Notices by morachbeag (morachbeag@aus.social), page 5

You ever wanna fill your mentions up with 100% bullshit on here? Offer mild criticism of a major political party that pretends to be the nice guy. Or point out that colonial imperialism is the foundation of fascism and supported its growth.

You'll get wurl acktuallied to within an inch of your life.

(Disclaimer: I mercilessly and ruthlessly block reply guys. Just a heads up.)

The CDC, irresponsible? Say it ain't so, org with only one of the two batches of smallpox left in the world "just in case", then found a few vials marked 'smallpox' in a random freezer (https://www.science.org/content/article/six-vials-smallpox-discovered-us-lab), went "ooopsie" then investigated themselves 5 years later and found it was totally okay and there was no smallpox in em. (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1119-smallpox-vials.html)

Phew.

The others are also totally safe at the VECTOR lab in Russia and suuure there was a liddle explosion (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/17/blast-sparks-fire-at-russian-laboratory-housing-smallpox-virus) but they also investigated themselves and everything's totally cool and groovy and shut up don't ask any questions. (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/17/explosion-hits-russian-lab-that-houses-smallpox-ebola-viruses-a67307)

So willya act like you got the sense these clowns ain't got and put a mask on, please?

@AnthonyJK Yeah, under those circumstances, you might as well pick someone who don't make you feel like having to take a shower in lye afterward.

Eh, I ain't interested in seeing the GOP debates.

"I'm an evil bastard!"

"I'm an even eviller bastard!"

"I can magically control a chaotic economy that is basically Atlantic City with lower standards!"

Bleh. It's a war economy anyway. Just "Throw some more money on the military-industrial fire to float that shit", cause it ain't like the US could even produce nothing else anyway.

I ain't a big fan of the Dems, but at least their primaries have some meat (yeah, I know there ain't one this year. It's standard for a major party when their candidate looks like they'll survive an election anyway.)

Like, remember when Obama went hard on Hillary in 2008 all shit talking and stuff about her corporate backers while a lotta Dem voters were playing their racism off against their misogyny?

Look at the popular vote margin. 48.1% to 48%? And a lot of Hillary's vote was from places like Florida, Texas and Arizona. Just sayin.

Then they get the candidacy and it's all "Shitty water? What shitty water? Nooo I don't see no shitty water. Kids in cages? Naw, they're happy camps."

Cynicism sure helps stave off disappointment, huh.

But a GOP debate? I ain't all that interested in watching a buncha openly fascist cockwarts try to outnazi each other.

Not that anybody's got a choice, cause I'm guessing the press'll be shoving it in everybody's face like some random weirdo in the street holding their phone up showing something egregious at you all "Look at this!" while you try not to touch it, cause I know where people take their phones and damn would it kill ya to alcowipe that thing off every once in a while?

Pff. Ain't like I got a choice anyway. Oh, I got family who are in the US. In parts where a vote counts for near nothing cause it's still a system built on giving enslavers the biggest slice of the rotten apple pie. But I ain't there.

And it ain't like great great great great grandaddy was given an option. Not when my Ma's maiden name is Anglo-Saxon instead of Amazigh cause some shithead plantation owner forced his name on my ancestor.

Others in my family? Well, a mine causes as much damage if a Kennedy or a Nixon puts it there.

And if I'm sitting here in the South Pacific re-enacting On The Beach cause tens of millions of douchebags looked at the most plutonium-trigger happy fascist of the imperialists and went "Yeah. That fuckhead. That's our pick!", well, don't blame me.

My money's on orange in the GOP primaries, and Mr. Murikkka's Back Dem to win the election.

Nah. I don't see much fundamentally changing this time around (that was Biden's other catchphrase)

Now Angela Walker. A Black lady who knows the roads and how to take out the trash? There's a president. And the GPUS only let her run as second to Hawkins.

Just sayin.

My partner's all "You'd end up voting for Biden"

Heh. Decolonial left and you're either called shitlib or proxy GOP voter. Ain't that about a

Nah. This one I ain't worried about.

2028 tho? Build a bunker

I said I weren't gonna talk about the twitters but the fact they're deleting their archive?

Man, that's a lotta history.

Back on there, you had people reporting on their own experiences with protests, coups, wars, revolutions, overthrows all round the world.

And a lot of that shit is ignored.

Whether we're talking about West Papua or Sudan or Kashmir or anywhere else, that's a lot of history just flushed down the toilet. A lot of people going "Nobody is listening to me, please share this, this is happening to me"

And they were suspending those accounts back in the Dorsey days. Don't get me wrong. This ain't a "Oh I just noticed twitter was dogshit" kinda post, but the thing is civilians under fire, or revolutionary freedom fighters or whoever, grab whatever platform they can and in a lotta places, your choices are limited and you ain't got time to be selective.

You're in trouble and you see a mic with an amp hooked up to a generator? You're gonna scream through that and not be too concerned whether a US military-industrial outfit made the generator, or the mic was made by some German company with shady nazi connections, or the amp was mass-produced in Vietnam after years of getting its economy screwed by more powerful entities.

And I got family who ain't on here and they use whatever means they got to get word out about what's going on, cause some of em live in places where the ruling power gets wind of it and that's goodnight.

There's a reason I'm deliberately vague. Some of them places are hyperauthoritarian nation-states, others are occupied and contested locations and yep. I know when to shut up. Which is right now.

So any channel is a potential channel. And a lot of them channels are risky. So's this one in its own way. But people take that risk *every day* just so they can get out what's happening where they are that the press might ignore, or some powerful bastard just takes over the whole media and suddenly the news sites in the country are all "The government is in charge now, everything is fine shut up", or you ain't even allowed to have your own country cause you're considered the 'wrong' ethnicity or culture or religion and man, the idea of someone taking all those desperate voices, the history and knowledge of what has happened and just erasing it like that with no care or thought is a fucking crime.

It's a fucking crime.

Eh, sorry again if I ain't been super interactive on here recently. I'm like Captain Flareup in this shit and sorta on and offline. Plus the brain fog.

Hope you're getting through this life thing okay.

Every empire collapses.

Usually it's slow, unless it's taken over by another one early. It kinda breaks up while being less and less logical in its evil. It goes through phases of leaders who are still evil (every empire at every stage is) but you can see their thought patterns, then leaders who are so absurd and even more evil you wonder how they got there. Then maybe another evil that knows how to at least focus it, then another who don't and so on and so on.

But the thing is, an empire starts to peak, it don't have to make no sense at all. Even that evil, twisted sense where you can see what they're all about, whether it's greed, or lust for power or whatever. Might not be relatable, but you can at least follow the logical train of evil thought, even if you gotta shudder as you think about it.

By that peak stage it could be ruled over by anyone, or anything and keep going through its own momentum of slowly running dry wealth and power. It could be ruled over by anything by then. Dog, horse, inanimate object (with others to do the thinking and advising), and still cling on, for a while. It's got the reserves to weather it.

For a while.

It'll benefit from all it's stolen, all it's exploited, all them people working away, within, but mostly around the world it's conquered, desperate, but with nothing to show for it, and the empire gains the product of their work and resources, giving nothing in return.

But it ain't sustainable. It stops producing anything back home. It stops being reliant on anything but exploitation and the ludicrous evil gets more ludicrous.

Then it slips. Slowly at first. A slide here, a slide there, a quick drop here, a slower drop there, but it falls. It starts to crumble. It falls faster. It scrabbles to find a foothold, but nobody can make a decision cause the decisions can only be made by the leaders, who by then ain't equipped to know what to do about anything.

So what does it grab? The people it exploited. And they fall with it. Maybe some take the opportunity to get away, but many get caught up in it, specially those back near the centre of the falling empire. The most vulnerable among them first.

It splits, it fragments, it ends up with all sorts of people vying for power, the sorts of people who think a crumbling empire is worth going down with for the prestige of the position itself and maybe what they can take, and that power gets less and less relevant as the empire everybody feared gets less and less relevant and one day, some other empire takes the opportunity to strike, or it just blows away like dust.

Every empire. Every time. They never last. They ain't built to.

They all turn to dust in the end.

The trick is to not have an empire in the first place. Or, for the exploited to seize it from the privileged so invested in the empire they can't even see the pebbles rolling before the land slides, cause they only care about what they can grab in their own lifetime.

Just a thought.

Imagine being so stuck on cloutmode that you create an alt account on firefish with the same name and and a link to the account everybody with sense has blocked by now on the same day you got called out for your racist bullshit.

Weird *flex* you could call it.

Guess you could also ask why they had 7.7K followers on the old one but (sips tea) that's another story I guess.

Strikes are good, sexy and cool.

I wasn't gonna mention Very Rich People again, but I notice occasionally people go "Huh. Why's the press always talking about Mastodon 'failing'?"

Well. Most big news outlets have shareholders, right?

And the biggest social media sites have shareholders, right?

And most Very Rich People own shares in all sorts of things, in each others' companies and whatnot.

And it's hard to find out who owns what.

See where I'm going with this?

Just a hunch.

A reminder that there ain't no shame in asking for mutual aid help on here.

This is coming from a person who lived on the street for a long time. Yeah. I was that dude trying to sleep on a bench, on a pavement, wherever, hoping someone might help out. That is one cold rung on the ladder.

And these days I'm a broke disabled guy who relies on his partner for a lot.

So don't you have no shame. You didn't ask for the world to be this way, but you can damn well ask for help when you need it.

Interesting when a big (uh, fairly big?) instance head rolls out the red carpet for Meta, signs an NDA, then complains about people using pfps that are of "cats, princesses and videogame characters"

Orly?

Cause I only went anonymous after years of doxxing attempts and threats on FB. Tried to do it on FB, and they demanded my birth certificate, so between that and getting suspended over and over again for reporting full-blown nazi terrorist orgs on there, I got the hell outta there.

Which is how I ended up on Twitter years ago.

Then that site turned to shit (okay, shittier), so I ended up here last year.

Now the Zuckmobile is parked outside and do you think that means I'm in *any* way inclined to take a big ol selfie and put my name and address up there?

Fuck no.

Whatever you do with your account is your business, btw, not mine. I'm just speaking about me here.

The point is, if you want people to feel safer, then be a safe person to be around. That's a good ethic online and offline.

And if you're running an instance and you want transparency, but your business dealings are as transparent as mud, don't complain when everybody's avi is suddenly Princess Reactive Armor, Splodgy The Cat or, I dunno, a little green frog or some shit.

People talking about libraries, and I'd like to add from long-term experience that if you're homeless, those places are vital. Reading the newspaper while sitting on, y'know, a *chair*, hopefully a drinking fountain (No dehydration? Fancy) reading some books, not being too cold or too hot, lovely.

Oh, and you can sort out official stuff, which is handy when you ain't got an address. There was even a lady at one who liked to share food around. Like, you didn't eat it inside, obviously, but food? Nice.

Hell, just about the only things they didn't have were a place to wash or sleep, but you could learn stuff, rest a little, get out of the weather, not be on your guard all the time, (and can't get arrested, cause you're not 'loitering' in a library) and, here's the good part:

You could send your mind somewhere else. Like, without chemicals. You pick up a book and you just escape. That's priceless if you're homeless.

Which is the perfect price, cause you ain't got money.

A heart. A soul. A mind. That's what a library is. And bless em for existing.

Gonna stop there, cause I'm getting all teary and shit.

I don't know how you get it out of the enforcement, judicial and legislative wings of somewhere built on evil. You'd need revolutionary change. Rip up the foundations. Reformism is window-dressing.

I know how you deal with it at street level though.

You stop it.

You sit with the person being harrassed. You stand up for the person being attacked. You make damn sure everybody's onboard with that too. If that takes barking out "IS EVERYBODY OKAY WITH THIS? WHY ARE YOU JUST *SITTING* THERE?" then you do it.

Will it make people feel uncomfortable? *Good*. Nobody should feel comfortable with some bigot carrying on the way they do.

This area I live in. It's an outer area. Working class. Multicultural. Had one incident a few years back with some racist skinhead fuckjar trying to attack my neighbour, a Samoan dude.

*Everybody* came out of their houses. *Everybody* confronted him. People from all over the world and that fascist piece of shit saw he was outnumbered, saw his shit wouldn't fly and *ran*.

Where? Probably some area where he felt comfortable.

Now. Imagine *every* area acted the same. They'd have nowhere to go. Nowhere to consolidate their power. Nowhere to organise. No rock that is safe to hide under.

*That* is how you deal with fascism. Especially the more privileged, who can get away with a lot more.

Big sticks. Big numbers. Run those bastards out of every area, every city, every town, every country.

Until they got nowhere to run.