Notices by your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)

have tremendous respect for Digby, don't get me wrong, but she is too deep into Beltway politics to catch the canard of guys like Cenk Uygar playing "extreme left" politics.

riddle me this: who the fuck funds Cenk? sure, he has many followers now, but he was drop shipped as a "far left" tv/internet celebrity, fully formed like that cop passing for podcaster Tim whatever.

he has always been a plant. ALWAYS.

"The Horseshoe Temperament – Digby's Hullabaloo"
https://digbysblog.net/2024/11/20/the-horseshoe-temperament/

so do they have a roadmap for forking and adding features to Mastodon? will they fork and add QT, on-boarding, etc.?

if they have a roadmap to making that happen, then why aren't y’all getting us all to join?

or are y’all waiting for us to join to then go thru the process of creating the roadmap and setting goals and budgets, etc?

@mekkaokereke @dave_andersen @ahimsa_pdx

think i saw a Timothy Snyder quote that said something to the effect to not expect actually qualified people to be the faces of the shitstain’s cabinet because that's the whole point: they are all against anybody qualified, they are the anti-qualification government.

what's worse: they not only are against anything being functional, but they really do not want to destroy the state. as white collar criminals, they seek to plunder it and privatize it, especially the violence.

THIS IS HOW
PUERTO RICANS
DID IT IN 1948

that guy in the v-neck sweater, all the way to the right, that is my father, Julio Sabater.

he was in the first Puerto Rican delegation to the Olympics in 1948; when the anti-black, fascist forces in the United States insisted we Puerto Ricans didn't exist, we were not a nation and we had no right to be represented on any international stage by our own people and our own flag.

that's called LEY DE MORDAZA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_Law_(Puerto_Rico)

APROPOS OF EVERYTHING

When is a photo an act of resistance?
"For families that just decades earlier were torn apart by chattel slavery, being photographed together was proof of their resilience. "

https://youtu.be/H1AuowPhTZM

from:
AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état in the history of the US.

#USA #history #fascism

this one's mine:

..the genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home.

Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing —marketing for power.

—Toni Morrison, “Racism and Fascism"

#Xitterdiving

real #fascism only happens to white people. otherwise, it's just sparkling #racism

"Only 8 monkeys remain free after more than a week outside a South Carolina compound"

#TeamMonkeys

"This is in part "failure" by design."

qwhite typical too 🧐

@futurebird @danilo

pushing away the people who are the trend makers in more than one cultural domain (and that includes tech) is one of the stupidest moves anybody could make.

i couldn't go back to capitalist crap and am obstinate like a donkey. had it not been for cancer i'd be on my own thang.

but let me just say this out right: not having me on your side? it's a big fucking mistake. not even bragging. am an influencer's influencer. my radio silence is telling.

@mekkaokereke @bgrinter @are0h @danilo

@evan @dansup LMAO

the baby from Close Encounter of the Third Kind has two kids of his own now 😭

Former 'Close Encounters' Child Star Cary Guffey: 'I Still Get Fan Mail' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3zZXZEnHx0

#movies

JFC i just reckoned Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out 47 YEARS AGO!

am feeling devastatingly old.

in 1970s Puerto Rico, we’d get USA #movies 6 months to a year later due to the delay in subtitles and dubbing.

CEOT3K was released november 1977. almost 6 months earlier a quirky little film of space cowboys was released in only a few theaters across the USA.

so i was closer to 12 years old when i finally sat in that Mayagüez Mall theater to watch Star Wars, then, Close Encounters.

✅ coffee

✅ fried apple pie

✅ blanky at my corner of the sofa

guess which movie your auntifa is gonna start watching in a few moments.

unfortunately, it is not the original theatrical cut, but that’ll do Pig, that’ll do.

yeah, yeah, yeah, i’ll use a hastag for the uncultured bores out there that don't wanna read my braindroppings.

#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

since this scene is now playing on repeat in my head, y’all have to suffer too:

The Landing Of The Mothership
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCBgSRNjk0

BTW if it started with Jaws, Spielberg established himself as the master salesman with how he used Ray-Ban sunglasses as one of the important plot points in this scene.

#movies

so i went down a rabbit hole trying to find the original 1978 trailer and can’t.

this is the damage to historical archiving done by the Mickey Mouse extension to copyright law and the DMCA.

Puerto Rico is treated as an international market. the trailer i saw as a child for Close Encounters of the Third Kind was revolutionary because it had no voiceover and showed you just enough to plant the seeds of terror & excitement.

this isn't it, but it’s close:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dacfll4bVU

#movies

El sol salió anoche y me cantó.
El sol salió anoche y me cantó.

#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

it’s still a massive flex to not only have François Truffaut as one of your main characters but to also have all of his scenes in French NOT subtitled

#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

SONORA DESERT

am just seconds in this movie and have so many cultural references to point out, but this one is not pre but post release.

i’ve posted about the Mexican rock band, Café Tacuba before
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113422665620665511

now am wondering if their song EL APARATO is a reference to the opening scenes of this movie. a Mexican guy decribes his contact as “Una luz muy bonita”. am almost certain that's a lyric in the song.

#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies