angelteeth

@angelteeth@kolektiva.social

"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."

  • Buenaventura Durruti

anti-colonial | anti-capital | anti-state | & always anti-fascist

Trying to live mindfully & anarchically as possible

Pronouns: he/him/they/them

pfp is a crudely drawn anarchy symbol with the hand-lettered words "fuck fascists, fuck TERFs". background image is a hand-painted wooden sign with the words "don't judge the day by crops reaped but by seeds planted."

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angelteeth, to random

A history prof I had in college once described the 1848 revolution in Germany as "the turning point in German history where German history failed to turn," and specific analysis of that specific event aside, that phrase has haunted me for twenty years and continues to. Almost every day I feel like I have cause to wonder whether something that's going on right now is the turning point in our history where history fails to turn.

I know, of course, that "history" is an ephemeral concept and fates are very rarely completely decided by any one force, but what that prof was getting at was a concept of mass momentum, an energy towards change which can carry through, or mutate into something else, or die. That's what I think about.

angelteeth, to random

It looks like Owesso police rushed a public statement in support of the school doing nothing to help save this child's life, going behind their parent's back and releasing preliminary information from the medical examiner, all without even talking to Nex's mom:

https://popular.info/p/nex-benedicts-mom-raises-doubts-about

angelteeth, to random

I always amuse myself with my duelling reactions to XR's various endeavors. Because it's a straight up, unreconcilable 50-50 mix of "well at least they're doing something" and "sure, that something might be the same kinds of one-offs that Rising Tide was doing 15 years ago which eventually led to rupture and burnout and ultimately did not achieve those goals..." but "hey it's kinda nice to see those kind of actions in the news again, in an isn't-nostalgia-fun kinda way" and "who knows, I can't predict the future, maybe it'll work this time."

angelteeth, to random

Lol I should always check for the clearly better posts that someone else has made about an urgent call before x-posting from my signal groups. Anyway. 🤦🏼

angelteeth, to random

Laurence Clark, a Stop Cop City Forest defender, is still being held in Fulton Jail despite the judge ordering him to be released. He has been without his seizure meds for over a month and needs to be released ASAP. Sharing this phone zap info so that people can call the jail and demand he be released so he can get his meds!

HeavenlyPossum, to random

Religious beliefs don’t make people do bad things. They don’t make people do good things either.

Beliefs generally don’t make people do anything at all. That is, beliefs are not really causal to behavior. People tend to act like the people around them, the people they associate with and can observe (in person or virtually). We adopt beliefs primarily as ex post facto justifications for why we acted the way we did. They make it possible for us to live with our actions, but they don’t cause our actions.

Culture? Ideology? Religion? Not particularly useful indicators of how someone will behave.

angelteeth,

@HeavenlyPossum thanks for this thread! It's been a very interesting & useful thought exercise, both in contemplating the initial assertion and in seeing how strongly people can react to it. Definitely puts some perspective to why so many anarchist reactions to Graeber & Wengrow's book have taken me by surprise in how vehemently opposed they were. There's really something that we don't want to face (or even contemplate, it seems) when it comes to our beliefs about belief - in a larger sense, how we categorize and "group" ourselves and others, & the relationship these groupings have with potential behavior/actions. For myself I'm still struggling a little with the concept, but as I read your clarifications, I think my struggle has more to do with getting clear in my own head the questions themselves - how belief & behavior get into a reifying relationship, & whether that actually changes the initial assertion at all.

angelteeth, to random

Re: the last boost (public comment on CDC agenda) — whatever you do, don't read the other public comments. First one I randomly clicked: "Remove COVID vaccine from children's vax schedules because kids don't get COVID and also it's proven that the vaccines don't prevent or reduce the seriousness of COVID." Truly astounding stuff. Always makes me think of that video clip - "Americans are not...an intellectual people."

angelteeth, to random

I did no studying today! Instead I optimized my sudden free time by using it to Feel Sad. ✨

angelteeth, to random

One of the biggest ironies of me freaking out about passing this exam is that I know so many idiots who work on boats who have bigger licenses than I do (and therefore have managed to pass the exam). Like SO many. Sooooo many.

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    angelteeth,

    @sidereal @riotmuffin real! Also love these gotchas because uhhh there absolutely HAVE been tents in various backyards of various places I've lived. Place i'm at now we had a friend living in a tent in the yard for half a year. I myself have lived in a tent in a friend's yard too. Other places with bigger yards became unofficial tent/trailer towns! So like...nice try with the scaremongering ??People who say shit like this just prove to me how much of a bubble they're living in, and how much they think that they're somehow the "norm" or the majority.

    angelteeth, to random

    Stop Cop City 2!
    The push is underway to build another fuckin cop city in Lacey, WA. Currently folks are starting to mob investors with phone calls and emails to warn them that we're not gonna tolerate this one, either. See graphics below for ways to join this effort.

    the contractors & invested parties pt. 2 • Unearth LLC for $136,500 Call or go to their Tacoma office: 253-92-6750 • MK Fall Protection for $86,589 Call or go to their Lake Stevens office: 425-320-1490 • Sound Electronics for $72,000 Call or go to their Tacoma office: 253-472-2955 • Powercom for $55,979 Call or go to their Bothell office: 425-489-8549 • St. Martin's College sold the land for the project Contact them & let them know it's shameful to profit off the destruction of forest and the militarization of our communities: 360-491-4700 • Lacey City Council unanimously approved the project wíthout public input Tell then how you feel about this closed door deal: council@cityoflacey.org
    suggested script Hello, my name is and I am calling to demand that you drop the contract with the city of Lacey for its new police station and training facility. Your company's involvenment with this project makes you complicit in deforestation, environmental degradation, misuse of tax payer money, and racist and militarized state violence. Stand with the people and drop the contract!

    angelteeth, to random

    While I super appreciate that there are a lot of people on Mastodon who seem very knowledgeable about tech, I wish there were more in the way of fedi and infosec "how-to's" for people who are not programmers and who aren't going to be able to learn to be. I mean, I can toddle around in some very basic Linux-based stuff, enough to get my computer to run decently, and I can do very basic rooting on my phones (except this one apparently) but I get seriously bogged down and lost in trying to understand what bigger steps I can take to do things like improve online security and de-googlify my shit.

    angelteeth,

    @Lu_Tze i think that would be great! I agree that a simplistic "how to" isn't the best format, but also huge complex decision trees can be totally daunting. Maybe the idea would be something more like a series of "sample" set-ups with minimal "branches" of options or decisions, and folks who find they need or want something more can move on to more complex set-ups with further discussion of options and why you might choose those options.

    Something similar to how some game modders will publish "basic" mod lists and directions on how to install them and get them to work together — so that someone who is brand squeaky-new to modding at all can wade into the shallow end with a simplified "out of the box" set up. In the process they learn a little more about mods and how to get them set up and working with each other, and then when they see something else they really like or want, they at least know a bit about the basic steps and the more advanced setup tutorials aren't as scary. 😉

    So like, maybe a "toolkit" format for different levels of security needs that are just, "here's a VPN that works, here is a good non-google OS and how to put it on your phone, here are some apps to get you started while still providing some of the same functionality you need from your phone," something like that. I know knowledgeable folks have talked a lot about those things separately; my problem is putting all that together in my brain in a way that feels doable, and finding helpful answers when I inevitably get stuck or something doesn't work. I dunno if that's helpful... that's just what comes to mind at the moment. Would love to talk more!

    angelteeth, to random

    Interesting look at the origin and evolution of the "universal genius:"

    https://daily.jstor.org/the-destructive-myth-of-the-universal-genius/

    angelteeth, to random

    Studying for this exam is making me crazy. And feels ironically like a huge waste of time when the USCG isn't even testing for knowledge — they're testing for how well you can take a test. This isn't high school; your working mariners shouldn't have to memorize formulas they will never use again without reference material just to keep their licenses so they can keep working. I should at least be getting paid for how much of my off time I am wasting prepping for this test.

    skuppr, to random

    @angelteeth really good to see you posting again. I was worried

    angelteeth,

    @skuppr thank you! And you too. I'm okay. I'm in the "study hole" trying to not fail my licensing upgrade exam (for my mariner's license) and been doing some mutual aid stuff which has felt good. Hope you are doing OK too! ❤️

    angelteeth, to random

    Trans iykyk moment: trying to strike the balance between "everyone has their own gender journey and I need to give that space & respect" and screaming "FUCK YEAH BABEY I KNEW IT!" when your fucked up (affectionate) childhood bestie messages you outta nowhere to say they started taking hormones

    angelteeth, to random

    I really wish everyone would stop putting their shit on Google docs.

    angelteeth, to random

    I'm not gonna equivocate on mass shootings (or attempted mass shootings), nor even attempt to speak on what was going on for the person who allegedly opened fire in the Lakewood megachurch, but I do know that both the police response (to shoot her 7 year old son in the head) and subsequent public meaning-making are only going to obfuscate and twist the narrative to this nightmare police state's benefit.

    Already they are tossing out their current favorite alarm words like seeds to the racist flock: the gun supposedly had a sticker that said "Palestine"...the shooter supposedly had a history of "antisemitic writings"...as well as the now-classic posthumous diagnoses of "mental illness" and being a "lone wolf." Who knows what of these things are true, or what the kernel of truth may be, now molded into propaganda-ready nuggets for the citizens of this genocidal empire.

    I'm not endorsing or excusing this person's actions - because we don't really know and probably never will really know, what they meant or even what happened. But I don't have to exonerate an alleged mass shooter in order to know that the state's response is also completely untrustworthy, and that they are 100% using this as a propaganda weapon against pro-Palestinian protest and the left — whether or not the shooter even really represented those things at all.

    angelteeth, to random

    For BIPOC in the Portland OR area! This event brings together local ecology and local Black history. Free, but limited space available!

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-history-month-24-bipoc-nature-history-immersion-workshop-tickets-824645265187?aff=oddtdtcreator

    sidereal, to random

    Realistically, Biden had one job, and he already failed at it: get Trump in jail a year and a half ago.

    angelteeth,

    @ciggysmokebringer @sidereal it's an interesting thought experiment for sure. As y'all have mentioned, neoliberalism is in itself an engine of destruction, but one that is more committed, I think, to lying to and about itself, at least publicly. I think that's why fascist "popular movements" gain such traction under it. But if Trump and Bush jr. hadn't been in power to visibly and vocally shift public perception and go gangbusters implementing "outright" fascist policy? Idk... neoliberalism's façade of "progress" might have let a socialist public consciousness grow more steadily and slowly, but in the end, would any true shift toward liberation have happened without similar repression? Without them having to call in someone like trump anyway, to deal with the populist push towards a true politics of liberation? Whew, hard to say. I think the theoretical "hope" that lies with the less-overtly fascist face of neoliberal politics is just that a softer public approach would let that public political shift happen over a greater span of time - i.e., that more radical leftward-leaning elements of society would meet less violent resistance to pushing liberation culture into public consciousness over decades, maybe even centuries. A slow cultural, rather than political revolution...but as I think James Baldwin said, (highly paraphrased), the people suffering the most oppression can't wait that long. Not to say that intentional fascist accelerationism is the "answer," obviously. It's just one of those things that's a teaser to think about but ultimately we are where we are because of power plays beyond our influence and we just gotta figure out how we move into the future from here, as much as possible.

    angelteeth, to random

    Where have all the environmental activists* gone?

    (*NOT liberal talking heads or NGO's)

    angelteeth, to random

    https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/democrats-vote-down-trans-refuge

    Democrats are the most useless motherfuckers on the planet

    angelteeth, to random

    I'm gonna be real, here in semi-anonymous internet land. I'm not a survivor. I don't want to live in a world with dead oceans, burning forests, dying deserts, dessicating grasslands. I don't want to keep waking up every day to billionaires and their ass-licking politician puppets deciding who gets to live, who gets rights, who gets their freedom taken away forever. I don't want the only "hope" to be voices that are loudly dissenting on the internet and mysteriously quiet when it comes to talking real talk about how to take down a system when you can't really actually fight it with force - when everything is too little too late. I don't want to see the creatures and people I love live in ever-increasing fear and desperation. I'm not good enough at anything to help them, and I'm not strong enough to watch this planet die. I don't know why I'm saying it out loud, but maybe it's because I think there's gotta be more people than just me feeling this, the inescapable realness of it, and I just wanna know that I'm not totally alone and/or crazy. I dunno. Maybe I am. Maybe I just suck more than most people, but at this point, it is what it is. Sorry for bringing the vibe down. Surrenders the aux cord

    angelteeth,

    @simon_brooke there are a lot of people who are mysteriously quiet about the actualities of bringing down or subverting or escaping the system once they log off - if you're not one of them, rad. I probably wasn't talking about you in that case, and thank you for all you do to keep it real. But in general, the internet-discourse-to-irl-action ratio is grim. Not entirely nonexistent, but grim. That's all I meant really. And I know it's impossible to read tone and intent just through text but I am not even really trying to call people out or be mad about it - it's not baffling as to why it's easier to shout in collectivity than in the isolation a lot of us probably experience offline. Just observing what I'm feeling in my body as truth right now. Hope that changes, but not holding my breath ya know? Just feeling really fuckin unable to cope with it all right now. :(

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