Notices by Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 (susankayequinn@wandering.shop)

Hubby is supposed to be brainstorming gift ideas for the kids but instead he's looking up auto door openers FOR CHICKEN COOPS with... I am not kidding... facial recognition for your chicken to make sure you don't let in the WRONG CHICKEN.

What a life.

LOL not 12 hours later... this is how you do that

North Carolina, y'all getting up to some good trouble, keep going.

If your impulse is "don't tell the newbies how to edit the registry!" then kindly redirect your anger to the AI corps who made this necessary in the first place.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

My periodic shout into the void:

The only reason why anyone cares about anyone's gender is because the whole of society is based around assigning human rights based on gender (and societal privileges to the "better" genders).*

*terms and conditions apply, worse in some societies than others, but all do this

I started out being frugal with tech (keeping laptops & phones until the planned obsolescence won out).

Then I got sustainability-minded and got refurbished and modular/repairable (when possible).

Now I'm keeping old tech because it doesn't have AI🔨(also going open source, step by step). #fuckAI

America is determined to re-learn all the lessons the hard way: that democracy is a participation sport, that you will lose every fucking right you don't fight for, that non-violent protest of sufficient quantities of people is fucking terrifying to the fascists.

8/n

Fascists being unable to force the resistance to riot has been clarifying *for both sides*.

Non-violence is the great weapon of every resistance movement.

**there is a reason why all our narratives say it doesn't work**

the only way they can stop us is by convincing us not to resist

10/n

Like... a whole neighborhood running off ICE with nothing but whistles and cursing? It's an *indelible* lesson.

Like...7M people in the streets having an antifa party calling for your ouster? Terrifying to the fash.
9/n

we really really (REALLY) are in a moment of great cultural change and now is our chance to create out of nearly whole cloth the world that we want to live in

11/n

I think people (me, I'm people) often forget that organizing isn't phone banks or fundraising... it's scavenger hunts. It's neighborhood mutual aid during the hunger crisis. It's coming together because you love knitting (or D&D or bookclub) and you've got friends and emotional bandwidth...

12/n

It has been clear for the entire fucking eternity since Trump was re-elected that the people were out ahead of the elites on how to react, how to resist, how to fight.

It's been terrifying to watch Dems in power "pivot" to reactionary politics...
1/n

(throw trans people under the bus! don't talk about climate!, don't talk about Trump!)

...as if that were the solution to fascism.

Elites right and left caved, rushing to serve the regime and take part in the spoils. BUT THE PEOPLE? The people were more furious every day.
2/n

I'm still furious. With few exceptions (incl Mamdani), Dem leadership has been a catastrophic failure. Every one needs to be primaried.

Yesterday's vote tells them THEY WILL. Yesterday is the people saying "You're gonna take away my ability to hold fascist power to account? I don't think so."
3/n

"Why aren't people doing anything *more*?" I've heard this relentlessly over the last nine months, as if nothing was happening. "Voting and protesting have failed! We should be rioting in the streets!"

But *that* is the lie.

4/n

Trump egging us on with fascist crackdowns, begging for riots to justify *more* state violence really brought some clarity.

The answer *is* "just" voting & protesting. But no one protests to sacrifice *more* human rights. We don't show up at the ballot box to vote for *more* fascist fuckery.
5/n

America is broken in ways that can't be patched together.

What's happening, what has to happen, is a *radical restructuring of social relationships*, ie real change.

That's what revolution *is*.

And it's happening (and has to happen) in radically peaceful protests & at the ballot box.
6/n

(it's more complicated than "just" vote & protest; it's community building, it's radical compassion, it's rediscovering and reclaiming values, it's standing up to defend freedom and science and human rights, it's finding joy and building a world worth fighting for; it's all those things)
7/n

really can't say FUCK OFF with this strongly enough

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03624-1