Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

A few posters from the protests around the country.

#IndiaRejectsCAB #IndiaAgainstHate #IndiaAgainstDivision #NoNRC #NoCAB #India

Make socialism dangerous again

Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21012553/twitter-bluesky-decentralized-social-network-developers-reaction-mastodon-activitypub

This though.

“Fuck the police means that we don’t act like cops”

The transformation of the iconic Hong Kong protest headwear into 贏, the Chinese character for "Victory"

some systematical critiques of the #police:

Seven Myths about the Police:
https://crimethinc.com/2011/10/25/seven-myths-about-the-police

Slave Patrols and Civil Servants
A History of Policing in Two Modes
https://crimethinc.com/2017/03/15/slave-patrols-and-civil-servants-a-history-of-policing-in-two-modes

"What is Violence?
Our societies are heavily dependent on violence to function...."
video:
https://sub.media/video/what-is-violence/

Our Enemies in blue:
"Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force."
book:
https://www.akpress.org/our-enemies-in-blue-e-book.html
audiobook:
https://archive.org/details/OurEnemiesInBlue-PoliceAndPowerInAmerica-Chapter1Part1

An actual protest at YouTube Headquarters would have been more meaningful. At least that might have made the news.

As is there's no coordination here. No organizing. There's no site for information, no nothing beyond "don't go on Youtube these days". It's just impromptu.

A picket line is a thing you physically have to cross. A picket is something that people put up, and plan. There are signs, there's information.

This is a haphazard mess against a monopoly, and when it fails people are going to just go "aww shucks".

And I'm seeing a lot of people say that "you're a scab if you watch YouTube", but YouTube has become a ubiquitous part of our lives at this point, especially if we're clicking on links on Twitter, and this protest sprang up practically overnight with no warning.

#YouTubeIsOverParty, if the tag even is related to the boycott, is poorly thought out and poorly planned. It's trending now a 23.7K tweets.
It should have been trending a month ago.

I found out because the tail end of a video basically said "don't go on YouTube yesterday".

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/10/merriam-webster-they-them-pronoun-2019-word-of-the-year-non-binary-gender-neutral-singular/

So, apparently Jack Dorsey wants to make a decentralized The Algorithm, so people can choose which black box attempts to monetize their time by trapping them in a vortex of social media viral content: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106

This will hopefully provide some context to the decentralized-#Twitter jokes which may be taking over your timeline.

A wonderful piece from @Critter of us being snuggly ❤️❤️❤️❤️

If your attitude is "disabled folk are going to be fucked when the revolution comes, deal with it", congratulations, you've edged towards eugenics.

tbh im starting to think sites/social media removing nsfw are intentionally going against sex workers and endorcing supremacist/elitist groups/factions on another level when they already don't monitor shit

like they really gonna act like you get all the news or whatever when yr literally taking whole portions of cultures/society out that is nsfw. that's not reporting that's not being accurate to humanity/our cultures or how different people are/what they experience/do