Notices by Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz), page 5

At the root of all our struggles is always this rotten system obsessed with endless profit.

Fight back.
For peace, for justice, for the environment, for health, for life.
Be more than a consumer.

Don't buy the lies.

#BuyNothingDay
#BlackFriday #antiCapitalism

It's here! The most important day of the year!

#BuyNothingDay #BlackFriday #antiCapitalism

#FreePalestine #fromTheRiverToTheSea

I mean if we are serious about decentralised social media we shouldn't all have to be in the same platform.

This bluesky <-> fediverse bridge thingy could possibly do the trick.

Lol.. Fedi let's me edit my posts afterwards, but Bsky doesn't... so all my horrible typos and mistakes will live forever in the sky over there.

Point for fedi, I guess, for not making me look as bad.

On related news, the security guard at Parliament did not want to let me in the public gallery wearing a mask today.

"unless it's for medical reasons"
-it is.
"show me a certificate from a doctor"
-don't have one, sorry.
"then you can't wear it inside"
-I live with a vulnerable person.
"let me ask my supervisor"
*waiting time*
"yeah you can wear it"

So, a win. But barely.
It should not be this way.

You too live with a vulnerable person. Because EVERYONE is vulnerable.

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp

Haymarket has made ten of its books--an #antifascist library--free* this week.

And any other ebook is just 2 dollars until Nov 15th!

Get amongst it.

*in exchange for creating an account with an email address.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-ten-free-ebooks-for-getting-free

#ebook #bookstodon

@AnarchoNinaWrites you're spot on.

You may already know it, but back in the 40s the US Army circulated a Simple Sabotage Field Manual which is quite an interesting historical artifact with absolutely no possible relevance or application to modern times.

Just wanted to mention it for historical purposes.

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

Important message from @gretathunberg

(in other social network, long alt text so posted the image twice with the text split in half)

🇵🇸 ✊ ❤️ 🌍

#UsaElection #USA2024 #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine #ClimateJusticeNow #USPol

Another hit from the same album is the UN vote to make food a right.

In which (you guessed it) only the US and Israel vote against.

Not that I believe for one second that the UN voting in favour would solve world hunger, but it takes a special kind of entitled evil to be out there proudly saying "Food? Nah, not a basic human right. Screw your hungry people."

Every country in the UN has voted to lift the unjustified embargo against Cuba. AGAIN. 🇨🇺

Everyone except for Moldova (abstained) and Israel and the US. (voted against)

This happens every year, pretty much in the same way. And the embargo continues. 🙄

Just in case you were still wondering who the 'bad guys' really are.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156316

In my experience, one of the most underrated but insidious blockers of environmental action is the idea that yeah it's real and serious and man made, but it will happen later.

So many people think it's a problem for their children to worry about, not themselves.

Beyond that idea being horrific in of itself. It's false.

Biodiversity is collapsing today. The climate crisis is here and every fraction of a degree we can avoid is precious.

But the time for action is NOW.
For real.

#ClimateDiary

Or, you know, just don't engage.

That's another option.

You can scroll past them and let them do their own journey and answer themselves the questions we all asked when we were new.

Xitter is changing their block feature, making it meaningless.

That means there'll be a new wave of users arriving to the fedi and with them yet another iteration of the conversation about it.

You know: "choosing a server is confusing", "what if I don't want to use content warnings?", "what? No algorithm?", "yay, no algorithm!", "we need quoting" and so on. .

We've been there, but they haven't.

Be nice to them! that network is now a fascist tool.
Be good to get people to stay out of it!

Scientists are discovering life UNDER the seafloor, existing in ways and depths we never considered possible before.

And yet the capitalists want to wreck it all by mining the seabed for their own profit.

No pasarán. ✊🏽

Surprise Discovery Reveals Animal Life Thriving Under The Seafloor
https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-discovery-reveals-animal-life-thriving-under-the-seafloor

#stopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOceans #ocean

If you are still wearing a respirator out there, you are a hero and you've got my love and solidarity.

😷✊❤️

If not, you could become one anytime.

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #WeKeepEachOtherSafe

Capitalism is imploding in slow motion.
So you can't work from home anymore.

"Once again, the elite have gotten themselves into big trouble. They want the rest of us to bail them out. If they don't want our tax money, they want us to give up our freedom and autonomy. They want us to sacrifice ourselves on the altar of capitalism to protect their fortunes."

The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity by @jessicawildfire https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad

#CovidIsNotOver related.

Dehumanisation of The Other is a tool of control.

Break free.

Caring about other people is an act of liberation.

Even beyond the horrific war crimes by themselves, we are so not ready for the consequences of a world where acts like remotely exploding devices, bombing healthcare facilities, impersonating doctors, murdering humanitarian aid workers, targeting journalists, or weaponising water and food supplies are normalised.

There is a reason these things are not acceptable, even in war.

Israel is setting a terrifying precedent.

#sanctionIsrael #freePalestine #endTheOccupation #fromTheRiverToTheSea

If hundreds of explosions went off simultaneously killing tens and wounding thousands in New York, London, Berlin or Paris, media would rightfully be denouncing it as a terrorist attack.

Similarly, a car bomb 'targeted' at a military leader is called terrorism because it hurts innocent civilians who happen to be nearby.

Israel is a terrorist state.