Ross Weistroffer
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Ross Weistroffer
@libraryofbabble.bsky.social
🗳️ #DemocracyScience nerd for an incrementally better world, reporting from the intersection of info & action.

💾 #HCI + #CSCW researcher @ discourselabs.org

🌇 Angeleno urbanist & governance reform advocate @ fairrepla.bsky.social

Pro-🏳️‍🌈,🏳️‍⚧️, 🇺🇸, and 🇺🇳 🌎🌏🌍
L. Frank Baum's mother-in-law was suffragist and activist Matilda Joslyn Gage.

Which might have something to do with, in later Oz books:
- an all-female army taking over the Emerald City,
- an immortal empress ruling Oz, and
- Dorothy moving into her palace to become her "constant companion". 👀
January 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I believe anti-tyranny scholar Laura Joffe Numeroff once had something to say about face-eating leopards... 🤔

"If you give a leopard a steak, he'll probably ask for a bib—and before you know it, you've got a five-star restaurant catering to lions who also want dessert."
December 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM