Notices by crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp), page 6

within the overton window of US politics, capitalism and colonialism are untouchable precepts. threats to them are existential. anyone hoping to get close to the halls of power must first defer to settler authority; the landback is denied possibility as a condition of entry

take #LandBack , a material assertion that is both a specific demand and a call for broader systemic decolonization. how can an ethical viewpoint not see this as an obvious part of a broad-base platform, making good on this immense wrong and its consequences? instead it is broadly unthinkable

biden pardoning his son and pretty much only his son feels very twilight-of-the-empire. so blatantly corrupt and yet somehow unremarkable, merely comical, in the hellscape of the beast’s demise

it doesn’t have to be like this

who can possibly tell you how to live when we have never lived like this ever

everything can change. the fundament. the superstructure. stars themselves wink from existence; why should your ozymandian erections be treated to a presumption of immortality and inviolability? crises precipitate change and the sixth extinction is changing everything

everything about how and why we do society for each other can change. things have not always been like this. they won’t always be

this mcbride/mace thing is a fucking mess. mcbride is a genocide apologist so like, fuck that, and she immediately acquiesced, which sucks, but also her party left her to rot, so fuck them, because what they do to her they are dreaming of doing to all of us. to the settler, all trailblazers are human sacrifices.

GOOD MORNING FEDIVERSE! death to america and the zionist entity! the revolution lives in the love we show each other, that we have found ways to show each other in ways big and small for thousands of years. reject despair. choose militant compassion and draw hope from the struggle itself!

a colleague tried to demo github copilot to me and it was just wrong. over and over and over. i'm so glad the machine that lies is so effective at wasting your time that you wanted to share that with me

fuck it. settlers call it a nation, but it is its cult-driven absence. settlers call it a civilization, but its hallmarks are war and famine. settlers call it a government but under its auspices, the people starve. settler language is not capable, not serious; full of inversions that hide and tidy universes of violence. this is not a nation. this is not a government. this is not a civilization. it is the pageantry of a killing machine.

"diana you can't just point at everything western and say 'settler barbarism'"

*points at colonialism and its resulting conditions* settler barbarism

i don’t know how to tell you that a government of rapists, slavers, and genocidaires was never going to save you in any way shape or form and there is a type of despair that comes from having been so politically illiterate that you believed their propaganda and then got upset when they reminded you they had been rapists, slavers, and genocidaires the whole fucking time. ARM UP AND REGROW

i'm preparing to publish some new essays soon so here's a thread of some essays from the past few years that i'm kinda proud of

# Revolution and the World of the Heart

> I want to tell you about my revolution. I want to tell you because, for me, it has already happened.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/world-of-the-heart.html

# Chloe Sagal did not need to die.

> We are pawns and tokens in their sick power trips. Even the people who take it up to argue with the fascists won't change shit. They won't tear down the machines that killed her. They'll waste breath in comment threads and then complain about discourse, and the fascists will be all the happier for it.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/chloe-sagal-did-not-need-to-die.html

# Regarding why software is so bad

> Only together can we seize the craft from the industry. Only together can we demand and develop the high ethical standards that public infrastructure requires. We are not scabs or mercenaries. We are craftspeople, and we will do our craft justice.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/regarding-software.html

i’m the ghost of luddite futures (smashing machines to foil who would use them against people)

the ahistorical quality of the meaning of the word “luddite” never fails to astound me. anticapitalist radicals committing industrial sabotage were 1) shot in the streets 2) magically revised as RETVRN types because nobody reads books and capitalism likes it that way

i want an internet that emerges from social relations and centers your position and perspective (and autonomy and privacy) and then i want to use it to share pig poop balls dubstep remix dot wav