I wish everyone would quit Instagram and use signal stories

This isn’t representation—it’s digital blackface with imperial intent.

It’s camouflage.

The message is war.
But the messenger looks like someone you’ve learned to trust.

ANARCHIST PUBLIC SERVICE, pt 3

Back in the day, ahead of a big protest, anarchists set up “convergence centers”: big, scrappy, communal spaces where folks could not only find each other, make and eat food, plug into art and media making, etc. in the days before an (often direct) action based on a wide-ranging diversity of tactics—under an umbrella name like “Carnival against Capitalism” or “No Olympics on Stolen Native Lands”—but also skill up together.

There’s no time to do this before the poorly named “No Kings” (aka, it’s fascism) protests tmrw. Yet you could easily do pop-up skill shares. So many “newbies” are open to learning and eager for alternatives!

Remake the urban landscape into temporary autonomous “classrooms.” Use public furniture or gathering spots, or bring blankets or chairs to sit on. Write the skill share topic on cardboard and display it. Run around and announce skill shares as they start. Bored protesters waiting for a march to begin or tired of listening to rally speeches make great participants. Circle up and start passing along handy skills—say, how to help each other rinse tear gas out of eyes or turn a T-shirt into a mask (over your N95), or how to do forms of community self-defense or jail support. Offer an Anarchism 101 or local rad history talk too. Exercise hands and minds, encouraging liberal and progressive folks to (begin to) think and act for themselves.

#EverydayAnarchism
#TryAnarchismForLife
#EducatingEachOtherForFreedom
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon

"Cultures of domination court death. Hence the ongoing fascination with violence, the false insistence that it is natural for the strong to prey upon the weak, for the more powerful to prey upon the powerless."

— bell hooks

Please boost. Thanks, in advance ❤️🙌❤️

For those new to following me here, here's the #speech I delivered in #solidarity with #Gaza #Palestine in #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland in front of #BCgovernment legislature buildings

I call out the #farce of self declared true #democratic states in my speech & how our #governments tell us there ain't enough funds to help citizens but they can find billions to fund #EthnicCleansing of Palestinians.

https://youtu.be/ojlAbsd8x5Q?si=VgZ15m2sNRtkyMHH

#WarSurvivorsForCeasefire #BoycottIsraeliApartheid #HumanRights #StopWarMongers #ArrestWarCriminals #WarSurvivorsForPeace #ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael #AsianMastodon #USVietnamInvasionSurvivor #HelpRefugees #TootSEA #VietnamWarSurvivors

This is an important decision: food #couriers in #Finland recognized as employees by the Supreme Administrative Court.

I wrote some quick reflections on the decision and the struggle for courier worker rights.

https://research.tuni.fi/tammisto/blog/food-couriers-are-recognized-as-employees/

#work #workerrights #Justice4Couriers

Remember: Black ceramic artists are also women, non-binary, trans, disabled, chronically ill, low-income, immigrants and more. All of these identities and situations exist within #KaaboClay’s membership and we exist to support them.

I think there’s a misconception that being able to access #clay necessarily means you’re of privilege. People regularly turn to clay for recovery and healing in the midst of other traumatic circumstances.

"Abolish ICE"
Seen in Baltimore

listened for bats on my walk home tonight. A hoary bat was flying around. See brief recording, slowed down (and then I fast forward between each). Their echolocation pulses are the bright colors you are seeing at 18–20kHz.

#bats #HoaryBat #echolocation

Sorry, I forgot my ID Badger today 🦡

I'm gay. I can get away with being out of fashion. It'll look like I did it on purpose

"Avoiding risk is a privileged position, and solidarity means taking on some of the risk that is directed at marginalized groups" @hakan_geijer from 'Threat Modelling Fundamentals'

https://opsec.riotmedicine.net/

#anarchism #socialism #activism #uspol #eupol

There’s a reason that fascists, cultists, and grifters love “AI” … and it’s not because they misunderstand it.

Going back and reading this today https://the-counterforce.org/the-counterforce-issue-1/

On an Arctic voyage 1918-1925 Harald Sverdrup photographed the aurora borealis. They spent three winters ice-locked as Sverdrup made geomagnetic and auroral measurements. But their goal of drifting to the North Pole was unrealized.

(A post on tumblr has more of these images: https://www.tumblr.com/not-euclidean/780281528458608640/photos-taken-by-harald-sverdrup-of-the-aurora )

I just spent the past 3.5 hours walking around in the woods at night with a few students for an amphibian night lab. Full moon, wood frogs and barred owls calling through the night, spotted salamanders swimming around. (they requested a weekend option, and it was only supposed to be 2 hours but they wanted to keep exploring more). the night and their excitement of seeing wildlife lifts my mood.
#nightsky #spring #nightlife #wildlife #pond

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

People all over the world—so often the women—have worked out how to deal with thugs and corrupt politicians overrunning their country. We could learn.

Today is the 14 year anniversary of the Cheran levantamiento.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37612083

I’m visiting the University of British Columbia today, so here is a bonus #Petrofuture map of Vancouver.

66m sea level rise on a vintage Shell gas station map.

#UBC #BritishColumbia #Vancouver #SalishSea #climateChange