Learning how to balance surviving the present with supporting resistance efforts while also participating in collective experiments in prefiguring better futures.
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Header image description: screenshot of text that reads: "It wasn't always this, and it won't always be this... How can I find the most liberated position in the current reality?" (adrianne maree brown, Possibilities Podcast S3E5, 2019)
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Of all the symptoms of global systems collapse, the one that terrifies me the most is this.
I need meds to keep me able to move. I’ll grind to a halt without them.
For some friends, it’s life and death.
As we let go of some of the old world, please let us keep meds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-18/middle-east-war-medicines-supply-costs/106465132
Over the last few years, Catalyst Social Centre has been critical for grass roots community events here in Naarm. It now has a big new location with more permanent lease, and it has the opportunity to be something really special.
There's a fundraiser up, and it's only asking for the minimum amount needed for materials for the fit out, with dozens of volunteers doing all the hard work.
If you're looking for a high impact place to donate a bit of money, this is certainly it. Please chip something in folks.
Catalyst Social Centre is a radical community space located in Coburg, on unceded Wurundjeri Country. The centre is a hub for radical organising and events. It offers free event/meeting spaces for individuals and collectives engaged in leftist organising and solidarity work.
Yup.
https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-about-cops
The biggest factors in the delta between what cops actually do, and white white folk incorrectly think they do:
1) Copaganda TV shows
2) Framing by newspapers and TV news
Without this sustained disinformation campaign against Black people, white folk would not accept this level of racism.🤷🏿♂️
"The police chokehold - also known as the Lateral Vascular Neck Restraint hold, LVNR or sleeper hold - involves compressing the arteries and veins in the neck to decrease blood supply to the brain.
Queensland is currently the only state in Australia to allow the controversial chokehold.
... in addition to the well-documented evidence base of chokeholds and the risks associated with death for all Australians, the unacceptable risk the chokehold poses to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Peoples."
"there have been at least five deaths involving the chokehold in Queensland. These five victims were Stevie Lee Nixon-McKellar, Noombah, Christopher Martin, Carl Grillo and Michael Eddy."
"... Stevie Lee's mother, Dr Raylene Nixon, is spearheading a campaign to ban chokeholds in Queensland. "
"The campaign saw some early success. On 14 April 2023, then QPS Commissioner Katarina Caroll removed the chokehold as a use of force option for the Queensland Police Service. A direction to cease using the technique was put in place. References to the chokehold were removed from the police manual... But just one month later, Commissioner Caroll reneged, stating pressure from the Queensland Police Union... The LVNR is currently allowed in 'dangerous situations'.
"The death of George Floyd prompted jurisdictions around the globe to ban the chokehold...All Australian states and territories besides Queensland have banned the use of chokeholds. Victoria, NSW and Qld are all categorical in stating they do not teach or advocate the use of any form of chokehold or respiratory neck restraint."
Dr Nixon is continuing the campaign, see https://nit.com.au/10-03-2026/23068/mother-fights-to-ban-police-chokeholds-in-queensland
"A petition calling on the coroner to release the footage of Stevie-Lee's death can be signed online."
"Releasing the footage is in the public interest. In 2020, footage of George Floyd being physically restrained by Minneapolis police flooded mainstream and social media worldwide, triggering long over-due conversations about racism and police violence around the globe. ....
In the absence of justice before the courts, releasing the footage is crucial. In Australia, no police officer has ever been held accountable in relation to any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person who has died in police custody. In the absence of justice before courts of law, justice in the court of public opinion takes on special importance. "
#NoMoreDeathsInCustody #FirstNationsJustice #QueenslandPolice #QldGov #QLD #Justice4StevieLee #DeathsInCustody
On 7 October, 2021, Steven Lee Nixon-McKeller was killed at the hands of two Queensland Police Service (QPS) officers in Toowoomba.Stevie Lee was just twenty-seven years old. He died after he was held...
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116212328257230121
“You cannot preserve neutrally in a medium that punishes existence without continuous capital investment. The very act of maintaining digital memory is political, materially enforced at the level of electrical current and contract law. I know you know this. A single broken dependency, an unplugged server, a licensing change, or a corporate buyout – any one of these can collapse an entire digital system.”
This whole essay is excellent.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116206636468006458
"Space is the New Railroad for Billionaire Ambitions...
The same laws that make space appear neutral ironically lay the staging ground for monopolistic capture. Space is not just open, but open for business—through the infrastructure of access. This is no longer just a question of profit or national might. Instead, space offers the power to leapfrog international laws....
..when America took the same approach to the railways and utilities, the monopolists’ price-setting and rent-seeking gouged both the everyday American and the state. As decades of later waffling between public and private ownership of these large infrastructures shows, accountability is not an ingredient you can readily add later....
.... Thinking outside existing competition regulation can help us to regulate the billionaire-owned networks that undergird our democracies, on Earth and in space. " - Janet Vertesi / Mar 10, 2026
I really enjoy the combination of technical and conceptual prefiguring in this project description #reticulum #solarpunk
"The future of this technology is a construction project... You have the tools. You have the philosophy. The noise of the old world has fallen away, leaving you with the quiet clarity of the open spectrum"
RE: https://aus.social/@timhollo/116170923934277940
"...none of us will ever be free until all are free
...
Those of us who can sleep sound in our beds, let us do so, so we can use our freedom to work for the freedom of all. Tomorrow"
Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
Tim Hollo
Jade
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
mekka okereke 
Pat Allan
Willow, Venus Pirate 🏳️⚧️