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Hi! Freelance union organizer, cybernetician, thalassophile, bicycle rider. Most posts auto delete šŸ˜Œ shytpostin 4 the rev šŸ”„

"One of the most vicious partisans in the IWW." -- real quote from a real fan!

I'm sorry if I didn't respond to your post I have really extreme ADHD šŸ–¤ I am jugglin a lot of plates over here, and many get dropped.

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Some kinda wild coincidence that a bunch of of ransom cyberattacks go off right after every major tech company laid a bunch of people off

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Some people really tend to focus on times when violent revolution didnā€™t work out so well, but most of us, including myself, really tend to overlook all the (ongoing) times when nonviolent, nonrevolutionary political activity failed to get the necessary goods. This is a subtoot

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Tired of living in a world with too much construction noise after hours, where the only people you can call about after hours construction noise are the police, who even if I wasnā€™t ideologically opposed to calling, I wouldnā€™t call anyway because they wouldnā€™t do anything. Then as soon as the construction noise ended the fireworks started? Itā€™s not even close to July 4th yet. Fuck you all.

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I am going to start another metal band and perform solely in public intersections as a form of sonic protest against industrial society. This has gone on too long

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Guys with 20 followers harassing Wolven for getting off Mastodon because ā€œyou should have to read my replies or else you are oppressing me, because I donā€™t have the social power of your follower countā€ this is goofy as hell and people like that are why I have notifications turned off from people I donā€™t follow šŸ™‚

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People should be allowed to make posts that cannot be replied to

People should be allowed to make posts that only some people can reply to

All other social media that I know of does this, this is just as important as properly working content warnings IMO. Totally bonkers that not only is this not basic functionality, apparently a bunch of people donā€™t even want users to have control over who interacts with them. Why not? That seems extremely on brand

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@julieofthespirits Yep. Yep. I donā€™t see a single downside, it feels like it would be safer and more pleasant for everyone.

If itā€™s really a hard technical barrier then we should just quit while weā€™re ā€œaheadā€ with mastodon šŸ¤£

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@julieofthespirits Werenā€™t quote toots supposed to come out at some point? Whatever happened with that

I love the alpha software hot mess vibes but I do note it probably doesnā€™t help with mainstream adoption

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To this day, Mexico honors Ricardo Flores Magon, and his brothers, who led the anarchist revolution in, and occupation of, Tijuana and other northern Baja California towns in 1911, during the early days of the Mexican Revolution.

Berlin has a Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in the Mitte neighborhood. I spoke at a radio station there, about Food Not Bombs, back in the early 1990s. Germany has at least one street named after Emma Goldman.

There is a Kropotkinskaya metro station in Moscow & Mount Kropotkin in Antarctica. There are still numerous schools around the world named for Spanish anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer. And numerous places have streets or squares named after Karl Marx.

But where are the revolutionary street and place names in the U.S.? Emma Goldman and Ricardo Flores Magon both spent considerable portions of their lives in the U.S., including time in U.S. prisons (Magon died in Leavenworth). Joe Hill's music lives on, was performed by Pete Seeger, Utah Philips, and Paul Robeson, was executed by the state on trumped up charges. Where are the Joe Hill streets? How about Albert Parsons, falsely convicted and executed for the Haymarket bombing, or his wife Lucy, radical organizer and cofounder of the IWW? How about street names or parks named for Cherokee radical and IWW organizer Frank Little, lynched by vigilantes? Or African-American IWW organizer Ben Fletcher?

The closest thing that comes readily to my mind is a short stretch of 9th St., in Oakland, renamed Huey P Newton Street, in 2021. Or Malcolm X school in Berkeley.

If you know of other examples of street or place names in the U.S. named for radicals or revolutionaries, please share photos.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #communism #IWW #joehill #emmagoldman #marx #haymarket #kropotkin #rosaluxemburg #RicardoFloresMagon #tijuana

sidereal ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor Thereā€™s also Malcolm X Blvd in NYC, and Cesar Chavez Ave in Los Angeles.

sidereal ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor Malcolm X, not Dr. King. DC has a street named after him too.

However your overall point is definitely correct, there are very few places named after left wing figures anywhere in this country.

(Chavez and Dr. King are "radical" enough for me but I don't really care to split hairs about definitions šŸ˜…)

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On Mayday 2012 some people smashed some bank windows in downtown Seattle.

The Obama admin called a grand jury and within six months several of my friends and classmates were in solitary confinement in prison.

The fact that the Biden admin didn't react to J6 like this indicates to me that the Democrats care a lot more about people smashing bank windows on Mayday than they do about things like J6.

The US justice system simply does not have to be this slow or anemic. This is a choice.

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Everyone's like "vim is hard, emacs is harder" and I'm just like. none of this shit is as confusing as Dwarf Fortress

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Source: Business Insider

Two panel meme. First panel is Geordi la Forge shaking his head and his hand, indicating his disapproval of the text "i'm using ublock origin because y'all made the internet annoying as hell". Second panel is Geordi la Forge nodding and pointing, indicating his approval of the text "i'm participating in the largest consumer boycott in history"
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    • sidereal , to random
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    Intergenerational conflict should be avoided. People of all ages can get along better and we would all be better off. Ageism, whether aimed at young people or old people, is bad for everyone of any age.

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    ā€œWe see you havenā€™t voted yet. Your voting record is public,ā€ a recent mailer to Texas Republicans says. ā€œYour neighbors are watching and will know if you miss this critical runoff election. We will notify President Trump if you donā€™t vote. You canā€™t afford to have that on your record.ā€

    The thing about a "strong" "leader"? Eventually you'll be the one targeted when things get desperate enough. No matter how much you think you are the kind of person who wouldn't be.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-supporters-are-now-sending-threatening-letters-to-get-people-to-vote-for-him/ar-BB1mV1XP

    sidereal ,
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    @futurebird @martinvermeer @nazokiyoubinbou Yep, they send everyone on my block mailers every election season that say, on the outside, how many recent elections they've voted in

    I've never been comfortable with it

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    The USA govā€™t kills people like Fred Hampton and negotiates with people like Ammon Bundy, and that tells you everything you need to know.

    sidereal , to random
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    "In the factory the worker's desire to organize production can only be expressed in opposition to things as they are, in resistance to company domination. But if you have helped a friend build his house or repair his car you know the release of freely associated labor. Whether your skill is small or great, whether you can do the wiring or can only carry cement blocks, you feel a part of something. There is a holiday spirit when you go out to the lot on a Sunday. Lots of talk, friendly joshing, a picnic lunch. But everyone takes part in the planning and carrying out of the work. Everyone gives the best that is in him and feels better for it. You may have a charley-horse when you go back into the shop on Monday -- but it's like going back into a prison after a taste of freedom." -- Martin Glaberman, "Punching Out"

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    "Not only were relations between the workers and the corporations changed in the great CIO strikes, but the men themselves were changed. Talking to sit-downers, you learn of the tremendous discoveries they made of the powers they had that they didn't know about before, powers that were released when they were released from the immediate domination of the machine. Men who were unable to talk in the presence of more than a couple of people spoke to hundreds and thousands with ability and confidence. Men found they had organizing ability, or could do office work, or direct a military operation. Only in free cooperative effort with their fellow men could their own powers and abilities be released and developed. It changed their relations with their families, their outlook on life, the very nature of their being. They felt, at least for a while, what it was like to be a whole man not just one part that was needed to tend a machine. Countless numbers of women achieved a new measure of equality in the home and in the factory--not from a contract clause--but from participation as equals in a collective struggle."

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    Found in the wild. No notes, perfect meme.

    Meme. Screenshots of historic & current McDonald's ads show that in 2024 a McChicken costs $4.70. In 2002 it cost $1. A screenshot of an inflation calculator shows that $1 in 2002 would be $1.74 in 2024, implying that 3/4ths of the price increase on the McChicken is not inflation but just price gouging. In the bottom right an anime character looks confused about all of this nonsense.
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    sidereal , to random
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    I can't remember exactly but I think the guy who just died in Iran was the person that the PDX police tried to claim (in the blue leaks) that the PDX IWW had a picture of up in their union hall

    (goes without saying, but I'm going to say it anyway, the PDX IWW union hall did not have any photos of Iranian politicians, so really the fact that they claimed they saw one is just further evidence they never actually went inside the hall)

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    They were trying to do this bc if they could prove some kind of connection to foreign finance then our picket lines would have no longer been constitutionally protected speech šŸ™ƒ just like these fuckers are trying to do to student protestors in solidarity with Gaza

    I love America šŸ”„šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øšŸ”„ Land of the free home of the whopper baby

    sidereal , to random
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    Me when I was a kid: swearing is cool because it makes controlling adults uncomfortable.

    Me as an adult: swearing is cool because it makes controlling adults uncomfortable.

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    Before Biden was elected people were like: "Look, he's not perfect, but he's better than Trump. Just vote for him and criticize him from the left."

    And then every single time I have criticized Biden this entire time, the same people are like "What so you want Trump to win?"

    I'm criticizing Biden [explicitly because] I don't want Trump to win, actually, and it seems like Biden is hellbent on pursuing policies that are going to alienate most people and deliver a Trump victory.

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    Hahaha nice, some local heroes hacked a bunch of the temporary traffic reroute signs downtown to say FREEGAZA

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    Someone said it's important say this publicly in the US: so I will. (And I think each of us should, online and to friends)

    This November I will vote for Biden.

    I would regard not voting for Biden, particularly in: PA, OH, MI, WI, IN, IL,VA, GA, FL, AZ, ME, NC, NH, etc. as a huge error. I'd be disappointed to find out anyone I knew didn't vote. It's one of a long list of things we need to do. We can't skip it.

    And still? We deserve better choices, and in the future we shall have them.

    sidereal ,
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    @futurebird @biplanepilot Iā€™ve absolutely lost faith in local races. Local Dā€™s are okay but often when they try to do cool stuff, the federal party cuts them off (this is why Sanders, one of the only Dā€™s I consistently like, has run as an independent many times). Local 3rd parties donā€™t get anything done. And local Rā€™s simply donā€™t get elected around here.

    To me, this is what systemic failure of the American electoral system looks like.

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    When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didnā€™t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

    sidereal ,
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    @mkb @Npars01 @StillIRise1963 Wait, did Biden end family separation at the border? If so, good

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    The election where we ā€œsavedā€ America from Trump was 2020.

    The fact that Trump is still a viable candidate this late in the game means that Biden already failed at his job IMO.

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    62% of Americans thought burning down the Minneapolis Precinct in 2020 was justified. Even my conservative lowkey racist uncle was stoked. Resisting fascism is actually pretty popular in this country across the political spectrum.

    I was at an action recently and some white lady started yelling at us. I thought she was about to get snippy, but instead she said ā€œTHANK YOU ANTIFA YOU ARE HEROESā€

    Getting rowdy makes the movement look good, and nothing is going to change if we donā€™t anyway. So.

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    Being able to hide boosts from people but still follow them for their actual posts is like, an amazing and game changing feature tho

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    This one time when I was in college I overheard a bunch of off duty Seattle Police officers bragging about how there was a big Palestine solidarity protest coming up. They were excited to get paid hazard pay to beat up hippies.

    Defund 100%, disarm, disband. They are all corrupt. The idea of a non-corrupt cop is a contradiction in terms.

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    Speaking from experience, deploying snipers against student activists is a great way to make sure they will never trust or respect your government ever again, for the rest of their lives.

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    In my experience most teenagers have better political takes than most adults.

    Most teenagers understand that things actually need to be changed. Most adults just come out with embarrassing shit like ā€œwell we have to be realisticā€ because their spirits have been broken by work.

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    Yes, many teenagersā€™ opinions lack nuance. But if added nuance only ever makes you less rebellious, you missed the point of nuance.

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    One thing you can learn from ants is that water and waste management are a top priority. Ants react to changes in water faster and more aggressively than food, or enemy ants, or any other problem.

    They are constantly moving substrate to manipulate the humidity level of their nest. They are highly sensitive to sudden influxes of water, and yet able to adapt to them better than some human towns.

    They are also prepared for water shortages.

    Likewise trash management and recycling are key.

    sidereal ,
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    @futurebird I feel like humans have a lot to learn from ants & bees about how to build & operate cities. Like. A [lot]. Honeybees will address humidity by flapping their wings inside the hive to create a "ventilation" system and move fresh air in.

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    The ongoing existence/tolerance of the ā€œIvy Leagueā€ in its current form has been a national embarassment for generations, and if you donā€™t understand why (hint: itā€™s the transparent & obvious oligarchy maintenance under the guise of academic rigor) you may be part of the problem.

    The current things happening at Columbia are exactly the sort of behavior I expect from Ivy League institutions. Iā€™m just hoping that now everyone else will take them less seriously.

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    Fox News Commenters: OMG Seattle is dying! The Bed Bath & Beyond downtown closed!

    What's actually happening is they're turning the old Bed Bath & Beyond into an arts center.

    From my perspective, this is a huge improvement over a store I never fucking went to.

    Commerce... is not the purpose of cities or human lives.

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    I really wish I could vote for the Antifa Commie BLM Democrats that exist in Republicans' heads.

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    A big issue with American right now is that the Antifa Commie BLM Democrats aren't actually real but the Republicans are all confirmed Nazis.

    sidereal , to random
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    I don't hate big trucks. I hate most of the people who drive big trucks.

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    I feel about big trucks like some people feel about big dogs.

    "What a cutie! She should be out on a farm, though. It's not right to keep a truck like that in the city."

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    Trucks are good, actually. Yes, most are too big. Yes, most people don't need them. Yes, many people buy them as stupid status symbols. Yes, they are probably too dangerous to be allowed to drive in residential neighborhoods as much as they are.

    But they are also not pointless! Vans are better for many contractors, but trucks are nice for messy tasks. Hauling dirt, manure, and yard waste is nicer when it's outside, and you can clean it out easier than a van, too.

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    @CedarTea 100%. I'm extremely critical of cars myself, and I get that a lot of people are saying "ban cars" to try and just move the Overton Window but I'm like can we actually [not] strand rural people with mobility issues? Not make it harder for urban people to go for a hike in the mountains? Not make it harder for rural organizers to drive around and actually organize rural people?

    I would love it if I could take my car on the train like a land-ferry but that's not very sexy either!

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    @CedarTea Right and like I'm even down to talk about going back to horses! I'm lowkey obsessed with the old streetcars systems where a horse would pull it uphill and then get onboard for the gravity ride back downhill. But then it's like, well, the environmental impact of growing all of that horsefeed would probably be higher than making small amounts of biodiesel. And someone has to do something about all the droppings.

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    @inquiline @CedarTea Yeah no this current crop of recent huge trucks in the last five-ten years is definitely an abomination of lax regulation & induced demand

    Like there have always been big trucks like F350's but now those seem to be the only options.

    The whole thing is darkly ironic because I might actually buy a new truck for work if any of these companies made a new truck I wanted to buy. Even as a truck apologist, the American truck market has nothing for me.

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    @inquiline @CedarTea Ahahahaha I've already seen a couple Incel Caminos driving around Seattle. I agree that it's really bad.

    I would way rather live somewhere with good trains and never need a car. Sadly, Seattle is pretty far from there. So I'm willing to get an EV or something as a stopgap in the meantime. But then I don't even want any of these cars! All too big, all of them have these ridiculous luxury features I don't want, and none of them are fun to drive.

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    @inquiline @CedarTea And then they're like "omg we can't import any of these cars that people want from China because then all the domestic car factories will go out of business." Like my brother in industrial capitalism, this seems like a solvable problem. Make small cars in America holy crap

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    Every now and then I hear conversations from outside of here about "the state of social media" and let me tell you: People are suffering. People are miserable. Many people feel addicted to social media but unable to have positive and valuable interactions in the space. Mostly, in the profit-driven social media space negative emotional reactions glue eyeballs as well as positive, so a heap of the experiences is just ... unpleasant.

    Meanwhile around here things are different.
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    sidereal ,
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    @fixiemama @futurebird IDK, it took me awhile to realize that it was ADHD. For a long time I just didn't understand why everyone else could tolerate these ads that were totally ruining my immersion in... everything? Then I realized it has to do with differences in task switching.

    I have all of my web browsers set to not autoplay videos and gifs, and look for "reduced motion" in all device and app settings. This cuts down on a lot of ads even without using ublock or a pihole (which I recommend)

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    @fixiemama @futurebird I just wish my state would get on banning billboards like Maine and Vermont have. Also removing ads from public transit would be nice, they really don't even make that much money anyway.

    I basically view ads as a form of hostile enemy propaganda and will go to unusual extremes to avoid them. The ruling class wants individuals to think they're weak & stay divided, and advertising is a major way that's accomplished. PR is just the new term for propaganda.

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