CedarTea

Earthy, lefty, and insufferable. Living in a windy rural Ontario town on the shores of Lake Huron (settler on Treaty 45-1/2 lands). Love to talk labour and ecology. Hell yeah punk DIY culture.

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2024-08-07 22:50:50

A month ago, my timeline was full of people saying that the UK had stopped fascism, and that in November it would be "America's turn".
It's obvious today that fascism in the UK was not stopped last month. Fascist pogroms have erupted across the country, even with a Labour government in office. You cannot vote fascism away.
But what's also true is that regular people are standing up to fascism in the UK *right now*.
Pay attention and be ready for your turn.

2024-08-02 14:16:35

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You could collect the fruit before they fall and make hooch (or chutney if you don't drink)

2024-08-01 19:14:36

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I agree, different people are going to be in different situations, both within and across instances. More flexibility is better imo.
I do think the statement "large instances would only want" is worth interrogating though. *Who* is the instance? I left my last instance because of the behaviour of the admin. "The instance" was making choices that I would never have consented to if given the choice, though I did ultimately have the frustrating option of leaving.
@npub1pyz…ew64

2024-08-01 17:13:29

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It seems like a contributing factor here is that a lot of people don't really have any say in how their instance is run. Because of that, they see the proposed blocklists as things that are happening *to* them rather than as a result of collective decision-making *by* them. In that environment, I think it's pretty common to leap to catastrophizing, and then trying to wage pressure campaigns. Approaching it more bottom-up would likely help.
@npub1pyz…ew64

2024-08-01 03:43:02

If you're feeling bored, consider hanging a cabbage from a rope so that you can peck at it

2024-07-30 20:58:46

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Just waiting for her to come out in support of Assad or something at this point

2024-07-24 19:39:50

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Yeah, that makes sense. It's like a nuisance alarm where after a while you just ignore it. Like if your smoke detector went off twice a day at random intervals, so you eventually assume that your house is never on fire.
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2024-07-24 19:21:39

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I find having everything under CWs really annoying to doomscroll (excluding actual warnings for content, e.g. violence). I mostly just unfollow until my feed ain't shitty.

2024-07-24 17:59:04

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Is that what lists are for? I've never used lists.
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2024-07-24 17:46:54

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I agree with @npub19v8…gsx7 on all points, but if you do make an alt at least let us know what it is so I can follow

2024-07-23 22:59:05

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There's the squash vine borer, but we're not on speaking terms because they keep boring into my squash vines.

2024-07-23 02:25:53

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Save the pomp and circumstance of the convention, and instead hit Joe Manchin in the groin with a football.

2024-07-18 02:13:08

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It's even more charming to think just how much of a delay there would be between submitting their hot take and when they get dunked on for it

2024-07-18 02:10:10

I actually love how much radical literature and papers from a hundred years ago is basically just posting. It's strangely comforting to think of all those people in their old timey clothes writing up hot takes and refusing to touch grass.

2024-07-12 17:26:37

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Have you considered looking at a plant?

2024-07-12 00:21:28

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That is the very reasonable and responsible answer that I'm trying to avoid lol

2024-07-12 00:19:23

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Well, I'm awaiting an eviction hearing and there's not a tonne of housing supply in my price range so... :oof:

2024-07-12 00:16:03

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I don't really think I'm there with this one, though I haven't seen it in person. It's also up at the top of my price range and having to account for pool removal doesn't help.

2024-07-12 00:11:10

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This is basically where I'm at, except I live walking distance to Lake Huron so I really don't see the point in maintaining a separate smaller amount of environmentally unfriendly personal water lol

2024-07-12 00:01:51

If you suddenly found yourself in possession of an in-ground swimming pool you didn't want, what would you do with it?
This question is kinda theoretical but also kinda not.
Like, maintenance costs, environmental impacts, etc., are all things you probably don't want to deal with for a pool you won't use, but seems annoying af to just pay 15k to turn it back into lawn or whatever (probably not lawn, but you get my point).

2024-07-11 19:06:00

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It's also cool that it breaks up the year into a bunch of micro seasons. Like, oh neat it's goldenrod time!

2024-07-11 19:02:25

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Better for the pollinators too, since they need to eat for the whole season!

2024-07-11 18:59:21

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They're so nice! I really don't know why native wildflower gardens aren't more popular when we have so many great ones

2024-07-11 02:57:50

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Also, birds don't believe in borders so why do you? You think you know better than a bird? You wish bud.

2024-07-11 02:50:41

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This toot was just a setup for that magnificent pun, but also we should protect the goose homes

2024-07-11 02:47:21

When people do habitat work for waterfowl, a lot of money ends up further north where the nesting grounds are. Even American conservation groups often very highly prioritize efforts on those nesting grounds as a way to improve species health in their own regions. I guess what I'm trying to say is, what's good for the Canada goose is good for the Michigander.

2024-07-10 18:58:17

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In my sms, I'll tell you that much. I get so many warnings here.

2024-07-10 17:47:23

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You're on my thread lol

2024-07-10 17:44:21

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Voting is like step twelve

2024-07-10 16:03:37

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Sure, I'm just saying it won't stop them. Voting, and what ELSE?

2024-07-09 12:23:37

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I can already hear you typing VOTE
That does not solve this issue. You're trying to use a tape measure to drive screws.

2024-07-09 12:10:43

So on the surface, this seems good right?
Problems:
1. This won't pass
2. If it does pass, SCOTUS will shoot it down in judicial review
3. The most insidious part is that he is capitulating to the ruling itself and only trying to carve out whether Trump's coup attempt was official, NOT overturn immunity broadly. They've *already* given up on that fight after a week.
Like I keep saying, these people aren't coming to save you. You need to organize without them.
#uspol
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4760638-schumer-trump-immunity/

2024-07-08 21:07:01

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Ballots don't stop fascists
Laws don't stop fascists
If you're relying on paper shields against fascists you are in serious danger

2024-07-08 20:50:39

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CUQu5K8lp8

2024-07-08 20:48:58

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So if you meet with these historians
I'll tell you what to say
Tell them that the nazis
Never really went away
They're out there burning houses down
And peddling racist lies
And we'll never rest again
Until every nazi dies

2024-07-08 20:47:22

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People *been* dealing with fascists and they've *been* telling you. You brushed them off and didn't listen.
Now you see the fascists coming for you and...
You still aren't really listening

2024-07-08 20:45:17

We're told that after the war
The nazis vanished without a trace
But battalions of fascists
Still dream of a master race
The history books they tell
Of their defeat in '45
But they all came out of the woodwork
On the day the nazi died

2024-07-08 16:32:01

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Canadian universities are fundamentally incapable of treating any student as anything other than a commodity. If they're gonna do this, it'll only be if they're dragged to it kicking and screaming, except where it costs them nothing.

2024-07-08 00:07:48

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"Paint me like one of your French rabbits" lol

2024-07-06 17:38:28

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Right, I get what you're saying. I just think that a strategy that relies on litigation seems dangerously obsolete under this scotus. I'd rather have the speed bumps than nothing, but it doesn't even feel like a half measure let alone a real response.
And that's without getting into the fascist policies the dems have decided to push themselves in an attempt to win far right votes, like trying to outflank them on the right regarding the southern border.
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2024-07-06 14:36:46

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This looks amazing!

2024-07-06 02:02:48

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Is any of it able to withstand this supreme court, or a president who has legal immunity?
Do any of them remove resources from the armed agents of the state, or dismantle the surveillance and prisons?
I don't personally put very much stock in bureaucratic and legal speed bumps but it's at least something I guess.
@npub1967…su4r

2024-07-05 20:51:28

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As far as I can tell, the party took zero meaningful actions to lessen the threat of fascism after their election in 2020. Like, their plan is just "if we're in power for these 4 years then there won't be fascism". The courts *kinda* took action, but the dems did not.
If anything, they acted to undermine real antifascist action by:
1) Increasing funding for law enforcement
2) Co-opting real resistance
3) Normalizing fascist policy
4) Giving people a false sense of security/victory

2024-07-02 21:20:32

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Wanna tag onto this that a lot of people can't picture themselves kitted out and chucking knuckles on the front line, and that's okay.
Food, medicine, logistics, emotional labour, strategy, communications, propaganda. It's all necessary and legitimate.
Military folks will tell you that an army marches on its stomach. Kropotkin critiqued the Paris Commune for neglecting care labour and causing its collapse.
The tip of the spear is important, but a spear that's only tip is just a thorn.

2024-07-02 19:53:07

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In the last US civil war, West Virginia seceded from Virginia in a mass refusal of complicity and enlisted their fighting power to defeat the slave states.
Other communities south of the Mason-Dixon raised hell behind enemy lines, driving domestic production and logistics into chaos, in places like the Ozark hills.
And most importantly, Black slaves undertook the greatest labour action your country has ever seen, sapping the foundations of the entire evil enterprise.
You can do this.

2024-07-02 19:47:50

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Every community that resists the fascist takeover is one less community worth of resources to be levied against every other community.
An attack on one is an attack on all, and so too the defence of one is the defence of all.
You don't need an authority to save you because you have something much stronger.

2024-07-02 15:07:26

The thought of having to resist a fascist state is daunting. It's too big to understand. The state is so big, and you're just one person.
Make the problem smaller and the solution bigger.
A community can defend a community.

2024-06-07 13:37:18

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Imagine being a grown ass adult and going to counter protest a bunch of highschool students who are calling for an end to a genocide. Embarrassing, and I'm glad the reporters threw at least a little shade at them for it.

2024-06-01 23:48:19

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This graffiti has big fedi energy

2024-05-23 15:21:10

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I've blocked few accounts who arrived uninvited in my mentions with some heinous shit. But I could probably count them on one hand.

2024-05-23 15:11:37

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Yeah, me too. Although I VERY rarely block, so I'm guessing my instance is shouldering the block burden.

2024-05-23 01:31:21

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This recipe doesn't even include salt. We can't let the salt cops win.

2024-05-23 01:22:36

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can use salted butter in your baking. It's fine.

2024-05-22 18:18:00

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Yeah, it's not really about the fingernails as such, just that you shouldn't assume that someone living on a farm in a farmhouse is actually farming at all. It's pretty common for folks around here to lease out all their farmland for cash cropping and just collect a rent. Or they own a big farm operation and hire TFWs to do all the actual work. Sticking feathers up your ass don't make you a chicken.

2024-05-22 18:13:05

One of my soapboxes is people confusing farm owners for farmers. Half these fuckers are landlords and/or bosses and should be treated as such. Check their damn boots and fingernails.

2024-05-11 02:54:24

This aurora is boreal af

2024-03-23 03:18:05

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It's always morally correct to throw water balloons full of piss at landlords

2024-03-23 03:00:54

Damn, wish I had known. Could have went down to Brampton with some water balloons full of piss.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/residential-rental-licensing-pilot-brampton-city-hall-protest-landlords-property-owners-illegal-lodging-1.7151141
#onpoli #rental #housing