I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

it’s all just people doing things. always has been always will be. sure, sometimes there’s a piece of paper, a roster, some ground rules or how-to guides, maybe even a legal entity wrapped around them, but it’s still just people doing things. go do things, and find people to do them with

your action doesn’t need to be perfect. it just needs to be something. we need everyone to find their thing. and on the plus side—you’ll feel better about the world.

what in the world

1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…

Generative AI will never be as fun as shitty photoshop

Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.

Your super hardcore technical advice is great and if people can't use it, it's not useful. You have to meet people where they are on the ground

I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it. The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public

one of the lesser used features of signal is the safety number, a way of verifying that someone you’re talking in signal to is who you think they are but no app can ensure that person is trustworthy. best it can do is provide tools to help you do the legwork of verifying, but trust comes separate

Well this aged into relevance a lot faster than i wouldve hoped

i dunno what you can say to get electeds to do anything if “they flashbanged a baby” doesn’t do it

Does anyone know of a Signal 101 primer resource out there? I don't mean ones like "here are the most secure settings", I mean like "every church lady on the block has installed this app at the same time and has no idea whatsoever how to use it, here's how to do it and what settings even are"

Absolutely howling at these dipshits leaving two cars full of operational materials at the scene, just absolute buffoonery lmaoooo I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

to be clear “abolish” is the minimum viable *compromise* position

On the $3/meal thing: I went through a weird period where I tried to be really frugal and would try to limit my grocery budget to $50/week. I am single and educated. It was really hard and ultimately something I gave up, because it made me miserable.

Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day. This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.

Respectfully, to the people saying abolition is wrong because we need to incarcerate ICE ghouls, I disagree. ICE proves why Abolition is necessary, because any armed paramilitary force will eventually turn into what ICE is now. We know this because so many police departments already did.

look, there are at least a dozen reasons why this is a deeply misguided or even* terribly, dangerously flawed idea, but like first of all: this is just the purpose of a badge number????? *actually, definitely

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

For years, many of us have tried to get people to care about criminalization with only limited success. We made the point that criminalization is fascism's fuel. And I really really hope that more people now understand this.

woah, turns out not drinking enough water can lead me to feel bad in some very specific ways *doesn’t drink enough water* huh, I wonder why I feel bad in some very specific ways *continues to not drink enough water*

Trans people: "Fix your hearts or die!" Scott Adams: ok *dies*

Because it came up in a Discord server - Hit me with your best tips for running intrigue stories in games (LARP or tabletop)! Some of the big challenges: 1. Creating goals that intersect interestingly 2. Getting players invested (understanding the stakes + enough agency to act)

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

Friends, thank you for stepping up! Over $40,000 worth of dash cams have been ordered so far for ICE observers in the Twin Cities! Early orders are trickling in, but we’re getting them packed and deployed ASAFP - several were installed yesterday, these are ready, and 300+ are on the way!

I don’t talk about obsidian enough … mainly because when I do start talking about it it’s hard to get me to shut up lol — a rare tool that works out of the box, does what it promises, and can be molded into a shape that matches how you work

It’s a completely broken system. He can’t win but he also can’t lose. He gets to just go around trying to break things and sometimes he gets told no and sometimes he gets away with it and everybody hates it but nothing happens.

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

Oh there's a quick little tool here to run license plate #s and see if the vehicle's been flagged as used by ICE. And/or report the LPNs for vehicles involved in ICE activity.

It seems like the local police are in on it. At one point, Maplewood PD joined the Feds, followed me into downtown St Paul. I don't trust any police for help now. I'm making it public. Sadly, this is starting to happen to many legal observers in Minnesota. See article⬇️ This is America, 2026.

Death toll in crackdown on protests in Iran spikes to at least 538, activists say [I had of course seen the protests were happening but had no idea the violence was at this level, just new to me to see this]

The real masculinity crisis is that anyone would mistake ICE agents for masculine men

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

it’s restocking day, and the collection has apparently gotten unwieldy

The imagery is fascist camp on its face, but the soundtrack, a song others have pointed out one wld likely only hear if you hang out in white supremacist forums, is, well, you might want to google it. Its witless and racist imagination of boot stomping hard men. Some lyrics in the alt text.

ESPECIALLY NOW in a world completely drowning in propaganda and misinformation and disinformation it is SO IMPORTANT to cite our sources and ask people to do so as well. We HAVE to know where information comes from and we have to always be firm about asking.

Vance's stance is, almost literally, "Well, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that. She asked for it."

even those who are mildly uncomfortable with queer people are not generally, I'd suspect, on board with publicly executing them in the street

Let's be clear about this: The law already prohibits ICE agents from murdering people; ICE murders people anyway. Yes, Renee Good, and MANY more. Electeds can say "we're imposing new legal conditions on ICE, like, 'you can't wear masks" but why should we believe that will stop them? Abolish ICE

You know. If ICE is going to make it so that putting your kids in daycare or going to work is dangerous (!!!), one thing states could maybe do is pass a law saying _anyone who can reasonably work from home, can work from home._ There’d be a lot of details. But it would be great for many.

at city hall in downtown Portland, OR for a vigil and protest after ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday, and after border patrol shot two people today in Portland, Oregon. Very large crowd has formed. Some speeches being made atm. Will update as needed

Coming back to this with my car hating hat on because it's worth noting how often right-wingers have used vehicles to attack protesters, and in fact, Republican lawmakers have passed laws that shield drivers if they hit protesters. Like this one in Florida. www.yahoo.com/news/desanti...

ICE is so fucking terrible that I think Border Patrol sometimes skates by but let's not forget that they were the mounted officers brandishing whips at Haitian immigrants along the US/Mexico border and they do plenty of violence of their own on a daily basis. The whole system is rotten.

This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.

There have been nine ICE shootings. There will be more. I think it may be time to consider these actions in the historical context of the Central American death squads supported by previous iterations of U.S. imperialism. And ICE's hostile incursion into "blue" cities as a form of imperialism, too.

🎶 when you start on one thing and then here comes machine that’s agentic 🎶 when machine does a task without having to ask that's agentic

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies