I think it's going to be more important than ever that #Mastodon and the #fediverse are not centrally operated out of the US like almost every other social media platform out there.
We're going to show up for each other, figure out what we need to learn, skill up, and fight for each other. Because we're gonna have to. Let's ground ourselves in our values and our refusal to abandon one another. Remember who you want to be, come what may, and move in the direction of your values.
I've finished reading The Jakarta Method and it's a good read to follow up having just recently read Blackshirts and Reds. Blackshirts and Reds was about the fall of the Second World, whereas this was the same story but centered around the Third World, it's about the killing of the dream associated with that phrase. Third not to mean third rate, but Third sequentially, having learned from both before.
Up to this point, all funds have been going toward rent or bills. I leave the emergency dept around 10am. If anyone is able, I’m in much need of food items for when I leave. Thank you 🥗🍑
Goal $150 ca $ashleyyrain venmo: ashleyyrain @mutualaid
Frankly I'm kind of impressed at how little forethought went into the structure of this awful fucking place. Not a single thought was spared for sustainability or practicality.
Black, nonbinary, 33, some flavor of neurodivergent.Education and mental health M.A.Solidarity with all oppressed peoples. Death to US Empire.Admin of blackqueer.lifeI mute vote shamers.#BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #BlackQueer #QTPOC #WoT