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Birdsite link, ACAB, Cop Alert 

twitter.com/odi_lunar/status/1

So Odi, one of my adoptive grandchildren was stalked and attacked by someone who was supposedly a good friend of his for his anti-cop tweets.

This "friend" (@PliskinCat on Twitter) happened to be a cop who is physically very built, so you can imagine how this can be intimidating.

What pissed me off the most about this is that he chased Odi down in private messages to gaslight, intimidate and emotionally blackmail him for his anti-cop sentiments, making Odi feel guilty, like he did something wrong when he didn't. And after Odi blocked him, he sent his girlfriend (@Novaloux on Twitter) to stalk and monitor his posts.

So let this be a warning to cut off contact with PliskinCat and his girlfriend when you can, because he's a cop, and he's likely going to harvest your social media posts for any criticism of cops he can weaponize and use against you. He's also been known to be really greasy like hit on trans folk, as a cop. I don't need to explain why that is gross, or terrifying.

check on your black friends (this is not to black people). yes, donate, protest, educate. part of the work is checking in on and doing emotional labor for your black friends. the point is to reach out without expecting a response. they shouldn't have to ask you to check on them (especially if you know they're mentally I'll tf)

Black Protests 😠 white Nonsense 

So. We need to straighten out a few things. I was following the protests on Twitter all night last night, and noticed two recurring themes.

The first is that a lot of Black protestors have been talking about how their protests were peaceful until a bunch of white people showed up and started wrecking shit.

Apparently, Black organisers have had to ask white protestors to calm down, and some Black protestors have had to put out literal fires which white people started.

We all know who gets the blame in these things. We all know who faces the harsh consequences and who gets to walk home without much hassle.

There are a bunch of reports of this stuff in a thread by @FreeYourMindKid@twitter.com (I trust him as a reliable source):

twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/st

Black Protests 😠 white Nonsense 

The second thing is something I've seen over here as well as on Twitter. Leftist types talking about the "myth" of outside instigators and something something liberals.

There are Black people on the streets protesting for their lives, telling us that not everything is right out there. But I keep seeing white people acting as if they know better. The best* part is when they dismiss those Black people as "liberals" and tell them to shut up.

*may not actually be the best part.

We have photographic proof that there are undercover cops on the streets, and reports of at least one of them directly instigating violence. They're not difficult to spot (see the attached image and description for an example). And we all know that entrapment is part of the playbook for US police.

Hell, cops are starting most of the violence even when they're in uniform.

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Black Protests 😠 white Nonsense 

If you are not Black, take a moment to check yourself. If you're trying to deny the existence of "outside instigators" make sure you're not unwittingly being one yourself.

This is not your protest. You don't get to march in, yell "LOL FUK DA POLICE" and start throwing bricks around. Show some damn respect.

To directly quote one organiser: "Like I say to all my white brothers and sisters, we appreciate y'all being out here supporting us, but this is not your space."
twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/st (video in link)

Stand with Black protestors. Support them. Stand between them and the police. And do what everyone keeps telling you to do online – listen first before you open your mouth or start doing things no one asked for.

Otherwise, you're just being performative and appropriative. And... yeah, don't do that.

Summer heat and boobs 

So cooling pads in my cleavage works well for cooling, though it's not enough.

It's nice to feel cold boobs after the errand trip though.

@AdalwinAmillion@meow.social A better one, turns out there was a government conspiracy to demonize and villify werewolves, and werewolves actually become friendlier when they turn.

They do it to cover up the years of torturous medical experiments in bioweapons tech that lead up to the virus that turns people into werewolves being developed and breaking into the wild.

the police and government officials and the media are pushing the "all the violence is caused by white agitators" line primarily because they want to make everyone suspicious of solidarity across racial lines, there's a handful of off-duty cops and boogaloo boys trying to escalate things in order to see more black people get shot but they're vastly outnumbered by actual helpful protestors

Uspol, undercover cop praxis 

If these undercover cops really all carry handcuffs in their back pockets, then they have brought their own means of incapacitation, much like a duck that carries the green onions it is to be cooked with.

Uprising, a meme? 

When people are getting upset about burnt buildings, people reply with "that building was no angel" "it shouldn't have resisted" and "it had intoxicants in its system"

I keep thinking about how a bunch of white people with guns can just walk into a government building and it's fine, apparently.

The whole practice of pushing people to hash problems out in DMs is something I have experienced all too much, and it's always a white person with power pushing it on me.

It's respectability politics meant to shove abusive power dynamics under the rug so that their little hangouts would seem more attractive than it actually is.

Racism, ACAB, white "allies" 

If you're white or white passing, claiming to be an ally and complaining that you're being yelled at by POC, let me explain it this way; Yes, we get it. We have felt it long before you came into the picture. We grew our entire lives up under the boot of cops and hating them.

The problem isn't that you're swinging at cops.

The problem is that we know how you handle activism, and that you're treating your outrage as if you're suddenly a better person for it. That you're fundamentally misunderstanding that how you treat POC day to day with condescension and casual ableism is what contributed to the environment in which people normalize racism against POC. That you only get into activism for POC because a white person made it look and sound cool to you. It's that you don't understand that if you're spending time talking about it at length, you're pissing away the opportunity to get out there to protest while the iron is hot, or doing anything to materially improve the lives and status of POC when the dust settles.

Words aren't enough anymore to improve our lives, your anger alone isn't enough, what we need is direct action and a fundamental change in how white people see POC. Because your allyship right now, sounds a lot like white saviour complex, and we see it taunting us, telling us that we will never be seen as equal.

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