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#pridemonth

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Magic Cauldron
Repost from last year (before I was here). This is the quilt where I want to hand appliqué hexie-butterflies and flowers I showed in previous posts:

Nothing fancy and full of mistakes - but I'm proud (sort of) of it and my non-binary child is now sleeping the first night blissfully under it's rainbow quilt.
And: One big project that really is finished! Yay! Take this ADHD! 😅

#PrideMonth #PrideQuilt #Regenbogen #Rainbow #quilt #Quilting #nähen #sewing #epp #sewingForKids #NähenFürKinder
Living Room. A Person (you only see the fingers) holds a big quilt (145 x 190 cm). The quilt consists of big squares in uni colours. The colour change follows the rainbow scheme.
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#nahenfurkinder
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

I know this story is a few weeks old at this point, but given that just yesterday I was chatting with someone in my own life who was completely unaware of it, I thought I might take a moment to highlight why it's not being reported well in our media, and most importantly talk about what Google's open signal that they'd love to collaborate with Downmarket Mussolini and our fascist Pork Reich government on whatever nightmare bullshit these nazis want to do, actually means.

truthout.org/articles/amid-oth

Amid Other Pro-Trump Moves, Google Maps Makes “Gulf of America” Name Change

"In the U.S., the gulf will be displayed as the “Gulf of America.” In Mexico, it will remain the “Gulf of Mexico.” From anywhere else in the world, the body of water will be labeled as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).”

Although the change is consistent with the Google Maps policy on names for geographic locations elsewhere, the move comes as Google has made numerous attempts to endear itself to Trump over the past several weeks.

The company, for example, gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. It also opted to end its diversity hiring targets following Trump’s executive order terminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and funding across the federal government. And along with the changes to its maps this week, Google removed Black History Month and Pride Month from its list of annual celebrations on Google Calendar.

Google also announced earlier this month that it would abandon its Responsible AI pledge, which included a promise not to use artificial intelligence to develop tech that could cause “overall harm” — including weapons and surveillance systems."

In terms of media coverage and how for-profit news orgs have treated this story, we're legitimately talking about a catastrophic failure to connect the obvious dots and ominous historical overtones in this situation. Most outlets are hell bent on covering Google's desire to collaborate with a fascist US government as a pathetic private sector attempt to curry favor with Trump, or story about Downmarket Mussolini's laughable obsession with names on maps. The sinister reality however is that it is in precisely HOW Google is choosing to curry favor with Trump, that how far they're willing to go reveals itself. Eliminating Black History Month from the calendar is objectively supporting a white supremacist regime objective, just as eliminating Pride Month from the calendar supports a heteronormative, anti-LGBTQ agenda. Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its maps, even if it's just for American users, is an open signal of support for the Trump administration's hyper-nationalist, and increasingly expansionist agenda. This isn't currying favor with fascists; Google is signaling to the fascist administration, that they're ready to HELP THEM literally do fascism, presumably for profit.

All of which leads us to Google's abandonment of the responsible AI pledge, and why history doesn't repeat itself but often rhymes. In the lead up to the literal Holocaust, IBM (yes, THAT IBM) designed and supplied the Nazi Party with a punch card computing system that made it possible to identify and catalogue Jewish people and other targets of the Nazi regime for extermination; and they made a handsome profit doing so - as detailed in Edwin Black's groundbreaking work "IBM and the Holocaust: How America's Most Powerful Corporation Helped Nazi Germany Count The Jews." The fact is mass deportations, incarcerations, and exterminations are a data-centric activities, you simply can't undertake that kind of (repugnant) project without a way to organize, categorize, and easily access information about your targets; a task that becomes considerably easier if you can automate collection and analysis through say, fake AI programs. At its heart, Google is ultimately a data collection and organization company, which *already* maintains vast amounts of information about the populations and groups the Trump administration is threatening. And now that company is openly signaling to Downmarket Mussolini that they are not only "down to fascism" but are both equipped to help conduct various types of mass surveillance and organized purges, as well as prepared abandon ethical guidelines that would prevent them from doing so if the price is right - just like IBM did in the 1930's and the lead up to the Holocaust.

Of course you're not going to find that kind of analysis in the pro-capitalist, for profit media because those folks are just as busy trying to figure out how *they* can turn a profit from Trump's fascist agenda too; and that is a big part of why this modern fascist movement is winning, and easily.

Truthout · Amid Other Recent Pro-Trump Moves, Google Maps Makes “Gulf of America” Name Change OfficialGoogle also recently removed Black History Month and Pride Month from its calendar app.
#Fascism#Google#Collaboration
Daniel

From PAPA TikTok:
> Join us this Sunday 23rd February, 2pm at Albert Park. Featuring Dr Emmy Rākete, Chlöe Swarbrick, and Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua. We are not ashamed to be queer. We are not afraid of fascists. We will not be silent. We will Defy Destiny together. We'll see you there. #fyp #nz #aotearoa #pridemonth #Pride #newzealand

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Paul Chambers🚧

@tech Meanwhile, Google's #Gemini #AI can't be trusted or used for adding a hundred or so holidays per year to #Google Calendar internally at Google. <sarcasm>

Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like #Pridemonth are no longer highlighted by default in Google calendar. #BlackHistoryMonth, #IndigenousPeopleMonth, #JewishHeritage, #HolocaustRemembranceDay, and #HispanicHeritage have also been removed

Google, "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable..."

@the-age-of-ai-tech

#Rasicm #Bigotry #DEI #DEIA #USPol

theverge.com/news/608858/googl

The Google logo on a white, red, blue, and green background.
The Verge · Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’By Jay Peters
𝔇𝔢𝔰
Life under capitalism radicalized me. Queer liberation never rainbow capitalism. 🏴🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💣

Image description: Capitalists with a rainbow flag top hat asks a queer anarcho-nihilist women holding an AK-47 "who radicalized you" The queer anarcho-nihilist women gets closer and closer. The capitalist starts sweating and the queer Anarchist responds "you did."

#anarchism #antifascism #antifascistaction #queerliberation #queer #transgender #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #anarchist #antifascist #gaymemes #queermemes #pride #pridemonth #pridemonth2021 #nihilism #anarchonihilism #anticiv #anticolonialism #postleft #leftistmemes #anarchistmemes
#anarchistmemes
𝔇𝔢𝔰
If you can't smash it. Set it on fire! 🏴🖤🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Image Description: black background with white and pink text. The top reads "if you can't" in white text. It continues in pink text and reads "smash it" with a shattered window and a hammer in the background. A pink anarchist heart symbol is in the middle on the left side. Below reads in white text "set it on" and in pink text "fire" there's a devil emoji and a fire emoji in the background.

#anarchism #antifascism #anarchistmemes #antifascistmemes #anticapitalism #anarchist #antifascist #antifa #antifascistaction #anticapitalist #queer #gaymemes #queermemes #queerliberation #queerlove #pride🌈 #pride2021 #pridemonth #pridemonth2021 #queeranarchism
#queeranarchism
𝔇𝔢𝔰
Insurrection is coming! 🏴🦝💣🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"We can learn the strength of our bodies in struggle for space for our desires. In desire we’ll find the power to destroy not only what destroys us, but also those who aspire to turn us into a gay mimicry of that which destroys us. We must be in conflict with regimes of the normal. This means to be at war with everything. If we desire a world without restraint, we must tear this one to the ground. We must live beyond measure and love and desire in ways most devastating. We must come to understand the feeling of social war. We can learn to be a threat, we can become the queerest of insurrections." - Towards The Queerest Insurrection

Imagine description: A large pack of racoons at night with glowing eyes. Black texts with a pink border sits in the middle which reads "Insurrection is coming".

#pride🌈 #transisbeautiful #transgender #queer #queerliberation #pridemonth #pride2021 #gay #gaymemes #queermemes #antifa #antifascism #antifascistmemes
#antifascistmemes
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"It was once that to be queer was to be in direct conflict with the forces of control and domination. Now, we are faced with a condition of utter stagnation and sterility. As always, Capital recuperated brick-throwing street queens into suited politicians and activists." - Towards the Queerest Insurrection

Image description: Top text reads "Me: Can we have queer liberation?" Bottom text reads "Capitalists: We have queer liberation at home" below that is an image of a Capital One bank with pride colors

#anarchism #antifa #antifascism #antifa #queer #queerliberation #queerinsurrection #queeranarchism #queeranarchy #postleftmemes #postleft #anticiv #pride🌈 #pridemonth #pride #transisbeautiful #transliberation #anarchist #antifascist #anarchistmemes #antifascistmemes #leftistmemes
#leftistmemes
DoomsdaysCW

The #ProudBoys Are Plotting a Comeback. And They Want Revenge

Fresh out of federal prison, former Proud Boys leader #EnriqueTarrio suggests he’s still in charge as the #FarRight organization looks to regroup.

by Tess Owen
Jan 23, 2025 11:25 AM

Excerpt: "'The Proud Boys are not terrorist masterminds. These are not the brightest #neofascists out there,' said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. 'But they are committed to the cause. They are single-minded in this mission now: for revenge, for retribution. And as we’ve seen before, they are willing to go across state lines and use violence in furtherance of their goals.'

"An analysis of Proud Boys’ social media channels by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism identified a surge in online activity following the January 6 pardons, including discussions of ramping up real-world activism to help further the Trump administration's agenda. 'Posts from Proud Boys groups reveal an emboldened network, with members fantasizing about mass deportation schemes and threatening to escalate their attacks during #PrideMonth,' the GPAHE said in a statement. 'These developments point to a broader alignment between extremist groups and the Trump regime, raising urgent concerns about public safety and the normalization of far-right violence.' A North Carolina chapter, via its Telegram channel, proposed carrying out 'bount[ies on illegals.' A chapter in upstate New York gleefully circulated a rumor that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was offering $750 rewards to turn in undocumented #immigrants.

"In the years since the Capitol riot, as dozens of Proud Boy members and leaders copped charges for the insurrection, the group became increasingly elusive and unpredictable. They pivoted away from large-scale public demonstrations—which would often involve 100 or so Proud Boys descending on a city, clad in yellow and black, reeking of beer, looking for media attention and fights—and instead embedded themselves into hyperlocal culture wars across the country, in many cases aligning themselves with #ChristianNationalists. They started showing up to small protests against vaccines, crashed school board meetings, and intimidated attendees at #drag brunches. For the most part, they stayed away from cities or towns where they were likely to encounter opposition.

"Though they mobilized in a few instances in support of Trump ahead of the 2024 election, it was, overall, fairly lackluster, especially compared to 2020. This drove speculation that the gang was on its last legs.

"Then, on Monday, as Trump was taking the oath of office, more than 100 uniformed Proud Boys marched through the streets of Washington, DC, led by their south-Florida chapter.

"It was a striking scene—one that seemed intended to send a clear message: 'We’re back.'"

wired.com/story/proud-boys-com
#USPol #Fascists #Nazis #ICE #FuckNazis #NoPlaceForHate #GlobalProjectAgainstHateAndExtremism

WIRED · The Proud Boys Are Plotting a Comeback. And They Want RevengeBy Tess Owen
Bakis

Io però i meme, le grafichette e le bandierine per il #PrideMonth, quando la sola partecipazione politica di molti è andare al concerto di Elodie o al Pride una volta all'anno... (un po' come quelli che sono di sinistra solo il giorno delle elezioni)

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