Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimbo

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Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboMar 22

‘I am not going to stand before God and say, well, I chickened out’: Reflections on building caring coalitions

My first byline is a longform piece on advocacy in the age of NSPM-7, for @matternews_

https://matternews.org/voices/i-am-not-going-to-stand-before-god-and-say-well-i-chickened-out-reflections-on-building-caring-coalitions/

‘I am not going to stand before God and say, well, I chickened out’: Reflections on building caring coalitions – Matter News

More than three years after the City of Columbus bulldozed Camp Shameless, one of the founders of the encampment offers their perspective on the housing crisis and the people working at the grassroots to give aid to those routinely left behind.

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Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboMar 21
Show threadoscarfalconMar 12

@pluralistic

This:

"For these AI boosters, the point isn't to create an AI that can do the work as well as a person – it's to condition the world to accept the lower-quality work that will come from a chatbot"...

This has been going around in my mind for a while now, it bugs the hell out of me because I see people NOT getting it; in my profession and chosen career -architecture- some people actually think AI helps, I definitely think it doesn't and fuck AI.

Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboMar 21
Having a chill weekend unearthing the bleached bones of a new essay comparing early 20th century Italian Futurist whackjobs to our present-day hodgepodge of techno-philosophical accelerationist whackjobs, RIP me 💀
Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboMar 8

Today's Quaker meeting was a quiet one, but it left me with plenty of room to think.

"These are the last, pathetic gasps of a dying empire. If I were a Christian, I would be furious. Indeed, I am furious. When I talk to Christians about God, I tell them that I see God as the loving kindness between people; the absence of God (Hell) being the absence of that love. War is Hell; there is nothing holy about it."

https://innateoptimist.neocities.org/quaker_meeting_12

Twelfth Quaker Meeting

3/8/26 Daylight savings meant I didn’t sleep until very late last night, so I got an extra late start this morning.

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Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboFeb 13

Vintage poster for The New American Movement.

Why, when there is so much important work to be done, is it impossible to find someone to pay you to do it?

/rhetorical

Elizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboFeb 10
Show threadstephen!Feb 9
17776 is one of my favorite things of all time but it never come up because people always ask "favorite book" or "favorite video game" or "favorite movie" and not "favorite hard to classify internet-native narrative experience"
Show threadElizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboFeb 8

@fromjason @forse @MackenzieD

This is also what I was trying to say. The vast majority of community organizing is invisible to the public.

*Sometimes* you don't see it on TV is because the organizers don't want to be seen on TV (for safety, or because the work is private by nature), but more often its because the networks don't want you to see what is being done without the backing of some nonprofit.

Show threadElizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboFeb 8

@MackenzieD @fromjason

FWIW, I'm not saying it isn't worth critiquing. I just personally see that sort of symbolic event as an opportunity to invite its attendees to do more.

Show threadElizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboFeb 8

@MackenzieD @fromjason

I think its important to look at protests like No Kings as being on completely different layers of a protest movement as participation in things like Food Not Bombs, ICE Watch, and other community self-defense actions.

No Kings is symbolic action, ICE Watch is concrete action. Sometimes one leads to another, other times it doesn't. It does help take the temperature of a society, though.

I've been part of protest movements at many levels and have zero desire to criticize No Kings, mostly because it is at the very top of the funnel. When I ride my bike around a No Kings protest, I see them primarily composed of disabled people, elderly people, and people with young families.

Show threadElizabeth 💚 anarchist bimboFeb 8

I kept thinking about how my finances can be summarized by a series of tax returns which are more likely to elicit anger than empathy. While in 2020 I made a comfortable salary as a software engineer, I left the field in 2021 and used my meager retirement on a moon shot to combat homelessness in 2022 (Camp Shameless, documented heavily by local news: https://innateoptimist.neocities.org/shameless_media ).

Since then I have survived on as little money as I could make to support my slight needs, cooking and cleaning and caring in exchange for a roof over my head and the freedom to study and write and volunteer my time.

How do I quantify this experience? Does the somewhat voluntary origin of my financial precarity disqualify me from assistance? I'm trying to answer these questions for myself today and finding it at least as difficult as expected.

Shameless Media

Camp Shameless Saga In 2022, I was part of a radical act of solidarity.

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