abolitionbb

@abolitionbb@kolektiva.social

ACAB KYLR
queer anarchafeminst abolitionist 💕

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abolitionbb, to random

When Rachel Corrie was murdered in Rafah by Israel 21 years ago today Gaza was not even under blockade. She was run over while trying to protect one family home. What would she think if she saw Rafah crammed full of tents and over one million refugees?

abolitionbb, to random

"White liberal thought in the West now is waiting for Gaza to die, so that it can then engage in that washing away of its sins, by historicizing the slaughter. Its investment in the system — in the global system that needs the people in Gaza to die and needs to sell the Israelis the weapons to kill them with — means that it’s incapable of stopping it preventatively. But at the same time, because of the way it replaced the racial superiority of the Victorian age and first half of the 20th century, with a sense of moral or cultural superiority, it needs to historicize and then weep and then promise never to do it again."

This interview with Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah gets into western complicity of the ongoing genocide, medical practice as a form of liberation, and the necropolitics of Zionism.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/the-doctors-role-in-liberation-an-interview-with-dr-ghassan-abu-sittah/?utm_content=buffer26528&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer

abolitionbb, to random

Maybe an unpopular opinion but linking masks so intensely to covid specifically and not larger disease control in general was, and continues to be, a huge mistake. Obviously masking became much more common with the rise of covid in the U.S. and other places, but it's been a known - and used, form of disease prevention elsewhere for 100 years.

Tying masking to covid freaks out the people who are too in denial about covid to actually do anything about it - a wall immediately goes up before an interaction has even happened. It also misses the point that they're useful for other things - it raises the level of diseases in general that are going around. And maybe most importantly, it creates an entire culture of masks as symbols rather than as actually useful tools. When people see masks as a symbol of fear, a reminder of death or a difficult time in their life, or a sign that someone must be sick to be wearing one and so should be avoided, it creates a much more difficult terrain to build solidarity or even just effectively communicate. The practical use case has been replaced with concepts for many people - and that shift has a high body count.

AnarchoDoggo, to random

This is phenomenally fucking stupid:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/20/israeli-strike-hits-residential-building-in-damascus-syrian-state-media

I am looking forward to hearing some proper analysis about the reasoning for this, but provoking a wider regional war cannot possibly serve Israel's interests.

Is Netanyahu just trying to prolong military engagements as a desperate attempt to salvage his political prospects? Cause getting Iran or other Arab states more involved seems like a catastrophic strategic blunder

abolitionbb,

@AnarchoDoggo Israel has been aggressing Syria since this most recent round of shit started. They bombed the Damascus and Aleppo airport runways simultaneously on October 12. It hasn't been getting the same amount of attention, and I don't know the political rational behind it, but Syria has been getting dragged into this since the beginning. Directly targeting within the city and killing several is definitely another mind boggling escalation though.

abolitionbb,

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs they want full control of the area, no questions asked, and if ww3 is the consequence then - shrug, oh well for everyone else. Absolutely vile

abolitionbb, to random

Today Eric Adams vetoed a police transparency bill and another bill that would have ended the use of solitary confinement in New York jails. I don't place hope in legislation but ending solitary confinement would do immediate good for the people suffering behind bars. The system will never weaken itself in any meaningful way.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/01/eric-adams-vetoes-police-transparency-bill-and-solitary-ban.html

abolitionbb, to random

Progressive™️ California has shortened the covid isolation period to one day so that people can get back to work so they can afford to pay their landlord outrageous amounts of rent. Kill the economy, kill hustle culture, but god damn can we please try to not kill each other

https://ktla.com/news/california/california-health-officials-announce-shorter-covid-isolation-guidelines/

abolitionbb, to random

your local court ruins poor peoples lives every day over trivial nonsense but the most powerful court in the world can only offer "swaying public opinion" when it comes to ending a genocide

abolitionbb, to random

I think about how the main reason the covid isolation period was reduced from 10 days to 5 was bc some airline CEO had a hissy fit way too often. I'm never not going to be mad about it

abolitionbb,

@cyronimose extremely unfortunately, yea

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/delta-ceo-asks-cdc-cut-quarantine-time-breakthrough-covid-cases-2021-12-21/

abolitionbb, to random

Florida police have a new "special persons registry". This registry provides law enforcement with a list of peoples documented mental health diagnoses. Police, and many news outlets, are claiming this is to "improve safety". Access to safety shouldn't have anything to do with sanity. The accounts of police abuse against disabled people are endless - a registry cannot solve a systemic problem. There is nothing preventing this information from being misused or causing further discrimination. As of now, this registry is voluntary, there is no guarantee that will remain the case.

This is why we have to attack the idea of carceral saneism every time is comes up. People often turn to mental institutions as part of a solution to the crisis of the number of unhoused people. An institution is not a home. Expanding police access to medical history and information is another incredibly slippery slope. We cannot afford to normalize these measures.

This article sucks. I couldn't find one that doesn't try to paint this registry positively. But I do think it is worth skimming for the sake of understanding how media works to launder carceral solutions in regard to sanity and mental health. Use your critical thinking skills. Who actually benefits from this? Is anyone safer? Who becomes less safe? What are the implications of increasing police access to medical history in an era of intensified crackdowns on people's bodily autonomy? This stuff can literally be life and death for those interfacing with law enforcement.

https://www.fox13news.com/news/new-disabilities-registry-may-be-game-changer-for-florida-law-enforcement-agencies.amp

abolitionbb, to random

I can't help but feel like part of why everything is so awful in the west is because a significant amount of people actually think that wearing a mask or not going to Starbucks is a real political sacrifice. Like these things require so little of us and still people feel/act as though it is revolutionary or a feat of effort and it's just so wildly disconnected from reality

abolitionbb,

@Mordantivore having to try to beg people to not normalize mass death, in any form, was not something I anticipated being such a big part of life when I was younger. I don't think it's as straight forward as people simply not caring, be it about covid or the border or Palestine or trans rights or you name it - there are a ton of factors at play, but the end result is still the same, and we all suffer for it

abolitionbb, to incarcerated

I've been working on a project with a woman inside Coffee Creek prison. She's collecting accounts from women inside, and her own observations, and is sending them to me to publish. I'll be posting them on a blog as I receive them. This is a way to directly allow those inside to speak for themselves. I don't agree with all of it - but as long as a statement isn't directly inflammatory or bigoted I will publish it. I posted an introduction and brief first statement from the person I'm in contact with. If you'd like to keep up with it you can find the blog linked below.

https://voicesfromcoffeecreek.wordpress.com/

#prison #oregon #solidarity

abolitionbb, to random

I am so dead serious when I say sharing yogurt with my dog and seeing how happy it makes him and the little bit that he gets on his nose every time is actually crucial to my mental health rn

abolitionbb, to random

My friend just informed me that her boss threatened to send the police to her house for a "welfare check" because she hadn't responded to three emails. I want violence. We are in hell.

susurros, to books

While a most arbitrary date on the calendar, I love getting book recommendations, so I'm taking this opportunity to ask: What were the favorite books you read during the past year? In no particular order, here are mine.

Fiction:

  • "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers
  • "The Actual Star" by Monica Byrne
  • "Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction" edited by Joshua Whitehead

Non-fiction:

  • "A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging" by Dionne Brand
  • "Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands" by Kelly Lytle Hernández
  • "Try Anarchism for Life: The Beauty of Our Circle" by @cbmilstein

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #reading

abolitionbb,

@susurros @bookstodon I did a lot of re-reading this year. Close to the Knives, by Wojnarowicz, continues to be a favorite. As does Sula, by Toni Morrison. Hamas by Paola Caridi was informative and somewhat grounding in the current political moment. Minor detail by Adania Shibli broke my heart. Working It was a throughly enjoyable non fiction collection by and about sex workers.

abolitionbb, to random

Marijuana possession almost always happens at the state level. It's extremely rare for simple possession to be federally enforced. Biden's pardon is scraps, at best. And it's not a coincidence that it's coming out as his polling numbers and approval rating plummet for refusing to back down from aiding a genocide.

abolitionbb, to random

“Using billions of dollars in international aid to maintain much of the Israeli siege of Gaza while trying again to prop up the Abbas government and ignoring the role of Hamas will not move anyone closer to genuine peace or security.”

  • Rami Khouri in 2009
abolitionbb,

@nilsskirnir oh I'm under no assumption that peace is the real objective politically. Those who suffer the most continue to suffer the most while the others play power games. More just interesting how quite literally nothing has changed since 2009 - it's just gotten much, much worse

abolitionbb, to random
sidereal, to random

Wow, hagfish are pretty incredible. I had no idea.

  • They excrete a slime that is pretty unique in nature, some South Korean scientists think they can use it to make bulletproof vests.

  • Their skin can be used for a form of potentially-sustainable leather.

  • "The hagfish circulatory system ... includes multiple accessory pumps throughout the body, which are considered auxiliary "hearts"."

  • They used to have eyes but evolved away from that ???

So cool

abolitionbb,

@sidereal a few years back a truck transporting a ton of hagfish crashed on the 101 and caused an ENORMOUS slime mess that created a multiple car pileup and took several hours to de-slime. They're interesting little creatures tho. Poor things must have been terrified to end up on the middle of the highway

abolitionbb, to Palestine

Does anyone know of good books on the history of the West Bank? Not just like 67 and the Oslo accords, but the dynamics of different areas and how they interact, how conditions have changed over the course of time because of the increase in settlements, the wall, checkpoints, etc. major bonus points for anything that digs into resistance movements and how they've adapted

Please drop any recs!
#bookstadon #Palestine #WestBank #books

abolitionbb, to random

"The theory that bearing witness will curtail Israel’s ability to act on exterminationist fantasies no longer holds. Information and knowledge, it turns out, aren’t reliable bulwarks against genocide. Impunity isn’t beholden to disapproval."

https://stevesalaita.com/scrolling-through-genocide/

abolitionbb, to random

I'm sorry but the pure absurdism I feel every time I think about the Hamas hostage dog is too overwhelming to not share like what fuckin planet am I on

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