ZephyrXero

@zephyrxero@layer8.space
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Some guy on the internet...

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God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal

The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

Hard to argue with that.

Yo, real talk—what the fuck are we gonna do when the internet gets shut off?

We've seen it in #Gaza, in #Iran, and when Elon ā€œI-play-Godā€ Musk blacked out Starlink in Ukraine. Every time shit gets heavy, the state or some oligarch clown just pulls the plug. It ain’t just a glitch—it’s strategic, it’s repression, and it’s a fucking reminder that most of our comms infrastructure is in the hands of fascists, corporations, or both.

I’ve been working with indigenous comrades who rely on #Starlink to stay connected in remote areas. And yeah, it’s wild that you can be deep in the bush and still shitpost from a mountaintop—but that signal still runs through a pipeline owned by a Nazi tech bro.

We need to be talking more about mesh networks, autonomous infrastructure, all that good shit that anarchist tech nerds have been yelling about for years. Decentralized, resilient, community-controlled comms aren’t just cool—they’re necessary for survival.

Let’s keep this convo alive and start building the lifelines before the next blackout. Shit’s coming fast.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/activists-are-designing-mesh-networks-to-deploy-during-civil-unrest/

Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest

The Mycelium Mesh Project is testing DIY networks that can be quickly deployed on trees or lamp posts during a political uprising.

VICE

I can tell if someone has never been poor by how they talk about poverty. People who have never been poor have this weird fantasy of "Poor, but happy" "They are just simple folks who appreciate the simple things in life". They've created this false ideal that people in poverty have less to worry about somehow.

Mo Money, Mo Problems is privilege speak. There is also this idea that Wealth = Intelligence, but I'm pretty sure the last decade has disproved that in spades.

Congress members have a legal right to conduct oversight at ICE facilities. This is the regime hiding its blatant abuses.
Live rounds pulled on unarmed protesters today at the ICE facility in Portland, Or.
Putting aside everything else that's wrong with streaming platforms, why is there still no "Report" option in Tidal or Spotify? A quite regular occurence is artist pages and New Releases playlists including tracks from impersonators with the same name. Absolutely no way to fight it.
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@skeletor in my inspirational skeletor era

@skeletor This actually makes a lot more sense than leafing. How do you leaf? I can't leaf.

😁

@skeletor That was a joke. I know they mean "leave."
@skeletor because I don't live 700 years?
@skeletor Trees do compete with other trees.
Meet Pando, The Largest Living Organism on Earth

In the heart of Utah, nestled within the Fishlake National Forest, there exists an awe-inspiring natural wonder known to the world as Pando

Wild Planet Explorer
@skeletor I will probably forget, but right now I want to re-boost this every day.
I don't like how people intentionally misinterpret this to pedantically disagree.
"like a tree" not "actually become an actual tree".
Also the tree part seems the setup for the important part.

I posit people struggle with being a good person and will jump to excuse to not
face it.

I also assume that if I don't like it, there's a good chance I am guilty of that or
similar behaviour, but just can't see it.
@skeletor even trees race grow high in a Forrest then block out the sunlight to smaller ones while growing wider.
Allelopathy In Plants: What Plants Suppress Other Plants

Plant allelopathy is all around us; yet, many people have never even heard of this interesting phenomenon. Allelopathy can have an adverse effect in the garden, though, and this article will explain why.

Gardening Know How
@skeletor Beech trees drip poison to inhibit the growth of other plants...

@skeletor

When my stepdad died in 1995, one of our family friends planted a small tree in his honor in our front yard.

I got to watch that tree grow over the next four years while I was there, and as I (slowly) healed.

I still think about that tree every now and then. We sold that house in the 2000s, and the tree got removed at some point, according to street view.

Still, it was a nice gesture.

@jarbus