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mastodon 4.7.3+glitchLiving "the good life" (lol) in the heart of empire in the gr8 plains; previously from that place we burned a precinct a few years ago (we should do that again).
white anarcha queer/trans weirdo. be my friend & co-conspirator. I talk a lot about radical politics, repression and resistance. zine bitch. wear a mask.
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Joined November 09, 2022
pronounz:
she/her
living on:
stolen native land
zines and:
beans
mutual aid:
means attack
No state has a “right to exist”, not a single one
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117049039758297298
The perils of not being Totally Against the thing:
i am once again asking all the homies, including you, to go download some of justseeds' free font packs, to stop using the same old fonts on your shit every time
Introducing (to you) Muffin's #PixelBaseball adventure ⚾
Earlier this year whilst stuck at home, I re-discovered a DOS game I played as a lil kid: Tony La Russa's Ultimate Baseball (1991), a 16-bit baseball simulator letting you play and manage historical great players from 1900-1980. I played a season as my Minnesota (Pixel) Twins, but came up just short of the playoffs.
So now that it's (to me) deathly hot outside and I'm stuck in again, I'm running it back, and rather than every day bothering my meatspace friends who don't really care, I decided I'm going to post my game results here, because I'm an adult and I can do what I want.
I'll cw and tag each of these posts #PixelBaseball, so that if you absolutely don't give a shit, you can ignore/mute. But for any #baseball fans who might follow me or find this, if you enjoy it give me a holler.
I'm doing an 81-game season, starting on the highest difficulty level this time, and in the season opener the Pixel Twins are clicking on all cylinders, final score: Twins 12, Blue Jays 1 (details in next post)
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@mullvadnet@mastodon.online An "equal partner" would either withdraw from a so-called partnership, or fight against it, if they truly felt that funding the xenophobic, white supremacist far right was wrong. It has nothing to do with expressing and accessing different viewpoints, and everything to do with enabling fascism. will definitely warn others against your service going forward
Goddammit just saw the US mifepristone ruling. You know these big nonprofits and Dem-aligned loyal-“resistance” fucks are going to obey just like they did in 2022, when for all their blather it turned out that access to abortion wasn’t actually as important to them as protecting gender fascists private property.
Organize your community to provide abortions legal or extralegal no matter what they say.
My much beloved preschooler niece has parents who are wishy washy when it comes to masking up, which has created a fair amount of tension. One of the realities in the vein of “sometimes accommodations clash” is that babies and toddlers sometimes have trouble without being able to see a caregivers face.
Well, I’m feeling a little sick, and she came over to play outside. But notice I said she’s a preschooler now. She’s getting smarter every damn day. So the first thing I did was tip my mask to her and say that I’m wearing it because I’m feeling sick and don’t want to get sicker or get you or mom sick. Then later she saw my roommates mask with chain and loved it. And for two hours, she didn’t say a word about the masks again. She just accepted them as normal. Never pulled at it or asked me to take it off like she often had. Let’s go lil buddy, I appreciated you!!
Don’t let fear that someone won’t understand, prevent you from masking up. #MaskUp
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@alissaazar@kolektiva.social this photo is accidental renaissance
RE: https://social.edist.ro/@silberfuchs/116484905815906924
fact check: TRUE. although the corporate media has moved on to their next outrage, folks in #minneapolis and #minnesota more broadly have learned that continuing their patrols to stop ICE abductions and deportations works. the feds are still "surged" and even if they weren't, why let them operate in peace when we can help our immigrant neighbors stay safer?
please give for gas and car repairs to help keep the patrols going, per below to venmo: @quecksilber. if venmo doesn't work for you, feel free to reach out.
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yes, folks are still patrolling to stop ICE.
yes, we are still making a difference stopping abductions.
yes, their tactics have changed considerably since January, so have ours.
yes, your support for gas, etc. still matters and is appreciated.
venmo: @quecksilber
I've had about 25 vehicles in the last several days, been able to follow about 15 in collaboration with folks across the Metro. We're still out there and will be as long as it takes.
thank you, again, from the bottom of my heart.
stay safe/fuck ice/much respect
#ICEout #FuckICE #Minnesota
I wish manufacturers of "eco" disposable products would clearly indicate when they are only commercially compostable (which is most of the time), as compared to backyard-compostable
Helluva time tryna convince the person who shares the compost here that the to-go cups from the coffee shop down the way (which does not compost, and which is in a city that does not offer residential compost service) are not gonna turn into dirt in the backyard bin anytime soon.
Tell me if I’m wrong: Aside from people who have been disabled by Covid or are otherwise severely at risk, anarchists [by no means in whole! But in large part] and anarchist-adjacent folks are pretty much the only group of people masking up on the regular.
This is an invitation for people who #maskup but who don’t have such a political leaning to consider why that is… and, if it feels right, to join us.
Don’t know anyone who masks up? Find a local anarchist event, tell them why you came, and see if we might be your people.
Mutual aid challenge! Go buy some shit from a big box store, and leave it out for poor people who may or may not have asked for it! Bonus: you don’t have to talk to anybody!
Do you also cringe when someone calls out "We need people NOW!" at their protest or whatever? What people?? To do what??
Many people are now familiar with tools like SALUTE (reporting Size, Alert, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment when reporting cop/enemy activity). I am proposing the additional acronym BEANO.
"We need people!" Be specific - what part of BEANO do you need?
B - Blockers/Blockaders
E - Equipment
A - Aid
N - Numbers (safety therein)
O - Observers/witnesses
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#5 Worst Protest Chant: "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, [So And So] Has Got to Go!"
Hate to break it to ya, but “so-and so” who has got to go, is just gonna be replaced with another schmuck who, in fact, has got to go too. The cycle continues and you will be able to holler this chant ad infinitum, and pass it on to your grandkids and their grandkids, to also holler at schmucks who have got to go. Is simply hollering the whole point of the exercise???
One of the biggest problems with shitty chants is simply that they reveal a theory of change that does not make logical sense and expose the chanters’ naivete. OK, sure, on the surface, we can agree that Donald Trump has got to go. Who the hell is gonna replace him, someone approximately as evil but slightly less demented or more likeable? Do we really want that?
Furthermore, such a chant (and any chant like “Vote Them Out” or otherwise about voting) simply upholds the legitimacy of a system that has failed to bring fundamental change every 2, 4 and 6 years since your grandpaw was chanting at schmucks. [“Oh great, we voted them out!” Four years later “You're telling me they’re back in again?!”] We can do better than this, folks. Leave the vote-stanning and election-erections to the political parties and polling places.
Also, the Hey-Hey-Ho-Ho chant is like, the first chant every toddler learns. It’s overused. It’s tired. It needs end-of-life palliative care. Be more creative. Ya schmucks.
https://archive.org/details/top-5-worst-protest-chants
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#2 Worst Protest Chant: "Whose Streets, Our Streets" 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄
This chant is almost always guilty of mis-use and dishonesty. YO, we took over the streets and established an autonomous zone?? Fuck yeah, reasonable time to use the chant. We're parading around in one lane, or even on the sidewalk, and some organizers in yellow peace-police vests are squawkin at people to stay in line because gosh, they really don’t want the police to show up?? Then don’t use the damn chant. It’s not your street— your behavior is clearly opposite to the words coming out of your mouth!!
Did the cops block off the road themselves so you could do your thing? Then they can just as easily order you all to go away—and you would obey them? Then no, it’s not Our Streets, in this case, its Their Streets. Is it 3pm on Sunday and nobody’s downtown whatsoever? OK sure, in that case, it’s “your streets,” at least temporarily, by virtue of Nobody Cares Anyway. Have fun. ....
Yesterday the entire #Minneapolis Schitty Council* voted to accept an $18 million bid for a new 3rd precinct building at 2633 Minnehaha. They call it a "Co[p]mmunity Safety Center" though, so yknow, everything's fine! Nobody went back on their promises or stated values! Everyone likes community safety, right????
[To be clear: it's a new cop precinct, with some other things co-located so that people will be less likely to feel safe using them]
Tomorrow the council debates purchasing a building with the intent of making it a $40 million cop training center.
:cop_carSugarbombing: :cop_carSugarbombing: :cop_carSugarbombing: :cop_carSugarbombing: :cop_carSugarbombing: :cop_carSugarbombing: :cop_carSugarbombing: :cop_carSugarbombing: :cop_carSugarbombing:
*(one guy was absent but would've done the same)
thinkin about those beans;
Done with these fake ass unionists posing as leftists and radicals while they put their own amerikkkan (and klanadian) so-called “worker” self interests above prisoners, native folk, Palestinians, trans folks, and anyone else actually actually under the boot
Don’t be bamboozled!!
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#3 Worst Protest Chant: “Money for jobs and education, not for ”
Like, sure, that’s a reasonable reform I guess. Money for education and not war would be a good thing. Jobs, on the other hand, let’s talk about that. Who wants more jobs??? Most people only want a job if they want more money, and we [billionaires excluded] only want more money if we want a better quality of life (but that’s too long for a chant). “Money for weed and education,” now that would be a better chant. (But also some people have had terrible experiences in the imperial education system, and let’s not discount that either!)
The biggest problem with this chant though is that it’s another implicit endorsement of capitalism and the current system where a bunch of epstein-class elite fucks decide where to spend money that could feed, clothe and house the entire world many times over. And this gets to why protests often feel icky to me and lots of my friends - why are we out here begging for scraps?!? Why are we letting them decide in the first place?? Lets TAKE what we need, goddamit! They’ve stolen from us since 1492!! Class War and Expropriation, Not Genocide and Occupation!
https://archive.org/details/top-5-worst-protest-chants
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#4 Worst Protest Chant: "When [Bla Bla Bla] Is Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up Fight Back"
Chants that over-promise and engage in hyperbole risk doing more harm than good. This chant may help install a sense of solidarity in some, emphasizing that we are collectively resisting. But ow are we fighting back, exactly? Because right now, at the time of this chant, it looks like we’re walking in a circle on the sidewalk around the empty state capitol building, or waving signs on an overpass that nobody down below can read anyway. Is this fighting back? Is fighting back in the room right now??
Sometimes this chant cycles through multitudes of various people and things under attack (Women’s Rights! Education! Health Care! Trans Rights! Immigrants! Voting Rights! Voting Lefts!) and goddamn, suddenly that’s a lot more fighting back than we might've bargained for. We already knew it’s all under attack anyway. Are we fighting back by making lists???
Related: “If we don’t get it? Shut it down!” Let’s get real for a sec, are you REALLY gonna shut it down though? Because if you chant this, you need to actually have the interest, willingness, and capacity to shut it (whatever IT is) down. And chances are high that you're not gonna get IT! Then, if you don’t shut IT down, nobody’s gonna take you seriously the next time IT happens, and you don’t get THAT either!
https://archive.org/details/top-5-worst-protest-chants
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“so organize it yourself, muffin” fuck you I’m a DISorganizer I know my role
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@minneapolis@cycle.town so can I @ you guys when a street light goes out or is this only for when I need more publicly subsidized vehicle parking in front of my otherwise very successful small business that is being attacked by bike-crazy progressives (please help me and my business, we bring lots of upstanding white people dollars to certain parts of your, I mean our, city)
It's! Fuck Jacob Freyday! #minneapolis
it's fuck jacob freyday the 13th
RE: @dfwsupportcommittee@mas.to
Socialist Rifle Association a completely unserious organization
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@CrimethInc Dang. I can think of an occupying force within the US borders operating out of hotels, too...
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@grayhaven @MissConstrue I’m going to take it a step further and copyright the word BEANS
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@twistylittlepassages@weirder.earth so much of the stuff on etsy these days is super low quality, mass produced crap being passed off as unique, or both. and a lot of the rest is folks who have been crushed by capitalism into offering their labor for so much less than its worth.
This Hennepin County ( #minneapolis ) jail guard had a history of physical abuse, which of course made him a perfect fit for the job. Now he’s “on leave” (that means still getting paid!” after he assaulted his wife in the hospital room after she had just given birth.
What the actual fuck
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@jeridansky @inquiline looks like they increased the goal to 100K
these institutions though that prop up ICE with one hand and then invoke the name of their victims with the other......idk
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@unionwhore omg that's gotta go in the top 5 chants zine 5 sure!
It is, yet again, fuck jacob freyday
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@roadblock161_ thank you for affirming that this was a good idea and giving me some fodder to help make it happen! :anarchoheart2:
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@firestorm lets gooooooooooo distroism will win
Cisgender right-wing white pronoun-denier arrested for seventeenth time
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@johnbrowntypeface@spore.social unrythmic primal screaming only
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@beandreams annoyed bc i like my dandelions and clover goshdarnit!
but, if he was nice enough to ask first, i'd say if you wait a week to cut it, i'd be very grateful and idk give him cookies or some shit
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@ophiocephalic that's what i thought too!!!
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@raye i think i support this
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@thomas@allpro.social I see all of these and raise you: college band
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@theresnotime@fox.nexus more and more people are saying this
If you find yourself at a May Day demo today, beware of these top 5 worst protest chants:
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@croissant@zeroes.ca hey now
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@bug@ni.hil.ist monster at the end of this book vibe :catjam:
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@geekysteven@beige.party smart kid
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@alice@lgbtqia.space democrats: ".... how about we compromise with blue hair and war crimes?"