Notices by sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social), page 4

@seachanger A ceasefire in Gaza and universal healthcare both poll better than any sitting democrat. The democrats can ignore this at their peril.

“Out of touch” doesn’t even begin to cover it. I don’t think these centrists even exist. The only “centrists” I’ve ever met were conservatives who wanted to not talk about politics.

@GossiTheDog I think the spam isn't coming from Threads users, it's attempting to reach Threads users.

What an absolute shocker that the fediverse would be hit with massive waves of spam right after threads started federating

@thomasfuchs @vfrmedia @clive @autumn Oh man I figured "kei truck towing" would be a great image search, and I was not disappointed

It's true, they're not exactly dual-wheel F150's

@vfrmedia @clive @autumn @thomasfuchs Yes, also right hand drive vehicles are often legal and not exactly common, but not unheard of in some areas here (around where I live, mostly Japanese domestic imports)

And, let me tell you, if you want a great light truck, you could do a lot worse than a JDM kei truck

@fifilamoura wow I’m actually a little emotional about this. Good for them

I masked for years when I was working around toxic dust, when none of my coworkers did and many of them teased me about it. Some of them now have weird miner lung diseases. This is not from West Virginia in the 30's, this is from a job at a hipster company featured in Martha Stewart's magazine. I started working there in 2008.

I am absolutely used to catching shit for being the only person in the room masked against the thing that is killing us.

It's a weird thing to be used to.

@inthehands @futurebird @acdha IMO the fair way to deal with fines is to tie them to your yearly income. Finland does this and some Nokia exec got like a €140,000 speeding ticket.

@SallyStrange Defending capitalism at this stage in the game is so embarrassing. Like, if you ARE a capitalist, just enjoy your ill-gotten gains protected by men with guns. No need to talk about it on the internet. If you're NOT a rich person then why the fuck are you wasting your time defending them?

beautiful

@inthehands @fivetonsflax @micahflee The Anarchist Labor Bundists predicted this in the 30's, btw

"Oh you foolish little Zionists
With your utopian mentality
You'd better get down to the factory
And learn the worker's reality

You want to take us to Jerusalem
So we can die as a nation
We'd rather stay in the diaspora
And fight for our liberation"

written by Ts. Lakhman in 1931, here's a modern recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQMRwk8WDd4

@Adam_Cadmon1 TBH this exact type of shit (Biden being out of touch causing re-election issues) is why I didn’t support Biden in 2020… or 2008. He was a conservative foil for Obama because Obama was seen as too progressive. Running him [after] Obama was just backwards. However, it’s also not like there are many dems who would do much better. I’ll probably still vote for him 🤮 purity is bad

@inthehands I've heard this from many people and I'm glad things are getting better but extremely bitter that it happened too late for me, especially when it seemed [to me] pretty obvious what most of the issues were at the time. I guess what I'm saying is I don't understand what took so long.

@inthehands Miserable people like this being like 80-90% of all of the teachers and professors I ever had are

1. Why I never went into academia (who wants to spend their working lives around these jerks?)

2. Why if I ever have kids I am going to homeschool them (these jerks absolutely killed my love of learning and I intend to save my hypothetical children from a similar fate)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border_wall#/media/File:US-Mexico_barrier_map.png

This is an interesting map. I feel kinda ignorant that I didn't know this. In reality, the US-Mexico Border Wall was already like 2/3rds complete before Trump even took office.

Both him and Biden have expanded it in a few key areas, though, largely along the Rio Grande.

@kaia I keep wanting to hate this thing but I can’t lie. I love this lol

@jepyang @edwiebe I mean if someone lives somewhere where they can't get to work without a car, and they can't move to somewhere near public transit, and their car broke down in exactly the way it was engineered to. This is not an accident. That consumer is being forced into buying a vehicle by the people who own the land, make decisions about urban development/public transit, and design the cars.

As I see it, consumers do not have free will in capitalist society.

Well, my #zine on how to start a radical, fighting #union has officially been #Banned on #Facebook ! Several posts from several people have been removed. From up to a year and a half ago! So why not check it out? If Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read it, there must be something good in there, right?

https://red-star.ghost.io/union-organizing-for-people-with-jobs/

@luca_lichen @inthehands TL;DR Good audio recording/production means the artistic intent is kept intact on as many different types of speakers as possible.

Everyone says Israel/Palestine is too complicated to understand, but: when I see unarmed teenagers celebrating over a wrecked tank, I know whose side I am on.