#zapathon #memes

I love yellow flowers #bloomscrolling #summer #commuteviews

Leave it up to govt to plant a tree in a box 🤦‍♂️😖

What is a good LLM to use as a private alternative to ChatGPT that has a mobile app? #asknostr

"Will there be tragic events on school campuses? Yes, and having more armed police on campus has not proven effective in reducing them. Instead, they have been incredibly effective at driving young people out of school and into the criminal justice system by the hundreds of thousands. Even if armed police on campus were an effective tool for reducing a few violent incidents, the social costs of that approach are not acceptable. We must find better ways to keep kids safe than turning their schools into armed fortresses and prisons. It’s time to take police out of the schools and reject the harsh punitive focus of school management. Our young people need compassion and care, not coercion and control." -Alex Vitale, The End of Policing #quotes #bookstr #SRO Take your kids out of school. #homeschool

So instead of going to the range and then onboarding my gf to nostr, we broke up. Great.

I'm excited for the day when Boomers rollin in GTOs blasting Steely Dan are replaced by Millennials rollin in Eclipses blasting Eminem.

Getting my lovely gf set up on nostr tomorrow and taking her to the range 😎

Demilitarize the police

"Open intox" laws are bullshit and pointless

"Police often think of themselves as soldiers in a battle with the public rather than guardians of public safety. That they are provided with tanks and other military-grade weapons, that many are military veterans, and that militarized units like Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) proliferated during the 1980s War on Drugs and post-9/11 War on Terror only fuels this perception, as well as a belief that entire communities are disorderly, dangerous, suspicious, and ultimately criminal. When this happens, police are too quick to use force." -Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

Just because something affects some white people as well does not mean it is not rooted in racism against PoC.

#bloomscrolling

"Well-trained police following proper procedure are still going to be arresting people for mostly low-level offenses, and the burden will continue to fall primarily on communities of color because that is how the system is designed to operate—not because of the biases or misunderstandings of officers." -Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

Abolish the 1033 Program

I may not be a professional, but here are some cellphone quality point-and-shoot photos from my walk. Welcome to the neighborhood 🫂🤝