She’s AWWWWWdrey @AudreyJune@radical.town

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I used to think all our problems came from economic inequalities. That people were hurting each other only because they were compelled to do so by the market. That if everyone had every material thing they needed, people would stop being assholes because there would be no reason to be one anymore.

Then I got involved in non-profits.

I've seen people who had absolutely no economic interest in a cause behave in the most horrible ways. I've seen people tearing each other apart for the most ludicrous reasons. I've seen people breaking the rules they edicted themselves just so they can keep their "president" title. I've seen people dismantling everything they had built and hurting everyone they had gathered in order to prevent anyone from replacing them. I've seen people *enraged* at the prospect of losing an election for a non-profit SELLING FUCKING CAKES to fund a camping trip. I've seen people treating everyone else like shit because they were "the boss".

This outfit has got 1930s beach pajama vibes, and the more I think about it the more I want to go walk barefoot on sand.

#OurStreets lov mine home turf

Absolutely obsessed with these “i’m still BI” pieces by @nomsikka on Instagram. (The last two were commissions by @jessiepaege on IG, which is why they are the same blue haired woman.)

when the nazis try to gain a platform you say no
if the state tries to compel you to give them that platform you say no
if the state tries to compel you to take away a platform from comrades and marginalized groups you say no

take responsibility for what you do. everything else is just some "just doing my job" bullshit

Linux is a little bit like Christianity. There are a confusing number of versions out there, which are all technically supposed to follow the same idea, but with differences that don't seem to mean very much to an outsider. Also, there are a handful of evangelists who believe their version is the best, and they'll do their best to convert you.

Sally Ride's deadpan quote about NASA engineers asking if she would need 100 tampons ("That would not be the right number") is similar enough in common English tone to the XKCD Up Goer 5 diagram (https://xkcd.com/1133/) that the logical conclusion is "If you need 100 tampons you are having a bad problem and will not go to space today."

Tie-dyed soul

hello from the quiet town of couch

(selfie, no eye contact)

In my 27 years of life, I've seen shit like this grow out of control and people, get pushed out of communities, doxxed and lose their goddamn lives over it

But you wanna call it drama, tch

and you wanna say that folks screaming "Fuck Nazi's" and "Punch Nazi's" is fucking conversational?

REALLY FAM?

REALLY

In the year of our Lord Twenty Nineteen?

Wake the fuck up and get your head out of your ass

periodic reminder that, if the police try to interview you over anything, never talk to them. no matter how innocent you are. If what you say would exonerate you, it can't help you -- its inadmissible in court. But police testimony can easily help prosecute you, even if you don't see how -- and sometimes they even lie about what you said, and then it's your word against a cop's.

They'll always say that cooperation can help you, that they just want to talk, etc. etc. don't listen. never talk.

@mxsparks @patience

You don't have to give a shit about me. But understand what you are choosing to minimize, for the sake of FLOSS or tech advances or cowardly perversions of speech.

I'd still fight them if they come after you, too, because they will. They have no loyalty. I just don't want fascism to grow, because I've been up close and intimate with it, and I don't want anyone to see it closer. It makes a shadow in your heart. 3/3

Because these are actual human beings psyching each other up to kill folks like me.

Opposition to Nazis, in the abstract or on the streets, is a fucking moral duty, not a "political posture".

I have looked into the faces of people who'd rather I be dead, and felt vertigo as I tried to understand the words they were hissing. I've found out that people I've loved, or family members, or neighbors, would agree with the extermination of people groups I belong to.
2/3

I'm gonna get serious for a minute.

I hope like hell that, for most humans, "Nazis" remain the people we talk about, and not *to*. I hope they're just the creeps at the corner of the internet, or in that one house everyone avoids. Alone. Maybe we squint at them on TV as they go to jail. That would also be great.

I hope that, for most people, they remain an abstraction.

But please, for the love of gods, dont call opposing Nazis "political idealism". 1/?

the act of software development is the same as any other creative act. you infuse the work with your values. it carries your fingerprints. there cannot be an act of software development that does not have a moral component, just like there can't be a painting without any artistic intent

Fuck gab fuck nazis. This seems simple

Learning that the entire TERF movement arose quite likely from a cis lesbian being broken up with by a trans lesbian.

NOT SURPRISED.