@gordon hey, it's been awhile! Hope you are doing well :)
Emile Snyder
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Many interests, little time. Unschooling parent. Long-term interest in bicycles; built a bamboo diamond frame bike years ago, learning TIG welding now to mess around more again. I would like to talk with more thoughtful and empathetic people with whom I don't agree. Periodically I am very sad. Wrassle computers for money.
@coolandnormal those Dorothea Lange photos of the hop pickers around Grants Pass Oregon are a trip. I live about 50 miles from there now, and grew up ~25 miles from there.
Heliograph
From the "every accusation is a confession" department, Tom Homan, quoted in the article, saying "we're going to create a database where those people [protesting ICE] that are arrested for interference, impeding, and assault, we're going to make them famous... We're going to let their employers, and their neighborhoods, and their schools know who these people are."
*WE* are not the ones worried about our employers, neighbors, schools knowing what we're doing!
April
My camera shoots fascistsRE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115985319695523646
So, anyone who remembers the mass protests of the late 1970s and 1980s against, for example, Diablo Canyon and Seabrook nuke plants, missile launches at Vandenberg AFB, nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site and so on, might want to share your stories right about now.
These proposed concentration camps provide perfect opportunities for mass protests, occupations and blockades. Plus, their owners and the contractors and the funders all have offices that can be locations for protests.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Systemic white supremacy is when an utterly incompetent 23-year-old white boy can fabricate an entire story about Somalis and get personal praise from the President—but two seasoned award winning Black journalists who have decades of unassailable reporting behind them get arrested for reporting on an actual protest with facts and receipts.
CrimethInc. Ex-WorkersRapid response networks have evolved swiftly over the past several months. Besieged by 3000 federal mercenaries, volunteers in the Twin Cities have continuously updated their rapid response model, developing a dynamic and resilient system.
This report explores how you can learn from their model to build your own.
laen🪻(a #MutualAid post, i guess)
if anyone can help please?
i'm a disabled, autistic, nonbinary sculptor with a husband and two cats, one of whom needs daily medication and special food.
i'm still down around 75% of my sales this year after having lost nearly 90% in august to november last year thanks to US tariffs. i'm also increasingly missing days of work now due to my deteriorating health. husband is doing his best, but it's just not enough. we are not surviving.
our washing machine is broken; we've spoken to an engineer who's said that a repair will cost at least 750€ and that it's not worth doing, given the machine is 19 years old, so we need to buy another. we also need a car repair; we can do it ourselves, but we'll need to buy a part. and we'll need heating oil soon. plus feeding ourselves and the cats and dealing with health stuff and paying rent and.
so if anyone would like to buy a sculpture or just give us a few currency units to help keep us afloat, that would be amazing.
i'll be adding more sculptures tomorrow and in fact every friday/saturday. i can ship to the US again — tariff free! — but it's quite expensive as the cheaper service hasn't been reintroduced (hence the not many sales, sigh).
thank you, and i'm sorry.
sculptures at: https://www.driftingspirits.art
(or, for UK and norway folk because tax reasons, https://www.etsy.com/shop/driftingspirits)
Got to participate in firing a train style kiln last weekend; it was super cool! Now just have to be patient until next Saturday to see the results... but waiting is hard! 😅 #woodfired #pottery
