mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Official public social communications channel for Gemma Seymour, Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Member, District 8, Member of the Brattleboro Planning Commission. My campaign motto is, "Let's Grow Brattleboro". My values are "Equality, Liberty, and Justice for All". My ethics are "Compassion, Frugality, and Forbearance".
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#NoBridge #NoAI
"AI" is not "artificial intelligence", and it should really be called "IA"—*incompetent automation*.
Kinney Drugs should have their license immediately suspended, and not be permitted to dispense in #Vermont. This is gross #malpractice.
Publicly owned #banking is key to breaking the back of #neoliberalism and #neofeudalism. I'm going to keep saying this until people start to understand it. Lending is a license to literally print #money, and the power to print money belongs in the hands of the trustees of the people, not in the hands of private, for-profit corporations.
The reason why I hated the Paladin class in #DnD when I was younger, was not merely because I had a bad experience of religion or because of the historical abuses of the knights militant of the various church orders, but because I saw Paladins essentially as police—*as police have always been in my experience of police*, which is to say corrupt, cruel, and hypocritical.
Lately, I have come to regard Paladins as they would ideally be, holy protectors of Justice and everything Good. #ttRPG
LRT: As a member of my municipal #government, I wholeheartedly endorse this message.
Municipal government is difficult and thankless work, made all the more difficult and thankless by people who demand their desires be fulfilled without regard to the impact the fulfillment of their desires would have on others in their community.
Everyone has an opinion, but Governing is a profession, not a lark. Good governance requires intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, curiosity, patience, and compassion.
I'm going to make Rigatoni with meatballs and jarred sauce, tonight. The frozen meatballs I bought last week are actually pretty good. Definitely not as good as homemade, but for someone like me, who is absolutely NOT willing to make homemade meatballs, they are acceptable. I picked up a chunk of Grana Padano at the market on the way home from my meeting at the library to kick off the ebike lending library season. I can't afford Parmigiano-Reggiano, anymore, sadly.
This is despicable. #RTKBA #LGBT #USpol
' The Trump administration’s proposed new rules on gun ownership are intended to scare transgender people out of buying weapons, leading pro-Second Amendment activists say.
A new rule enacted by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would mean all new gun owners must list their birth sex on mandatory purchase paperwork, even if they have legally or medically changed genders. '
' The disease is an economic system designed to concentrate wealth and power…justified by an economics that is at its core simply wrong, because it focuses the accumulation of wealth for a few with indifference to the consequence for most people.
That economics is wrong about human motivation, it is wrong about how money works, it is wrong about what government debt means, and it is wrong about scarcity, about markets, about value, and just about everything else. '
' There might not be compromise. It might just be that we are on different sides, and that the task ahead of us isn't to come together, but to win. ' #USpol #JamelleBouie