Notices by Luigi Muffingione (riotmuffin@ni.hil.ist)

@spencer and/or for me I think sometimes the cop in my head says “these other people should be more radical, how can I personally help radicalize them??” Nah, doesn’t have to be my responsibility all the time

@artemis

@artemis Some folks I think are too caught up in an identity as “a protester” or “an activist” and so we (which I say bc I also fight against this tendency in myself” see a goofy-ass protest and struggle to reconcile what we are seeing with what we want to imagine ourselves being a protagonist in.

It doesn’t have to be like this — it’s totally ok to either not go to the goody thing and instead participate in a complimentary other rebellious activity, and also ok to go to the goofy thing just like many of us also regularly go to goofy-ass fuck shit like sporting events, 4th of July parades and pop concerts

Do I know anyone on here who burns screens whomst I could pay less than a rando biz guy (and or barter) to do a coupla designs for me?

my friend who got covid from their kid several weeks (who got it at school, due in large part to peer pressure not to mask up) is now super miserable with long covid crap, needs to stay close to the toilet all the time and can't catch their breath.

FUCK all these schools that have zero mitigations, which is to say, fuck ALL these schools, and if you don't do your part to creating an environment where people can feel safe protecting themselves - especially kids, for chrissakes - then fuck you, too

@HeavenlyPossum what's with using the parentheses tho

If you are also looking forward to more Andor dropping tonite, you could theoretically refresh yourself on season 1 by reading the pOpSec: Andor zine by @hakan_geijer

https://en.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/riot-medicine-popsec-andor

shout out to Jewish Voice For Peace for requiring masks at their US national conference later this spring, for the umpteenzillion time its antizionist jews walking the talk :baba_hot:

An international graduate student at the University of Minnesota was kidnapped by ICE today. The students identity is not yet public that I’ve seen.

Student newspaper breaking news article: https://mndaily.com/293237/top-story/ice-detains-umn-student/

“People should do international conferences virtually, so people don’t have to worry about crossing the US border!”

Yeah, good thing we’ve been doing that anyway because of the ongoing pandemic…. Right? Right? ….. Oh

I am once again asking people with relative privilege, instead of fleeing areas where fascism is on the march, to consider going deeper into the empire to help out

more public supporters showed up for Luigi's pre-trial hearing than showed up for Trump's hearing in the same courtroom in NYC (according to BBC news)

Thinking I might start a thread on facilitator-speak

If you hear: "I'd like to ~invite~ you to..."
It means: "Will you please - "

If you hear: "Now we're going to ~harvest~ some questions...."
It means: "Y'all gimme some questions"

If you hear: "... Wow. ... Wow."
It means: facilitator doesn't know what to say so is pretending we just had a profound moment

Sure there’s url shorteners…. What if I want to lengthen my url, huh,

the only valentine you'll need this year...

>>"Oh, I don't know if we can make masks required at our event... how would we enforce it? What if people don't have a mask? I live in a red state. What if the venue doesn't allow it. It sounds too hard etc etc etc"

Ok people so last weekend I tabled at a zine fest in Nebraska with like 25 vendors. The state is overwhelmingly Trump country and Omaha has a Republican asshole mayor and a Republican asshole congressperson. The organizing crew was 4 people. They bought a bunch of kn95s cheap in bulk. They put masks required on all their promo materials. They rotated duties so there was always one person standing at the door to the pertinent area next to the welcome table (the rest of the building did not require masking) and simply handed masks to anyone coming in who wasn't already wearing one.

The event lasted 5 hours and was attended by hundreds of people. In my estimation, 99%+ of people were masked up. It was busy the entire time. I made a lot of buxx and made a lot of good connections. It was rad. A lot of people expressed their appreciation for the masking, and I personally heard no complaints. Shoutout Alt Pub Omaha.

Your crew can easily do this too.

What’s everybody doing to be even more queer and trans in the face of all this bullshit? Sound off

Good morning USians, everyone please remember that we did this and there is nothing technically stopping us from doing similar again

https://unicornriot.ninja/georgefloyd/

@Black_Flag i'm willing to risk it for the fox :neofox_peek_owo:

saw a red fox yesterday.... hashtag BLESSED lets hear it for foxes :neofox_sign_yip:

life pro tip if you see a car randomly stopped in the middle of a quiet road it might very well be because there is A Wildlife nearby, see where the occupants are looking and take a look too