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If we know each other IRL, please message me to ask about my boundaries re: sharing personal information online. If we have the same icon, please tell me; it will make my day. [Icon description: a photo of a strutting duck.]

[savouryduck]

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[savouryduck]

doing an astonishing job of avoiding work today

[beardedmrbean]

[toastycyborg]

I scrolled past this without second thought. Paused. Thought, wait, I've never seen a crane on the road. Scrolled back up. No answers. Typed this response, then noticed the book's author. What a whirlwind

[orcboxer]

Basically they bring it in piece by piece and assemble it on-site, using a smaller mobile crane (trucks with crane attachments) and once the crane itself is assembled, the top part can use hydraulics to climb up and down its own mast, so it builds itself taller like this

There is however no explanation for BJ Nomnom

[thedreadvampy]

The thing about abolitionist discourse is that because of global hegemony we've smashed together multiple distinct geneses of policing from different parts of the world and different social contexts. For example:

The police in France were formed in the late 18th century from military brigades and revolutionary militias in order to assert the new laws of the revolutionary government (policing as the enforcement of the state)

The roots of policing in America were formed out of 18th century slave-catching brigades (policing as enforcement of racial and social hierarchy)

The police in Scotland and then England were formed at the turn of the 19th century in order to 'keep the peace' through preventative violence in increasingly urbanised and alienated areas. (policing as enforcement of property rights)

A lot of police forces in the Global South were established in the 19th-20th century by colonial powers (policing as a means of suppressing uprising)

And like. Of course these histories are in conversation with each other and police forces worldwide absorb each others' ideologies and learn from each others' strategies. For example the American military taught the Israeli military which taught the American police. The British police were a model for many countries building more established state police forces. You know it's all interconnected. And all police serve the interests of capital and state power (all cops are, by definition, bastards)

But they do serve those interests differently and occupy different positions culturally depending on the history and context. For example, the American police often seem to think of themselves as a wing of the armed forces, the French gendarmerie literally are historically a military police force, and the British police was established as very deliberately distinct and distant from the army (NB it's also only in the last 50-odd years that militarised riot squads have been part of normal police practice afaict, so at a time when American police were conducting military operations against protesters, the British police were more on the interpersonal violence end, with counterpopulist action coming more from the army or intelligence services)

Like I'm by no means an expert but it's one of many places where it feels like there's a tendency to pick up and carry over political theory without reference to context. Normally this happens with American theory (and that does happen here too - I hear a lot of leftists in Scotland say 'policing was formed out of slavecatching patrols' and I'm like yeah in the American South. In Europe it largely came out of state militaries, local militias, bailiffs or mercenaries hired by local governments. The Scottish established a formal Edinburgh constabulary in 1611 and the French in 1667; the Carolina slave patrols are recorded from like 1704 so that isn't the underlying influence. The English started off copying French policing in the 1790s and then the English model is a lot of what was absorbed into the establishment of Northern American policing.) but in this case I would also say we take a lot of French thought into the critical framework and like. Different model of policing again. Older and more tied up in use of state violence as a political tool cause the gendarmerie are a wing of the military.

and like Foucault isn't wrong. Davies isn't wrong. International abolitionist thought is important and applicable. But I think we miss some fairly significant nuance when we treat policing as one singular continuous history and not a lot of parallel semi-convergent developments.

[hollanderthoughts]

I want to be heard (doesn’t speak) I want to be understood (doesn’t explain) I want to be seen (acts like if a missing person was right in front of everybody)

[hollanderthoughts]

Oh no cock sucking for me thanks I just wanted to cry in this bathroom at the idea of it with you

[hollanderthoughts]

Why do you want to know this. What makes you think I’m unwell. I’m very well. Thanks for checking but I’m doing well. (Gripping the kitchen sink to stop myself from touching the hot stove.) I’m doing really well.

[hollanderthoughts]

“Homophobes think about gay sex more than gay people do” WRONG I’m winning I promise you I’m winning

[hollanderthoughts]

“What are you waiting for” there has to be a perfect moment where the door is open and my real life is on the other side waiting for me and if I wait long enough for just the right moment then maybe just maybe no one will hate me for going through that door. Maybe they’d even understand why had to do what I did to get there.

[ciaran]

I'm too embarrassed to have thoughts most of the time. what if I'm wrong

[loveridden1999]

my two moods these days

[mothermara]

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

[immaplatypus]

“so this week my town made the news for—” nope

“there’s a restaurant two miles from my house called—” nope

“today I learned [celeb] went to my high school—” nope nope nope nope nope

these are all real posts I’ve seen on the internet that allowed me to identify a user’s hometown instantly. if it’s a small town, that’s doubly dangerous, because a bad actor could trace you just by a unique first name or selfie you once posted. in an age where doxxing and stalking are some of the worst I’ve ever seen it, you HAVE to think twice about what you’re posting online.

i once saw a 13-year old post an image they noted as being “a few miles from their house.” it had a theater in the shot with a unique enough name to be local. one google maps search, now everyone knew not only what city they lived in, but the possible neighborhoods in that radius too. and they had a HUGE following…who all knew this was a 13-year-old child.

so yeah. not to sound like a 90s internet safety PSA…but I’m gonna be that PSA for a minute.

if you’re posting an image, there is NO need to say that you live there. you could just be traveling. “saw this in Montana” is better than “saw this by my house!”

before you post about a venue, especially a restaurant or small store, check and see if it’s local—CRUCIALLY if it has only one or two locations. people might travel to arenas or convention centers, but they’re far less likely to be traveling to Bartleby’s Fish and Chips. if it’s an anecdote and you still live nearby, you can honestly just leave the name out entirely.

if you’re sharing a news story, it can just be a story you found and wanted to share. you don’t have to clarify “it happened in my town,” because even if you don’t mention your town name, an easily-googled news article will.

if you’re seeing a concert or meeting a celebrity on a tour that’s stopped locally, wait until they’ve hit a few more venues before you post about it, or at the very least wait until you get home. this is honestly a smart move for any event you attend: unless you’re marketing yourself, there’s no need to advertise your location in real time.

check your selfie backgrounds for anything identifying. this includes city names on venues, school names, street signs, and house numbers.

this stuff is flexible if you no longer live in your hometown, or if your city is particularly big, but there’s STILL no reason to tie yourself to your school, your workplace, or your street. you can call it paranoid, but as someone who’s seen my friends get literal death threats over fictional characters before, the last thing I want is someone willing to act on those threats finding out where they live.

anyway. PSA over. does a kickflip or whatever

[cannibalthoughts]

Please also be aware that your posts also provide information about anyone you're with.

I once had a friend post a photo while visiting me with both a unique local business and a set of street signs in the background, while they knew I was being stalked by someone who knew and potentially followed their account. I wasn't in that photo, but other posts from that weekend made it obvious they were staying with me. They hadn't yet been in a position where they regretted having that information publicly available, so it didn't occur to them to avoid sharing it.

Even if you don't (yet) care about your own right to privacy, you're often not the only person you're doxxing

[herpsandbirds]

Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)

Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10th, 2026

[verminfang]

Thinking about a vampire dude bro who won't drink girl blood- because he's afraid it will estroginise him soy products style- getting trapped in a mental cage when he learns vampire dude who only bites other dudes reads as gay

[dizzyghoast]

every so often i remember how awesome the modern interconnected multicultural world is. i grew up getting to hear fairy tales from all over the world. africa, asia, europe, america. everywhere in between. i can have bagels for breakfast, curry for lunch, and ramen for dinner without even leaving the city limits. music and art and philosophy and technology that originated thousands of miles and years apart from eachother have come together and interwoven into something greater than the sum of its parts. its hard not fall into despair when thinking about the horrors but god. god the wonders.

[dizzyghoast]

you can have friends on the other side of the planet! neither of you even has to travel!!!!! you can just talk to them whenever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drawnsnake]