mea vita

25 year old commie lesbian who writes sometimes rhys, they/them, tme in love with @horsegirlestrogen

[cvctuslesbian]

this blog is just for politics for everything else (writing, aftg, hockey/hrpf, etc etc) go to @cuntylittlesalmon

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[cvctuslesbian]

this blog is just for politics for everything else (writing, aftg, etc etc) go to @cuntylittlesalmon

[girlsludged]

please consider writing to Prarieland defendants Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, they are both trans lesbians incarcerated in men's prisons for protesting an ICE facility

prosecution established affiliation by way of defendants having fucking anarchist zines, the kind of shit you see in a punk house. this is what they want and are willing to pursue for all of us who aren't willing to lay down and die, imprisonment and torture and the absolute stripping of our dignity (the govt gleefully included their deadnames in a press release yesterday; Morris' public defender has consistently deadnamed and misgendered her despite her legal name change)

there is no one who will protect us except us, and if our sisters are lost to us and forgotten as soon as they are grabbed by the prison system (ie if the system is allowed to work as intended) then we are failing, and we are woefully unprepared for a world where they start taking more of us

Autumn Hill - Support the Prairieland Defendants

Autumn is a loving wife and is interested in religious history and mythology. Write to her at FMC Fort Worth.

Meagan Morris - Support the Prairieland Defendants

Meagan Elizabeth Morris is loved by her wife housemates, and dogs. Her name was legally changed in 2007, but the federal complaint used her

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

adding some more!

pal humanity initiative - provides baby supplies, menstrual products, medications, and mobile clinic visits

educational tents program - running multiple educational programs for children and offering psychosocial support

thamra - distributes fresh food and seeds for gardens, as well as repairing wells. they also have a gofundme

gaza sunbirds - paracycling team delivering a variety of essentials, including food, tents, blankets, baby supplies, and sanitation systems

the one body initiative - providing tents, sleeping supplies (blankets, mattresses, sleeping bags, etc.), food, and medicine

gaza emergency fund - purchases and builds waterproof tents and portable bathrooms, as well as distributing food, hygiene products, and medical supplies

medical aid for palestinians - provides medical and psychological care. also works in lebanon

the culture & free thought association - runs various programs including clinics, classes for children, and supply distribution. focuses on women, children, disabled people, and other marginalized groups.

hakini - provides psychological support and secures access to food, shelter, medication, and hygiene products

gaza collective - running a variety of projects including restoring bakeries, providing financial support and necessities, establishing educational programs for children, and securing supplies for traditional embroiderers

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a few more:

palestinian medical relief society - runs mobile clinics in gaza, the west bank, and east jerusalem

translating falasteen - partnering with the sameer project to provide food, water, medical care, essential supplies, and direct financial support. updates can be found on their instagram

roots of gaza - initiative from the al nasser charitable society. provides food, water, toiletries, tents and tent building services, cash assistance, and other necessities. also has a gogetfunding

healing our homeland - runs psychological support programming for women and children. also provides food, water, hygiene kits, and baby supplies. other initiatives featured on their website

sharek youth forum - provides food, water, hygiene kits, and psychological support as well as educational and development programs for young people

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

adding on this fundraiser from the arab group for the protection of nature (APN). they are doing extremely important work to support farmers and rehabilitate gaza's agricultural sector. as of june 3rd, they are about 67% of the way to their current fundraising goal - if you have funds to spare, this is a great organization to support! food sovereignty is a human right, especially as we witness deadly violence against those who have sought aid through israeli/usa-run channels.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a few more:

isnad and ihyaa - initiatives (in the north and south respectively) providing financial support and educational materials and spaces for students

amir ismail - Amir is a teenager working to provide food, water, and essential supplies to his local community

relief for rafah - provides food, water, and financial assistance

team hussein - provides food, water, financial assistance, tent repair, and other daily-needs support

we feed gaza - delivers food packages, water, medicine, baby supplies, and hygiene items, and runs events for children and families

watermelon relief - provides food, water, and psychological support. information on their activities available via their instagram

HEAL palestine - provides food, water, and essential supplies, as well as running a field hospital and education programs for children

bint gaza emergency appeal - provides food packages, with a focus on women, children, and elders. updates through their instagram

[chirp-featherfowl]

if infinite monkeys on typewriters will eventually write shakespeare then surely 100 million americans with pistols will eventually successfully assassinate the us president

[read-marx-and-lenin]

the cops and ICE also offer lots of benefits for folks working with them for X number of years same as the military. cops and ICE also get PTSD from their jobs. so why don't we see "leftists" running to their defense every time someone says "ACAB" going "well those police officers are probably just poor working class folks who wanted college tuition and it's actually really traumatic to be a cop because you get shot at" the way they do about the military when someone says "fuck the troops"?

(it's because they're racist chauvinists)

[onlytiktoks]

[hedwig-dordt]

a reCAPTCHA will not request a sequence of keys, and what to do if you got scammed

[elamarth-calmagol]

I dont know that I would have recognized that

[coruscanttojerusalem]

Fake CAPTCHA scams trick users with “I’m not a robot” tests to install malware and steal data. Learn warning signs and how to protect yourse

Real source that's not a tiktok video added.

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

ngl if you're doing the whole Blogging thing right you shouldn't need to put your disorders in your bio bc your followers will just figure it out on their own. it's kind of a "show don't tell" type of thing

[guldaastan]

it's the trans day of visibility and indian trans people will be losing their rights because of the new trans act that was signed by the president today. this bill takes away trans people's right of self identification and will also criminalise their support networks. this is a dark day for human rights.

[hagiomoto]

[bearballing]

i feel like the rest of that tweet should be shown:

[symptomesper]

Nuclear attack on Iran? UN diplomat resigns saying 'giving up my career to leak possible nuke missile strike plan'

‘Possible nuclear use in Iran: UN-linked diplomat Mohamad Safa, the Main Representative of Patriotic Vision (PVA) at the United Nations, has

Yeah, just so we have an actual source and not a picture of a twitter post. Be sure to check sources! This is real though. Spread wide.

[arctic-hands]

[Image Description: first image: tweet by Nerdeen Kiswani, @ NerdeenKiswani, that says "He resigned from the U.N. and ended his diplomatic career to leak the fact they're preparing for a nuclear weapon to bomb Iran. We are not doing enough to stop this." This is in reply to a tweet by Mohamad Safa, verfied, @ MHDKsafa. The entirety of the tweet makes up the rest of the images, and says

"I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the U.N is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city with nearly ten million people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspend my duties so as to not be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it's too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested 'No Kings' in the United States. The possibility of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us." Beneath the tweet is a skyline photo of part of the metropolitan city of Tehran, filled with houses and skyscrapers an stretching out towards mountains. End I.D]

Also relevant:

WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran

World Health Organization staff remain ‘vigiliant’ in the event of a nuclear incident

[loveridden1999]

i need people to start caring about trans rights all around the world, not just american. the lok sabha (parliament of india) just passed the transgender amendment bill of 2026 according to which they're removing a person's right to self determination of gender unless they're examined & approved by a medical board. it's hard enough for people here to get a gender defining surgery because of poverty and being shunned by society as is, & now they're taking away their right to exist. the medical boards are bigoted as fuck. despite protests all around the country they passed it. it is so fucking bleak out here.

[ojibwa]

[digsdigsdigs]

Kill Chain

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

precise writing about "AI" as a bureaucratic problem as well as some military history of precision bombing

[digsdigsdigs]

i usually try to share articles with a pull quote because i know a lot more people will read it than will click through. but Baker writes in a densely argued way with a bunch of references to other writers and all my pull quotes were like a thousand words long. let's try something else since it's getting more reblogs than expected. my brief summary:

large language model ai like Claude and chat-gpt has been taking up all the attention around discussions of AI technology, but there are other kinds of AI too, that can't be understood by the discussion of LLMs.

Maven is an example of a technology that uses AI that is not large language model AI. it's a tool made by Palantir for the US military to conduct operations more "efficiently." He cites that the volume of strike coordination decisions that took two thousand people during the war in Iraq in 2003 can now be done with 20 people using Maven.

Maven is the tool being used right now to bomb Iran.

Baker goes into some detail about the history of how making bombing decisions more quickly became a priority of the US military, and criticizes how prioritizing speed means de-prioritizing anything that might slow those decisions down, like checking information for accuracy, or checking whether it was a good idea to bomb at all.

Baker explains how the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school was enabled by this type of "efficiency." He criticizes the media for discussing this as a case of "AI error," as if it were similar to an incorrect chat answer from Claude, and letting the people responsible for these decisions go unchallenged.

[nourishedbytime]

It’s insane how every headline is like ‘Cubas power grid collapses’ as if it’s something passively happening out of the blue. As if it isn’t the u.s. energy/oil blockade on Cuba causing this, as if it isn’t the u.s. cutting off Venezuela’s oil exports to Cuba, threatening others w punishment should they provide support to Cuba. But no the power grids just randomly collapsing no agent no nothing according to these headlines and articles. & perhaps they’ll make the very astute observation that it seems like the u.s. created the conditions for this to happen (who would’ve thought?) but only as an afterthought, sandwiched between two paragraphs about how disruptive and unfortunate and pitiful these blackouts are, with quotes cherry-picked to exploit the Cuban interviewees’ pain while maintaining the myth that this is all happening in a vacuum and there is somehow no rightful resistance against the empire

[metanarrates]

the slow casual creep of misogyny back into every point of our lives both digital and physical is making me feel fucking insane

[this-is-trans-joy]

I don’t think America should be burned to the ground because I think you people need to start caring more about indigenous people and their land first.

[this-is-trans-joy]

Like, I understand the sentiment but 9 times out of 10 I hear this sort of stuff from people who do not include indigenous rights in their activism, and rather depend on violent slogans to rid themselves of responsibility to their community, as if they’d prefer to have a pissing contest over who can hate America the most instead of, like… work on restoring land rights to Native Americans or engage with their real life communities.

The American government is a genocidal machine built upon the deaths of millions of Black and Brown people, both in America and oversees, but white people on tumblr would rather joke about burning it all to the ground instead of talk to the people whose land it belongs to and actively work on involving them in their activism.

Like, I don’t talk too much about my politics here, but the landback movement is my main point of activism (not just in America, but in every country across the world) and unfortunately, this tankie-led website always gets suspiciously quiet whenever indigenous people in their own country want to talk about restoring their land, because it doesn’t really fit into their (originally white European) idea of destroying everything from the ground up and turning it into some communist utopia.

Like, I also don’t think you care much about people oversees either, you just kinda want an outlet for your violent fantasies.