Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

metacity hacker

#unix_surrealism #hacker #openbsd #9front #mata

For March 8—International Women's Day—here is our draft program to resist patriarchy and transphobia.

https://crimethinc.com/GenderPoster2023

First, abolish gender segregation. Ensure that people of all genders have access to the same opportunities, resources, social ties, and forms of agency.

Second, abolish fixed gender roles. Break free of the fixed roles and binaries that tie certain traits to certain genders. Demonstrate new constellations of the qualities and capabilities that are currently associated with one gender or another.

Third, abolish gender hierarchies. End practices that privilege one gender over another. Do away with institutions and attitudes that value some qualities and capabilities over others on account of the gender that they are associated with. If a person of any gender has to outdo all other contenders in demonstrating traditionally masculine characteristics in order to get a foothold in politics, gender oppression remains in effect even if not everyone in a position of power is a man.

Finally, abolish gender gatekeeping. Do away with the boundaries that control who can identify with any gender. Defending trans identity, gender nonconformity, and other departures from fixed binary gender is a step towards this goal.

Against patriarchy—for the free flourishing of all!

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If its not antisemitism when Columbia let alt right Nazis speak on its campus, but somehow is antisemitism when people peacefully protested genocide of Palestinians on Columbia's campus—then you'll have to stop pretending it was ever actually about antisemitism.

Most of my students know that the US did not enter WWII until after Pearl Harbor (12/7/1941).

A few know about America First and the embrace of isolationism in the late-1930s.

Almost none believe me when I tell them that 90+ PERCENT of Americans opposed US entry into WWII in May 1940, when the Nazi Blitzkrieg was tearing through Western Europe.

They struggle to accept what's happening in the US today b/c they can't shake the myth of American exceptionalism and eternal valor.

#history #uspol

Sexy, worshippable armpits.

Every time a non-submissive Latin American leader is elected, #US corporate media, with the organization and black money of the #CIA, takes it upon themselves to educate the masses about how dangerous socialism is in their own backyard.
Now it's #Venezuela.
Previously, almost all #AmericaLatina countries were in the same position.
#NanoRubio will make things infinitely worse.

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. ​

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... ​ I hate it here.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

Also, something I learned about from The Pink Triangle is that the only places where there *was* leniency toward homosexuals was in the places Germany invaded that they didn't consider to be "properly" German (France, etc). The idea was that homosexuals weakened the nation, so the orders were to not go too hard on homosexuals in the places where they wanted to colonize, because the belief was that us homos would weaken Hitler's opposition.

It's funny when so-called leftists want us to leave trans people behind, because they weaken our side, in that light, isn't it? Funny when someone agrees with Adolf fucking Hitler.

Erm, dunno if any critters in my circle are into this level of security but,,,

Is this a good thing for security or not lmao

https://social.sdf.org/@taviso/114110932966790907

double king is 7 years old

what the fuck

This is my favorite photo for demonstrating the impact of #LightPollution on physiology. The image was taken by shows a soybean field illuminated by a badly directed streetlight.

What's happening here is that soybeans are supposed to grow leaves in the early part of summer, and as nights get longer, they should make #soybeans and turn brown. In the green area, the plants don't understand what time of year it is, and it's therefore a complete loss for the farmer.

The reason I love the photo so much is because you can see the shadow of the light mast on the field.

The photo was taken by Dwaine Eddie McGriff & Ben Tankersley, and originally posted to Xitter (the post no longer exists).

The problem could be entirely solved by using a streetlight with strong backlight shielding (i.e. shining the light only on the roadway).

Please don't apologize for boycotting the USA. You're doing the right thing, we're not.

One thing I noticed is that Bluesky users generally see ppl who interact with them as followers while ppl on Mastodon see each other as fellow Internet forum users, if you know what I mean.

that’s nice, but calling Trump a fascist doesn't make Democrats anti-fascist.

“Harris and Democrats Lose Their Reluctance to Call Trump a Fascist” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/us/politics/harris-trump-fascism.html

history gives us good evidence for what is fascism; and one of the big truths about fascism is that it’s inspired by USA’s Manifest Destiny and the social, political & economic dynamics that come with it.

there is no fascism w/o American racism, sexism, xenophobia, eugenics, rape culture, predatory economics, eternal war

god i love the 9front docs so much

Worried about the economy? Good news! We have a strategic reserve of wealth, ready to redistribute!

Time to crack open the billionaires.

Olga Taratuta
A Grandmother of Anarchism
Tireless member of the Anarchist Black Cross

Born 1876 in Ekaterinoslav, known today as Dnipro, Ukraine
Murdered by the Cheka in 1938

In 1901 she fled Tsarist repression to live in Geneva. returning to Odessa in 1904 to join the Union of the Irreconcilables, an anarchist-communist group, along with her sister Kahyla and Kahyla's husband Kopel. After a trip to Bialystok, she helped to form a Black Banner group.

In 1905 her group carried out an attack on the Libman Cafe, one of the most significant motiveless terror acts of its time, for which she was sentenced to life in prison, escaping a year later to live in Switzerland and organize with the Buntar group.

In Odessa anarchists continued to agitate, helping to establish over 50 peasants orgs and joining in labour organizing. When a shipping company tried to break a strike using the hyper nationalist pogramist Black Hundreds, anarchists simply blew up one of their steamers.

In 1907 Olga returned to Odessa. She was arrested in 1908 in Yekaterinoslav holding a bag of 21 bombs in front of the Lukyanovskaya prison. She had planned to blow up a wing of the prison to aid in an escape.

For this she was sentenced to hard labour in the Tsarist prisons until she was released in 1917. She would take months to herself and to reconnect with her son, but was soon called back as a result of the brutality of Hetman Skoropadsky in Ukraine.

Olga worked tirelessly with the Anarchist Red Cross, which had formed from the Political RC in either 1905 or 1907 when it was discovered that funds weren't reaching ALL prisoners, but only select tendencies. In this work she aided many bolsheviks who would become her future jailers.

In June of 1920 she was elected to the secretariat of the Nabat and receive 5 million rubles from the Makhnovists to organize the now Anarchist Black Cross in Ukraine. The Ukrainian ABC engaged in self defense and medical assistance in addition to prisoner support.

She was arrested in 1920 during the Cheka raid at the Brotherhood Bookstore in Kharkov, a part of an empire wide targeting of anarchists. Black Cross centers countrywide were destroyed along with the
headquarters of the Makhnovists and the publishing houses of Golos Truda were also destroyed.

On Febuary 13th 1921, she joined Fanya and Aron Baron, David Kogan, Mark Mrachny, Aleksey Olonetsky, and Aleksandr Guevsky to carry Kropotkin's casket.

In 1922, she and Anna Stepanova, her comrade from the Black Cross, were deported to Voldoga in exile and released in 1924 where they moved to Kiev. Olga and Anna travelled and lived together, until Anna's death in 1925.

After Anna's death, Olga moved to Odessa again in 1927 where she aided in the international campaign to secure the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti. For this, she and others experienced repression and raids from the Cheka, and many of her co-organizers were arrested.

During this time, Olga had been busy organizing a smuggling corrider of anarchist thought. Letters and literature moved along the illegal corridor from Ukraine, Moscow, Leningrad, Kursk, the Volga region and more.

It woas one of the few lifelines under Bolshevik repression.
In 1929 she was arrested for helping to organize rail workers. She moved to Moscow upon her release 2 years later. There she was arrested again, on February 8th, 1938. The charge for "anti-soviet activities."

She was sentenced and shot the next day.

I would just say this is but a cliff notes version of the life of one of the most compassionate and defiant women I have ever encountered. Her life and writing along with the events she participated in are far much richer and I wish it was easier to capture that in a thread.