Mottie @Mottie@glaceon.social

I want to talk about some historical problems in the far left and the implications and lessons for now.

A lot of my gen X and boomer friends in the UK actually have a background where they were part of the organised far left and most of them are not now. The reasons for this are largely because of the toxicity that was - and often still is - present in that scene.

A lot of left organisations have a history of cultishness and seeking to control people's behaviour.

its so easy to rewrite a hierarchy into another, slightly different, hierarchy with yourself at the top

its hard to make something equal, but thats why its important that we don’t take shortcuts.

Team Bloomberg is on birdsite complaining about "vandalism" of campaign offices that mostly look staged.

One of them is in Flint.

Bloomberg helped elect the guy who messed up Flint's pipes. Bloomberg has spent more than the top-end estimate of fixing the pipes on this campaign.

You'd think Mike Bloomberg could help Flint with all the people carrying water for him.

Hey folks, yes, it's me, the annoying tran. @tinygoblin and I are really struggling to get through the month. We've both been in a really bad place mental health wise and I've had severe pain flareups that have prevented me from doing anything. We're exhausted, completely broke and our cupboards are pretty bare, especially of food we can prepare in our current state. Every little bit helps and we really appreciate the boosts.

https://www.paypal.me/caelyne

tired of people saying "well it wasn't in bad faith!!" when they hurt somebody, who gives a Fuck if it wasn't in bad faith/intentions they still hurt the other party that's that. enough of that bullshit. hold yourself accountable and own the fuck up

Yo, the #Indigenous #Anarchist Federation has released a line of vinyl stickers! They're FREE for Indigenous people and #POC, and $15+ for white people for a couple of each

https://iaf-fai.org/2019/06/09/iaf-fai-stickers-for-indigenous-organizers/

its really quite astonishing how many allies are willing to misgender someone purely because they don't like them, in the same breath that they demand respect for their existence.

what was that old quote? "If you don't respect my authority, I won't respect you as a person?" 🤔 seems like youre just being a cop.

simply vibin rn

I prefer the term "Wealth hoarder" to "billionaire."

So my girlfriend has been dealing with a lot of health-related crap lately, and any funds to cover the cost of future potential medical visits, self-care supplies, food and drink will be greatly appreciated. Details : https://twitter.com/EmperorHelel/status/1227286377617752064

I LOVE IT WHEN STUFF HAS VINES GROWING ON IT. I GO HOG WILD FOR THAT STUFF. IN MY OPINION VINES SHOULD START GROWING ON MORE THINGS LIKE CARS AND PEOPLE

hey, i got a lot of empty slots in my queue and bills to pay since commissions are my primary source of income rn

https://commiss.io/extinctinks

https://forms.gle/wsMCbMWJVH4oY6AF8

honestly being trans and amab and having dysphoria and wishing you were afab is not an excuse to reduce afab people to their bodies and sexualize or even fetishize them it's very fucking hurtful and I've seen it happen more than once

#Ubuntu is placing ads in its motd when you ssh in.

The way it fetches this ad is by doing

USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime cloud_id/$cloud_id"

curl -A "$USER_AGENT" ...

In other words, Ubuntu is sending Canonical tracking information so it can serve you an ad.

This doesn't exactly run every time you log in (it caches the ad in /var/cache), but still... phoning home for a frickin ad?

liberals idea of coexisting with people who have different views is "my husband is a racist republican who eats nothing but raw beef, while I am a die hard green party supporter" meanwhile leftists are over here like "my friend is a Trotskyist and I am a council communist. let's just say we have agree NOT to talk about the revolutionary shinmin of 1929-1931 ever again!

just learned that a group of foxes can be called an "earth"