aspiring cryptid @j@anarchism.space

'In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.'

By Matthew Desmond

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html

i keep thinking that it's almost Halloween and feeling disappointed when i remember that it's still like two months away

I’m not calling anyone out because this is useful 2 everybody. When nonwhites say something is racist it doesn’t ALWAYS refer to someone being a card carrying Hitler youth member, ok? More often than not we’re saying “this thing u do/say benefits white supremacy in X way.” But folks get so riled up over the idea of their personal brand getting conflated w “Racist💩 ™” that they vehemently defend their own identity instead of just altering the behavior we’re talking abt

Brilliant!

Hong Kong protestors are posting in phonetic Cantonese to stop machines and trolls from the mainland understanding and derailing the conversation, etc.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1475264-20190818.htm

This is the only good thing that was ever made in my university

Also, Karen?

You don't have a fucking spirit animal. No character from a book or show is your spirit animal. You don't get a spirit animal.

I have one. But it was given to me through ceremony.

You do not have one.

I don't care how much you love Tina Belcher.

She's your inspiration. Not your fucking spirit animal.

@magicalmilly

i don't care if you went to an ivy league school and i definitely don't think you're better than ppl who went to state schools or who didn't go to college

IQ is fake also

normalize self-reinvention for everyone tbh. name changing should be merely the start. people shouldnt be afraid to discard the parts of themselves that are holding them back or that they feel like they need to shed

Fun fact, tons of the folks running the concentration camps have that info publicly listed on their linkedin profiles.
Get to know ice agents in your area and make sure they never know a moment of peace till they stop being ice agents

Me: I'm a gender anarchist. I want to burn the very concept of gender down to the ground until it's completely unusable. I want to be the embodiment of gender destruction.

My bank account: You want to wear the same clothes you've been wearing since high school.

Your weekly reminder

“Stand with Hong Kong 香港加油”

'A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America.'

By Trymaine Lee

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html

Fedichive is archiving the fediverse, but they're using a custom user agent to do it so

if you put this into your mastodon.nginx file, it's prevent them from pulling from your instance:

if ($http_user_agent ~* (fedichive)) {
return 403;
}

Heads up tho, they can still pull your servers toots from other servers that haven't blocked them, so please boost and help spread awareness <3

👍🏽: pushing for the fediverse to introduce a toot-by-toot permission-to-archive-by-third-parties option, akin to the present privacy options, to give users control over what they bequeath to the potentially-hostile future

👎🏽: yelling "PUBLIC GOOD" and downloading everyone's everything and pretending there's no ethical concerns involved

The Matrix is unrealistic because it's a movie where a black man and a woman tell a straight white man that everything he knows is wrong, and he just accepts that.

@noelle to be fair it helps that the white guy is being told he's the most special person in the world just for being born