Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

I'm not sure who all needs this right now, but... political consciousness was a thing even before 1990.

You don't have to be glued to the internet constantly in order to maintain a relevant and effective awareness of what's important in the world, or be involved in changing things.

And if that level of info-firehose is negatively affecting you, dialing it back can actually be good praxis.

Not Tonight Dear. . .

#MastoArt #DigitalArt #QueerArt #Queer #Art #PansyTramArt

White people like to tell themselves they're superior to everyone else because that feels better than admitting that they behave like a bunch of stupid gullible fucks in the voting booth.

A former Boston Globe & Reuters reporter who is now homeless gives a gutting, beautifully written, and clear-eyed firsthand account of what it's like to be homeless in America right now.

This is the best article you'll read today, easily. The ending is chilling.

#LongReads #Journalism #News #AmWriting #Housing #Homelessness

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/?src=longreads

Vandalism at Indiana University – Bloomington, Indiana
https://anarchistnews.org/content/vandalism-indiana-university-%E2%80%93-bloomington-indiana

"From Unravel
November 23, 2024
November 11, 2024
In solidarity with Indigenous People's Day of Rage, I painted "Stolen Land" across the stone entrance to the Indiana University Foundation in Bloomington, Indiana. The IUF exists to maximize private investments for IU, an institution (like all universities) that runs on exploitation, environmental

I’m still amazed people think Project 2025 isn’t going to happen. Nobody writes a 920 page manifesto and then at the very end says, “just kidding!”

I'll be saying this til the day I die

#Columbus #Thanksgiving #IndigenousPeoplesDay

The hardest part of the Covid pandemic is realizing how few people are willing to do small things to help someone else

Deep down they KNOW they’ve likely infected someone who’s ended up severely ill - and they don’t care.

They don’t have to face the person they harmed - so they do nothing to stop it.

Lo terminé casi a última hora, pero... ¡Parece que voy a tener otra lámina novedad disponible en el salón!

#ElAcervoDeLasHiedras

Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?

#OtD 28 Nov 1919 Faye Schulman, Jewish resistance partisan, was born in Lenin, Poland. She survived the massacre of local Jews and joined the partisans as a fighter, nurse and movement photographer. She survived and lived until the age of 101. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10045/faye-schulman-born

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.
-- Noam Chomsky

#anarchism #quote #bot

Watching an Indigenous friend work on a small carving on piece of cedar scrap wood. He gets free cutoffs from some local mills & carves small artworks with them.

#Indigenous #CoastSalish #BCFirstNations #IndigenousBC #NativeCanada #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #IndigenousCanada #handmade #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #Handcarving #Woodcarving #Woodwork #NativeWoodcarvers #TraditionalArt #CulturalArt