No time for bigots. Husband and Minecraft Dad. Software developer. Entrepreneur. Tooth Fairy. DM. Uber-nerd. Black lives matter. Defund the police. (he/him)
South Carolina raised a confederate flag over its state house in the 1960s to show contempt for desegregation and Black Americans pursuing civil rights.
Four decades later they moved it to a flagpole at a monument to men who died fighting to preserve chattel slavery.
On 27 July 2015 Bree Newsome scaled that 30ft flagpole, removing that hateful flag. In just days the state decided to take it down permanently.
Today is the 10th anniversary of Bree Newsome's essential, moral, courageous action.
Friends, I don’t know how to explain this any more simply: there can be no such thing as an anarchist prison.
Either there is some coercive institution with a privileged relationship to violence that can put you in a cage, or there isn’t.
Prisons are not some neutral tool that could theoretically be used by a community for self-defense from aggressors, but just so happen to be used everywhere by states as tools of oppressive rule.
They *are* oppressive rule.
“But how will we deal with murderers and rapists without prisons” THEY DON’T DO THAT NOW
People really live in a world where prisons are sites of torture, rape, slavery, and mass murder, in which a fraction of all violent crimes are ever solved, in which countless *statutorily innocent people* languish in cells while people like Donald Trump are elevated to positions of power that insulate them from any legal repercussions…
…and somehow come away with the idea that “the prison” exists as some sort of Platonic Ideal for handling bad people that, somehow, for some reason, we keep messing up.
Meta aligning with Trump's false narrative that enforcing competition law is a "tariff” 🤢
"the Commission forcing us to change our business model effectively imposes a multi-billion-dollar tariff on Meta while requiring us to offer an inferior service”
I actually don't want people to sell their Teslas. They have a higher purpose. Each is a valuable canvas.
@gl33p "Now take this Tesla. There it is: pretentious, ugly, wasteful... But if it is destroyed...
So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color!"
@greycat @vampiress I'm not a super-expert, but I think this is an OG shot. There are, however, a lot of sequences that just show 3 x-wings, and I think in the SE, a lot of those had more X-wings added. They also, IIRC, fixed a lot of bits where the x-wings had an overlay box around them that interfered with the starfield.
@vampiress I have grindhouse-style scans of the three original movies with grit and scratches on my media server, and I created movie posters for the each of their title pages to go with each of them.
Given that we're losing a class war, one capital started for profit and is winning, waged via fast military & police as well as slow economic & environmental violence against humanity, it's heartening to see lots of "Assassinating CEOs is good, actually" sentiment.
Just as political polarization has been good (one pole wants fascism!!) it's good when people recognize themselves as under attack, and let each other know. I suspect we're gonna need to see a lot more of that in the decades to come.
🧣Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #Tipton #HiddenLakeGardens MI USA 🇺🇸 11/2024 - Title:
🟡 "Anastasia waits for good luck to
fall into her lap. 🍀🐹
🔴 "Anastasia wartet darauf, dass ihr
das Glück in den Schoß fällt."
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #3DArt #Optimism #Luck #GoodMorning !
There are links to Tinny Dungeon itself in the generator's help text, but you can also learn more here: arispen.itch.io/tinny-dungeons. It is, IMHO, a great little thing — with which I am unaffiliated except that I'm a big fan of it.
I have made an online character generator/editor for the rpg-in-a-tin game, #TinnyDungeon, which I now declare to be at version 1.0.
It works in a desktop or mobile web browser, and when you print from it, it should print at correct size so that character cards can be added to the game's physical tin.
It is, I daresay, fun to fiddle with a bit even if you're not going to immediately use it to play the game.
New shirt from my mother-in-law, Sallie. She’s a marvel. Since we bought the fabric very recently, I asked her if she could make it for _next_ Halloween, but she decided to put in extra effort now — hard not to feel grateful, it fits great.
But to win, it means that all of them have to keep to the code of either publicly saying they believe what he says, or just keeping silent. To say that the Emperor has no clothes would get them drummed out of their group for threatening the baling twine, staples, and spit glue that holds the coalition together. In truth, I'd bet a good 80% of them know that taken literally, several things in this statement are untrue.
They will just never admit that.
13/13
The grand fiction of the G.O.P. is now that their coalition springs from sort of unity. It does not, it springs from a desire for power at all costs. Four groups, one of which just believes not 45's falsehoods, but rather believes what they _think_ 45 is trying to say, and three groups that just say they believe him in pursuit of their own unworthy motives. The union of these groups as a voting block makes little sense, but they all get something out of it. 12/x
...but they act like the Greedy in other respects. They know that King MAGAhat is an irreligious narcissist spewing untruths like a firehose, they just think that doesn't matter so long as he appoints more Supreme Court justices that will vote the way they want, and so they'll say they believe him for the sake of their agenda. 11/x
