The Fame Witch @TheFameWitch@witches.town

the idea that gun control will prevent a popular uprising in the USA is a fantasy.

Historically, most uprisings have been started by people taking guns from military stockpiles, not from their own homes

In addition to this, most gun owners in the United States are not socialists or anarchists, many of them are reactionary or worse.

and to those who say its hypocritical to get gun control while the military still has guns, limiting the total amount of murder machines is still an admirable goal and not worth standing against in the name of whataboutism

The patch mentioned here will be applied to WitchesTown soon. I will keep you updated about it : https://ltch.fr/@Alda/99774049773369235

I have no interest in looking into your private and direct message but you just had my words, now I have the code to prove it.

(I don't have access to WitchesTown database since I don't manage the server anymore.)

If you have any questions about this matter, do not hesitate to ask them 🙂

This is the Friday to seek the following:

The Lipless Saint - Says her name is "Hrr-hrrah" but Aleph the Scroll-Collector says they've got a scroll somewhere that names the Saint as "Barbara." Seek the Saint near the Sunken Garden, past the Itch hedge. Don't stare. Be patient.

Sugar Lions - A breezy 3 days walk East and you can seek the sweet, teeth-shattering wonder of the hard sugar lions. They hunt in packs, so paint eyes on your back for safety.

Gary - He's right there.

#ff

Today's tarot draw is The Emperor from www.neonmoontarot.com
Themes for this card include: Authority, structure, stability.

"The Emperor is a father figure who provides and protects. He is a wise, giving, and stable authority figure. He is organized, structured, and ordered."

#illustration #cyberpunk #tarot

I don't care who you are or what you do: you deserve respect as an individual being. You should never have to compromise yourself for another. If you feel so unlovable you have to stick with an abuser, that's just false. Demand respect of your boundaries, of your personhood. Consensual submission is of course fine, but it's still up to you whether you consent or not and you can always say "no" to your dom. Anyone that says otherwise are those who don't respect you.

I have to be careful not to post too often because of all the effort that follows... the robed figures awakening from their slumber, snapping awake by instinct, compelled to crawl to nearby peaks and ring out a peal of bells, or light signal fires that radiate out over hills and vales: A NEW POST IS COME! ARISE! ARISE AND READ!

Seems a bit much, but what are you going to do.

There is a power in ritual and poetic blessings and coming together as a community.

Like, it's one thing for me to have a dinner party with activists

It's another to bring together community to have a ritualistic ceremonial dinner where we discuss how we can commit ourselves to working towards justice and liberation in a structured way. To celebrate and discuss.

To ritualistically burn chametz and to remind yourself of the history of your people and why that obligates you to pursue justice

#bikecleanalong I did it! I cleaned my bike! well, okay, it's not perfect, it never is, but I'm super dirty, all the rags and the water was super dirty and this would mean I got some dirt off of it, right?

Suite aux récents échanges qu'on a vu passer à ce sujet, probablement comme une partie d'entre vous, Bram et moi avons récemment découvert qu'il nous était possible d'avoir accès à tous les messages privés des membres de l'instance, à travers l'interface d'administration. Nous n'avions pas conscience de cette possibilité jusqu'à la semaine dernière.

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So when we say "Wow, white people are really fucking horrible to us," it isn't JUST because Becky Sue cut us in line at Starbucks. It's because of that, and the 39875297592789871 other things that have happened to us without consequence since we were 4 years old.

When people of color talk about their experiences with racism, it is never one small thing. It's a lot of things. It's a tsunami of things.

We don't wake up one day and just decide to blame all of our problems and our incompetences on white people.

From the instant we become aware of our place in the world, we are told again and again and again that, because of our race, we will struggle. And when we forget, when we surpass, when we get a little bit of happiness, racism knocks us down again.

When racist shit happens to us, half of the time, we don't even *realize* that it was racist at first. We lose on promotions at work and think, "What if I just wasn't good enough?" "Maybe Becky Sue was having a bad day." "Maybe I misheard and he didn't actually say 'nigger'."

From the very earliest stages, we give the benefit of the doubt. We excuse away and convince ourselves that we just misunderstood, that there is some other angle. We need more information, let's not jump to conclusions.

Okay so anti-racism allies, let's talk.

So when we say, "Well this was hella racist," maybe you should just trust us on this?

Cis / Meme

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Blaming white supremacy takes time and understanding. We have a tsunami of occurrences that no longer make it a coincidence.

We start to notice every twitch, every gaze that lingers too long, every word and its connotations, every pattern of behavior and word of praise and insult.

The reason white people do not recognize racism is because you don't have 24 years of experience studying, dodging, and crumbling under it.

I've done yoga, I've had some Müsli for breakfast and a banana, now I'm going to pack some more food and go cycling!

Je pense qu'on a un réel soucis quand des mots supposés décrire des réalités factuelles, des situations avec des critères assez précis tout de même, deviennent de simples insultes.
J'entends par là que je retrouve régulièrement le fait que dire de quelqu'un qu'iel est de droite/a des idées de droite c'est parfois vu comme une insulte. Que des personnes se sentent insultées quand on leur dit que ce sont des TERF. Que des personnes se sentent insultés quand on leur dit qu'iels sont racistes par ex