Notices by Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu), page 7

@xerz *you* want to try moving Black Twitter? do you want to risk breaking that community up? (that's just one of many, there's med twitter, the patient communities on twitter and facebook, non-tech queer communities, immigrant and marginalized communities outside of the US, again both FB and Twitter, i could go on. It's *infrastructure* it's always political, but also never straightforwardly political.

@jorgecandeias do what you want, but don't slam other people who want or need communities on other social platforms. the platforms are problematic, basically all of them in different ways (including this one) but people make do and people make the value, and advocating for the destruction of those communities doesn't help anyone.

if your argument is that *your* entire community moved off twitter, well, congrats on your tech job.

I have so little time for the mastododon twitter shaming. everyone on twitter isn't a fascist. staying there doesn't give musk as much power as *paying your fucking taxes* does in the year of our lord 2024.

systemic problems are systemic, my dudes. breaking up communities doesn't fix that. shaming people for not breaking up communities doesn't do that.

@futurebird i believe they're still down there, diminished and hiding in the cracks of the deep ocean where we've never looked. waiting, and dreaming of vengeance.

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 Camera.

This humble, somewhat dilapidated shelter, a few miles south of SFO airport, once housed a medium wave aviation beacon (NDB). It currently hosts a variety of aviation surveillance sensors. Its location is also waypoint on the way to SFO runway 28R.

This kind of infrastructure, integral to modern aviation safety, is almost invisible if you don't know where to look for it.

I think I'm just going to to start calling the regime The Ameriban.

@sellathechemist i ain't going to make people at risk talk if they don't want to. that's emotional labor they don't owe me.

@sellathechemist but you know, there's also a place for getting them a cup of tea and asking if they want to talk about it or not.

@sellathechemist true. really feeling for moldova. i mainly bumped poland because of Medvedev's post back in '22.

@Aphrodite @drwho I'm just talking about how russia made it clear that they're going after poland when they're done with ukraine

@rysiek Russia

If some European is complaining about the US election before you say "oh stfu" just check if they're Polish, and if they are, don't.

It also really doesn't matter whose fault anything is. It matters who is coming for you or your people and how.

@slothrop that is a political framework for a lot of theories. Honestly there's a lot to drill down from there.

If your political theories aren't actionable, it's probably time to move on and let it go. Sure, you're angry or sad. But this is reality and it must be dealt with realistically, not emotionally and with lots of social media.

..and don't come at me about privilege or self care. This is a lesson I learned spending my nights sleeping in the backseat of 1980 Datsun 200sx, trying to look like a pile of laundry so no one would break in.

This, by Rick Perlstein, is a very powerful read right about now.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-30-what-will-you-do-trump-wins/

This article is an incredibly good read right now. please give it a moment and partake. https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Here's a mantra the internet could use right now: "I will not treat the person in front of me a a piece of demographic data. Data doesn't act, vote, dream, hate, or love. I will treat them as a person and react to them as they are."

@danmcd @cford yoink