🐈 @lieke@witches.town

brute force...

#bunny #rabbit #through #obstacle #nope #animatedgif

Honestly it's a good thing that I do not have the energy / I have too much anxiety about it for jinxing at east 87% of my thoughts because I would just spam everyone with "I want to die"s

Like rn I'm trying to gather enough energy to finish to make lunch (and hopefully eat) but my brain keeps chanting his death thoughts/wishes.

*shrugs*

Yeah, it's not great for the feeds to be full of meta. But I also think this is an inherent property of self-organization, and I have a feeling the aversion to it is an effect of consumerism.
People are used to treating social platforms as a product they consume, so obviously a platform continuously created, managed, negotiated by the community using it, feels odd.
I think people averse to meta need to consider whether they're here as participants, or as consumers.

just a reminder that insulting someone else's intelligence is ableist, k thx

If you see the admins of your instance doing some really freaking questionable shit like ooh say silencing the instance of a woman who was being vocal about her harassment, call them on it. If you see a colleague or boss flexing their patriarchy muscle, call them on it. Anywhere. Silence doesn't help us, it really doesn't; silence is akin to saying 'I'm going to let this happen'.

In a world where #authoritarian relations are the norm (online and off), learning how to relate to each other in liberated, #selfgoverned spaces is hard. We internalize so much behavior that's adaptive for our survival under authoritarianism, but turns incredibly #toxic when enacted in free spaces.

There's much learning & unlearning to do, and the struggles of earlier radical projects & spaces have much to teach #Mastodon.

https://emmibe.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-conversations-we-cant-have/

im so white gonna name my first child quinoa

In 7 European countries, a majority of 18-34s answered "yes" when asked "Would you join a large scale uprising against the government"

Source: https://qz.com/971374/europes-youth-dont-care-to-vote-but-theyre-ready-to-join-a-mass-revolt/ via #newsblur

https://octodon.social/media/a02j7HizitE1irdq_FM

Queer people openly and happily flaunting and celebrating their queerness is literally my favorite thing on this whole dang planet.

POC - especially WOC and I see this happen a lot to Black and Indigenous women in particular - get told off for being "too political" just for talking about _the reality of their lives_. And now you want us to put such talk behind a content warning like it's a trigger? Do you know how often us talking about race gets fought back by White people as "omg you talking about racism is too triggering" as though racism doesn't affect OUR mental health? What's the cultural expectation here, geez!

Reminder: Socialism and communism necessarily fail unless they're implemented in a stateless society. In a society with states and nations, unless everyone involved is a perfect citizen, socialism and communism inevitably produce dictatorships that claim to be socialist/communist while continuing the exploitation of labor they claim to abhor.

#Linguistics Eventually, in the 13th century or whatever, someone invented a smaller canon that you could carry. They called it a hand cannon or, colloquially, a hand Guna. This is why we call firearms "gun".

So this one Danish immediate family's names are the origin of two words for technologies that are hallmarks of modern technology: the gun and Bluetooth.

Language is weird.

#Linguistics You know how sometimes we name weapons after women? Like we might paint "Big Bertha" on the side of a giant fuckoff artillery deal mounted on a naval ship?

Well when cannons were newish they did this, too. There was one particular canon that was famous because it was so big and the folks that owned it had named it Queen Gunhilde. So there was a lot of copy catting of that name. And this common name for cannons eventually got shortened to just Guna. +

https://anticapitalist.party/media/DHozvWltLIDWWyz7ncw

J'ai fait un petit dessin. Grosse débutante mais me suis bien amusée.

"make antifa sexy again"

how about we stop sexualising absolutely everything like commodities to be sold 🤔