Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:

1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.

2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.

3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.

4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.

5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.

You. Are. Powerful.

They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.

You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.

And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.

@mynameistillian “ohh, you should really visit <part of world where I’d be executed for being gay and/or trans>, it’s so lovely”

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#unix_surrealism #9front #openbsd #community #ai #rabbit

Soli-Beutel für die ›Lateinamerika Nachrichten‹ 🐕

https://black-mosquito.org/de/el-negro-matapacos-soli-beutel.html

Lateinamerika Nachrichten-Beutel mit langem Henkel und der wunderschönen Negro Matapacos-Illustration vom Illustrator Joan Farías Luan.

Der Negro Matapacos war ein schwarzer Hund, der durch seine Teilnahme an den Studierendenprotesten in Chile 2010/2011 bekannte geworden ist. An seinem Hals trug er stets ein rotes Tuch und ist damit bis heute ein Symbol der Proteste gegen das neoliberale System in Chile.

The #fediverse!

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No TechnoFascists Patch

let's go lesbians!

So, people didn’t realise that Alexa was spying on them?

Are you all that naive?

This is why we can best understand the warlord or the mafia not as an alternative or enemy of the state, but rather as near-peer competitors. All of these phenomena start with the same roots and differ only in terms of scale and the degree to which subject peoples have gotten used to and conditioned to their rule.

The state is, in other words, merely the most successful warlord, the most expansive mafia.

The state, the warlord, the mafia outfit, and the landlord—feudal or modern—are all just ultimately expressions of the same violent, extractivist phenomenon. And just as we do not need the warlord or the landlord to coordinate complex social activities, defend ourselves from harm, or enjoy the fruits of science and literature, we do not need the state for any of these either.

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Back in med school, the molecular machinery in skeletal muscle units or sarcomeres fascinated me. From a certain pov the mechanism seems obvious, yet it is exquisitely intricate. Ratchet like myosin heads drag along actin filaments to create contraction using ATP and calcium to create cyclical movement.

#biology #medicine

Guys, gals...Normalize kissing your friends. Not a little peck on the cheek either, big wet sloppy tongue sucking kisses. Make it good.