@quietmarc@kolektiva.social cover
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

quietmarc

@quietmarc@kolektiva.social

#Writing & #SocialJustice. Settler on stolen land, Unama'ki/Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. #Antifascist b/c I'm #queer. #Anarchist, the gardening & book-reading kind. novelist the aspiring kind he/him

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

quietmarc , to random
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

There are some conversations I'm just too old for, and "social spending doesn't solve problems" is one of them. I've literally watched education, health care, housing, local news, and public transit be systemically defunded, dismantled, and neglected for most of my almost 47 years of life. My classrooms ballooned from 20 kids to 30, my band class, french immersion, enrichment programs were disrupted by cost-cutting measures, my tuition was 4x the tuition of students just 5 years older than me, lower-middle class kids of my generation and later are the ones working two or three precarious jobs (if we aren't already disabled by toxic workplaces) for half as much on a slow-cooking planet, watching the price of even the dilapidated shacks always shift just out of our reach while billionaires take pleasure cruises to outer space.

I am NOT a person to take "social spending doesn't do anything" when I saw just how much social cost-cutting fucking destroyed dreams for two-going-on-three generations, lol.

quietmarc , to random
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

My whole life has been watching experts and activists say "If you cut funding to this social service, it will be bad" and then the funding getting cut anyway and then bad things happening and then someone saying they need to cut more funds to hire more cops to stop the problems all the funding cuts caused.

alice , (edited ) to random
@alice@lgbtqia.space avatar

⚠️ It's a trap ⚠️ (please boost for reach)

I was just informed that the Guardian (UK) is prepping to do a story on DIY HRT and is looking to interview trans folk, particularly teens.

The story will almost certainly be weaponized by conservatives to argue for removing access to the necessary materials.

Just like with the police, anything you say can and will be used against you by mainstream media.

Be safe out there fam :heart_trans: :Blobhaj_Hug:

Update #2: God dammit Guardian US, I retract my kudos to you. This is why we can't have nice things.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/the-guardian-view-on-the-cass-report-rising-numbers-of-gender-distressed-young-people-need-help

Update #1: I wanted to share this article that was brought to my attention. The US Guardian wrote a piece that really gets to the heart of why I'm sounding a warning, while also helping to frame that this isn't directed at the .com Guardian—they seem to have a healthy viewpoint on how trans people should be treated.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/guardian-editorial-response-transgender-rights-uk

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@cibo @alice @risottobias Because The Guardian isn't "looking for information." If any trans person can find it, then reporters can find it too without interviewing minors. They're looking for a story and a scapegoat. They want to feed another fear-mongering narrative about "evil trans coming for your children" which will inevitably lead to violence against trans adults and minors.

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@cibo @alice @risottobias Maybe do more than a cursory search, then. Queer people have been attacked by media in history, it's well documented. I'm not trans but because I'm connected to the trans community through friendships and acquaintances and being gay/queer myself I am well aware of how often newspapers all over will allow "gender critical" view points to speak over trans people and their allies themselves.

Just, as a little tip, when an oppressed group tells you that someone is oppressing them or is a threat to them, it's good policy to believe them.

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@cibo @alice @risottobias

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vx8j/guardian-trans-journalists

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/24/an-explosion-what-is-behind-the-rise-in-girls-questioning-their-gender-identity

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/18/trans-by-helen-joyce-material-girls-by-kathleen-stock-reviews

https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/10/08/guardian-transphobia-protest-london/

SallyStrange , to histodons group
@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe avatar

I just finished reading Harsha Walia's "Border and Rule" and you should too

#books #BorderSecurity #BordersKill #BordersAreViolence #pol #WhiteSupremacy #Colonialism #Imperialism #history @bookstodon @histodons

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@SallyStrange @bookstodon @histodons Oh! I read it a year or two ago and think of it often. It changed my thinking about a LOT.

lowqualityfacts , to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Please stay safe everyone.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@lowqualityfacts The cars actually get so frightened, they pee.

Rasta , to random
@Rasta@mstdn.ca avatar

I like them, I'm not crazy about them. You know what I can buy for the price of a pound of lobster?
A full chicken, baked potatoes. meal for 2-4 persons

#Lobsters in southwestern #NovaScotia are selling for $18/pound.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10342044/high-lobster-prices-southwestern-nova-scotia/

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@Rasta Jeez, if I was a lobster I could pay off my debts with that!

quietmarc , to random
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

The argument that "protests don't do anything" is kinda undermined by how many places are working super hard to make protests illegal.

quietmarc OP ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

I take the view that protests are a multifunctional tool for social change. Expecting a protest to "work" is like expecting an egg to make a cake.

Protests aren't for convincing politicians to do the right thing, they are for:

*grabbing media attention
*connecting disparate activist and advocacy groups with each other
*demonstrating public engagement
*helping people find joy and/or comfort in their movement
*disrupting the business-as-usual
*practicing how to work together in a large group for a unified purpose

Every protest I've been to (I've been to some) I've seen friends and colleagues mix with strangers, be introduced to each other, exchange pamphlets and contact info, people singing and laughing together (even for dire events), people learning how to act in solidarity together, people (including me!) seeing how policing works to maintain the status quo even when that status quo is bigoted, racist, ableist, colonialist, classist, and heterosexist.

Protests can do lots of things. They don't (usually) make politicians change their opinions. For that you need direct action and mass movements, both of which can arise out of public protest.

breadandcircuses , to random
@breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social avatar

We live in a changed world.

This is not the same climate and environment your ancestors lived in. This is not even the climate and environment YOU were born into. It is a completely different and increasingly dangerous place, thanks to the destructive actions of capitalist commerce and industry.

Worse yet, we live in an actively changing world. Nothing is stable. And perhaps the best indication of that is a single word.

Permafrost.

What does that word mean? Here's how National Geographic defines it: "Permafrost is a permanently frozen layer below Earth’s surface."

Or, anyway, that's what it used to mean. Because now, in 2024, the arctic permafrost is melting. It is no longer permanent...

"As global temperatures increase, this permanently frozen ground could give way to create new rivers and expand existing ones, which would release huge quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, potentially resulting in a devastating feedback loop, scientists have said."

FULL STORY -- https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/more-unzipping-of-the-landscape-arctic-permafrost-could-crumble-into-rivers-unleashing-devastating-feedback-loop

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@breadandcircuses I remember the expression on someone's face when talking about this threat and they said "Ice melts every summer" and I asked them "what do you think the 'perma' is supposed to mean in front of 'frost'?"

lowqualityfacts , to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Is it stupid that I'm trying to raise one billion dollars to protect my cat? Some might say so. But it is infinitely stupider that people have raised over $480,000 to cover Trump's legal fees.

So, please help me raise one billion dollars to protect Fishy. It is objectively not the worst way you could spend your money.
https://gofund.me/40393797

Picture of Trump looking Trumpy (yikes) $355M Unjust Judgment $481,848 raised of $355,000,000

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@lowqualityfacts Anyone with a billion dollars should have to take care of an evil cat, like all great villains do. Every billion you have to add another evil cat. And they won't get along.

lowqualityfacts , to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Super Bowl Prediction: Taylor Swift will kneel during the National Anthem. While on one knee she proposes to Travis Kelce, who tearfully accepts and announces that he will be taking her last name. Trump appears on the jumbotron and drops out of the presidential race, declaring that the liberalization of America is now irreversible.

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@lowqualityfacts if this happens I'll rob a bank and send you the proceeds.

thoughtpunks , to random
@thoughtpunks@dice.camp avatar

I love Clive Barker and Octavia Butler. With those two and their delirious sensibilities in mind, what young/new authors should I be reading?

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@thoughtpunks I'm not sure if he fits, but David Demchuk's Red X and Bone Mother might fit the bill. Bone Mother especially has that dream-like quality, imo

Likewise , to bookstodon group
@Likewise@beige.party avatar

Come on, big guy. Let's go for a ride. Let's cruise.

  • Stephen King, Christine
quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@Likewise @bookstodon Depending on his relationship to the car it could go fine or absolutely horribly.

PacificNic , to random
@PacificNic@zeroes.ca avatar

Why do people think nuclear is the only alternative to coal when we have so many other options?

We haven't even banned private jets or taxed the billionaires to oblivion yet.

Do that and THEN we can have a serious conversation about using something so toxic it can poison entire nations if the system is left unattended or bombed.

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@PacificNic But that would make rich people sad and if there's one thing worse than extinguishing human life and the biosphere, it's when rich people are sad.

lowqualityfacts , to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

I miss Freddie Mercury.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

quietmarc ,
@quietmarc@kolektiva.social avatar

@lowqualityfacts "attempted"? Succeeded.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • test
  • worldmews
  • mews
  • All magazines
    •