A journalist is writing a story about the trend I've talked about before -- defamation threats and lawsuits against women telling #metoo type stories of their experiences.

The journalist is interested in talking to people who've received such threats. If anyone is interested email me. I can put you together with the journalist. I've talked to her and she's serious about the story and has a good outlet for it.

I can't help but feel that:
The aversion to quote-toots is actually an admission of a lack of commitment to ridding mastodon of the sort of people who WOULD abuse it.

#ChangeMyMind
#fediverse

You know, if you don't want to read anarchist theory because it's usually wordy and printed in very small text, there are a number of papers on parasocial relationships and why they're harmful out there, to more or less teach you the same lesson

The key is, the parasocial relationship researchers aren't going to then explain to you that politics, the discourse, and the entire propaganda model function in the Pig Empire, using precisely these same manipulations of parasocial (fake) relationships

RT @[email protected]

The Twitter Blue subscriber in a nut shell

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1650855555655942146

On Thursday, March 30, I was arrested at City Hall and charged with Mischief Under $5000 for an act of civil disobedience over a month earlier. Since that news broke, rumours about who I am and my past have circulated around the city. I want to take a moment to address the arrest and some of my background.
My arrest earlier this week was for allegedly throwing eggs at the Mayor's office; a simple act of civil disobedience, and an age-old representation of public shame – something that John Tory desperately needed to be subjected to. I've been asked many times, "Why did you do that?", including as I strolled away.
So why would somebody want to egg John Tory’s office?
Perhaps because 533 unhoused Torontonians, 533 human beings, lost their lives over the course of his term as Mayor. Or perhaps because he leaves behind him a city in which one in four youths live in poverty, where countless more Torontonians are slipping into poverty as well, where every day more and more of us are losing our homes, our livelihoods, our dignity. The average rent in this city has gone up 116% in the past 12 years while we must struggle harder and harder to afford groceries, and policies of austerity and social neglect have devastated our communities, the soul of the city itself. Any one of these failures of leadership might inspire acts of civil disobedience.
And what are the leaders of a city to do when citizens feel driven to get up to what John Lewis would call “good trouble”? They could listen to the people whose lives they have taken responsibility for when we raise our voices in any way we can to say “Enough!” They could take the concerns of the people seriously, and respond with meaningful action. Or they could arrest a guy for throwing some eggs, because to them being temporarily embarrassed seems to warrant a swifter and more decisive reaction than 533 deaths.
It is clear from the pettiness of their priorities that the politicians and power brokers who think of this city as their property are either uninterested in the struggles working class people in Toronto face today, or are too committed to the very path that led us here to imagine doing anything differently. Unless you have a six-figure salary and a million-dollar mortgage, the current leadership of this city isn’t listening to you, and has nothing to offer you except anxiety and empty words.
In response, it is alleged that I offered them some eggs.
This is not the first time I have been arrested. Like many of us, I did not have the easiest time growing up; I was in and out of correctional facilities multiple times over a period of about 6 years of my youth, each after an instance of joyriding, twice resulting in a police pursuit. The time I spent in the system was a formative experience for the adult that I grew into, and the lessons I learned about human beings and the systems we live in and are oppressed by are foundational to the values I live by today and the work I do with and for my fellow Torontonians.
These values do not allow me to keep silent and do nothing in the face of suffering and injustice. You can ask the Encampment Support Network, or Bike Brigade about that. Ask Health Providers Against Poverty, or the Shelter and Housing Justice Network. Ask Doug Hatlem Johnson, who passed the heavy weight of helping to maintain the Toronto Homeless Memorial on to me when he left Toronto. I stand and act in solidarity with all the neglected and mistreated people of this city, not because it is easy or popular with the powerful, but because it is right. Because I believe that there is a way forward through dark times and despair, if we take care of each other and have each others’ backs.
And in this, I am far from alone.
I have spoken to people at nine protests in just the past week. From TTCRiders to Healthcare4All, students demanding climate justice and queer liberation, tenants organizing against demovictions, and rallies in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders, the spirit of resistance is alive and well in this city. Hunger for change is growing every day, and it is plain for all to see that the people who presided over the past decade of disasters will not be the ones to deliver the change we need. A better Toronto is possible – a city built on community and compassion and civic engagement – but the leadership to make that vision a reality will not come from the top down. That leadership will have to come from us.
If, to quote Lila Watson, your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

And if all this makes it sound like I’m hatching something...stay tuned.

#TOpoli #EggMan #EggManForMayor #TorontoMayorElection #Toronto

25 minutes.

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#Environment #DivestUofT #ClimateChange #CommunityDefence #TheKidsAreAlright #TorontoActions #FuckThePolice

L'événement a été déplacé dans un lieu tenu secret. Barbada est prof et anime une émission pour enfants à Tou.tv, mais même ce vernis de respectabilité suffit pas aux réacs délirant-e-s.

#ExtrêmeDroite #CancelCulture #drag
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/2023-04-02/drag-queen-barbada/un-conte-pour-enfants-deplace-en-raison-d-une-manifestation.php