Notices by morachbeag (morachbeag@aus.social)

RE: https://masto.ai/@Linux/117027027001123418

so notorious multiple harrasser, troll and racist LinuxIsBest has another big pile of alts, getting in ppl's mentions, and making claims like this while spamming the fediblock hashtag as you can see, so you're gonna want to go and block Linux@masto.ai, but also all the other ones that crop up from this toxic person, that is all

#fediblock

MUTUAL AID PINNED POST

Drop your needs in the replies here, I'll share em when I'm swingin thru, am less present online now, but might as well do something useful with this account

(srsly tho, I'll do my best, and good luck to everyone, these are far from easy times, help folks out, yeah)

I dunno how to tell the person who will remain unnamed, but let's call him martin owens the inkscape programmer with 3K followers that "our social contract is extremely thin and devs owe users NOTHING" is an incredibly shit take when it comes to, for example, attempting to squeeze some damn age restriction into some vital piece of software contained within a whole damn set of operating systems, and makes me think "welp, ain't touchin inkscape with a fuckin barge pole" well done, good pr.

(attempts to telekinesis the rubbish into the bin but really it's just me sittin here waving my fingers about goin "bleh")

you're gonna want to block social.kept.live unless you want that agent andy llm up in your business #fediblock

microsoft: "give us your phone number" how about you eat a sloth's butt

A reminder that 10,736 of the total world stockpile of 12,331 nuclear warheads is owned by the US and Russia.
https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals

That's 87% of the world's stockpile.

A reminder that both these countries have first-use policies.

A reminder that the treaties that existed between these countries (INF and NewSTART) are now dead, due to the hubris of both nations.

So those figures would already be out of date cause they're beefin up that stockpile on account of there being no limits and no observation of either.

A reminder that their systems allow for unmitigated all-out no holds barred very short and extremely deadly war on the say-so of an extremely untrustworthy hierarchy.

A reminder that their 'testing' of such weapons on marginalised communities has caused untold horrors.

A reminder that only one of these nations has used nuclear weapons during a war.

And continues to make excuses for these war crimes.

A reminder that these nations 'share' their nuclear weapons with their allies, spreading them about further.

A reminder that neither of these countries has ever signed up to a prohibition on nuclear weapons
https://www.icanw.org/united_states

https://www.icanw.org/russia

A reminder that the peak nuclear stockpiles of the 60s and the 80s is *directly* attributable to these nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_nuclear_weapons_stockpiles_and_nuclear_tests_by_country#/media/File:US_and_USSR_nuclear_stockpiles.svg

There has *never* been a concern from these entities about nuclear weapons.

A reminder that if it weren't for select ppl who refused orders, none of us would even be here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov

and others.

A reminder that the words of the US and Russia mean nothing and their actions demonstrate what they are.

A reminder that if anybody is the threat, it's the ones that have existed all along.

A reminder that both are european colonies on other ppl's land.

A reminder that neither of these entities have been prosecuted for their crimes.

While they tell you how dangerous the nations they bombard supposedly are.

a reminder that evil is not a symptom of mental illness, you're just tryin to find a way of othering a behaviour that you could fall into yourself if you didn't look into the mirror and say "am I causing harm with this?" but that would be too hard so hey, let's throw others under the bus too with a distinct lack of appreciation of the irony involved

@skinnylatte It must be! I found myself sitting there going "I'm sure it'll be tasty" (5 seconds later) "this is the greatest thing I have ever eaten ever"

@skinnylatte omg I remember eating in Singapore and Malaysia and it's like how can everything be this delicious

That's why the term 'centre-left' makes me laugh, like you want a minor revolutionette every 2nd Sunday in June perhaps?

There's a lotta ppl who seem to have forgotten that the origins of the term 'right-wing' are basically "hey, this fucking horrible state of affairs is fine and we should totes leave it like this yay king"

There's a serious point to be made about referring and mapping everything against eurocentric terminology but I'm too tired to write long screeds and shit today

The last thing anybody in charge wants is ppl storing archives so you can look back at it later and go "See how this event decades ago you participated in absolutely contradicts the bullshit you're claiming to espouse now?"

Ain't rocket science working out why they love this cloud and streaming stuff.

Not being ruled over by a buncha vindictive petty powerhungry bigoted assholes trying to appeal to the worst people out there might be a thing worth considering.

Alternatively, matches exist.

Also worth noting:

CS gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS_gas#History
rubber bullets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_bullet
etc etc, all developed in the UK. To be specifically used on civilians.

The kicker there is that while CS gas was developed in the Porton Down chemical weapons development site, they made an arbitrary distinction for it being a 'riot-control agent', among others.

They are still chemical weapons.

Developed by chemical weapons labs.

A reminder
https://caat.org.uk/news/uk-government-approved-export-of-repressive-equipment-to-us-months-after-crackdown-on-blm-protests/

That this state of affairs
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-floyd-protests-uk-export-tear-gas-rubber-bullet-us-a9551006.html

Never ended.
https://www.change.org/p/suspend-uk-export-of-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-and-riot-shields-to-usa

They just stopped talking about it.
https://caat.org.uk/news/the-united-states-the-uks-second-biggest-arms-customer/

If I gotta hear one more fuckin yt person all "oh, the crime is so much worse now" when it's statistically proven that this is complete bullshit across the board, I swear to fuck (wields twatting trowel)

Setting boundaries is good, which is why I carry a transportable moat around with me everywhere I go.