Notices by z (blkstarseed@anarchism.space)

it remains bananas to me that people are *that* obsessed with being anti-black on the internet

cause one thing about me?

i don't spend time ruminating on people i don't like, let alone going out of my way to interact with them

i'm getting a lot of traction and new followers

but just as a heads up

i *may* be migrating servers in the next couple of days

i joined anarchism.space in 2019 and the moderation was a lot better

i know moderation is not easy, and i'd sooner sign up to be a lion tamer draped in raw steaks than take on the task of moderation

but at a bare minimum, i do expect that an anarchist server defederate from the well known white supremacist instances that have been clogging my mentions for the past 24 hours

cause it says a lot that people keep popping into my mentions to say "yeah we know about these folks already" in response to my fediblock post

okay cool, that's great for you coco.

but whoever is running the show here on anarchism.space doesn't seem to be aware of it (gonna extend the benefit of the doubt here)

somebody gotta make some stim punk, auti-gender, neurowild sweatshirts that aren't simply pastel colors or autism speaks propaganda?!

i managed to flip my mattress by myself

and while i'm glad i could conjure the strength to do it

very large mattresses are not meant to be flipped solo

i get it now ?

i have a 14" king size mattress that will be coming up on 10 years old in about 3 years

it started to dip in the middle where i tend to sleep

which can be cozy at times, but also as someone with spinal problems, unsupportive + painful at other times

so to avoid buying a new one i thought to myself "my ancestors been flipping mattresses. i got this!"

reader, i barely had it

?

i'm lying here like "how did the fuck did my (estranged) grandmother do this? that woman was barely 5 feet tall and 100lbs wet"

she also did not have it

the shit fell on her and contributed to her first stroke

i figure, i have a literal height + weight+ strength advantage over my grandmother who tried to do this and failed, miserably....

i'm tall, fat, and more rough + tumble than dainty

so i'm thinking "this shouldn't be too much of a problem. i put the shit on the frame six years ago, i got this!"

i really gotta stop lying to myself about shit like this

Janelle Monae's joy

(a candid of janelle monae's face during the belly rubs song)

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #MastoCats #Cat

I took a shower, got ready for work, came back, and couldn't even remember what me and LJ were talking about before shit unfolded to the left

and that is the dark comedy of derailing post about race

there was an original point, that is now lost due to different type of derailing that happen

I know this may be hard for some folks to believe, but sitting back and watching a conversation unfold is a golden opportunity

you can learn a whoollleee lot by not inserting yourself into a conversation like the sun and taking up space at the center of the solar system, like the sun

"just be the voice that is needed, without the commentary"

who said i was here to be helpful

In the few weeks since I've returned to both Tumblr and Mastodon (following the slow death of the bird app), both of my timelines have been a veritable tapestry of what I tend to call the "weaponization of white weirdness"

specifically the fear of white folks who dominate specific subcultural spaces that the inclusion of more people who weren't already part of a subculture will somehow alter the cultural aesthetics, mores, etc

very "there goes the neighborhood" syndrome

when it comes to masto, i don't think it's coincidental that these cries to "keep mastodon weird!" are cropping up at the same time new and old PoC users describe their experiences with racism.

specifically, Black masto users describing their experiences with antiblackness

on a visceral level it's offensive, but also heinously high school. the idea that if you fiercely gatekeep who is allowed in and scare away those who you assume "wouldn't make a good fit" then you create a hermetic seal