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@whatanerd@treehouse.systems
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An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist.
ADHD, dyslexia, and audio-processing disorder
queer, non-binary, pansexual ace.

[Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.]

Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.

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hey gamers, so as I already said I'll be giving a talk on US fascism this week and I'm planning to bring ZEENS, so now I need y'alls help in getting ZEENS that are worth tabling. I'm looking for zeens on US fascism ofc, analysis, reportbacks, accounts, strategy, practical guides, anything you may find worthwhile to the topic. one thing I'm specifically looking for is a nicely formatted Jane's Revenge reader, with all their communiques.

you can reply with files, links, or even just titles n I'll try to find them. if you're not sure whether I might find something worthwhile or not, please suggest it anyways. I'll sift through them all and pick out what I want. thanks in advance

now, death to america and let's get some ZEENS

CN: Abuse, transmisogyny, Piper Smith or @Yourfriendpiper

re: Piper Smith or @Yourfriendpiper

Piper abused my friend for five months and specifically targets transfems

I cut Piper off on October 27th last year for lying, manipulating, stalking, triangulating, screenshotting signal messages, non stop context collapsing, and a number of other behaviors which made me want to get as far from her as possible.

Afterwards she started dating one of my friends who she proceeded to abuse horrifically for 5 months.

She cut both myself and my partner off from being in relationship to these friends through the above behaviors
In April, we were finally able to reconnect after the abuse became so extreme our friend was finally able to escape.

I have watched in horror over the last few months as more and more details of her abuse have come to light. Including of former partners.

She is an abuser. She abused my friend. She has been told this multiple times and said "it didn't match her reality."

She's currently trying to badjacket her survivors' support team and to muddy the waters to make it all confusing and make it hard to pinpoint where the actual abuse is coming from. She'll come up with more and more outrageous stuff we did. Again one of the reasons I cut her off was this non stop flow of lies and context collapse.

But without question. She abused my friend. And it was bad.

Rot in a dumpster you pos abusive chaser

Genuinely don't understand how all these tourists cannot figure out an old elevator and keep opening the doors before it's finished the cycle, which forces a lot of us to either have a temporarily broken elevator (because the doors are open and the cycle is unfinished, so we have to find the floor it's on and then get in to close the doors to help it finish the cycle) or just full-on breaks the elevator as a whole.

Not to mention, if they stop it before the cycle is finished? Most of the time it stops either a good 3 cm above or below the floor, which is a tripping hazard. A lot of elderly folks live here, and that is going to hurt them.

Fuck AirBnB, fuck people and companies who rent out AirBnBs, and fuck all these tourists who keep breaking our shit and acting like they're the ones being hurt the most.

I wish Mastodon on desktop had more than three mute options. Sometimes 1 hour is good enough so that I can see other things. 24 hours, 1 week, and 30 days are a bit absurd as the only options.

In the past, have you ever tried to imagine what it's like to live under an authoritarian regime that brainwashes the people living under it and doesn't give them access to uncensored information? Like, being disconnected from reality without being able to know that this is what's actually happening to you.

Well, I think that at this point of time, we are all living in this reality. We are subject to so much surveillance, brainwash and censorship that it's really difficult to stay informed, think critically and stay in touch with reliable sources and independent thinkers.

I don't really know how to deal with this, but I'm sure that going on thinking that things will just naturally resolve themselves and everything will be fine - isn't it.

It really grinds my gears when people publicly cast doubt on the legitimacy of a victim's story and then act baffled when anyone is at all annoyed with them or describes them as antagonistic. What?? Why is anyone mad??? I was just looking for the truth! How could it be wrong to seek out the truth??

I think if people realised they had to solve their own problems and not rely on the authority of others, things might actually be different.

This isn't saying that people don't do this already, but if they were more cognisant of that fact and weren't constantly being told in every situation to appeal to authority first (only for authority to not work, even when it does something)...

... Just maybe we'd be doing something differently in this world instead of waiting around for solutions that'll never come (or voting for promises that are forever broken).

Considering how I basically lost all my clients (they went back to their country of origin), I am very glad that I quite literally got my unlimited residence (meaning there are two changes to my status here: it's long-term and there's no income requirement) right at the very last day before I had to deal with language tests just to have a little more safety.

Love when I make just under โ‚ฌ500 in one month and, because of the "public" healthcare and the supposed social insurance, I basically make less than โ‚ฌ200.

Not asking for donations or anything. I'm okay for now and other people definitely need it more than I do, but it is just wild that these motherfuckers in governments seem to think this is cool.

And also that we let them.

@whatanerd YES, thank you. so much of the pushback against all of these censorship laws center their discourse on how they affect adults, and that is just not enough. these laws would be pernicious and unfair even if they could be magicaly enforced only on minors, with no adult ever being affected.
the notion that it is good and noble for adults to limit and control children's access to information is the reason these laws exist in the first place. they may be repelled this time, but other similar laws will appear time and time again as long as we keep believing that not everyone has a right to free, uncensored information. NO ONE has a secure, guranteed access to free information until children do