Welp, it's #Pride month and my trans gay ass is unfortunately having to haul ass from my beloved North Carolina, thanks to recently passed anti-trans and anti-abortion legislation. Any and all help towards a safet existence is appreciated. 💚🙏🏾🍀✨️

http://gofundme.com/f/help-rail
http://cash.app/$sotreu2
http://paypal.me/rikiam

#PrideMonth #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund #BlackMutualAid #blackmastodon

Move your body, however you're able.

-How are you doing?
*I'm finding it hard to function in a world that prioritises this pretense of normalcy rather than responding rationally and effectively to multiple health, social and environmental crises. I struggle to picture a way forward where I can at least trust my fellow humans who have decided to abandon each other and ignore the very real and concrete actions we could take because they'd rather not inconvenience the wealthiest among us.
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*...
-super rainy today huh?

I'm a moderator on r/firefox, which has gone dark as part of the protests against #reddit. I'm probably not coming back, no matter what reddit does with third party apps (my own issue with reddit revolves around #llm applications of the reddit corpus).

I have gone ahead and created a new #firefox community on fedia.io - https://fedia.io/m/firefox

Check it out (or not).

A colorful painting of a white wolf in vibrant teal, blue, violet, purple, and magenta colors on a starry background. Titled "I Saw You In My Dream" Acrylics on 16x20 stretched linen canvas.

https://rebeccawangart.com/featured/i-saw-you-in-my-dream-rebecca-wang.html

#Art #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #TraditionalArt #AnimalArt #AcrylicPainting #Wolf #Wolves

Larry Cook, a prominent anti-vax activist who was banned from numerous social media platforms including Facebook for spreading QAnon conspiracy theories, has returned to Twitter, where he is using his verified status to sell expensive “vaccine cures,” reports Decca Muldowney for the Daily Beast. https://www.thedailybeast.com/banned-anti-vax-menace-larry-page-is-back-on-elon-musks-twitter-and-selling-vaccine-cures

Two weeks left to enter our giveaway contest for one of ten copies of WE GO WHERE THEY GO: THE STORY OF ANTI-RACIST ACTION. This vital book reveals, for the first time, the untold story of how youth in North America in the 1980s built the largest militant anti-racist network of its time, driving neo-nazi gangs out of cities, winning a war of attrition against the KKK, and taking on the religious zealots in the anti-choice movement. It's an incredibly inspiring history packed with lessons for all of us in 2023. It's also one of the best books on anti-fascism we've read (and we've read them all!).

Anyone who donates at least $25 to the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund this month or signs up to become a monthly contributor to the Defence Fund will be entered to win. We'll be contacting the winners on July 1st.

DO IT HERE: https://bit.ly/DefendAntifa

How to build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box. Graphic created by: https://twitter.com/shiventaneja/status/1598099273434165249
#corsiRosenthal #corsiRosenthalBox #airFilter

We know you want to burn down capitalism.

But for today, just don’t answer your boss’s call off the clock.

The memes are fun. The memes are aspirational and keep us reaching for the horizon.

But look down, too, at what actually is.

Endure pains now—suffer the inconveniences now—knowing that they likely involve unpleasantness.

The Revolution™ is fun to imagine and involves no pain. But the real world does involve pain, and it’s necessary to exercise the muscles needed for future work and opportunities.

A Day on Earth Used to Only Be 19 Hours

The Moon formed when a Mars-sized object slammed into the Earth billions of years ago. As the Moon orbited around the Earth, its tidal interactions carried it slowly away from the planet, slowing down Earth's rotation. For about a billion years, a day on Earth lasted 19 hours before it continued to slow down to the current 24-hour day. Geologists have developed a new technique for measuring the length of Earth's day using sedimentary layers that change over long periods following the Earth's orbit and rotation.

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-billion-years-earth-history-days.html

Just going to tag this #inflation or more specifically #corporategreed

@JonBowie that is indeed a very handsome moose! Great photo

“The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.”
— Utah Phillips

When an (ex-)enemy tells you how to defeat the enemy, listen.

An ex-Nazi speaking to AFA (antifa) in southern Sweden had this important information to share:
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AFA: How do you think that one should respond an organization like the Nordic Resistance Movement?

Ex-Nazi: The best way to work against an organization is through being in solidarity in the work against them, to always prosecute them even for trifles, to make life so difficult for them that they eventually turn on each other. To continue exposing them not only online but on large posters around town, simply make it difficult for the Nazis to be Nazis.
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From my translation https://b9ace.noblogs.org/post/2017/10/14/afa-antifa-helsingborg-martin-karlsson-tells-about-its-defection-from-nmr/ in 2017. Translation accuracy approved by interviewee.

This is entirely in line with what I have been told by other ex-Nazis that have gone on to become active antifascists.

Some will claim only [one specific method] works, but it takes a multitude of methods, a diversity of tactics, as all humans and situations are different wherefore which method is the most efficient varies.
So, to "make it difficult for the Nazis to be Nazis" combined with defection program(s), prevention, &c are all essential for any complete toolkit to be used as appropriate.
Anyone claiming any of those must be removed thereby acts to hamstring antifascism.

New trial date is September 5th. I’m still raising money for my legal defense. I still owe ~20k to my first lawyer & idk how much I’ll need to raise for the new one. Not to mention my new case that i’m dealing with due to Portland police’s heavy harassment and targeting me. 
Here’s the link to my fundraiser, even if you can’t support it just sharing it is very helpful 🖤

https://donorbox.org/help-alissa-get-proper-legal-defense

“By 2050, droughts may affect over three-quarters of the world’s population, and an estimated 4.8-5.7 billion people will live in areas that are water-scarce for at least one month each year, up from 3.6 billion today. And up to 216 million people could be forced to migrate by 2050, largely due to drought in combination with other factors including water scarcity, declining crop productivity, sea-level rise, and overpopulation.” United Nations Report

Fire-scarred stump of an old growth redwood tree, at the center of a "fairy ring" or "family circle" of second growth trees. Marin County, CA. #SequoiaSempervirens
#ThickTrunkTuesday