Justin

@justin@tacoma.community
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A human living in Tacoma, WA with my partner and our two dogs.

Enjoy cooking, crafting, hiking, an occasional run and I’ve been known to ski down a hill now and then.

I have recently have gotten into pottery and sewing as new hobbies having taken local classes recently in Tacoma.


Diversity and inclusion matter!

Oh, I run Tacoma.Community!

#Pottery #Sewing #Tacoma #TacomaWA #EBike #ElectricUnicyle #YouAreNotAlone #MentalHealthMatters #CommunityBuilding #NativePride

pronounshe/him
locationTacoma, WA
Justin6h ago
Jennifer Jorgenson10h ago
#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #animal #animals #cute #cuteanimal #Pic #pictures #picture #pics
Justin6h ago
Andrew Graeme10h ago
Santiago, Chile, 2014: Tercer Feria Mujer Indígena / Third Indigenous Women's Market
#photography #streetphotography #indigenous #Santiago #Chile
Justin7h ago
Dare Obasanjo10h ago

Microsoft president Brad Smith acknowledged that the four rounds of layoffs this year are more about using the money saved to fund AI data centers and GPUs than workers being replaced by AI.

I think this is important for the media to get right versus making it seem like ChatGPT can replace a human worker.

Justin7h ago
Bill10h ago
NBC reporting on a guy on Vermont refurbishing payphones and setting them up on cell dead zones for free. I kinda want to give him all my money. Thats is fucking awesome.
Justin7h ago
Vee12h ago
Cr: Kentucky Humane Society (KHS)
Justin7h ago
LA - Obsidian Photography9h ago
#SilentSunday #NaturePhotography #PNW
Justin7h ago
SF Photographer11h ago
July in #SanFrancisco means the hot weather in the Central Valley sucks the fog off the Pacific and into the Bay. If you never leave the City (especially the western side) you may never know that summer is actually warm.

About an hour north of my house, on Mt Tamalpais in Marin County, is a well-documented ridgeline. Car companies have filmed commercials there, and every local landscape photographer has taken photos similar to those below. It's also popular with road cyclists. Saturday night it was equally popular with photographers and high school stoners (there may be a direct line there).

July, hot weather, Saturday night and fog. A great night to be out.

#landscapephotography #photography #fog #longexposure
Justin7h ago
Dan Gillmor10h ago

"The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear."

Rebecca Solnit implores Big Journalism to do its job -- to make it clear, and explain the consequences.

I fear they've already made their choice: to be quislings.

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout-fire-this-tis-burning/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning

The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we were in a war and no one noticed? Obviously all the people

Meditations in an Emergency
Justin7h ago
moosjazz10h ago

A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague - an infection in the lung.
It’s treatable if caught early enough.

“Plague is a bacterial infection known as "The Black Death" that killed tens of millions in 14th century Europe. During an eight-year period, from 1346 to 1353, it killed up to 60% of the population of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to estimates.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plague-kills-arizona-resident-health-officials-say/

Plague kills Arizona resident, marking first recorded death since 2007, health officials say

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local officials said.

Justin7h ago
💧🌏 Greg Cocks1d ago
Well, yes...
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Inspirational Skeletor💀15h ago
Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧15h ago
It's kind of hard to not lose faith in humanity when the mercenaries who insist that there's no other way than #capitalism not only make up many humans, but which is made up of the working class, the ones who suffer the most from capitalism, yet are the ones who defend it with their lives. If not humanity, then at the very least, I lack any faith or hope in human intelligence and common sense.
@skeletor
Show threadVladimirN15h ago

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

BEWARE of common sense as it's what usually stops/prevent the brain to think the point over again, that's what makes the brain so lazy... Beware. Keep thinking and do not despair.
Maybe your hope/goal won't be attained during your lifetime yet human history is long (as you shown in another post).
That's why on top of your goals, what's of uttermost importance is transmission.
Best regards.

Show threadTheBlackJester14h ago
@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor mercenaries didn't work for those capital structures they worked as misappropriated financial tools of espionage and behavior programs. There is no free, willful, exchange at their hands.
Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧13h ago
That doesn't sound all that different from working for them.
@TheBlackJester @skeletor
Show threadLevka13h ago

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

The working class is is not homogeneous. Don't paint us all with the same brush. It's deeply insulting. It's also factually incorrect.

Spreading misinformation is counter-productive. So are classist insults.

You can never convince anybody of anything if you start by insulting them.

As my grandma used to say, "You'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar."

Just a suggestion.

Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧13h ago
I haven't spread any misinformation. I said the mercenaries are made up of the working class, not that all workers are these mercenaries, but that these mercenaries are mostly or entirely made up of workers, which statistically must be the case since workers make up the majority of any society, and it's not likely that capitalists are out fighting their own battles.
@LevZadov @skeletor
Show threadLevka12h ago

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

They're not all mercenaries. A substantial portion of the grassroots fascist movement here is made up of misguided volunteers. They're not getting paid. In fact, it costs them.

But that's not the working class. That's just the working class fools. We're not all fools. If you want to condemn the fools, be specific. Also take note of their growing disillusionment with the Trump regime. It's only just begun.

Even fools resent being lied to. They were, and they're waking up to it. We should encourage them. Try starting with the things we agree with them. They're against foreign wars. We're against foreign wars. We're against being lied to. So are they. They hate the elites. We hate the elites. And so forth.

Don't just write them off because we disagree with them about Trump, or race, or whatever. He's screwed them over, too. That means we have common enemies. We choose our friends but history chooses our allies. We need allies. Everyone needs allies. Even them.

Yes, enemies can bury the hatchet and fight side by side. Consider for example the fight at Itter Castle:

https://blog.togetherweserved.com/the-german-wehrmacht-and-u-s-army-fought-the-nazi-ss-together-at-itter-castle/

The German Wehrmacht and U.S. Army Fought the Nazi SS Together at Itter Castle - TogetherWeServed Blog

Learn more about the Battle of Itter Castle: Allies and Germans unite against the SS in WWII's final days on the TogetherWeServed blog.

TogetherWeServed Blog
Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧12h ago
I don't give a fuck. None of this shit matters.
@LevZadov @skeletor
Show threadLevka12h ago

@Radical_EgoCom @skeletor

It matters to the rest us. If we don't nip this fascist coup in the bud, *by any means necessary* we're the ones who are doomed. We can't do it alone.

Show threadSylocule15h ago
@skeletor #Capitalism is a poison on society
Show threadferricoxide15h ago
@Sylocule @skeletor

Any "ism" that's not carefully applied and corruption of it prevented becomes poisonous.
Show threadAustrian6h ago

@Sylocule

Live off capitalism and blame it as much as you can.

@skeletor

Show threadSylocule3h ago
@praustrian @skeletor Without choice, but at least I live in a socialist country
Show threadferricoxide15h ago
@skeletor

What the US has isn't capitalism, though. It's a predatory system operating in the guise and name of capitalism. Actual capitalism requires meaningful competition in order to function properly. The monopolists have done and are continuing to do everything in their power to ensure that they don't have to deal with competition or, especially, the consequences of antagonizing their consumers in a context where meaningful competition results in consumers having actual, meaningful choices of alternative providers.

No, what makes me lose faith in humanity is the number of people that cheer on their own exploitation because they're too freaking stupid to realize that they're vastly more likely to end up destitute than to ever be obscenely wealthy. What makes me lose faith in humanity is that most are too stupid to learn from things that befall others and to learn from history. "Self-interest" ought to be easy to discern, but seems beyond the ken of vast swaths of humanity.
Show threadCJ Paloma In Monsoon Season14h ago

@ferricoxide @skeletor

sorry, it's the use of -capital-that makes it capitalism. And that involves using a bunch of accumulated money/resources to buy the means of production in order to produce at scale.

Unlike mercantile systems of trade…where competition can help keep exchanges fairish,

producing at scale is mostly done with the intent to maximize PROFIT (gain above and beyond fair value- so exploitative by nature) and to decrease the number of competitiors.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capitalism.asp

Show threadJimmy11h ago
@ferricoxide @skeletor Monopoly is the natural state of capitalism. Capitalists are devoted to destroying competition because it reduces their profit by driving the price of goods to the their margin, and raises the price of labor to their margin. Democracy is their enemy, because it serves the masses.
Show threadWhalejuicesmoothie14h ago
@skeletor when you're no longer human, such foolishness no longer matters...
Show threadTheBlackJester14h ago
@skeletor faith is irrelevant to the corporeal, people do not have faith in the liberty of selling goods and services in willful exchange, they know it works.
Show threadVoline4h ago
@TheBlackJester
Ancaps are not anarchists
Show threadTheBlackJester4h ago
@Voline Who said anarchist or ancap?
Show threadVoline4h ago
@TheBlackJester
Oh, you ment "libertarian" in the Murray Rothbard sense. I get it.
Show threadLöhwe 📸14h ago
@skeletor@mas.to if only I could :/
Show threadDifferent Drummer13h ago
@skeletor Same thing.
Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦13h ago

@DifferentDrummer @skeletor

misanthropy is cynicism, and cynicism is acceptance. so no

Show threadjcriecke13h ago
@skeletor the harder the capitalists fight against us fixing their excesses the more I agree that capitalism is unworkable.
Show threadJubei10h ago
@jcriecke @skeletor I used to be one that thought capitalism can be tamed. It took some effort from my friend to show me the futility of my reasoning and how many others have failed. Communists label those that think they can tame capitalism as "Social democrats". Alas it is futile.
Show threadSensitivityi12h ago
@skeletor f*ck capitalism, we need something else pronto
Show threadEtherAndRhum10h ago
@skeletor You a religion yet? Cuz amen brother!
Show threadTiny Gamer Alec5h ago

@skeletor

Capitalism is working as intended. That's why rejecting it and forming communities that help each other scares them so badly, because once you do that you realise just how much of a drain on humanity the rich are.