Notices by carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)

#Via Alejandra Caraballo
@esqueer
July 24, 2025, 8:35 PM

"This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be 'civilly committed.' It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

@rejinl I've seen a few just spam replies to posts

@rejinl scammers have a new strat

@FinalGirl love every time someone makes a thread like this bc I get to mine the thread for folks to follow 😈

@imp3tuz like clockwork!

@imp3tuz oh and sidebar I also run a blackfedi group at blackfedi at fedigroups.social. if you follow the bot it will boost any post you make tagging it, which can help with visibility. You can also post to #BlackMastodon which can have more eyes on it than #BlackFedi

There's also a Black Mastodon gup.pe group that works similarly to the Fedigroup one, but white supremacists have been abusing that one to post racist memes and get them boosted to us so I had to stop using it. The Fedigroup one has a feature where it will only boost you if you follow the bot, and followers are screened to prevent this problem. Of course, the creator of the Black Mastodon one created a Black Fedi gup.pe page immediately after I made the Fedigroup one (and also ignored me when I reached out to let them know racists were abusing their page) which was just so typical of this place 🙃

@imp3tuz 100% agreed. I think this place had a chance to catch a lot more of the twitter exodus, but the majority of the white userbase does not want Black folks here, and prefers their quieter and whiter space.

These types of people were consistently hostile to early Black adopters and are still hostile to us now.

And when these threads come along everyone wants to know what can be done to help make this place safer for Black folks, but then when given the choice between risking their social capital to stand up for Black folks and reject white supremacy when white supremacy is very popular, most either opt for silence or minimizing/dismissing our issues as "interpersonal drama" to soothe their conscience.

A vanishing few folks are actually willing to put in the work, and a lot of them have been successfully bullied off the platform by the overt racists who don't want Black folks protected.

So as a result there's barely any of us here. We have our little niches and communities here and there, and like you I think that's worth staying for. But it gets exhausting sometimes fr

@packetcat 😭 poisoning the well for sure lmao

#NPR serves as the leftmost outlet of acceptable US Colonial Propaganda. Its propaganda is better crafted and meant to keep people trapped in the Liberal MAGA framework of seeking "A More Perfect Union"

NPR will tell you straight up that the healthcare system in the US is "broken" but will always wiff on discourse of meaningful change

About those 'Credit Rolls' ever notice how at times healthcare/pharma companies are mentioned? didn't know who tf Novonordisk was till I was listening pub radio

There are gonna be a lot of people telling you to give #NPR money there aren't going to be a lot of people reminding you how they've comported themselves over the last 20 years.

To be clear yall are gonna do wht you wanna do. But remember when they thought it would save them, they collaborated.

I used to listen to A LOT of public radio, I could tell time by what was on air. At one point I regularly contributed to 3 member stations. At times I gave directly to specific shows.

@drsbaitso 😇

What's a little dead Nazi between friends?

it has come to my attention that at least a few people are unfamiliar with this term! It is a way for transphobic people to delegitimize and mock the transness of some nonbinary AFAB folks, particularly those who may not have medically transitioned. Unfortunately, some trans people also participate in using the term, completely ignoring the harm involved in attempting to render trans people cisgender against their will. Those people are no better than other transphobes, and I kindly invite them to fuck off. Thanks for reading!

IF YOU EVER SAY THE WORD THEYFAB GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU PIECE OF SHIT

thank you :)

#InternationalNon-binaryPeoplesDay

@deliberately_me @raphaelmorgan seconded

Farms usually blame "large corporations" for not paying them properly, so they're "forced" to pay poor wages.

That's why CIW made these bargains directly with the large corps. To stop farms from passing the buck and playing "Aw shucks, I'd love to pay fair wages but I can't afford to."

And you know what? It took time to get the big food corps to the table. But most of them ultimately signed on. In the end, they were a lot more amenable to proper farm wages than most of the farms.

We even have a real-life experiment that proves paying farm workers a fair wage can be done. And prices went up so little, PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE.

In 2005, tomato pickers in FL struck a deal with Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC, & others) to guarantee higher wages.

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

@Jdm2 yeah there's a person using LLMs to sign up for a ton of fedi instances rn. Always the same formula and it sounds just like that

@schratze @tobi @imp3tuz could have covered every mutual aid request on my instance several times over, with plenty left over. Could have funded so much community work on the fediverse. Could have done so many impactful and needed work instead of just dumping the money into the trash.

And they were so disgusted and contemptuous that folks would dare try to use their hashtag for fucking survival mutual aid. I'll never forget it, I was so angry.

@tobi @imp3tuz there was a Whole Big Thing where they started a hashtag for the donations, and then people started posting their mutual aid asks in the hashtag (since everyone was in such a giving mood on there) and then the folks who were fundraising for Kamala went full NIMBY and started reporting those posts for spam.

Ended up defederating from several instances due to that bullshit. A whole saga fr.

But long story short, she joined Threads and then lost the election. But fuck the poors am I right?? :binfire: