Notices by crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp), page 5

american values like [checks notes] grift

means' writing -- or really, the transcription of his speech -- can boggle the mind if you're unwilling to think with your imagination, but i'm at a point in my life where i just don't care if you can't grok it. do your own homework. i don't owe you an education.

the reason i like Russell Means' "For America To Live, Europe Must Die" so much is that it lays out a tangible character for the post-colonial americas. we have rich cultural and spiritual traditions at our fingertips, if we are brave enough to throw off the forces destroying them. we have practical ways and means with thousands of years of history, which are not the likes of capital and colony, if we are wise enough to rise to their call.

all my homies hate mental health 😤 mental health advocates beware

i do not want mental health. i want my enemies to rue their foul choices; i want to turn the edifices of their atrocities into fertile soil for a compassionate future. i would also like a nap and a cookie

modern monetary theory seriously looks public finance in the eyes and says “you know this is all made up right? and we can choose to make it up different?” and a growing number of fish in suits nod knowingly, replying “what a good point. i’ve never thought of it that way” 😵💫

humans are evil in the same way that if you teach a dog to bite, it will bite. nature is made and social creatures are constructed by the society left to them. the villains that inspire you to vilify humanity itself have a specific history, and it is not the story of all peoples everywhere.

it's star trek day, or something! here's an essay i wrote about a DS9 episode

# "Far Beyond the Stars" and Visionary Fiction

> The act of imagining possibilities like these is sacred and incredible. When you feel beset by a cruel eternity, it is a vital act of defiance. Distilling these imaginings into works of art allows us to pool our sense of what is possible, and to imagine even greater futures. Together we find the nature of a brighter day.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/far-beyond-the-stars.html

i love meeting new crows.

they've heard the stories about me, who leaves peanuts and never harms a crow, and so they swoop down to the ground thinking they know the deal. breadlady gives peanuts when she sees you, right?

and then she SEES YOU and you're a tiny black bird only so much larger than this giant's hand, and its eyes are TRACKING YOU, its TEETH are SHOWING. the crow thinks OH MY GOD, AM I GOING TO DIE

so they back off to about thirteen feet and i toss them a peanut

trying to reclaim the word “capitalism”? protip: don’t!

get over the anticommunism that empire taught you and engage seriously in the few ideologies that actually scare capitalists

my brain grew three sizes as i decided No True Capitalist is a viable political ideology

dunking values like freedom and liberty in the trash, wearing booty shorts that read RECIPROCAL OBLIGATION

fool that you are, who imagines there can exist an aloofness called freedom! what liberty can there be for a people that only lives altogether, that depends on each other from beginning to end? what you call freedom is only the leniency your neighbor can afford, and it is only through the wise stewardship of the many and their plenitude that such leniency can take any shape whatsoever. your freedom has been a figment from the start; even your brightest dreams of it are but befuddled estrangement

free software? aye comrade, and food should be free as well! and housing, and the hospital, and the library and post office too. ah, but why are these things not gratis? that is a dangerous question, isn’t it? why when there is more food than even all of us could eat, is there poverty all around us? do not limit your query to the business of software, comrade, for the villains of this play have a far greater span than your meager discipline.

@technomancy true facts. i found this type of destructuring in scheme to be really verbose, but like, the whole language is verbose, so…

learning clojure before scheme has given me such a bizarre set of politics about lisp. “first” > “car” come and get me

*furiously rubbing my two braincells together, trying to spark innovation* how can i make social media profitable? it has never been profitable for anyone regardless of scale or purpose but… but it might work for me…!

monae really made a 30 minute album with a banger about blowing off your plans to masturbate all day. queen

in the time it would have taken me to configure some fucking evite shit, i just built a whole website. thanks flask