Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 13

Is too much customization bad? Like at what point does it become too much of a barrier to _actually_ using something?

https://truthout.org/articles/with-700k-on-verge-of-starving-to-death-in-gaza-us-vetoes-ceasefire-yet-again/

and

https://truthout.org/articles/why-is-the-us-producing-more-oil-and-natural-gas-than-ever-under-biden/

both reinforce my confusion of pushing this man for another four years.

tired: asking people to vote, crossing your fingers and hoping for the "least worst situation"

wired: getting people to engage in their community such that voting becomes the action to cement behaviors and people with actual track records of change

do not wait until shit gets bad to _want_ to do something. today's a good day to print flyers to organize a community meeting at your local church, library etc.

do not beg people who cannot be held accountable (a news report and continued employment is not accountability, have we learned NOTHING from police bruality)?

Saying "the first Black X" of anything reinforces an idea that Black (or diasporic African) history began when white people declared their inferior colony of Africans to be free.

Writers, poets, artists, dancers, athletes all existed prior. One of the greatest crimes of America (and the West) is its forced decoupling of a people and locking this colony (which is constantly being replenished and reformed) into a state of "newness", being felt to create anew because, like the British Museum, everything was taken and discarded because it had no value to settlers.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth

Okay so I need to get a bit over $800 before Feb 5th. I couldn't get an advance on a contract and it's not expected to end until Feb 20th. This'll help cover the rest of rent and keep this phone on (at least).

I think I can get close and will try to haggle so I'll keep folks up to date.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stay-housed-while-i-look-for-work

#MutualAid @mutualaid

We're digitizing the kind of behaviors we normalize for undesirables to everyone under this umbrella of "safety", "security" and "stability".

Very true. There's a time to dream and a time to act. https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111762211583867494

If you haven't (I hadn't until last month), check out MLK Jr's letter from Birmingham Jail.

@thomasfuchs @polotek the Luddites might have been onto something

At this point, I'm muting him indefinitely. And to answer his (Casey's) question at the end, the most valid answer would be for him to also leave.

This is the shit that gradually enabled Twitter to be the place it is today and not being more direct about this is what's leading the cooption of "freedom of speech" into neo-Nazi enablement.

Maybe my tolerance for right-wing enablement is too low, but acting like this is progress (which is how I've interpreted this piece) is exhausting and reaffirms my pinned post.

@jkohlmann lmfaoooooo the bare minimum

@rotopenguin @thomasfuchs

Cars have been forced on society by corporations and I fucking hate it. The more I move around, the more it's clear that even in semi rural areas, there's a means of creating a space where they're not a hard requirement.

Obviously, in work and freight, larger means of transportation will be necessary. But forcing that for everyday travel is confounding.

Then again, I don't want to promote the concept of urbanism as some utopia: those structures today make it easy to manufacture what Lorenzo Erwin calls "ghettos of the state composed of free workers" (paraphrased).

A collective of African groups (including one I'm in, the A-APRP) are holding webinars about the intersections of #Palestine and #AfricanLiberation.

Each Tuesday in January from 7 PM ET to 9 PM ET, please join the All-African People's Revolutionary Party Florida and the South Florida Coalition for Palestine for the Pan-Africanism & Anti-Zionism Political education series: four webinars discussing and deconstructing Pan-Africanism, Zionism, and Islam in relation to contemporary Palestine.

Sponsored by: Black Alliance for Peace, Hood Communist, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Al-Awda the Palestine Right to Return Coalition.

Register: http://tinyurl.com/AfricansAgainstZionism

Some of y'all when I say voting can't be the only means of action we see for ourselves:

Me trying to explain and the chokehold neoliberalism has on the collective mind:

Begging for acceptance is a signed permission slip to be kicked in the mouth.

@danilo @mhoye I keep hearing it's too hard for communities and that confuses me so much because they're communities who build so many parts of it. Is it the herding?

> Open Source has become synonymous with GitHub, and we are too small to change that.

https://www.pypy.org/posts/2023/12/pypy-moved-to-git-github.html

I hate that this has become the (accepted) case. And it feels like the routine one for so many other projects (commerical is better because yes it is, fuck you, it's in English)

When I see those defending unethical systems because it's profitable for them, their phrasing almost always devolves into this.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1NQVFPPdno/