Syan.me

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Mobile and Rails dev • Maker of SaneScanner • Part time drag queen and full time freak 🏳️‍🌈• http://syan.me • he/she/ • (searchable)

RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/116121642495262421

“Purity culture” is part of patriarchy and is the close sibling of rape culture. It is part of misogyny and specifically exists to shame and devalue women for their innate sexuality. It’s part of a system that grooms you as a child to accept psychological abuse and have low self worth.

It’s not when you feel uncomfy because someone pointed out the consequences of your actions.

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. 

They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. 

They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. 

He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.

Silverio Villegas González was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee. 

He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school. 

The bullet went through the back of his neck.

Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA. 

The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.

Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her a “f*cking b*tch” after. 

ICE claims she was using her vehicle as a weapon despite multiple videos showing she was trying to drive away from the agent. 

2 of the 3 shots were through driver side door.

The ICE agent shot her through her windshield, moved out of the way of the vehicle and kept shooting. 

He was in no danger. But he didn’t stop shooting until he got the kill shot.

Independent autopsy confirms it was through her left temple and out the right side of her skull.

There’s been so much documented abuse of power. 

In addition to the shootings we have Liam Ramos, a five year old child who was used as bait and then taken by masked agents and sent from Minnesota to Texas.

There’s Geraldo Campos who was choked to death in an ICE camp in Texas. 

The medical examiner officially ruled his death a homicide, and DHS moved to deport the witnesses!

Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody. 

They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back.

Randall Gamboa Esquivel was in perfect health when detained by ICE. 

He disappeared while in custody. 

By the time his family located him, he was in a persistent vegetative state. 

They deported him to Costa Rica and he died soon after.

David Courvelle worked as a detention officer in an ICE facility in Louisiana. 

He sexually assaulted a Nicaraguan detainee for three months, forcing other detainees to keep watch while he abused her.

Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother of 8 who had been in the US for 40 years, was sexually harassed by an ICE contractor. 

He reportedly would tell her if she was good to him, he would be good to her. 

When she reported the harassment she was immediately detained.

Bayron Rovidio Marin had his leg broken during an ICE raid in LA. 

He was then held in the hospital under a fake name so no one could find him. 

He was chained to a hospital bed for 37 days until a court ordered his release.

There’s Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in ICE custody for almost a year. 

He was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they grabbed him. 

He’s being denied his prosthetics, he’s been placed in solitary and his health is declining

Now there’s Alex Pretti, another US citizen shot and killed in broad daylight. 

These are not just a few random incidents. 

It’s not a few “bad apples”.

It’s a systemic problem.

These agents have been allowed to hide their identities, filled with hateful rhetoric and told they have immunity.

People are being abused, assaulted and killed by ICE.

This isn’t about immigration or crime, it’s about control & creating fear.

It’s tyranny and no one is safe under tyranny.

The scariest part is these are only the cases we know about. 

At least 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Elected officials are regularly denied access into the camps. 

We have to assume we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. 

Abolish ICE.

Close the camps.

Keep witnessing and speaking out.

#uspol #alexpretti #abolishice #minnesota #fascism

"they're here illegally" imagine caring about that shit. Bureaucratic nonsense. Do you get this pissed when people's car tags are out of date? Who cares, get a life
You couldn't pay me to care about someone's status with the government. That shit is completely fake and not interesting
Working on a hardware project is…humbling. Everytime I push a new firmware out I’m stressing so much about « will it fix the issue I had? » « will it create new bugs? » but mostly « what if I messed up WiFi handling and it can never connect and update again? »
And then I release the new firmware, and slowly watch devices updating from my dashboard, and a sense of calm washes over me.

Merry Christmas! To the non-trans folks out there can you give me a present?

If your family gathering gets political, don’t defend trans folks; celebrate them.

Don’t deny that trans folks are bad, insist that they are good. Explain that society and the world is worse without them. Don’t deny their hate, express to them the love and light trans folks bring to the world.

I am quite proud of all the thoughts that went into this project. Only 10 printers exist for now, soon to be 30, and there is still so many qwirks to iron out, but damn is it nice to have a proper product in the hands of its first users 🥰
Close up ☺️
So here it is in action !
I want it to become an alternative to instant messaging, and help keep me closer to the people I love while being as slow tech as possible. Imagine if WhatsApp and a fax machine had ever met and showed us a warmer way to communicate.