Notices by Anti. 🐘 (antiaall3s@chaos.social)

My partner is getting her booster today. For weeks i have been trying to convince myself to get one as well. If they offered #Novovax i would not hesitate one second, but they only have mRNA. So i went back and forth about it over many sleepless nights.

My last booster did not go well. At all. It set me back almost to the start of my #LongCovid, symptoms i had thought I had overcome were back. It took me until last summer to get back to baseline.

So it's a no. Sucks. But it feels too risky.

And before people freak out, here's what i plan to do.

In December i will try to get a #Novovax shot in a neighboring country, #Germany or #France. I was told Novovax should be available then in Germany.

If anyone can confirm, please tell me.

If it won't be possible, i will reconsider my risk assessment with an eye on case numbers in #Switzerland. Maybe i will get a mRNA shot, but kicking & screaming. The side effects after the last booster were inacceptable & i don't do well with worries.

In more general terms, i think if someone already had a bad reaction, be it to a vaccine or a booster, they should feel comfortable not to take the same risk yet again. They should be able to count on the fact that enough people are still getting vaccinated.

But here we are now. Vaccination numbers have fallen off a cliff. Which means that those of us, who are most at risk to experience a bad reaction, are almost in a bind to get one.

That's a huge bummer and another example of abandonment.

"They want to say shit that upsets you and then watch you get upset. Starve them of that shit. Block them all. There's nothing constructive about the conflict fetish that drove the algorithm in the bad place. Arguing online only hardens most people's positions anyway. We don't have to live that way."

~ @MsKellyMHayes

"By focusing on mutual aid, small-scale organizing, and the quiet cultivation of democratic values, anti-authoritarian groups can build a foundation for long-term change without putting themselves or their communities in unnecessary danger. Resistance in these contexts isn’t about dramatic gestures—it’s about survival, resilience, persistence, and the joy of building with others and creating deep connections."

~ Scot Nakagawa

https://antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/recommendations-for-anti-authoritarian

Well.

Watching Democracy Now every night has turned into torture.

I am considering a news fast.

Or what i would actually prefer is to get news from the resistance, from people organizing horizontally or disrupting the system. And an anarchist comedian maybe.

Any ideas?

I mean i get it.
This is the ultimate apocalyptic end time porn.
Trump is giving the military to a Christian Nationalist, health to an anti-vaxxer, the DoJ to a rapist, he is sending an evangelical Zionist to be amabassor to Israel, etc.
It's all so fucking predictable and so fucking shortsighted. Duh.
And all this because he wants his revenge on Obama for making fun of him?!

The resistance starts with taking care of each other.

"Together with others, we can use our solidarity to build the resistance, and refuse to cooperate with repression. Timothy Snyder, expert on the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, says “Do not obey in advance”. It's easy to be intimidated by the sheer force of power-over, but when we resist, we often find that power is not as absolute as it appears. There are many ways we can slow the onslaught."
~ Starhawk

https://starhawk.substack.com/p/where-do-we-find-power

"We will not submit to the norms or edicts of the fascists who would rule us, but we must be thoughtful, strategic, & calculating in our actions–including bold actions. We will protest. We will create spaces where we can recommit to our values, to each other, & to the causes that unite us. We will fight for each other & for the future. We will do these things together in the hopes of saving lives, emptying cages, & transforming our world."

https://organizingmythoughts.org/collective-survival-adaption-and-direct-action

Indeed, let's just get started, in small groups, not intimidated by the huge task at hand. Because as Vicky says:

"And as we enter a period of more and more open repression, a big organization with large visible meetings and structure is much more vulnerable to repression by the state, infiltration by the far right, or cooptation by bad actors and scammers, who are increasingly common in this crumbling society."

https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/keeping-us-safe/

They are finally leaving Twotter.

But why for Cryptosky?

So let me get this straight. The Macabi Tel Aviv hooligans go around Amsterdam, ripping down Palestinian flags, burning them on public squares, singing horribly racist songs in the streets and beating up taxi drivers, but when local people start to defend themselves it gets framed as an "antisemitic pogrom" by Israel and in news programs around the world?!

Impunity is never a good idea.

Unsere Nachbarn sind letzten Dienstag aus den Ferien zurückgekommen und, jetzt hab ich mal mitgezählt, haben seither 14 Waschmaschinen gestartet. Die haben kein Kind oder so. Das ist ein ökologisches Verbrechen.
Es hilft nicht, dass wir jede Maschine mitkriegen, weil die Architektur hier so Kacke ist's.

@endolexis Yes, lots. The thing is, this anthology is from 2015 and i believe this essay is even older, but i only realized that Klee Benally was the author when reading No Spiritual Surrender.

"We do not believe that we can vote our way out of this crisis. We will not beg politicians to reform the very system that is predicated on our genocide and destruction of our Earth Mother. We urge for something more effective towards the undoing of colonialism in our lands."

~ Klee Benally - No spiritual surrender

Indigenous peoples' day of rage.

"In its base definition, capitalism is an economic and political system based on unregulated or "free" markets, private property, competition, and limited government intervention. But the definition obscures the reality that capitalism is based upon extreme social exploitation & dispossession, ecological destruction, hyper-individualism, materialism, and that its history is rooted in white supremacy, cis-heteropatriarchy, genocide & slavery."

~ Klee Benally - No Spiritual Surrender

the ally “champions” of the most oppressed. While the exploitation of solidarity and support is nothing new, the commodification and exploitation of allyship is a growing trend in the activism industry."

From “Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex” written by Klee Benally as featured in: Taking Sides - Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism, edited by Cindy Milstein.

"The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they ostensibly support. They often work in the guise of “grassroots” or “community based” and are not necessarily tied to any organization.

They build organizational or individual capacity and power, establishing themselves comfortably among the top ranks in their hierarchy of oppression as they strive to >

"For you, who also despairs"

~ dedication of Klee Benally's book: No Spiritual Surrender

Impunity is never a good idea.
With soldiers posting their war crimes on social media it gets even worse.

This is impunity and rubbing it in.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/9/aj_documentary_gaza_war_crimes

#IDF #Gaza