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River • 28 • Maladapted Manbeast

[tiqqun-deactivated20250830]

I think that if you need a “positive vision”, an “alternative” to want to rebel and buck against the existent – that if no “alternative” exists or is apparent you’ll just go dutifully marching back to your cubicle/cell/pen…I have nothing to say to you. It’s clear to me that you simply do not get it.

[algorithmist]

life tip: consider rejecting the premise more often

[2022dirt]

Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.

[rosieitth]

[huariqueje]

Dills in the backlight -   Teija Lehto , 2017.

Finnish, b. 1965 -

Woodcut , 60 x 41 cm.

[captain-price-returns]

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I dunno you guys I think the emotion of “yaaay I finally have an excuse to be a bully” is one you shouldn’t luxuriate in

[effectiveresistance]

Understanding Diversity Of Tactics & Why It Should Not Be Dismissed

by Caretaker, Aug 4, 2015 So here's the thing - we humans are different throughout the world. Our point of view in life, our culture, our political ideology, our religion, our governance structure,...

So when the options which may have worked before such as petitions, marches, and writing a letter start to slow down their success rate, do you still continue doing them? Even after the success rate is 0% or extremely low? Or do you look at other options?

That is the diversity of tactics.

You do what you can in a peaceful manner to make life easier for everyone. But once the peaceful way of doing things suddenly don’t work, you have to assess your context of living and do something to help your situation and others’.

An indigenous land defender from the Gitimt’en Clan has described the life of a Warrior; “you expend all peaceful avenues first, and when all those fail it’s war”.

[architectben]

Black Skimmer, San Diego Bay

[mammalianmammals]

Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber), family Castoridae, Loire River, France

photograph by Louis-Marie Préau

[pasparal]

Carrousel on fire in Bergamo, November 22, 2017 Photographer: Oli Freuler

[morggo]

6 of Swords

Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmorgan/6-of-swords/

[localareamom]

Folktales of the Amur by Gennady Pavlishin

[urgetocreate]

Clay Johnson, (American), Marsh Sky, 2026, Oil on linen - Hunting Beach State Park, Sunrise

[waepenwifestre]

Let's Talk About Security Culture: Why Keeping Secrets is Cool and Sexy

It's a natural impulse -- if you love crime -- to want to talk about how great it is. And if you hate America, it's only natural to want to share your dreams for its future with the rest of tumblr dot com. It can feel brave and transgressive. And there is a drive to share your soul with the world at the heart of social media. Surely I should be posting the most concrete implications of my politics, right? This is the poster's curse.

Security Culture refers to a set of "best practices" developed over the past several decades, largely (in a US context) coming out of radical environmental groups as they faced intense state repression, infiltration and entrapment. If you're not familiar, there's some fascinating crimethinc write ups to give you a window into that world:

What Is Security Culture?

A security culture is a set of customs shared by a community whose members may be targeted by the government, designed to minimize risk. Hav

Towards a Collective Security Culture

For as long as anyone can remember, the FBI has infiltrated radical communities in hopes of framing people on criminal charges. This has int

Much of it boils down to: don't talk about crimes, past or forthcoming with people who don't need to know about them, and be mindful of the possibility of surveillance and infiltration. And, we can support each other as a community in minimizing risks, with an eye towards enabling bold action rather than getting bogged down in fears and anxieties. The guidelines that make sense for AG-based trouble-makers are different from the guidelines that make sense for posters, but plenty of common principles apply. To speak briefly to our position here as posters:

First, it bears saying that long term anonymity is extremely nearly impossible to maintain. Unless you've never accessed Tumblr without a vpn, and avoided connections with other ppl who can be associated with you/your location, and never shared pictures without scrubbing metadata, and a bunch of other 100% consistent steps, it's trivial for the state to know who you are.

Second, just because something isn't actively being prosecuted now doesn't mean it can't be prosecuted later. The priorities of the state change and a shift in power towards the right or a growth in radical action from the left can suddenly make it a priority to destroy anarchist networks or just find a few ppl to prosecute as examples (who probably weren't that plugged into larger networks before getting arrested. Advocating for specific anti-government crimes or declarations of intent to commit such crimes are likely prosecutable even if charges don't stick they're an easy vector for legal harassment.

Third, it's worth thinking about heat as separate from prosecutability. There are modes of engagement that may not be directly criminalized but signal that you are someone worth watching. Some people choose to be public in ways that make heat unavoidable. But it's worth noting that heat isn't strictly individualized, that it persists over time but also is going to shrink over time.

It's easy on here, ime, to see yourself as a proud member of the crime fandom but not much of a content creator. And it's easy to feel like you've generated an amount of heat where you're locked into that role. But heat you generated 10 years ago is probably pretty well gone. Heat you generated 5 years ago has faded substantially. It's worth thinking about how the world might shift in the coming years and what doors you want to keep open.

The non-individualized nature of heat also means that leaning into the spiciest of anti-state positions will make it a bad idea for people who are acting out those positions end up tied to you. Loudly talking about how "more people should be doing [X/Y/Z]" unfortunately sets you up to remain distant from people who might be doing or thinking about doing such things.

Which brings me back to: keeping secrets is sexy. Not spelling everything out builds intrigue. You can lay out a theoretical position and leave working out the practical implications of that as an exercise for the reader. There's value in opacity. The poster's curse and the drive to confess are extremely convenient for the state, but we can resist them. We can hold dreams in our hearts that we refuse to offer up to the posting spectacle.

[peri]

educating yourself on dogwhistles of all kinds will have you feeling insane in settings where nobody questions anything they're parroting

[noelle-ism]

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

[noelle-ism]

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.