Monkinetic Weblog

Folks, this is Sister Rosetta Sharpe, the queer black woman who invented rock and roll, before Elvis, Little Richard, or Chuck Berry were out of short pants

https://www.theroot.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-queer-black-woman-who-invent-1823198999

#blackhistory #musichistory #erasure

(Source: https://playvicious.social/@paralithode)

My privileged, suburban zip code in Gilbert, AZ is 12 square miles. I remember when we had 18 cases of #covid19. We're at 530 now.

(SORRY, LOST IMAGE)

From a thread I posted on Play Viscious, re-posted here for posterity:

• My wife and I watched part 1 of the PBS documentary "The Vote" last night and I am learning a LOT. Some notes (a thread):
• If I learned anything about women's suffrage in school was quickly forgotten, pretty much everything in there was new. I think I knew Susan B. Anthony's name and Ida B. Wells.
• I think this documentary started to help me see intersectionality in action some? the fight for the ability to vote included conflicts over who should be granted the franchise first: educated white women, or black men. And black women getting left out either way (it was black men).
• The fight for voting rights for women was absolutely necessary, but it hurt to see the racist attitudes and decisions coming from the white suffragettes from leadership on down.
• Frederick Douglass was a huge proponent of women's suffrage - and he and the black women's suffrage clubs were pushed out when it seemed like black involvement would set back the cause in the jim crow south.
• also: white men are bastards

John Gruber responds to a new article in The Guardian that people with even mild coronavirus systems can be having serious brain disorders (for example strokes, encephalomyelitis, and psychotic episodes):

Germany yesterday reported 298 new cases of COVID-19.

The U.S. reported over 55,000. Just yesterday. It is raging out of control here in the United States. It’s that simple. We’ve lost any handle on it we might have had, infections are now raging out of control, and a large segment of the population has decided to pretend it isn’t happening and isn’t a big deal if you do get it.

For those of us who’ve been taking this seriously since March, it’s soul-crushing that this is where we’re at after four months of isolation. It sucks. We who’ve done the right thing are the ones most yearning for — and let’s be honest, most deserving of — a few tastes of normalcy.

I am begging everyone I know - please recognize that it is insane, or worse cruel, to pretend this isn't happening, or that it's a plot from people on the other end of a political spectrum to inconvenience you or steal your precious individual liberties... this is hundreds of thousands of friends and families suffering or dead.

Do the right thing — stay home as much as you can, wear a mask and keep your distance when you’re out. You don’t want to get this and you don’t want your family to get it.

TFW you're teetering on the edge between using the #microformats library to find h-cards and their properties and writing an entirely new wrapper to make finding #webmention comments "easy"

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.”

https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack #bookmark #racism

It's #juneteenth and some of my day is going to be spent educating myself #blacklivesmatter

Juneteenth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth #bookmark #holidays #blackhistory

I might be hitting the wall on my Jekyll-inspired storage system for #goldfrog. GoldFrog uses Jekyll-style markdown posts as the "system of record", but read into SQLite for serving/searching content #webmention activity add a new type of data that I haven't figured out how to store yet.

Back to a nerd topic: implemented some of the #webmention server in my blog software this evening, and rearchitected the storage layer with an interface to make testing easier #golang

There a LOT of error cases when writing a #webmention server implementation #indieweb #goldfrog

We're number one #arizona #transmission #covid19 @dougducey

(SORRY, LOST IMAGE)

Soon we are headed out to California for 5 days just to get out of Arizona for a bit. But this is not "vacation", this is "move the quarantine temporarily to another state". We realized this morning that planning family #travel is more complicated now, with way less mental energy available to plan.

What used to be pretty standard "get us out of the house for 5 days" activities now feel like huge tasks which we have to accomplish with our brains 94% occupied by #covid19 #blacklivesmatter #racism, and other current events. Just the idea of cleaning house (for the pet-sitter) feels insurmountable.

it-aint-pretty tags: covid19 title: Arizona and COVID19 - it ain't pretty twitter_id: "1272883580348194817" twitter_url: https://twitter.com/steveivy/status/1272883580348194817

Governor Ducey - please take action NOW #covid19

(SORRY, LOST IMAGE)

#BlackLivesMatter and the #Deaf community

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-08/how-do-you-sign-black-lives-matter-in-asl-for-black-deaf-angelenos-its-complicated

Sent today to the office of #arizona Governor Ducey:

Governor Ducey,

It is paramount that in the face of skyrocketing #COVID19 cases in Arizona, your office issue actionable guidance on mask/face covering usage to slow the community spread of the novel coronavirus. My family and I wear masks anytime we leave the house or our car, but we see almost no one doing the same right now unless the destination specifically requires it.

There are too many citizens who take your office's "recommendations" as hand-waving suggestions, and the numbers speak for themselves.

Please, for the sake of your citizens, speak out quickly and strongly. Mandate mask usage in public for all our safety.

Sincerely,

--Steve Ivy Gilbert, AZ

Arizona residents: Contact Governor Ducey

White Privilege is saying "wow I'm learning a lot about race, but I'm kinda stressed so I'm going to watch English cop shows and not think about race". Non-whites don't get to not think about race in America #selfown #whiteness

Language is related to power. We do not permit those in power to control our vocabulary.

NINE PERSPECTIVES FOR PRISON ABOLITIONISTS

#prisonpolicy

INSTEAD OF PRISONS: A HANDBOOK FOR ABOLITIONISTS #prisonpolicy

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/index.shtml

To my shame, it took until the events surrounding George Floyd's murder for me to really begin attempting to educate myself on "the rest of the story" of America's history of institutionalized racism and violence. I'm trying to focus on 3 things:

• LEARN the facts, outside of what was in my history education ("we win war for independence, we win ww2, happily ever after" - at least that's what I generally walked away with)
• LISTEN to black writers and voices about their American experience
• Focus my own small voice on speaking to my fellow white Americans on our complicity in these atrocities and the system they’ve perpetuated.

I have SOOOO far to go. In the meantime, talking to my wife we decided that something we could do was to donate to support these organizations fighting for racial justice:

• Black Lives Matter Global Network
• National Bail Out
• Know Your Rights Camp
• Black Voters Matter Fund
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• The National Police Accountability Project

If you feel like I do, please consider donating - it's the easiest way to get started - but it's not enough. We're going to have to start acting too.