Glenn

@xretsim
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No time for bigots. Husband and Minecraft Dad. Software developer. Entrepreneur. Tooth Fairy. DM. Uber-nerd. Black lives matter. Defund the police. (he/him)

South Carolina raised a confederate flag over its state house in the 1960s to show contempt for desegregation and Black Americans pursuing civil rights.

Four decades later they moved it to a flagpole at a monument to men who died fighting to preserve chattel slavery.

On 27 July 2015 Bree Newsome scaled that 30ft flagpole, removing that hateful flag. In just days the state decided to take it down permanently.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Bree Newsome's essential, moral, courageous action.

Friends, I don’t know how to explain this any more simply: there can be no such thing as an anarchist prison.

Either there is some coercive institution with a privileged relationship to violence that can put you in a cage, or there isn’t.

Prisons are not some neutral tool that could theoretically be used by a community for self-defense from aggressors, but just so happen to be used everywhere by states as tools of oppressive rule.

They *are* oppressive rule.

“But how will we deal with murderers and rapists without prisons” THEY DON’T DO THAT NOW

People really live in a world where prisons are sites of torture, rape, slavery, and mass murder, in which a fraction of all violent crimes are ever solved, in which countless *statutorily innocent people* languish in cells while people like Donald Trump are elevated to positions of power that insulate them from any legal repercussions…

…and somehow come away with the idea that “the prison” exists as some sort of Platonic Ideal for handling bad people that, somehow, for some reason, we keep messing up.

Meta aligning with Trump's false narrative that enforcing competition law is a "tariff” 🤢

"the Commission forcing us to change our business model effectively imposes a multi-billion-dollar tariff on Meta while requiring us to offer an inferior service”

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/metas-statement-in-response-to-the-european-commissions-decision-on-the-digital-markets-act/

Meta’s Statement in Response to the European Commission’s Decision on the Digital Markets Act | Meta

Meta's statement in response to the European Commission's decision on the Digital Markets Act: “The European Commission is attempting to handicap

Meta
I bought some buttons.
I actually don't want people to sell their Teslas. They have a higher purpose. Each is a valuable canvas.

@gl33p "Now take this Tesla. There it is: pretentious, ugly, wasteful... But if it is destroyed...

So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color!"

If mass deportation can become a reality in the United States, so can universal healthcare, accessible housing, and the expansion of public ownership.
@greycat @vampiress I'm not a super-expert, but I think this is an OG shot. There are, however, a lot of sequences that just show 3 x-wings, and I think in the SE, a lot of those had more X-wings added. They also, IIRC, fixed a lot of bits where the x-wings had an overlay box around them that interfered with the starfield.