I don't know who needs to hear this, but the term "woke" didn't start with kids on Twitter.

The was first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s in a song called "The Scottsboro Boys," about the dangers Black Americans faced traveling through states in the Deep South. The original line was "best stay woke," as in, "remain aware of the dangers of racism."

Black communities shortened the term to "stay woke," over time, and eventually added "woke" as a state of being--or constant awareness.

Twitter used to be our main marketing tool--the primary way we sold books online and got the word out.

These days, not so much.

Please help support us and our authors with a signal boost! We are an independent publisher based in Chennai with books on folklore from different parts of India, graphic novels, ghost encyclopedias, weird horror, pulp fiction in translation, and some pretty strange little zines.

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals

#bookstodon
#indiepublishing

Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing: Half tutorial, half manifesto.

Step-by-step instructions with additional commands and things to look out for. Along with steps toward a better future.

https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/chromebook-revive

Chromebooks reach end of life and stop getting updates. They tend to either be trashed or scrapped. Let's make them boot to an up-to-date and secure OS and give them out to anyone who needs them. Make them into portable webservers, make your own off-grid networks. I talk about the issues, but also steps we can take to reframe our relationship with technology by changing our social relations. This connects with the revolutionary vision of the early internet & computing and the cross-over of the counterculture.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/opensourcesocieties

In the face of climate collapse we can move away from profit driven and destructive practices in tech - and towards decommodified, interoperable, modular, and appropriate technology that is shaped by the people, and made to last with as little impact on the ecosystem as possible.
#permacomputing #solarpunk

This is awesome on so many levels😁

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A female led revolution :

For years the Islamic Republic has tried to shame Iranian women in the most intimate ways. Today, protesters in Iran are using sanitary pads to cover the regime’s CCTV cameras, which could identify protesters.

Ingenious acts of defiance.
💚🤍❤️

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/m_aslany/status/1593262504360251392