travers retweeted
🚨Elon Musk is blocking that video on Twitter!!!
You know what to do!!
Spread it widely!
xitter.cf/Kamala_tim_wins/status…
Andrew Travers retweeted
8 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗚𝗢
“Teachers need to either stop complaining or quit!”
𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗢𝗪
Teachers have left the profession at record rates. America is currently short 320,000+ teachers….and it’s only getting worse.
NOW WHAT?
Andrew Travers retweeted
'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.'
Nick Cave.
Andrew Travers retweeted
Walmart didn't just *happen*. The rise of Walmart - and Amazon, its online successor - was the result of a specific policy choice, the decision by the Reagan administration not to enforce a key antitrust law.
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ALT An early 20th century grocery counter before tall shelves stacked with dry-goods. A woman grocer turns to pluck an item off the shelves. Attached to the shelves in three places are binder clips supporting small notes; each note is emblazoned with a dark red guillotine blade. To the left of the image stands a shouting millionaire with a top hat and a money-bag.