Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

Love is a quality of attention, a sensitivity to the world and everything that is possible in it. When we fight on the basis of what we love, rather than in service of ideology or cowardice, we open ourselves to serve as a channel through which everything beautiful in the world can defend itself.

To choose love is to choose to keep feeling the blows when others are under attack—everyone facing felony charges, everyone threatened with deportation, everyone facing water cannons and rubber bullets, all the rivers and animals and plants that sustain us despite all the violence inflicted upon them. Love is not reducible to peace. If you mean it, say it with barricades.

https://crimethinc.com/withbarricades

Mighty marine #fungi degrade #plastic by eating it, and can be conditioned to do it faster.

#mightymicrobes #polyurethane #selective_breeding

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-mighty-marine-fungi-degrade-plastic.html

it's online!!!!

What's the reason for the so-far nearly complete failure of any kind of US #resistance ?

It's because no one can really believe in the BS that is the only mainstream alternative. The ostensible opposition party spent all of its time and energy destroying the left (Bernie Sanders, Palestinian student protestors, choosing a VP who personally ordered out the cops in he George Floyd uprising) and told everyone they had to vote for genocide.

"Are you the baddies?" Yes you are

ai;dr (AI; Didn't Read)

I always scoff when people try to claim calling for justice for Palestine is "antisemitic" when in reality Jewish leaders firm in their faith & Jewish identities proudly and courageously stand up for justice for Palestine BECAUSE THEY KNOW ITS THE RIGHT & MORAL THING TO DO

Happy #GalentinesDay! Today is a special day dedicated to the magic of friendship with the special ladies in your life, and we're going to post a few lovely depictions of friendship goals which might inspire you to celebrate with your pals...

for personal reasons & my studies at university, i’ve grown to despise authoritarian Communism (“C” capitalized) yet respect my communist comrades who’ve been at the front lines of the historical resistance against fascism. that said, this is a very good & thorough read for those who don’t know yet blurt out the word “tankie” as a slur. as many know, i come from the Soviet bloc & my maternal grandfather spent 10yrs in Siberia courtesy of Stalin. & yet i’ve been on so many ridiculous tankie lists made by eejits.

“Tankism often goes hand-in-hand with a particularly gruesome form of Assadism. These are the chemical weapon deniers (or even celebrators), the militarists, so-called ‘kebab removers’ recapitulating the same excuses of ‘Western propaganda’ and endlessly bootlicking Russian geopolitical interests through any possible man or medium.”

https://itsgoingdown.org/new-zine-always-against-the-tanks/

pdf: https://dn790005.ca.archive.org/0/items/alwaysagainstthetanks/AlwaysAgainstTheTanks.pdf

Ok fixed it #JustSayin

#LandBack #Native #Indigenous #TurtleIsland

they're gonna rename earth to planet hollywood and liberals who are down to riot for sportsball but not against the multiple ongoing genocides are gonna be like "renaming the planet is the most awful thing going on right now on planet hollywood"

Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. Keep loving. Keep fighting.

Ethiopian wolves surprise scientists by sipping flower nectar! These endangered predators may double as pollinators in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, revealing unexpected connections in highland ecosystems.

https://wp.me/pdRZhH-lGR

#Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Apparently some tech bros are having to learn the hard way that the creator of #Linux is a leftist

Found something really cool!

https://archive95.net/

This archive is a collection of old websites, around 1994-1995 (from CDs that were distributed then for offline browsing). The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine roughly starts at 1996, so this is a snapshot of an even earlier internet than the archive has stored.

There aren’t “enough hacks against the police… so we took matters into our own paws”

A group called the puppygirl hacker polycule has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country from Lexipol.

Lexipol is the name of the private company that develops policy manuals, training bulletins, and consulting services for first responders. It is the number one company writing policies that protect cops nationwide. It was founded by two police officers turned lawyers in 2003. Texas Law Review called them the “dominant force in police policymaking across the country,” despite the existence of other companies and nonprofits doing similar work.

The company drafts policies and manuals on matters ranging from use of force, less-lethal alternatives to rules surrounding confidential informants and high-speed chases. When speaking on Lexicon, DDoSecrets said “there is little transparency on how decisions are made to draft their policies, which have an oversized influence on policing in the United States.”

In 2017, the ACLU demanded that Lexipol “eliminate illegal and unclear directives that can lead to racial profiling and harassment of immigrants.” One year later, the ACLU said that Lexipol’s policies led an officer in the city of Spokane, WA to unlawfully detain and hold the victim of a car accident to be questioned by immigration authorities.

In 2015, Kris Jackson, a Black 22 year old, got into an argument with his partner. Police ended up knocking on the door and Jackson decided he didn’t want to deal with them as he was on probation. He tried leaving through the bathroom window when an officer rounded the corner of the building and saw Jackson hanging out the window. The cop immediately shot him, claiming he “looked aggressive” and that he had a gun. There was no gun found and Jackson died at the hospital.

Officer Klinge was not charged, of course, and received a payed vacation before quietly retiring. Jackson’s parents ended up filing a lawsuit against the officer, several police department staff, and the city of South Lake Tahoe, arguing that not only had Klinge used excessive force against their son, but that the police department had an illegal policy allowing him to do so. That policy, written by a company called Lexipol, stated that officers could use deadly force to protect themselves or others from any “imminent” threat of serious injury or death. An “imminent” threat, the policy explained, was broader than an “immediate” threat such as someone pointing a gun.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipol-data-leak-puppygirl-hacker-polycule/