Notices by it's kat! 🇵🇸✊ (kathimmel@mstdn.social)

@MediaActivist you're wise & patient - two things i can't count as attributes of my own. :D i suppose one upside is that you learn not to get too attached to email addresses & not to sign up for too much shite.

@MediaActivist @aral relatively recently, i finally de-gmailed (& de-googled) & had heard high praise for proton, so signed up. along comes this. fuck.

come, billionaire apocalypse, come.
#bezos #fuckerberg #musk #pichai #bashTheFash

if you see AI, you block AI.
(art from leo boyd at https://www.leoboyd.com)
#AI #art #illustration #fuckAI

never underestimate the ability of a small group of capitalists to RUIN EVERYTHING.
#capitalism #eatTheRich

i heard someone say that these times are like living in an article from 'the onion'. i think it's more like a 'judge dredd' comic.
#cursedTimeline #dystopia #judgeDredd #theOnion

2025:

- be kind(er)
- free palestine
- go vegan
- stop using AI (unless it's a matter of life or death)
- decolonise the world
- smash the fash
- reduce your plastic consumption with a fucking huge block of organic marseille soap that can be used to clean yourself & your abode
- don't be too hard on yourself

#freePalestine #AI #plastic #veganuary #marseille

#art #history: voici my unabashed gisele pelicot fan art. may her courage reverberate across the globe & create positive changes for women & the oppressed wherever they may be.
she's taught us to stand tall & be unflinching in the face of the bastards of the world.
#giselePelicot #france #feminism #justice #illustration

if you have the means (& i hope that you do), i highly recommend making abstract landscape art to restore emotional equilibrium.
#illustration #landscape #scotland #art #wellbeing #smashTheSystem

#art #history: the magnificent boris karloff (born #otd in 1887) embodied mary shelley's creature as no one else has or ever will. why? because he had a great fondness for the character & it's obvious that he understood the emotional fragility & alienation that lay at the core of shelley's baby. that vulnerability is in his eyes. do you see it?
#frankenstein #borisKarloff #maryShelley #cinema #film #literature #horror #illustration

#til that another nice thing about living in scotland is that scotrail offers free travel to job interviews for people looking for work - & THEN, when a job is secured, a month's worth of travel to get back & forth. that's pretty cool. yay, #scotland!
next, do free public transport for all. :)
#trains #publicTransport #travel
https://www.scotrail.co.uk/commuter/jobcentre-plus-travel-discount-card-scheme

there's nowhere safe in gaza &, yet, some intrepid, kind, seemingly-unstoppable-but-sadly-still-vulnerable mortals are continuing to provide at least one meal a day to those in need. if you have a few quid to spare - or even if all you can do is share this post - for the cruelty-free kitchen project, they'll stretch it as far as they can. thank you!

https://chuffed.org/project/cruelty-free-kitchen

#freePalestine #food #vegan #gaza #ceasefireNow #palestine #food

@MediaActivist ps: it is always a sincere & distinct joy to read your writing, jay.

'no one colonises innocently, that no one colonises with impunity either; that a nation which colonises, that a civilisation which justifies colonisation—and therefore force—is already a sick civilisation, a civilisation which is morally diseased, which irresistibly, progressing from one consequence to another, one denial to another.' - aimé césaire
#freePalestine #gaza #aimeCesaire #socialism

look, i know he’s not gonna shag me...but every year, when 16 october rolls round, i can't help but remember how much i adore him - & that's because one of the world's sharpest wits was more than his champagne-supping gadabout persona reflected. oscar wilde (born #otd in 1854) believed that socialism would spell true liberation for the human species.
#socialism #liberation #oscarWilde #art #illustration #literature #ireland #inktober

#art #history: i should have honoured the memory of kiki de montparnasse (aka: alice prin) on the 2nd of october. trust me, she merits the upkeep of her legacy. if you want to know why, read my thread (below).
#kikiDeMontparnasse #montparnasse #paris #surrealism #artist #muse #illustration #art

**‘[i’m] more than ever convinced of the necessity for social revolution.'**
#art #history: anti-fash author & all round superb goth babe, ethel mannin, was born #otd in 1900. if you fancy a fuller argument about why she's worth your time, see thread below.
#ethelMannin #author #socialist #antifascist #writer #literature #illustration #shrewsburyFC

if i'd not happened upon the 2017 biopic, 'django', i'd never have heard this reconstruction of his almost lost 'requiem for gypsy brothers' that he wrote to commemorate the 250,000-500,000 romani gypsies who were exterminated by the nazis.
#djangoReinhardt #holocaust #romaniGypsies #nazis #music #history #film #cinema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAMQClLD6ug

i had time for kris kristofferson.
#krisKristofferson #sineadOConnor

is labour still playing the long game? i need to know when to stop holding my breath.
#labourParty #labour #ukPol #starmer #corruption