Making my annual request to @SlackHQ to add a soft mention. Would love to be able to do something like ~SlackHQ which only goes to mentions but does not ping. Great for ensuring offline/heads-down members are not disturbed but still get the low priority message.
Words and meanings have been subverted.
Empathy/compassion =\= freedom of consequence.
Meek =\= weak
Patriotism =\= exemption from larger society
Freedom of religion =\= religion as a standard
Leadership =\= dictatorship
Democracy =\= oppression
Work to help & inform the ignorant. The many who were mislead & lied to. Many who didn't know better. They're not our enemies.
However, there are plenty who cheered hate. Who relished hate & used it.
Do not compromise to hate. Do not work with hate. Do not allow hate.
I know this first hand. My nana thought drumpf was a good thing. All she knew was she got a relief check with his name on it.
She's hispanic & doesn't watch Fox news or anything. Mom & i had to point out that help came IN SPITE of drumpf, not bc of him.
For my sanity, i took time away from the vitriol. Today is too joyous tho. A huge relief. Enjoy this moment.
Yet, don't forget the lessons from these past 4 years. We MJST fight early & quickly. Disease & hate are always in the wings waiting for us to let our guard down.
Do the "all lives matter" folks look at check engine light and think, all parts matter!
Black lives matter is a call to fix a serious issue in our system. America's check engine light is flashing! #BlackLivesMatter
Still think @SlackHQ should add a soft mention (~). Pinged them years ago w/ this, hoping they reconsider.
Idea: ~someone messages w/o disruption. Would be great to create msgs to ppl with low urgency. Combined with channel of your soft mentions would be 👌.
Learned about the efforts going on with 3 amazing orgs.
buff.ly/2sShmEo Women's Prison Association
buff.ly/2nELkbT Iqra Fund
buff.ly/2nJ0Gfw Life is good Kids Foundation
Spend 5 minutes to check them out & give if you can.
Final #roast of my Rwanda, Ethiopia, Honduras. It was a fun 60#'s. Still never got this Ethiopia wrangled though. 😭 I'll use these tears in my morning ☕️ o' #coffee.
Now, to figure out what greens to order next!