Notices by doe (exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc)

HEY! Are you a University Student? Do you have access to databases of published papers?

SAVE THEM! WHEN YOU GRADUATE YOU WON'T HAVE ACCESS ANYMORE! SAVE EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER LOOKED AT - SAVE MORE IF YOU CAN!

SAVE YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITES

keep copies of them! they're not going to last forever! and the tools we've collectively made to archive them are under attack! it's up to you!

omg this page from the FTC vs Amazon complaint

DIY HRT is life saving

places where The Powers That Be remove access to the life saving medicine that HRT is show the necessity of developing our own resources to keep ourselves alive. attacks on those resources are attacks on not just our lives but self-creation itself.

i neeeeeeeeeeed my phone to be fixed because i NEED y'all to see my relationship with these crows they are SO beautiful

today, on my way to the grocery store, i watched a crow i wasn't familiar with taking mcdonalds french fries and stuffing them in the hole of some construction machinery

okay so i started playing elite dangerous again

the game is set up so that star systems are home to a set number of factions and the space stations and planetary settlements in that system can be controlled by any of those factions and the factions can spread to other systems for interstellar faction control.

the devs have also set it up so that you can contact them and they will add a faction that you can name and you get to pick the home-star-system for. mine is named "Prisma Collective" and is of the "Anarchy" government type.

i've been away for so long though that the system we previously had the most influence in has been taken over by a series of Imperial factions. my faction had been pushed to 1% influence.

after a couple of days of work i started a civil war with one of the other, smaller empire-associated factions. they'll be overthrown within the week. and then we're on to the big-game.

the best way to use mastodon is to block like 90% of mastodon admins

apparently there's been an "anti-furry" bill introduced. it threatens to call Animal Services on children who "anthropomorphize"

it's actually so revealing about the nature of the discourse on humanity that when people, even children, engage with aspects of the non-human others will turn against them saying "we'll subject you to the conditions we subject non-humans to just so that you clamor for humanity"

@kaia anti-trans in a big way

@aoanla @kaia sure, i was thinking of her video "Is Being Trans A Social Fad Among Teenagers?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_RAp73ra0

sabine when she's asked how she feels about minorities

there's a pretty intense windstorm today. i went out to see if any crows wanted to get fed before the storm got bad but they didn't come over to me. instead i think they might've been playing? like the winds are picking up and the crows would be on a tree and then would let the wind take them and do a few loops before landing on the tree again.

either they're having fun or having a really bad time.

this is the only xkcd that matters and i've kept it bookmarked for years since i first found it

it's gotten to the point where every morning, as i'm walking my dog for the first walk of the day, i'm joined by 3-5 crows who follow me for the whole walk. flying by and landing on nearby street signs, electrical cables, houses, fences, all until we get back home and then i feed them some (usually nuts or dog food)

"It seems to me that at least one of Marx’s observations is true: every minute devoted to the capitalist production process, every thought contributed to the industrial system, further enlarges a power that is inimical to nature, to culture, to life... Nationalism is not flown in from abroad. It is a product of the capitalist production process, like the chemical agents poisoning the lakes, air, animals and people, like the nuclear plants radioactivating micro-environments in preparation for the radioactivation of the macro-environment.

As a postscript I’d like to answer a question before it is asked. The question is: “Don’t you think a descendant of oppressed people is better off as a supermarket manager or police chief?” My answer is another question: What concentration camp manager, national executioner or torturer is not a descendant of oppressed people?" -Freddy Perlman, The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/perlman-fredy/1984/nationalism.htm

"The warrior is in the position of betraying everything, including the function of the military, or understanding nothing.

It happens that historians, both bourgeois and Soviet, will follow this negative tradition and explain how Genghis Khan understood nothing: he "didn't understand" the phenomenon of the city. An easy thing to say..." -D&G, A Thousand Plateaus

@eris lmaooooo fat chance