Inga ️‍🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected]

if a superhero works alongside the cops and never/rarely against them, they're not a superhero, they're an antivillain at best. fuck you Batman.

if I have to scream 'JUST FORM A FUCKING POLYCULE' at young romantic fiction one more fucking time....

Yeah so remember those shitty "you must do arbitration before you can even think of suing us" clauses? Well, DoorDash just got like 5000 arbitration requests filed against them, and they have to cover all the arbitration costs, which amount to millions upon millions of dollars.

They tried to weasel their way out going through with them by trying to do a "class-action arbitration" which does not exist, and which their ToS explicitly stripped from their "contractors" as a right, lmao.

german fascists have been forming armed groups

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/world/europe/germany-nazi-infiltration.html

"We were unknowingly infected with a follow-bot who caused significant technical and financial problems on our instance. Other instances, while knowing, did not warn us about that, but just silently unfederated from us. And it was even more effort getting federation back than it was to fix the follow-bot problem.

This could happen to everyone! Any instance can be a victim!"

"Now think about how 4channers ... can ... cause [any] instance to be cut off from a significant chunk of fediverse, without its admin noticing? Do we want to help them dismantle the fediverse?

Warn other instances' admins about bad things going on, not just silently unfederate from them!"

(A thread about some problems my instance bumped into - thankfully mostly resolved now, but there are some lessons for all to learn from this: https://embracing.space/@admin/104626032660832446)

Let's talk mutual aid

https://dochub.com/rloggans/jo3xELpR3ZO8yz8wJBa7nr/loggans-mutual-aid-zine-pdf?dt=Ls_myQXhz6RrrzS59DVW

"So, in the time of covid-19, we have seen so many calls to and for “Mutual Aid”. Which is dope, great, awesome, important, but also has led to some confusion (dare I say co-option) as to what mutual is and isn't. This zine will attempt to explain Mutual Aid in the time of covid-19, and also how Mutual Aid practices must be imposed for continued surviviance."

@GreenandBlack @queeranarchism

cops also found it *very* difficult (if not impossible) to infiltrate the old skool ravers/party drugs networks of the 1990s (before they developed macho hierarchical structures), Metpol tried it and all that happened is some detectives got so heavy into drugs they had to be invalided out on health reasons, others got into partying/dealing themselves which fell apart when one did too much, freaked out and turned to Jesus and then grassed on all the others 😆

TIL that anarchists read so much theory that cops find it difficult to infiltrate our circles

so around a century ago, there was a comic strip called The Outbursts of Everett True, where the titular character saw people being rude jackasses and decided to deal with this harshly and folks a lot of these still hold up perfectly in modern times

but i am delighted to announce

somebody's found the comics about mask-wearing

and They're Good, Folks

(uncaptioned, feel free to help out with descriptions here, i'd appreciate it)

So, a couple weeks back, the BBC's LBGT+ support page quietly dropped three trans-specific helplines:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1nYWPTdMtKStFL2ztx1SV11/information-and-support-lgbt-issues

At the time, the reason was unknown even to the corporation's internal Pride Network.

Now, we hear the reason has been officially given - confirmation that they were 'dropped due to “audience complaints” relating to the “increasingly contested issues relating to trans issues and children”'.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/30/bbc-pride-trans-hate-campaign-mermaids-action-line-transphobia-gender-trust/

Fuck that with a rusty chainsaw. Removal of those support lines gives clear support to those who *don't need those helplines*, and unambiguously aligned management against trans people. It's not coincidental that with the ramping up of TERFs in the press has come a sharp rise in harassment and violent attacks against trans people; either the BBC supports that, or they oppose it.

Their complaints page:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

If you are thin and reading this has overwhelmed you with the urge to tell me I'm wrong

Please first read this article: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

And then whether you agree or not, don't bother to tell me.

the police department in my city is predominantly PoC and it has among the largest discrepancies in arrest rate between black and non-black people who commit the same crimes

people are tripping over themselves to oppress their way into whiteness

also this has historically absolutely happened at least two times before (where people try to ride anti-blackness into respectability)