Always carry a pen or marker. You never know when you'll have to write the bathroom lock code on the door.
Josh
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he/him, my politics lie somewhere along the Gamera / Porco Rosso axis.
@AnarchoNinaWrites long time follower, first time caller. Who is Brey?
Aisling "the bastard of earth" Fawn"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" well i asked my tarot deck and it suggested i stick ten swords in your back
I think the Feb 28 boycott would be a lot more interesting if we only bought ammunition.
Marc "ACAB" GodinOkay, look, I know it's fun and good to make fascists mad, but and also, maybe don't replicate sexism when making fun of unabashed sexists? The goal isn't to make sexists mad, it's to end sexism, and replicating sexism does not do that.
PassengerA subtoot:
Please do not tell me your plans for doing crimes. That includes telling me in DM. Please do not invite me to do crimes with you. Please do not tell me who else is doing crimes with you. Please do not give me your contact details and ask me to contact you there to discuss doing crimes with you.
I'm not going to fedjacket you. I don't think you're a provocateur or anything. I think you're sincere and earnest and just maybe need to improve your security culture.
Thank you.
hexThere is no electoral path to end genocide. There is no electoral path to stop, or probably even to slow, climate change. The political system is utterly incapable of addressing any large scale problem, from COVID to microplastics, because benign governments cannot protect themselves against the financial sector and malignant ones *are* the financial sector.
This is not actually a problem, if we realize that governments have never existed to protect us but rather have always existed to keep us from protecting ourselves. They have never existed to facilitate coordination between people, but to control and limit it.
As Americans move closer to making the choice between a candidate who grudgingly supports genocide or a candidate who enthusiastically supports genocide, it's time to imagine what society would look like if we could actually shape it. What would your daily life look like? What would the world look like? What would be the priorities of humanity if we all got to choose together?
We have to work backwards from what we want to figure out how to make it happen. Fear is a powerful motivator for destructive actions, but it suppresses creative and constructive ones. Authoritarianism traps us in a fear spiral. We must dream to escape.
We have to start with hope to motivate us to build the world we want to see. Hope, a vision of something good, has always been the thing that moves humanity forward. Hope motivates creative action, resistance, and resilience.
I gotta get back to learning clawhammer style banjo. Protest songs don't work as well with the bluegrass style I learned.
HeavenlyPossumPaul Parkman died earlier this month. He was the first person to isolate the rubella* virus and helped develop the vaccine against it that’s still in use today.
He purposefully gave away his patent rights so the vaccine could be distributed as cheaply as possible. He saved countless lives. A tremendous hero.
The next time someone insists that capitalist greed is human nature, that no one will ever labor “for free,” remember Dr. Parkman and the countless other scientists and doctors who have saved so many of us.
* edit: I originally misattributed Parkman with developing the measles vaccine
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/auburnpub/name/paul-parkman-obituary?id=55136675
ooo, I just found the option to have a terminal pane at the bottom of the Dolphin file manager. It even follows you around the file system as you navigate. This is nice! Anyone know how to get something like that under Windows 10 too? I use the git-bash prompt under the right-click menu all the time, but having it just there all the time would be frickin' sweet.