drowning-shadows

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[heavyweightheart]

Messaging about how everyone is an addict bc of the prevalence of e.g. caffeine dependency that aims to destigmatize other addiction (e.g. to illicit drugs) doesn’t really do the trick, unfortunately. It ends up backfiring in the sense that now people feel guilty about their caffeine use and aren’t likely more sympathetic to illicit drug users.

We’ve really got to get to the heart of the matter, which is that people are self-soothing, self-medicating, coping in whatever ways they can find with intolerable circumstances. We’re not bad bc we feel we need caffeine, or a hit, or a drink!! Ever, at all! Let’s ask: in what ways are our basic needs not being met? For sleep, for food, for safety, for connection? Why do we need substances for energy, motivation, or relaxation? To function or to escape?

The substances we call drugs have always been around in some form. Widespread addiction hasn’t. That’s a construct (w some biological components ofc), a way we stigmatize reliance on substances in a world that’s unbearable and whose demands we can’t meet. We don’t want to say “addiction is bad and widespread,” we want to say “why are so many people unable to function in the world as it is?”

[violetsandshrikes]

The Miꞌkmaq people are facing hostility and threats in Eastern Canada over the right to fish to sustain themselves. 

This has included:

“In response to Mi’kmaq fishers setting up 150 out of their 350 allowed traps, non-Indigenous fishers gathered at the wharf in Digby to protest.”

“One of the ways Nova Scotian fishers have found it appropriate to protest Mi’kmaq harvesting practices has been to chase down boats and fire flares directly at them. There have also been attempts to ram small boats with much larger vessels.”

Two people being arrested and charged with assault.

“Lobster traps in St. Mary’s Bay were vandalized, their lines were cut, and the traps were left on the shore.”

“Some fishers have posted calls on social media to reimplement the Canadian residential school system, and for other harsh treatment of Indigenous peoples and their children.” 

A lobster boat belonging to a Mi’kmaq fisher has been destroyed by a suspicious fire at a wharf in southwestern Nova Scotia.

These people have the right to sustainably fish on their own land and support their livelihoods. Megan Bailey, professor at Dalhousie University’s Marine Affairs program, an expert, has said that there is no conservation concern as has otherwise been claimed. “The scale of the livelihood fishery as it exists right now with 350 traps is not a conservation concern.”

Ways you can support the Mi’kmaq people (both on this front + other issues):

Treaty Truckhouse Legal Fund - Grassroots Grandmothers, Mi'kmaw Rights Holders and others continue to stand united as water protectors of the Shubenacadie River in the Sipekne'katik District of Mi'kma'ki, where Alton Gas intends to dump salt brine equivalent to 3000 tonnes of hard salt every day.

Another donation link is here, or e-transfers can be sent to [email protected] 

Support for our Eskasoni Mi’kmaq Fishers - Supplying resources for the fishers to continue the battle to have access to moderate livelihood fishery.

Mi’kmaq Fishers: To show support you can donate funds via e-transfer to the following emails with the message “donation”:

[email protected]

[email protected]

If you have any useful additions, please let me know, and I will add anything that I find. Also please spread this around, awareness is also important so that these issues do not fly under the radar and get a pass.

[knife-red]

update on this since its been a few weeks, it hasnt stopped and it got even worse last night

[smalltall]

I talked to the woman in charge of Fisheries at the Sipekne’katik Nations office, she says there are NO gofundme drives affiliated with their fleet. If you want to give money, contact Monica at [email protected]. I repeat: THE FISHERY IS NOT AFILIATED WITH ANY GOFUNDMES.

[violetsandshrikes]

Thank you for the clarification, it looks like the fishery gofundme is down!

IMPORTANT TO NOTE GUYS: donate through their official channels as they currently DO NOT have a gofundme!!

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Mining companies buy land in Greenland with the knowledge that melting ice will reveal new mineral and oil reserves. Private security firms prepare to defend wealthy clients from civil unrest caused by droughts, floods, and famines. Dutch engineering companies sell flood-management expertise and plans for floating cities. Wealthy investors buy vast swathes of farmland in the Global South in hope of cashing in when droughts make arable land scarce. Many millions will die from the effects of global warming and capitalists are counting on it.”

— Kai Heron and Jodi Dean, Revolution or Ruin

[lesbianlizard]

The romanticization of Hades and Persephone's relationship truly tells you how much people still hate women several thousand years after the creation of the mythos of Persephone.

[lesbianlizard]

Take the way people see Demeter. To sum the situation up, Demeter is the mother of a girl who was forcefully taken away from home and married to a stranger against her will, who then protested against the people in authority to have her back. Nerds then frame her as an "overbearing helicopter parent" for this. This is simple misogyny, and it's the same type of misogyny there was during Ancient Greece. History is a wheel.

[lesbianlizard]

I want to add a little thing. I see many people use the excuse that "there are other version of the myth" to justify why Hades was in the right.

Greek mythology was passed down through oral tradition, up until Hesiod put together the Theogony. It's normal, therefore, for a myth to have many different forms as time goes on.

The problem here is that the original significance of the myth is what matters the most. The rape of Persephone was always told through Greek tradition as a tragic tale about the pain of motherhood. It meant to signify how men don't need the permission of neither the mother of the bride nor the bride herself to marry a woman.

Later versions of the myth and the bastardization of its original meaning (iirc the way the Romans told the tale of Proserpina was different, for example) are worthless on the matter of this argument. To take a tale about the suffering of women, in particular mothers, and turn it into a woke story about Persephone and Hades being couple goals in which Demeter is nothing but a overbearing mother is, frankly, offensive.

[mysharona1987]

You ALL be regretting writing, or attempting to write, that book or script about the serial killer.

Prosecutor: “The defendant googled ‘How does a murderer clean up the scene?’ is that not highly suspicious?!”

Sobbing writer: “But it was for my pulp crime novel! And I still can’t get a publishing deal!”

[grouchycritic7794]

My worst fear has been realised.

[goodzillo-deactivated20220127]

I’m not saying this to be a mean stick in the mud, but this isn’t going to affect fiction writers lol. Researching your crime noire novel (or, let’s be honest, fan fiction) isn’t going to get you arrested. The case reported on had this used to create a profile of narrowed down suspects related to a vandalism, without needing a specific warrant. When this gets used further, it will be primarily to profile activists (especially black activists) based on who searched for organizing efforts related to certain protests, or some similar measure against dissent. It’s not going to be used directly against you in court unless a warrant is issued, which has been a factor for years now.

As with most privacy concerns these days, the issue isn’t so much what it will do to any one specific person, but how it empowers law enforcement to enact wider authoritarian controls on populations using such enformation. More invasive methods of monitoring become more widespread and ubiquitous reprisals.

Regardless, you should already be moving away from using google as your primary search engine.

[livedpoetry-deactivated20230925]

Stop using Google and instead use alternative search engines:

DuckDuckGo

Searx

Quant

Startpage.com

[queeranarchism]

Also

install the TrackMeNot extension, which provides a constant stream of fake input to pollute data to the point of making it unusable.

be extra extra careful when you’re looking for directions. Cops are all over travel planning apps and map apps, looking for people who drove to or looked for a bus to a protest sight. It’s a treasure trove of data and almost every site that provides travel planning shares their data with cops.

[livepasthope]

the haunting of bly manor (2020) // richard siken // welcome to night vale // d.f.w.: tracing the ghostly origins of a phrase by d.t. max

[podencos]

I thought this was a joke but it’s not and I wish it were

[la-laborista-republiko]

Hell world

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

Whoops I appear to have left my extremely powerful rare earth magnet on top of Amazon alexa

[afro-evolutionary-astrology]

Fear is knowing a new Alexa product is being developed.

Terror is knowing that it’s for landlords to control their units remotely, while being to see and hear everything in the rented space.

Horror is understanding that if a family is a few days late for rent/electricity/gas, this product will most likely cut off the services they may need to survive like WiFi access, stove/oven/microwave/fridge appliances having power, lights, medical devices that require electricity to function, etc.

[800-dick-pics]

deep horror is knowing that these devices will probably be set to unlock doors remotely allowing cops and abusers into the homes of marginalized people, these devices will probably have sensors to check how many people live in the home vs on the lease, probably will have some way or reporting that the residents are “breaking the lease” ie: loud music, having overnight guests, parties, or just people doing normal human shit and having it seen as a “violation”

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

Hope is knowing these things have the network security equivalent of a sign that says "please do not hack me" over an open door.

[aceofaces20]

If your landlord ever tries to force you to use Alexa, and you have little to no technical or programming expertise, it’s time to make your very own Faraday cage.

“What is a Faraday cage?” you might ask. “How will it help me defeat Big Sister Alexa?”

Easy answer: a Faraday cage blocks EM waves. WiFi, the thing Alexa needs to do anything of use at all? That’s a type of EM wave.

I know, I know, “Faraday cage” sounds like it’ll take 47727372 hours with a welder, right? Wrong!

A simple Faraday cage that anyone can make is as easy as a cardboard box with as many layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil as you can stand to coat the box with. I usually do about 5 layers because that number is easy to remember, but if you’re paranoid or simply need more layers you are more than welcome to add as many layers as necessary to keep Alexa at bay. I think the average is about 4-6 layers.

Hilariously, I actually learned this technique from those crazy prepper types. Which, ironically, is why I know it works. (Not to mention I tested it myself by wrapping my phone in foil and seeing if my roommate could call or message me.)

If your landlord notices, they will not receive any warning or notification that you tampered with Alexa- because you didn’t. All they will notice is that they can’t communicate with that particular Alexa device (because it will be “offline”, aka not sending or receiving signals).

A box is also easily hideable in case of surprise visits from the landlord or anyone else who might report you to your landlord, accidentally or on purpose. Just pop the bitch out, restart it (or don’t, this just clears any other hitches from the system) and it should behave normally.

Additionally, most landlords have the general tech expertise of an orangutan with a headset, so technical hitches are relatively easy to handwave with a good ol’ “Fire is scary and Edison and Tesla were witches”. Basically, if they question you about why Alexa suddenly is or isn’t working, shrug and say that it must have suddenly either just gone out or come back (depending on the situation), but that you didn’t do anything to it because you don’t know anything about that sort of tech and that you didn’t want to mess with it out of fear you would break it.

Note: Remember, Big Sister is always listening! If you wish to put the bitch in a Faraday cage, remember not to discuss it where Big Sister can hear you!

[lilyhoshikawa]

This is gonna be very similar to the post that got bombarded with terfs last time but really that just proves the point. My frustration abt this isn’t just coming from nowhere bc what it means to be a “terf” and who they target is actively being eroded bc ppl want to call everyone they don’t like a terf.

There is no “reaching the transphobic stage of being a terf”. That’s their entire ideological basis. Aro/ace exclusion is not a terf thing, biphobes who criticize bi women for getting with men is not a terf thing, general transphobia is not a terf thing. Terfs explicitly base their ideology on excluding trans women from feminism, from women’s spaces, and from the LGBT community. Terfs often also intersect with positions of biphobia, general transphobia, and so on, but those qualities are not why they are terfs or are called terfs or have chosen to identify with the term terf. It’s because they hate trans women. That’s it.

Stop calling everything you don’t like “terf behavior”. It’s maddening to watch.

[pinkfemme-deactivated20210608]

be the mean lesbian you are, go ahead.

[butchgender-remade-deactivated2]

lesbians and wlw who want features that society associates to men doesnt make them men in any way! In most cases we just want to ease our dysphoria that's all. And trans women who are comfortable with their bodies and don't want to completly transition or transition at all aren't men in any way either!

[quoms]

please god i can’t take another disappointment

[mens-rights-activia]

I’ve got my hand on the trigger 🥴

[thx-a-latke]

like to charge, reblog to cast

[anarchopuppy]

For some reason people stopped talking about autonomous zones after the CHAZ was shut down, so most people don’t realize that both George Floyd Square in Minneapolis and the James Talib-Dean Memorial Encampment in Philadelphia are still autonomous 3 months later

They’re also both facing regular threats of invasion and could really use visibility and support. The cops are expecting to be able to clear these places out without anyone else noticing

[beautifulworld4-deactivated2024]

there are multiple autonomous zones in philly rn and all of them have been facing regular harassment and threats from the philadelphia housing authority police force, with absolutely no support for these encampments from the mayor. if you wanna donate to the main encampment you can find that info on ig at @ campjtd !!

and these are some numbers etc. you should call asap regarding the imminent eviction notices that are continuously being pushed

[anarchopuppy]

UPDATE: They won!!!!!

On Friday (09/25) the city of Philadelphia ceded to (some of) Philadelphia Housing Action’s demands and relinquished 50 vacant homes to unhoused activists, which will be formed into a community land trust

Direct action gets the fucking goods. This is how you create change

[chthonic-isabelleadjani-deactiv]

Bro İ hate being an academic they're making me write shit 😭 İ thought İ was just supposed to sit in an old chair smoke & say something french every now and then 😢

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

All gay people do is sit around and describe the tattoos we want to get when we have the money

[closet-keys]

everyone agrees that women’s clothing should have more pockets, so here’s my slightly spicier women’s clothing opinion–

women’s pants should have more room in the crotch. whether we’re cis or trans there is just not enough room down there, it’s like they design it for people with zero genitals

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

"antifa is anti usa"

[fruitcube]

So you agree? The us is a fascist country