yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

am liza sabater, the og blogdiva & resident afroboricua #antifa #dyslexic #ActuallyAutistic tití. am now surviving breast #cancer whilst still chronicling fascism.

thank you fediverse for #dogs, #cats, #sports, #sewing, #cooking and #Monsterdon. so #fuckCancer #COVID19, mask up, join a #union & fight for #UBI & #Medicare4All

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2024-07-27 20:34:28

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all this to say: the fascist non-profit complex works because they are paid to reproduce top-down structures they want to control.
we can't follow that model if we're fighting it. so we need to start laying the foundation literally from the codebase up. and that means cooperatively owning what we build.
won't be perfect, but its the better way out of this fascist quagmire because it's sustainable.
non-profit isn't and that's by design. 3/3
@npub1g8l…vwtm @npub1sac…kcpe @npub1ev3…sk2l @npub1rd9…8n78

2024-07-27 20:29:10

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2. the fediverse doesn't work if it's based on the top-down model of charities. charity is a trickle down economics without the fascist business suits.
for real federation we need people to own the instances they are in. if not they run the risk of ending up like USA southern states where residents are just living in an open prison.
the fediverse should be predicated on users owning the means of their social media production.
2/3
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2024-07-27 20:22:31

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two things because am recharging my spoons with the Olympics and this topic always gets me agitated. so here's the thing:
1. fascists are not driven by abstract notions of power. they're driven by money. so they've literally stolen money from all of us to destroy us.
asking folks to go hungry and homeless to fight pigs at the through is fucking stupid at the very least, puritanically malicious at it's worst.
non-profit needs to die
1/3

2024-07-27 19:44:20

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"“the left” is arguably hamstrung by our sense of urgency and inability to get excited about things that require… years"
pin that.
that's the forever wisdom that's truly urgent in 2024. it's fucking exhausting to deal with people for whom everything is an emergency and nothing that needs building for the long term ESPECIALLY COALITIONS is worth their while.
@npub1g8l…vwtm @npub1sac…kcpe @npub1ev3…sk2l @npub1rd9…8n78

2024-07-13 17:21:20

TECH RANT OF THE DAY
this is the first TROTD of what will be a very long winded list of things to rant about because *motions at everything*
am especially annoyed at the dockerification of everything Linux; aka the SNAP vs. FLATPAK wars. it's Cory's #enshittification but with 100% more tech debt AND bloat.
am particularly annoyed at #Flatpak: what is the point of a flapp if you won't update the runtime?!?!
NO IT'S NOT MY JOB TO TELL THE DEV TO DO IT
Flathub needs a QA manager
#TROTD

2024-07-10 02:31:42

we need Katie Porter back in politics. she needs to regroup and get back out here. fuck the corporatist Democrats that betrayed her. if they weren't senators, there would be no Sanders or Warren either.
this is why we need a left-wing coalition in this country. give people a reason to vote for all these antifascist democrats the party elites have been purging.
https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/112759756797270259

2024-07-10 00:45:03

WOW Messi has been missing gol, A LOT
#CopaAmerica #CONMEBOL2024

2024-07-09 22:30:48

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take it as gospel @npub1qa2…9tt5 whenever the NYPD says so-and-so is a bad incumbent or politician, IT MEANS THE TOTAL OPPOSITE. it means that person wont bow to their fascist demands.
the NYPD is the OG Black Shirts in USA. fascism is already here. when people talk shit about NYC being liberal i have to laugh. this is the heart of American corporatist fascism.
when we new yorkers warn y'all about Wall Street fascists, everybody should pay attention. we live in the belly of that beast.

2024-07-09 22:22:07

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NO @npub1qa2…9tt5 don't say that about De Blasio.
Bill De Blasio was a good mayor. he had to fight constant threats to his life and the life of his wife and kids BY THE NYPD THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW HIS ORDERS. why? because they are still Bloomberg's private army.
De Blasio wasn't able to staunch all the damage of 20 years of Giuliani and Bloomberg corruption, but we wouldn't have the infrastructure to deal with COVID had he had not focused on expanding NYC's public hospital and clinic system.

2024-07-09 22:10:34

FUCK ADAMS
masks are still NYC health policy. from the horse's mouth:
What You Need to Know About COVID-19 Now
«Everyone should stay up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations, get tested if they have symptoms or have been exposed, AND WEAR A HIGH-QUALITY MASK WHEN SICK, FOLLOWING AN EXPOSURE AND WHEN COVID-19 LEVELS INCREASE.»
https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-main.page
#YallMasking #NYC #COVID19
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2024-07-09 19:42:31

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GAY FURY HACKERS will be the name of my all drag, all the time, computer and cell phone refurbishing cooperative. Geek Squad, but make it fashion.

2024-07-09 19:33:14

read it as GAY FURY HACKERS and am keeping my headline:
“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation
https://theintercept.com/2024/07/09/gay-furry-hackers-claim-credit-for-hacking-heritage-foundation-over-project-2025/
#antifa #USpol #tech

2024-07-09 03:21:06

y'all!
it's too hot. been spraying myself with water and sitting in front of a fan and it's not enough. can't run the AC often because the compressor is borked.
am reckoning #cancer and maybe #COVID19 have altered how i handle extreme weather. this summer is hard.
if you're in NYC and need respite, go straight to a hospital atrium.
NYC hospitals open their doors during extreme weather conditions. wear a mask, take water and munchies.
also, #fuckCancer
#ClimateCrisis #Heat

2024-07-09 02:08:29

he's gonna be USA's Lula. you just watch.
«“The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice,” Fain said. “Our union has been calling for a ceasefire for six months. This war is wrong, and this response against students and academic workers, many of them UAW members, is wrong.”»
#UAW President Expertly Skewers Response to University Protests
https://newrepublic.com/post/181172/key-biden-ally-police-response-university-protests-fain-gaza
#StudentSpring #Gaza #Unions

2024-07-08 23:06:46

there is so much joy in witnessing other people's joy. there's ways to love and happiness that never crossed my mind and yet, because everyday i choose to open my heart to the universe, i find new ways to smile and feel full of love.
why would anybody not want that all around them? why not want joy, happiness, well-being, health for others?
why would anybody want to justify their life by the amount of people suffering around them?
that sadistic emptiness escapes me.

2024-07-08 03:37:09

Bernie Sanders:
"Here’s a simple fact: If politicians stand with working families, working families will stand with you.
As it turns out, lowering the retirement age & raising the minimum wage are very popular.
Congratulations to the French Left for taking on right-wing extremism and winning."
FWIW, all these Twitter links am getting via Le Monde's liveblog
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/live/2024/07/08/en-direct-legislatives-2024-clementine-autain-acte-sa-rupture-avec-la-france-insoumise_6247441_823448.html
#Legislatives2024 #2024Elections #France
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2024-07-07 18:45:02

my favorite comment about the New York Post's DEI headline: "and they said it with a hard R".
a reminder from aunty Toni Morrison: there is no #fascism without #racism. they're both heads of the same hydra of hate.
add to that what aunty Eve Kosofsky-Sedwig taught us later: there is no fascism without #misogyny.
goes without saying, esp. for those of us who were once called Asperger's kids & adults: there is no fascism without #ableism.
that's intersectionality.
#2024Elections #USpol
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2024-07-07 16:04:28

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but she has never posted anything contentious. WTAF?!?

2024-07-07 03:22:27

holy shit, the whole map of the United States was neon yellow to crimson red. there was not one place in the country that wasn't under 80⁰F.
Palms Springs hit 124⁰F and Death Valley was 127. unbelievable.
oh
NOAA wants you to know that heat stroke is the #1 cause of #ClimateCrisis deaths in the United States.
no wonder the fascist ghouls behind #2025Project want to literally canibalize it and tear it apart.

2024-07-07 03:06:06

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DE BRASIL
#URUGUAY 3
#BRASIL 2
#CopaAmérica

2024-07-07 01:49:37

estes dois equipes estão bastante parelhos.
ay bendito, ya no puedo escribir en português cuando estoy escuchando gente falando em español. siempre termino con una burundanga portuñola.
#CopaAmérica #Uruguay #Brasil

2024-07-07 01:45:40

o equipe brasilero fazendo muitos erros neste partido.
#CopaAmérica #Uruguay #Brasil

2024-07-06 20:28:53

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thinking about the obsession of tech bros & media people to sell themselves as nobodies who had to claw their way up to fame & fortune is one of those things that have kept me up at night.
why do that? why sell that lie?
it's more than just to tap into the rugged individualism that's part of the American gaslighting (dream) project.
there is an intentional HIDING of the means of success of these peoples.
the rich really want us to BELIEVE capitalism will make this happen to us.
🧵

2024-07-06 20:24:25

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Chris' premise is very simple: there are no fairy tales. there are no self-made men or women.
everybody has a network of family, people, acquaintances that connect them to other people and, in the end, to resources.
resources aren't just money. resources are knowledge, experience, tools, housing, work spaces, transportation, health care, education... the list goes on.
and there is the real hard cash & capital of 'angel investment' that you could get from those in the network... 🧵

2024-07-06 20:19:40

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so all am saying is that there has to be more to the JK Rowling story that we do not know because nobody has bothered to really look into. not her past, but her hidden network of family, friends and acquaintences who ultimately are the ones responsible for her fairy tale.
my old friend Chris Rabb wrote a book called INVISIBLE CAPITAL. he might be the state rep in PA for some of y'all.
anyways, it's a quick read. go buy it and read it. it completely shifted how i look at EVERYTHING. 🧵
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2024-07-06 20:15:00

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or the story of the guys from YouTube one of whom oh so happened to have been banging one of the daughters of the richest man in California; a guy who made his money from media and the MIC.
or the story of Facebook that oh so happens to have been seeded by InQTel, the CIA's investment company.
all these successes are MEDIA successes and all of their origin stories where always presented as fairy tales.
🧵

2024-07-06 20:12:08

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you need lawyers for those articles of incorporation. now you need an accountant to deal with your personal and your business expenses and liabilities.
i haven't even reached the point of discussing a writing rep, an editor and all that publishing jazz.
yet hers was a fairy tale story sold about an out of luck broke mom that wrote a fairy tale in 8 books and became a billionaire.
just like the fairy tale of Google, but with PhD candidates & kids of USSR scientists the USMIL poached 🧵

2024-07-06 20:05:39

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now, mind you, am a broke single mom. so this isn't about that.
but it's because am broke, i know how much money it takes to try to engage a lawyer to represent you as a nobody.
there was no Legalzoom back in the day and even today i wouldn't use that.
you need to know your lawyers.
yes, it takes more than one.
in the US alone, you need one for every coast/bar to help you navigate the US biz labyrinth.
that's why you get writing reps. they're basically your biz partners & your HR
🧵

2024-07-06 19:59:02

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back to Rowling:
there's so many holes in her story as a writer.
how do you go from a nobody broke mom to a billionaire author just like that?
because one of the things i learned early on about Rowling's books was that in the US the publishers didn't get to own her copyright. she leased the books thru a company that manages her titles.
how did a nobody broke mom get to set that up for managing her worldwide publishing rights?
🧵

2024-07-06 19:48:12

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JK Rowling, just like Google, Youtube, Facebook are all MEDIA stories.
so it's a good moment to get a refresher from the SNL sketch banned from syndication by NBC after it first aired in the 1990s
https://invidious.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=nh6Hf5_ZYPI
🧵

2024-07-06 19:42:20

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it was weird but it's one of those things that you shrug off.
but then it's the same story with the Google guys... oh! they just coded that in their dormitory rooms.
then there's story of the Youtube guys... oh! they were just nerds tinkering with FLV
then there's the infamous story of Facebook... oh! he just got together with his buddies and coded this in his dad's garage
it's not lost on me all these MEDIA success stories happened around the same time —end of 1990s into end of aughts.
🧵

2024-07-06 19:37:44

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i remember when Stephen Moyer from True Blood talked about going to the unemployment office in the UK because that's what you do in between jobs and Americans lost their minds. that's what we used to do before Clinton expedited the cannibalization of unemployment benefits in this country.
so it's interesting to me that this was a selling point in the US. that Simon & Schuster felt they had to sell JK Rowling as this helpless nobody of a single mom who had to write this novel to make ends meet 🧵

2024-07-06 19:34:41

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ALSO i have never bought the story of JK Rowling being an out of luck woman who was abandoned by her husband and had to raise their kid(s) alone, while on welfare and writing the novel.
UK's dole was absolutely the opposite of USA's intentionally dysfunctional system. everybody in the UK has been on the dole at one point or another because that's your right. it's not the exploitative & humiliating experience Reagan & Clinton made it to be.
🧵

2024-07-06 19:21:42

JK Rowling, with her level of transphobia defies the JK Rowling author of the Harry Potter books.
there's a level of disconnect that is too vast and wide to defy logic.
so i posit: putting aside the labor from editors, there is no way JK Rowling wrote alone the Harry Potter books.
sure, there's no question she had a hand in them but it seems to me that there's a heart and mind missing in her that it's in those books.
there's no way JK Rowling is the sole author of the Harry Potter books.

2024-07-06 18:15:16

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a sweet malt, non-alcoholic drink that i have no idea why we produce, but it's one of those colonial things we embraced anyways. it's produced in my hometown of Mayagüez and we would know it was the end of the school day by the smell of the brewing malta. i sweartagawd, i think they'd do it on purpose so that would be the first thing we’d buy on our way home. there was also a dairy queen near by, so i have these memories of mixing malta with their shakes
@npub1ucv…5a8g @npub1nea…32x2
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2024-07-06 18:01:06

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galletas rovira con mantequilla, un pedazito de queso, quizás otro de salchichón y una maltita India fría. esa era la merienda de la tarde que me daba mama Cristina por las tardes

2024-07-06 18:01:06

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galletas rovira con mantequilla, un pedazito de queso, quizás otro de salchichón y una maltita India fría. esa era la merienda de la tarde que me daba mama Cristina por las tardes

2024-07-04 19:40:03

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WOOHOO! @npub1ucv…5a8g Puerto Rico represent in the destruction of trademark trolls.

2024-07-04 03:59:13

3.5% is all we need for change?
DDG tells me 3.5% of the world pop, at 8.1 billion, is 283,500,000.
USA is at 339,996,563. let's say a horde of carnales rounds it at 340,000,000. 3.5% = 11,900,000.
Biden got 80M votes in 2020. do you understand why voting is not all?!?
it takes 3.5% and courage.
FYI: it took 1M Puerto Ricans (tot: 3.3M) to paralyze La Isla for 3 weeks to oust the governor
"The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02082-5

2024-07-04 00:49:44

IN OTHER NEWS
going thru my second watermelon in a week. during the Summer, no matter how much water i drink, am always thirsty. i eat watermelon, it stops.
are watermelons nature's sports drink?

2024-07-04 00:22:21

the 4th of July is not a day Puerto Ricans celebrate. it’s a day we observe 🧐 since we are compelled to take federal days off, we do 🙃
that's all there is to the 4th.

2024-07-03 19:30:06

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless — if the left allows it to be.”
do not get it twisted: American fascists have killed millions since the Reagan/Bush era. when they kill with weapons it's by proxy, with mass shooters & cops.
Americans fascists kill with prisons, la migra, austerity, banned abortions, denial of health care, planned pollution, food deserts, climate crisis.
American Fascists are killing us NOW. fighting back is self-defense.

2024-07-03 02:33:17

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i was cautiously optimistic but then i read they got Github money and i was like.... eeeek! the founding assholes of Github are notorious misogynists. it's why i have an account with them in which i have never posted code. when i saw how they, personally, treated women, i was like, hellnah. but kept the account because as a developer, you have to have one. so whatevs, but yeah. i wish i could find the article about one of the OG women at Github. i think she sued and won too.

2024-07-03 02:11:55

so one of the developers of #Ladybird is a very manly man who calls Xitter his safe space. not Mastodon. it's full of scary Reality-Based nerds.
https://mastodon.social/@emilyCringe@tech.lgbt/112717821769993825
shout out to the all the OGs of the Reality Based Community
source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html
wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
when i heard of the browser's name i immediately thought, why would they name it after Lyndon B. Johnson's wife?
then i saw the Meta looking logo and knew it was a-historic fuckwads at the wheel

2024-07-01 22:43:30

LET ME JUST SAY THIS,
LOUDLY & CLEARLY:
2024 IS ABOUT THE 55% OF WHITE WOMEN WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP IN 2020.
i get the patriarchal urge of the 61% of white men who voted for him; but it's outrageous a majority of white women voted against their best interest as a fuck you for the #BlackLivesMatter protests of 2020.
we got this SCOTUS thanks to racists and the Dems' elite purge of progressive incumbents, ESPECIALLY THE BLACK ONES.
VOTING ISN'T ENOUGH WHITE PEOPLE. we need more from YOU.
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2024-07-01 00:59:07

watching Sydney MacLaughin destroy records in my dad's sport is amazing. she makes it look so easy.
dad trained my bro and i to do hurdles. we learned to long jump because it's a gateway sport to hurdles. we learned to sprint at all distances, from 50m to 400m.
we learned all the techniques but never got "the kick", the fire that separates true athletes from everybody else. it's why i respect professional athletes. they've found how to turn one & off that fire.
#TrackField #Olympics #sports

2024-06-29 03:17:01

«The media is failing our democracy.»
it's adorable how there's people still in 2024 clutching their pearls with these insipidly lukewarm takes.
the media [moguls and the fascists running the shows from the companies' boardrooms] purposefully undermine [your mirage of] democracy.
cuz that democracy hasn't existed for many of us marginalized peoples.
but you already knew that, right?
right?!?!
right.
😒

2024-06-27 22:57:11

am not watching the debate that isn't.
#selfcare

2024-06-25 17:55:44

if people think this is NOT related to #Paramount killing off #MTV & #VH1 and deleting decades of archives from the internet, Americans need to think long and hard about what they have given up as a society by treating art, history and culture as either luxury goods to be owned by a plutocratic kakistocracy, or as charities to be nickled and dimed by a fascist kleptocracy.
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/seattles-living-computers-museum-logs-off-for-good-as-paul-allen-estate-will-auction-vintage-items/
h/t
https://mastodon.social/@jxself/112678435950419337
#history #culture #fascism

2024-06-25 17:13:44

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no, news is not private property. history recorded thru journalism for centuries has not been treated as private property.
yes, it should be a landmark case against this bullshit neoliberal definition of private property.
journalism has for centuries been understood as a public good, not a private property. Americans needs to fight Paramount tooth & nail on this one. Zlatlan *is* a shameless fascist and this destruction of an important public good should not stand uncontested.

2024-06-25 17:00:00

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this needs to become a landmark case. there is no way this should be allowed at all. news are a public good or they aren't. this needs to be fought to the death... of these corrupt executives.

2024-06-23 00:40:33

stole your meme, yadda yadda.
am reposting because i feel this in my soul so much.
have said for decades USA's MSM was co-opted by fascists back in the 1990s and aughts and here we are.
will give my naysayers one point: it didn't seem it at the time, because it took that long to get rid of the people who had institutional memory of journalism as a public good. but the investors of CNN, FOXNews & NYTimes' AFTER their roll in the Iraq War were the tell.
h/t
https://mastodon.social/@TheRealKat@mstdn.social/112661530510258691
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2024-06-22 03:06:07

OMG! i didn't know this happened to Linda Tirado, aka Killer Martinis @ Twitter.
https://mastodon.social/@NewsDesk@flipboard.social/112655481443211797
this is horrible. i started following her eons ago because, though it's her last name by marriage, Tirado is my second last name.
this is horrible and my heart is heavy for her. she was maimed by cops for covering the 2020 protests and now she's dying.
i have no words.
this is fascism. plain and simple. Linda Tirado is yet another victim of USA's very protected police state.

2024-06-20 16:27:22

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“The USA even has a law that forces the president to not block anyone on social media because that would stiffle Free Speech (the actual one for once).”
right. political incumbents have a DUTY to listen to complaints about their jobs. that's one of the purposes of the 1A.
but Skokie been abused to normalize abuse.
Skokie was supposed to be about WHERE the KKK could be racist, not whether their violence should be protected.
Skokie proves the Popper paradox.
@npub17tn…udxl @npub12j4…926c @npub1sac…kcpe

2024-06-20 16:02:48

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THEY ARE NOT ABUSERS BUT THEY ARE FLEAS @npub1sac…kcpe @npub12j4…926c one of the most important things to understand about the dynamics of abuse is that abusers need a community of people normalizing violence 24/7.
the irony of fleas is that theyre groomed. they learn to look away, to use words like “molest” instead of “rape”. they're the people who shrug and say abuse is inevitable.
abuse is nihilism in action & that's why fleas are so important. fleas empower abusers by downplaying their violence.

2024-06-19 15:42:08

TIL there is a Godot Foundation.
the Godot Foundation has job openings.
tempted to submit an application just so i can say am Waiting for Godot.

2024-06-13 00:21:54

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doesn't. boooooobash 🤓

2024-06-12 23:02:41

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hmmmm never seen it written out like this. will definitely try it. thanks!

2024-06-12 22:19:44

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THANK YOU!
but i don't understand what you're saying.
cd "$1" works for the process. i have a check to show the folder's content and everything is there.
MY EXPECTATION was that i would see my terminal switch into the new folder.
but what am getting is that cd in a function is for the process, not the user?
like, i get the logic of that now but it's not my expectation. if the process is going to cd i would expect to move with it as well.
@npub1ej7…lss8

2024-06-12 21:53:06

#BASH NERDLETTES!
am trying to understand why y'all say «mkdir -p -- "$1" && cd -- "$1"» works.
i have something like this for creating site folders in Backdrop & Drupal multisite installations.
the scripts DO create the folders and update & copy all the files that go into them; but it bothers me that the terminal prompt never switches me into the folder.
my expectation is that "cd" moves my prompt into the new folder, not the bash process.
so is that what's happening when in a function?

2024-06-10 16:17:19

🗣 📢 IT'S FINALLY #Bday4Liza SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
given it’s my first surviving cancer and a pandemic, am spending it in the exotic landscape of Bellevue hospital waiting to get a friggin’ #COVID19 booster shot.
so how’s your day going ao far?
#HappyBirthdayToMe

2024-06-07 17:07:59

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#MAMMOGRAMS SAVE LIVES
i never felt a lump
for mammos to be truly preventive, you have to wait for a year after the first one. the 1st one is your baseline, the 2nd is your 'real' first one.
my first one was in 2023. my 2nd in may of 2024 is what got the wheels going with more radiology & biopsies.
type A breast #cancer spreads fast & furiously. mine was caught just before it spread.
THAT'S BECAUSE MY MD PUSHED ME TO GET A MAMMO ASAP
40 is the new lowest age internationally, NOT in USA. 2🧵
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2024-06-07 16:50:43

🗣️ 📣 IT'S 12:45 PM. HAVE Y'ALL WISHED ME A HAPPY BIRTH MONTH YET?!?!
Monday will be my first #birthday surviving type A breast #cancer THERAPY that almost killed me. this is what i went thru in the past year:
- 3 ANAPHYLAXIS due to the chemo mix, 1 food re1ated after my immune system was shot by chemo
- #COVID19 that i got either at the hospital or in med transport to/from chemo
- THROMBOSIS caused by the chemo port that made it look like i had a golf ball wedge under my left ear
1🧵
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2024-06-06 03:02:57

CHANGING THE SUBJECT
there's a cartoon character this guy reminds me of an i cannot remember which one. he's that dude from that food drama i don't watch, right?!?
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2024-06-05 12:41:30

FUCK YEAH, NEW JERSEY!
this is why it’s imperative to fight the zombie corpse of the Clinton/Pelosi DLCC which was always right-wing election profiteering in the Democratic Party. a model, coincidentally, embraced by Keir Starmer in the UK.
«The victory makes Mr. Kim, 41, a favorite to become New Jersey’s next senator. He would be the first Korean American to be elected to the U.S. Senate.»
Andy Kim Wins New Jersey Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/nyregion/andy-kim-nj-primary-senate.html
#2024Elections

2024-05-30 22:26:17

to those of y'all saying, nothing is gonna happen on July 11th, here's the thing:
🗣️ 📣 TAKE EVERY WIN ONE AT A TIME
YES, the man wasn't thrown in jail unlike millions of others working class shmucks; especially the Blacker & browner ones.
NO, this is not the time to shit on a win. this is the time to reckon not prosecuting more white-collar crimes since the 1990s, BY RICH OLD WHITE AMERICAN GUYS, is why USA is now ran by a fascist conspiracy of Wall Street, Techbro and Christofascist mafias.

2024-05-23 21:02:47

LMAO i want to know who came up with this “clean steel” newspeak.
#propaganda #greenwashing #ClimateCrisis

2024-05-23 02:48:19

ALSO
#fuckCancer
i was told i was gonna hit a wall of fatigue sometime after the 2nd or 3rd week after finishing treatment. am glad to be alive and on my way to recovery but this sucks ass.
we need #UBI as part of health care. nobody should have to be precariously unemployed during a situation like this.
anybody having to go to a job during or after #cancer treatment is lying if they say they can handle it.
this is not bullshit. to be forced to work thru a #health crisis is eugenics.

2024-05-18 04:20:59

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there is a reason i use MIGRANT, instead of the jingoistic immigrant.
humans have alway migrated. we are primates. most primates, even gorillas, would move around more freely if humans had not destroyed most of our habitats.
it's natural for humans to migrate.
colonialism + imperialism + capitalism + racism have destroyed much of our natural migratory patterns.
no, it’s not civilization or modernity that made us evolve into sedentary beings.
the cult of exploitation & genocide did that.

2024-05-17 23:08:19

you're not an American-living-abroad. you're a migrant. an American migrant. same with the UK. fuck with that expat bullshit. you're a migrant.

2024-05-16 00:09:57

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«"Hey, word is that we really need to up the AI engagement metrics. What haven't we covered yet? [ laughter ]"»
@npub1lq6…nf7e i hate this is the most obvious scenario. the fucking "engagement metrics".

2024-05-14 01:34:56

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what if, hear me out, what if mainstream media is the trash 🤨 🤔 🧐

2024-05-09 17:20:36

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booooooooo!

2024-05-06 20:50:38

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unfuckingbelievable. yet another reason to never trust Google.

2024-05-06 19:19:01

IN OTHER NEWS... am done with #cancer #radiation 🥳 🎉 🎈 now it's physical and immunotherapy until next Spring, so let's say it with the chest...
🗣️ FUCK CANCER!!!

2024-05-06 17:26:11

ARRESTING JOURNALISTS
covering protests is fascism
BRUTALIZING STUDENTS
protesting #genocide is fascism
DISMISSING #COVID19
to push public health policies that are nothing but eugenics is fascism
RATIONALIZING #POLICE TERROR
under one president because it's not terror under another president is fascism
CAPITULATING TO THE LESSER EVIL
while actively sabotaging antifascist voices in your political party is fascism
SO: if not now, when will Democrats be against fascism?
#StudentSpring

2024-05-03 01:03:12

1. KKK marching down a public road carrying banners saying DEATH TO JEWS is anything but peaceful.
2. christofascists SCREAMING DIE AND GO TO HELL to people at abortion clinics is anything but peaceful
3. a horde of white dudes carrying tiki torches & chanting JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US is anything but peaceful
1 & 3 refer to #Skokie & #Charlottesville, while 2 is still on-going across the country; yet none elicited the kind of police violence Biden approves against #StudentSpring
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2024-05-02 01:53:47

after #abolition many Black people who had nowhere to go, were charged rents by their former plantation owners if they didn't leave. if they didn't pay, they were either re-enslaved thru prison OR indentured into financial servitude.
when the numbers of indentured Black servants weren't enough, that's when poor migrant workers became key to this new form of renter slavery.
this is what GOP fascists want to bring back with #prisons & #farms
https://reason.com/2024/04/24/she-only-served-10-months-behind-bars-florida-still-slapped-her-with-a-127000-bill/

2024-05-01 04:06:32

IN OTHER NEWS
i have only a handful of radiation sessions left for my nuclear boob. can't wait to be done. after this, it's immunotherapy once a month until next spring.
am kicking cancer in the ass and taking names. 💪🏾 🥳 👍🏾
#fuckCancer

2024-05-01 02:46:51

« #Columbia University Apartheid Divest—a coalition of over 100 student groups revitalized after the University suspended its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace—brought the referendum to the council. ...that Columbia divest from “all stocks, funds, and endowment and refrain from further investment in companies profiting from or engaging in Israeli apartheid”»
CCSC approves referendum on divestment from #Israel, adopts boycott policy
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/03/04/ccsc-approves-referendum-on-divestment-from-israel-adopts-boycott-policy/

2024-05-01 01:22:53

it's almost as if NYC has been overtaken by fascists. forget about the presidents of Columbia, Bard, NYU. get rid of #ACAB Eric Adams. if not one democrat will reduce the size of the NYPD, then put them all together into a revival of the Titanic or Lusitania and send off to sea.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/30/columbia-issues-shelter-in-place-as-nypd-masses-near-campus/?utm_source=press.coop

2024-04-27 01:03:19

anybody shilling for Putinistas like Jill Stein, will be unceremoniously blocked.
am not here to give airspace to any of these fucking every-four-year grifters who raise money for fake campaigns and then do nothing but to live on that money until the next federal election.
where are Jill Stein's local, state and federal candidates? who is she raising money for across red states taken over by fascists?
oh... she doesn't have any slates in any of the 50 states?
yeah. fuck off.

2024-04-26 01:39:51

GENTLE REMINDER TO ALL #TECH WORKERS
before you go hustling for new work on these internets and fediverses, if you were laid off, HEAD TO THE CLOSEST #LABOR DEPARTMENT OFFICE AND DEMAND YOUR #UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
you pay for #unemployment #benefits with each paycheck. DEMAND THAT MONEY.
here's a thread about what to do & what happens when you don't demand all your accumulated money & benefits.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111607803802146802
tell #techbros laying off people, fuck you pay me.

2024-04-25 01:46:12

there are D.C. scum calling #StudentSpring "pro-HAMAS protests". the minute anybody in the #Biden admin parrots that shit, all bets are off with #Democrats.
so all liberals on here screaming #VoteBlue no matter who, y'all better get your asses in gear and tell every single person in the White House to drop that shit immediately.
am not some magical Cassandra. i have +30 years experience with the treachery of Democrats against antiwar activists.
don't wanna lose in November? PAY ATTENTION.

2024-04-24 22:38:36

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ALSO [@luckytran](https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran) good time to remind everybody that cops became one of the primary vectors of #COVID19 in 2020 and it's the reason why so many cops died in the past 4 years.
"COVID was the leading cause of law enforcement deaths in 2022 for 3rd year in a row: Report - ABC News"
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-leading-cause-law-enforcement-deaths-2022-3rd/story?id=96363324
being unmasked around cops is an actual #health risk.
#StudentSpring #protests #BDS

2024-04-24 16:01:05

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist. and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."
—Winona Laduke, #Ojibwe economist & environmentalist
took your meme to add it #AltText
(am i doing this right?!?!)
image via [@indigenous_commentator](https://stranger.social/@indigenous_commentator)
https://mastodon.social/@indigenous_commentator@stranger.social/109570976983695319
AltText via [@aral](https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral)
https://mastodon.social/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/112326950282914642
#ecocide #water #NDN
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2024-04-22 22:49:14

PEOPLE, I BEG YOU
post links directly to the source, don't use Apple News or Bitly or other links hijackers. if they decide to change the service or go out of business, we have lost link to the original source.
keep the web as open as possible. say no to link shorteners and traffic hijackers 👍🏾

2024-04-21 15:54:56

WELP, had to uninstall the official #Mastodon app for #Android because it stopped working.
can't remember when i upgraded to 2.5 but had no problems until yesterday.
openedd the app and it immediately crashed. the first time it said i needed to clear the cache. did and it still crashed.
another time it said the app had a bug and needed to be closed.
i then uninstalled, rebooted the phone & installed. still the same. tried going down to 2.4.1; nothing.
do y'all have any ideas why?

2024-04-19 02:18:55

do y'all know one of those fuckers of the Israeli cabinet was on a USA terrorist list?
it's so obvious Netanyahu & his cabinet are on muder/suicide mode, am seriously at a loss for words for how Blinken and Biden are playing along like it's normal.
this is like watching the abusive guy across the road kill their family and neighbors in plain daylight and burn down every house on the block and you can't do anything about it because he's also the chief of police and your landlord's gun dealer.

2024-04-18 01:10:02

— pssst... pssst.... hey, kid, you.. do you want an "S"?
— an S? what for?
— an S like in STRIKE.
— strike? like baseball?
— No! an S like in STRIKE!
(muppets in a picket line suddenly appears)
— STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
(THUNDER)
— YAHAHA! ONE #STRIKE TWO STRIKES! THREE STRIKES! THREE MARVELOUS STRIKES AND A PICKET LINE!
(THUNDER)
— YAHAHAHAHA!
(EXUNT)
'Sesame Street' Writers Unanimously Support Strike Authorization Vote
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/sesame-street-writers-strike-authorization-vote-wga-east-1235972886/
#labor #unions

2024-04-17 14:18:42

NOT-SO-RANDOM REMINDER
if protests didn't work, we wouldn't have the Supreme Court subverting our First Amendment rights of freedom of expression and assembly to side with fascists in Texas and other states to outlaw protests.
PROTESTS WORK.
it is imperative, that if anti-fascist Americans have no other choice but to vote for Democrats, that we protest their bad policies.
if we do not protest #Biden & the #Democrats ever? then the fascists have won.
PROTEST IS OUR DEMOCRATIC DUTY.

2024-04-16 21:32:04

OK PEOPLE,
what do you prefer to call pointless huge vehicles like the #cybertruck : #wankpanzer or #incel camino?

2024-04-16 16:35:11

#Mastodon and #ActivityPub devs:
since i don't write about unicorn ponies, there's quite a number of people, with whom i have never interacted, who block me. they can do as they please;
BUT!
why do i have to see these people's interactions on my timeline?
for weeks i have seen comments on my TL that when i try to see the thread, there's nothing there. this isn't just happening with people i follow, it's happening with hashtags i follow.
people who block me should not be on my TL.

2024-04-16 15:20:09

RANDOM REMINDER
house chores, errands, laundry, cooking, mowing, care-taking, repairs, schooling, all domestic activities are work and as such, LABOR.
there's so much talk about #tradwives these days, it bears repeating: #capitalism completely devalued the labor of housekeeping, turning it back to its original condition as a form of, if not slavery then, domestic servitude.
the Wealth of Nations is built on the Stolen Labor of Home keepers. yet another reason for #UBI and #Medicare4All

2024-04-12 21:00:17

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loser wankers. after all, the nazis lost the war 😏

2024-04-12 20:58:31

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"Wankpanzer"
my friend, i salute you.
[@stux](https://mstdn.social/@stux)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/260/249/108/957/505/original/8e32eab40e371b9b.mp4

2024-04-04 23:03:55

DON'T KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS, but the amount of garlic in a recipe is only a suggestion. of the barest minimum, at that.
#cooking

2024-04-04 02:11:46

pretty much this.
https://mastodon.social/@thejacenallen/112210485098702126
the problem is, Democrats are doing their most to out-Weimar Weimar republicans; by alienating the single largest voting block in the history of the United States: Millennials, Gen Z and their disgruntled leftist GenX grand/parents.
i really do not know what else to say other than, we will need to not just scare the shit out of the Democratic party's political elites; we will have go after their fascist billionaires by paralyzing THEIR economy

2024-04-03 20:23:30

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even less a Black one, i presume.

2024-04-01 23:38:24

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did y'all know WOMEN used to do computer work, not men.
i didn't. i just found that out like 10 years ago and am still shook to this day.
especially when finding out about NASA's team of Little Old Ladies and Native American and African American women used their CROCHET, CROSS STITCH & SEWING skills to embed memory chips into everything involving the Apollo project.
🗣 HOW WAS I NEVER TAUGHT THIS AT SCHOOL!!!
and guess what? by their "identity politics" some were bilingual, even polyglot...🧵