Notices by inquiline (inquiline@assemblag.es)

"Cute" story about how a possum ate most of a chocolate cake and wound up needing medical attention has a bizarre twist:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/cranky-opossum-lands-in-hospital-after-eating-costco-bakery-item/ar-AA1z5c2E

@MediaActivist Thank you. If information dissemination were so irrelevant to the struggle, they would obviously not be trying so hard to gain control of our options for doing this

Q: Why is Europe not in the same straits that the US is with bird flu in cattle herds?

A: It's not legal feed literal chicken shit to cows there

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/chicken-waste-fed-to-cattle-may-be-behind-bird-flu-outbreak/

#H5N1 #BirdFlu

@codinghorror @drahardja

True story: Last year a very unobjectionable list serv faculty have used for years for being windbags got taken down with no notice by Google, because someone maliciously reported it, because of a message some campus community members did not like. (This was in the peak Gaza protests moment. The list was moderated & the item that passed over it was mundane, and factual, but still objectionable to some.)

Don't trust Google for your organizing, no way.

In re noncompliance: perhaps I shouldn't admit this but I once sabotaged a database by entering "University of Chicano Press" every time when I was supposed to have typed "University of Chicago Press"

Not sure how many times, but I worked there for about nine months

Edited again, make sure you approach this with skepticism if you click thru 🚨

👀🤔
https://generalstrikeus.com/

IMO this page should say a little more about who they are, should post a privacy policy, and should have a warrant canary, but posting for general 🤔 anyway

ETA, read replies. There is quite a bit here that raises eyebrows and invites suspicion over whether it's a honeypot situation

#GeneralStrike

@lisagetspolitik @Brad_Rosenheim

I didn't make this but I salute whoever did
#GargleMyBalls

Once again I am sorry I keep mixing everything up, this time posting lions on #asstodon SMH

(📸 Andrew Holt/Getty Images)

Flying into the weekend, hoping I don't come crashing down to earth
#Asstodon #Pegassus #Icarass

Beach sand after rain

No More Business As Usual:

"What can the complete civil disobedience of the Sudanese Professionals Association teach us at a moment when belief in the efficacy of nonviolent protest is in decline?"

https://africasacountry.com/2024/11/no-more-business-as-usual

#CivilDisobedience #Sudan #CompleteCivilDisobedience

One of the reasons the "nobody is protesting" take sucks is it denies the empirical reality that some people *are*. People sharing this take are not among them, otherwise they wouldn't be making that point..

Which brings me to the second reason it sucks: it puts agency here on other people. Everyone can do something, can pick something they can do; and furthermore should not belittle the work of people who are doing visible and less visible stuff.

/end rant

Just saw another post go by saying "why is nobody protesting" (condemnatory) and like... *there have been some protests*, both in DC and in local cities and towns. Some of this is media filtering/not showing it much; some of this is narratives taking hold that feel correct but empirically are not.

Most importantly, protests in themselves are gonna be insufficient. But people *are* activated
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/trump-protests-inauguration.html

#uspol

Also sharing Mariame Kaba's list of things people can do that aren't protesting or voting:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OSWxykA1WHOi0vTPLAJDaCeVhR3uSfh7PhlCj4t4yT0/edit?tab=t.0

ETA, there is a nonGoogle version of this somewhere and if anyone shares it I'll edit it in

@seachanger

Mastodon: an army of nerds singularly devoted to hating the player, not the game 🙃

Forgive me Mastodon for I have sinned (shared an NYT link and a Google link) 🙄

Not really loving the fawning celebration of Pixelfed's growth when it does not seem to have basic moderation or governance in place (where have we heard this before)

@nev
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand the question but the reason this data is especially meaningful is that 100% of the people polled had voted for Biden, i.e. were not people who could be said to reject D pol's tout court, and they weren't nonvoters either. It's a more meaningful sample than the public at large for that reason, and a less noisy signal.

@tillshadeisgone

I was up half the night thinking about this. I very much hope Biden gets the legacy he deserves for both giving Israel carte blanche for genocidal behavior AND what that wrought for us back home in the US:
https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling

Haven't seen this posted here yet, donate to support mailing DIY healthcare supplies to trans people in the US who are gonna be running into more healthcare obstacles:

"We expect to produce up to 24,000 kits in 2025, which is enough to support 2% of all trans people taking HRT in the US or 10% of trans people taking DIY-HRT"

https://www.omprakash.org/global/distribute-aid/crowdfund/hrt---harm-reduction-toolkit