Love it when right before a family gathering the putative patriarch spams everyone to say “remember, we love each other so don’t talk politics.” Bitch I’m talking “politics” *because* I love you
Love it when right before a family gathering the putative patriarch spams everyone to say “remember, we love each other so don’t talk politics.” Bitch I’m talking “politics” *because* I love you
Yesterday I planted goji berries, at the northern limit of their range, so whoever is living here, or the birds, will always have them
Robert Anton Wilson wrote a lot about pyramidal command and control structures; where everyone lies to their superiors, telling them what they want to hear, lies to their subordinates to get them to do as told and lies to their peers hoping for self respect. He was trying to show that all such structures are inherently dysfunctional, doomed and contain the seeds of their own destruction or something.
United States Disappeared Tracker
803 persons disappeared (as of April 3).
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map
Mastodon is a great place to see very serious domain experts posting pictures of their cats, dogs, and baby goats.
So that well-regulated militia seems very effective against innocent school kids but not so much against fascism then.
Hello, world! We are Bunk Computer Cooperative -- a worker-owned technology #coop in Western North Carolina. We're building local computing infrastructure that's of and for Western #northcarolina
We're still getting off the ground, but we've been hard at work the last eight months and we're ready to introduce ourselves. We wrote an #introduction blog post that you can read at the link in our bio, and we'd be thrilled if you did! Boosts Appreciated!
Yours in bits and bytes,
Bunk Cooperators
Hey, here’s an idea: you know the autocorrect on your phone that fucks things up daily? Let’s feed it the Internet and let it decide who lives and who dies. Who’s with me?
I’ve been repeatedly pointing people at this over the past few weeks, so putting it here: https://how.complexsystems.fail
"I was fine with the rape and the fraud and the endless lies and the misogyny and the racism and the homophobia and the transphobia and the corruption and the police brutality and the caged babies and the terrorism and the attempted coup and the autocracy and the ending the rule of law and the threats to invade neighbouring countries and the building-a-golf-resort-on-top-of-a-genocide, but now he's giving Wall Street the jitters, so I'm not so sure about this guy any more." #USpol
YouTube has just changed its rules to allow hate speech against gender minorities
https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from
If you currently publish on YouTube, please consider putting your videos on PeerTube instead or as well:
https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube
Your audience doesn't have to be on PeerTube themselves. They can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon etc, and they can even follow PeerTube from podcasting apps such as Apple Podcasts.
(via @taylorlorenz on https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114274955775553205)
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_students_immigrants_mahmoud_khalil
#Jewish #ColumbiaUniversityStudents Chain Themselves to #ColumbiaUniversity Fence to Protest #Khalil Detention
"As Jewish students, we grew up learning about the rise of #fascism, learning about how important it is to stand up when you see #injustice in the world," said one #protester.
by Julia Conley, Apr 02, 2025
"'We are here in protest of that to demand that the university tell us which trustees, which members of the university administration, are responsible for this so we can demand immediate consequences for them and hold them accountable for what they've done to our peer,' said the undergraduate student.
"Shea added that Jewish students were leading the protest because 'the attacks on our international students, on students of color, have been so fierce, so dangerous, so disproportionate that we are the only students who can be here right now taking this risk.'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-student-protests
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #AlirezaDoroudi #RumeysaOzturk #YunseoChung #KseniyaPetrova #Disappeared #Orwellian #MemoryHole #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ICE
#JewishVoicesForPeace
Trump just erased $2 trillion from the US stock market in like a day, which is apparently how much bankers were willing to pay to say “pussy” and “retard” again.
https://newrepublic.com/post/190209/donald-trump-tech-bros-gross-slurs
The days of "Don't be evil" are long gone.
Youtube removes "gender identity" as a protected status and allows people to call trans people mentally ill.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wo3lxbcfvdptzxyvq3qt2rgj/post/3llwcso3m3s2y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqnKIc5pHw&list=PLneypbodq-jYq9a6Y8BjobC6KJOIBLCZB&index=3
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to #Columbia Gates to Protest #ICE Jailing of #MahmoudKhalil
Hello, my friends. I have a different request for aid. I have a trans friend who has just escaped the US, but she couldn't bring any of her stuff along, and she doesn't have anywhere to live.
She's in the region of Quebec City, so any resources we can find to help her would be valuable. Right now she's crashing temporarily with someone, but that can't last. She's waiting on a place in a shelter, but that will only last 3 months when it happens, and may be months yet.
So I'm looking for anyone who knows someone in the region who might be able to help, who has a room to spare while she gets on her feet. I can vouch for her, she's trustworthy and helpful, easy to get along with. I've known her two years. She needs to stay in the region if she's going to be in Canada, because her children live there (with her ex).
There's no money request on this one, just looking for help finding a place she can stay while she finds work and gets settled again.
Thank you. Boosts encouraged.
They're putting tariffs on Cambodia? What an asshole.
Trump's tariffs make no sense until you look at the state of US companies. Flagship firms like Boeing, Ford and Intel are falling behind the competition. They can't compete on a world scale any more than Porsche and other German companies could in the 1930s. The answer then was protectionism, wars for raw materials and slave labour. Trump may not have given a Nazi salute but this is fascist economics.
#trump #tariffs #fascism