Rosa Astra @morganastra@witches.town

y'all probably thought i was talking about that "city of tomorrow" bullshit earlier when I was going on about urban planning in socialist vs capitalist economies but I wasn't even that shit is just always on my mind lol

today is international give a comrade a back massage day (every day is international give a comrade a back massage day), be sure to celebrate with some comrades!

the three genders

let us cut our hair according to our fully automated luxury gay space communist lifestyle

you can only do good urban planning in socialist economies. capitalism ruins everything it touches, public spaces especially included

remind me to do a mastodon version of that high speed rail in China thread sometime. that was a good thread

the fundamental problem with these bikeshare programs is the privatization of public space. bike shares in abstract would be unambiguously good for the communities they're in, but the harm of private enclosure outweighs that good. the solution to this one isn't to destroy the bikes but to socialize the program, to bring it under democratic control by the community it serves

"ford gobikes are gross" is a sentiment i share but it's not a coherent materialist analysis; it risks sliding into reactionary praxis

"but what about trucks for last-mile cargo transport?"
Automated Grade Separated Municipal Freight Rail or gtfo

if you like cars because of the aesthetic or the mechanical challenge or whatever, keep it on the damn holodeck

don't do what you'll have to undo later

my feminism will be Marxist or it will be bullshit

when you see fash in your community take pics (be discrete for your safety) and warn ppl. we need to be keeping tabs on who's where, when

glad we're addressing real problems in society, like the alt-left, and anti-polio, the affliction in which your muscles don't stop working

I would read some happy-porn about a timeline where the US just lets the USSR be and the whole world goes communist and explores the stars

one important piece of anti-fascist praxis is community self-care. check in on each other, show up for people in the ways they need.