Identity politics = People you don't like being seen.

People's existence was never political until somebody made their existence political through a political tactic called "divisive politics".
The victims of divisive politics had no hand in making their very own existence "political".

If you don't want "people being queer" to be political, don't make it political. Easy as that. Don't be a puppet to hate politics, then all the politics will disappear and all that's left is people being people.

i found it interesting how Marx's has the whole hypothetical about "oh well if a commodity could speak"

because my thought hearing that was always, "Karl, thats a slave, you're imagining slaves?" and he never seems to make that connection?
And it's not just me that noticed this either, if I recall, Moten opens up In the Break with this to an extent

good morning fediverse! death to america!

19yo son who studies biomedical science shared this and titled it etheriophage. 💯 #meme #computervirus #infosec

Beyond the state
There will be justice

Hi friends, I've been a bit quiet recently; we came down with Covid for the first time and it was ROUGH. 11 days later and I'm finally feeling myself again... Anyway, here is a pencil drawing digitised and finished in Krita - based on a collaborative sketch made with my wife.

#MastoArt #illustration #art #bodyhorror #horrorart #surrealism

Futureless :: Ford

i was sad about missing out on #goblinweek cause of being a depressed wreck for the last 5-8 months, so i randomly snapped and created this in little spurts over the last few days.

#art #digitalart #collage #surrealism #krita

gluten free rat poison

What if we had more stabbings, but you know, stabbing fascists and we all promise to look the other way

Our program is now live!

https://fluconf.online/program/

There are still more details to be added before #fluConf2025 begins (tomorrow, February 1st), but you can at least get a preview of some of the sessions we have scheduled.

#fluConf

Perpetual reminder that the entire business model of LLM-based chatbots, no matter their nationality, is based on intellectual property theft and this gem from XKCD:

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM

In case you missed it, acting ICE head Tom Homan was up yesterday complaining that ICE is having a hard time meeting the quotas they're setting because of campaigns telling people their rights and how to resist raids.

In case you're wondering if the little things you do could possibly make a difference, know that they already are.

meanwhile: a rabbit

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #foss #mata

>>"Oh, I don't know if we can make masks required at our event... how would we enforce it? What if people don't have a mask? I live in a red state. What if the venue doesn't allow it. It sounds too hard etc etc etc"

Ok people so last weekend I tabled at a zine fest in Nebraska with like 25 vendors. The state is overwhelmingly Trump country and Omaha has a Republican asshole mayor and a Republican asshole congressperson. The organizing crew was 4 people. They bought a bunch of kn95s cheap in bulk. They put masks required on all their promo materials. They rotated duties so there was always one person standing at the door to the pertinent area next to the welcome table (the rest of the building did not require masking) and simply handed masks to anyone coming in who wasn't already wearing one.

The event lasted 5 hours and was attended by hundreds of people. In my estimation, 99%+ of people were masked up. It was busy the entire time. I made a lot of buxx and made a lot of good connections. It was rad. A lot of people expressed their appreciation for the masking, and I personally heard no complaints. Shoutout Alt Pub Omaha.

Your crew can easily do this too.