Putting the Ⓐ in Panda.

I talk and share veganarchism and anti-civ sympathy in an increasingly hostile world.

[pandawak]

On the 28th of January, I was arrested.

Drug dealers intimidated me into accepting to hude a luggage full of drugs and weapons in my house, and I kept it for two days before the police found out.

This experience was an eye-opener on what the police, the justice system and jails are in France and I want to talk about it. It's really bad.

I fully cooperated with the police, hoping that they would understand that I, the polite guy with no prior antecedents and pony plushies was not a member of the gang they were looking for. I was quickly placed in custody and was told it should last 24h, for my case was benign. I accepted no money, no drug in exchange for taking the luggage and thus was merely a tool for the dealers. That was the first lie I was fed.

When I arrived in the police station I was informed that I had refused to have a lawyer and to talk to my family. I was never asked if I wanted any of that. I was also told that if I called a lawyer, I would be left alone for hours in custody and that would change nothing. Second lie. Thinking, naively, that the situation would be solved soon I relented and left it at that. That was my biggest mistake. Do no trust cops. Call a lawyer.

Custody is hell. It's torture, and it's not a big, it's a feature. You're alone, in a 2m² cell, without any item authorised in (save maybe for the different papers they make you sign). There's no sunlight, no clock, nothing except the lightbulb always shining through the transparent walls. You quickly lose any sense of time and latch on anything able to provide stimulation. It's hell, and many people in custody lose it after a few hours and become violent or self-harm.

I spent 48h there, I had at least 4 panic attacks and couldn't eat. I was promised that I could have my medication. I could not. I was promised I would see a doctor. I did not. I was promised I could call my friends and/or family to let them know where I was. I. Could. Not. (It took weeks of tireless efforts for all my friends to know what had happened to me and a month for their letter to reach me. The police did everything they could to obstruct their research.).

After 48h I was indicted (because my court-appointed lawyer didn't see fit to defend my case) and sent to the prison of Seysse. It was better than custody, in the same way that breaking one leg is better than breaking both.

Seysse is a concentration of mean-spirited micro-aggressions, frustrations and dismissals. It's France's racism, ableism and classism laid bare. Prisons are about punishment. There's no justice or rehabilitation there there, only punishment and negative reinforcement. The result is saddeningly obvious: the overwhelming majority prisoners "relapse", or don't see any value in their detention (for there is none).

I was a prison abolitionist before, but now that I've seen how bad it is in France I know this system has to go. The amount of bullshit you're subjected to, the ridiculous bureaucracy, the cynicism and hostility of most of the jailors in addition to the freedom you're deprived on is staggering.

There's much more to say, but most of it is just reitaration of how much prison sucks.

I'm free now, but I lost 3 months of my life to a senseless system, something inside me is still broken and I was one of the lucky ones. This whole system has to go. It's not that it doesn't work. It's worse than that. It breaks people and makes them worse than they were before. It's a negative way to deal with anti-social behaviours.

[bambicest]

[allyourfearsarecomingtrue]

Note how she states that it was more difficult to get permits to do this shit than actually coordinate the drones.

Companies will want to do more of this, but environmental/wildlife laws make it difficult. So, they'll lobby to weaken them. Be vigilant. This woman accidentally said the quiet part loud. They won't let that happen again - this is our only warning

[acekoral]

Also tire iron is effective

[trickstertime]

A tire iron is ineffective.

Look, if someone was very irresponsible they'd look up drone parts and buy a set of 2.4GHz and 5GHz directional antennas (yagi or, not patch) and then get a set of 2.4GHz and 5Ghz noise generators (illigal almost everywhere) or look up how to make them (weirdly easy to do apparently) and then they would wait for the display to start and turn on their contraption with the antennas point towards the display. Because the drones would be communicated to from the main computer on either 2.4GHz or 5Ghz, a contraption like this would cause anything from a section, to all, of the drones losing communication and automatically landing. The fact that they waited until the display was in progress means that all that set up time would have been waisted so the rest of the show can't go ahead and they'll have to spend a few days checking everyone over.

Don't do this. it's very illigal to make a jamming device. Even though you'd be using a long range antenna so youd be safely far away and almost totally undetectable even to people beside you, especially if you hid it in a bag or small box. It's very illigal. Don't.

[mlkcloud-deactivated20231214]

[mandy-lane]

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

it's so annoying when i criticize a structure or system as being, quite factually, inherently abusive and severely harming the people forced to be in it, and someone comes in with "but people NEED that system? isn't it ableist to say we should get rid of a thing people NEED?"

like i don't know how many more ways i can say "the fact that people literally need this system and rely on it to live means the system doesn't have room to be even mildly flawed, much less actively fucking abusive."

the only available system for legal guardianship being abusive means people die. the only available system for receiving psych medication being abusive means people die. the only available system for income & housing for people too disabled to work being inherently abusive means people die. the people who aren't outright killed by these abusive systems live in abject poverty and under constant surveillance, endure constant trauma, have no legal recourse to escape abuse. the people who are subject to these systems are surviving them, not being helped by them, and that is completely unacceptable. How Much More Clear Can I Get.

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

i need everyone to understand that not all medication stigmas are equal or even comparable.

yes, you can experience stigma for going on adderall for your adhd, and you can be prevented from accessing that systemically because the medication is so stigmatized. the premise in a lot of psychiatric structures is often that you should be able to function without your adderall or your anti-anxiety meds, and so you must be forced to do so.

those exact same structures and people are likely to force a psychotic person to go on antipsychotics, because the stigma against psychotics is a stigma against us being unmedicated. we are seen as inherently needing medication, as being dangerous and violent without it.

those two things coexist! some pathologies structurally force individuals slapped with those labels into unwanted medication, and some pathologies structurally prevent individuals slapped with those labels from accessing desired medication. not all medication stigma is equal or comparable. when you see a post offering positivity for people who are unmedicated, it's targeted towards groups of people who are forced on unwanted medication, which is a demographic that exists!

[anarchopuppy]

My last begpost died off and the goal is outdated anyway because it took so long. I'm late on rent and still no closer to getting a new vehicle to replace the one that was stolen. I feel trapped and tired and doomed and I don't know what I'm gonna do

As always, anything helps if you can spare it, here's my ko-fi and you can DM me for my paypal, venmo, etc. Please share

[themadcapmathematician]

People should dunk on food banks more for giving people expired or nearly expired food actually I'm done being nice abt that. You won't let homeless people dumpster dive behind a fucking McDonalds but you'll make someone show their ID so they can get 5 cans of spagettios that went bad in 1947 lmfao hell world

[nativenews]

[ten-ge]

i don't want to see any white people ever again say how china, the middle east and many others asian countries are censored and that people there have no rights, don't you dare to make fun of north korea when your president wants jail for people who deny the state of isr*el, when you can't even walk around with a kufiya without being approached by the police and being told to leave, when social medias censor your post and shadow ban whoever even mentions palestine

[pandacab]

At some point we, as a society, as communities, will have to face the fact that states are entities with specific goals and interests and if they have to choose between them and your freedom, they will tyrannically enforce said interests on you.

[whenweallvote]

On this day in 2014, Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a police officer outside a recreation center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Tamir was only 12-years-old. Black boys deserve to make it to and through adulthood.

Rest in power, Tamir — your life mattered.

[qualitystart]

do not stop talking about Palestine!

there are Shut It Down For Palestine actions planned for Friday, look for one in your area if you can. they're not all registered on the Shut It Down website, so check social media as well as their list.

[pinkcadillaccas]

I think some of you are claiming to be leftists and have never done anything other than buy an eat the rich sticker from Etsy and participate in internet moral purity culture 👀

[radicalarchive]

Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (Q.U.I.T.), San Francisco, [early 2000’s].

[libraford]

I wonder if work just.. got harder in the 2000s, comparatively.

[libraford]

So like... ok. I haven't researched this and I'm mostly thinking out loud, so forgive me.

I entered the working world in 2005. I had a few odd jobs for a few years and then finally just bit the bullet in 2009, got a job at a grocery storeas an inventory clerk. My job was to count surplus items in the backroom and update the counts. Additional responsibilities included helping stock the front end. I left that job in less than a year.

A friend of mine now works at the same chain, different location, same job title, in 2022. But where I shared that title with two other people, he's the only one with that job title. Additionally, there are less stockpersons, and he is often called out to the floor to help them, which impedes his primary job function. He is also expected to clean bathrooms and some other maintenance things that I cant imagine doing as an inventory clerk.

And I thought maybe it was just that his location is understaffed, but looking back on the past few years where I was expected to do everything (be the front end, the dispatcher, the manufacturer, the teacher, trainer, janitor, delivery driver, account handler... christ, how did I do all this?) I'm looking at the issue with fresh eyes.

I hear sometimes about the 'slim down,' where a lot of companies took on a trend of hiring less people than they need to cut down on the cost of labor, and I look at how fast a person can burn out at a job. And how many jobs are considered 'high pressure sales' when they dont need to be.

Like I'm looking at the possibility of starting a business and I'm looking at the jobs I've had that burned me out and why. And it's almost always been 'I was always juggling responsibilities because we needed more staff'.

Like it seemed like I was doing everything, but getting paid the same.

And I think about that backroom job, where occasionally i would have to help out the stockers on big days, but mostly my job was one function.

It's not like that anymore, is it?

[libraford]

So when I hear someone bemoan that 'no one wants to work anymore' I just think... y'know, work ain't what it used to be. When you're working the work of 3.5 people because someone at corporate decided it was right and good to hire less people than they need because it saves them 20$ per hour per store, but you still dint get your bonus because shrinks too high or they didnt make the amount of money they thought they would or you gave too many coupons ONCE. And it's like they're actively trying to chase people away, and then threaten you with automation but they do t make work attractive enough for people to show...

Work dont want no one anymore.

[libraford]

Oh damn, the notes on this. Apparently it's not my imagination and y'all have lived some horror stories.

I feel like we should be able to do something about this. Like we should be able to say 'no' to lean staffing and we should have a say in what our responsibilities are.

I'm thinking about all the times i should have just straight up said something. Like I think I had it in my head that if I took on all the responsibilities in the shop, eventually I would be rewarded with higher pay. But it doesnt work like that anymore. The reward for digging the best hole is a bigger shovel.

That's no way to live, though. And I just put up with it like it was normal to be so tired at the end of the day that I couldnt move. Maybe I should have just said 'no, you do it' when they started making me work outside my title.

Because that took a serious toll on my mental health.

[startledoctopus]

i know so many people have said it but

UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONSUNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONSUNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONSUNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONSUNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONSUNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS

[teal-deer]

I HAVE A UNION JOB AND LET ME TELL YOU SOME THINGS

It is part time, contract, hourly, full remote. Because it's union? They have to offer me a minimum of 25 hours a week. If I *voluntarily* go under, that is on me, but they ALWAYS offer me up to that. If I ask for the hours, they HAVE to give them.

Overtime doesn't trigger until 40 hrs/wk... but any time spent on emails, spreadsheets, my timesheet, ANY admin task that's more than 15 min? I can bill for that. ALL training, meetings, etc? I bill for that.

I get holiday pay. Seperate from vacation, sick leave, personal time; if it's a federal or state holiday I *automatically* get 5 hours of pay for that day. Period. Unlimited. I got paid 5 hours to do nothing on MLK day and presidents day, no questions asked, nothing taken away from my other pay.

I get sick leave, vacation leave, "personal" leave (anything that isn't the former two -- like, "my friend had an accident and I need to drive them home"). I get health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance. I get access to the credit union. I get access to job search help if my position gets dissolved / I get laid off!

It costs about $80/month in union dues, but I MORE than get that back in terms of benefits and peace of mind, and it's automatically deducted from my paycheck.

U N I O N S.

[anarchistmemedistro]

as we are living through a new resurgence in unions, after they were systematically decimated for decades, people might ask ‘how do i join a union?’ or ‘how do i unionize my workplace?’. the IWW isn’t a union union in the sense that it will automatically give you benefits like the above. BUT it is the single best place to start if you want to begin unionizing your workplace, connecting with other workers (including prisoners), and generally learn about unions and the international labor struggle.

https://www.iww.org

Get Unionized - Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a labor union representing workers worldwide. We are known for our high standards of democracy,

[bloglikeanegyptian]

i agree that palestinian adult men and women matter. that parents matter. that grandparents matter. but i also think speaking about the children is important because this is a war on children first and foremost. again. 50% of gaza's population is children. this is an unprecedented and horrifying war and even if a ceasefire is called right now, it is already too late for israel to undo this. the "most moral army in the world" has now killed the most children in a war by a margin of over a hundred per day. a nation paid for with the lives of palestinian children. a border maintained with the lives of palestinian children. a future built on the sacrifice of palestinian children.

someday they will come to terms with this. someday zionists will come to terms with what they have done. a country whose prime minister called palestinian children "the children of darkness" and then sent them to their death in the darkness, bombing them throughout the night without electricity. a deliberate and calculated vengeance for the crime of being born palestinian, for daring to exist on their own land.

[breadandflowers]

I love it when I clear up a misconception about veganism on a popular post and everyone ignores it :-) love it when people complain about vegans being uninformed but then refuse to listen to us when we explain :-) love it when people ignore facts and empathy in favor of taste :-)