A Flock of Beagles

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2025-05-24 21:01:45

some bonehead caller on CBC just suggested that Canada Post resort to child labour and pay children a penny, because "putting mail in a mailbox is not rocket science".
a lot of people have no fucking clue what a letter carrier is, and no class consciousness at all.

2025-05-20 22:37:32

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@nprofile…r5de i worked for about a month at a place called Emcon, whose entire purpose is sealing electronics against Tempest attack. we were busy putting conductive gasket tape and capton tape all over everything inside of PC cases, custom modifications for garbage consumer printers that didn't fit, and things like that, some of which was done for DND's operations securing the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
after everything was taped where we were told to put tape, the devices would go into a room we weren't allowed to see into or know what was happening, where they would test how well we'd done our job.
since learning more about Tempest attacks, i've learned that it's possible to find out what's on another computer's monitor with a simple SDR device and a laptop, if you know how to look for the signals and decode them. the RCMP have those Stingray boxes in their trunks, intercepting cell phones. if you're in downtown Ottawa any time, near parliament hill, and you notice your phone's service is acting funny, you might want to turn your phone off.

2025-05-20 22:21:24

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@nprofile…r5de tbh i don't think Signal is it. i keep wanting it to be the next good text communication software, but things just keep happening that tell me "no, not really" and the old advice of "if you need to keep it secure, don't put it on the internet" seems to keep sticking.
need a really private conversation? don't have it in SMS or phone either. don't even write it down. Fuckerberg fucked around and found out so we don't have to!
there are reasons why this used to be done away from listening ears and prying eyes. it's because the eyes and ears don't stop listening, no matter how much internet and encryption you throw at the problem.

2025-05-20 21:08:53

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@nprofile…r5de i don't use Lite. i have the filters on cause fuck ads, not so i can turn them off when a website doesn't like my adblocker.

2025-05-20 21:04:47

is this right? you can't see your fashbook feed unless you turn off ad blockers now?

2025-05-14 15:37:19

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@nprofile…sr9k @nprofile…h65u that looks like it hasn't posted since February.

2025-05-13 19:36:24

doesn't ICE have buildings that can be fucked with? assets that can be destroyed?

2025-05-10 01:33:58

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@nprofile…59dk yes, there were lots of images like this going around in the 80s! they just weren't necessarily stored in a format we have today. some are just bitmaps if you're lucky.

2025-05-06 04:25:50

do kids ever break the Overton Window with a stray baseball?

2025-05-05 23:40:57

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@nprofile…2wkl pamphlets and zines are useful to put in places where you can't always be but someone might be interested in reading one. also useful for info pickets.

2025-05-05 18:28:38

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@nprofile…2wkl
i had a longish post written about how this is the kind of violence working class people dealt with to gain many things which have been taken for granted, waned, and lost, and how voting can't replace it, because voting never achieved things like an 8-hour work day, minimum wage, child labour law, maternity leave, and the weekend, and they were eroded and repealed by elected politicians.
i guess that was my post. but i feel like if i printed out a bunch of your posts and made a zine to pass out on street corners, it might go just a little further in actually educating our class about what can be done because it has been done before.

2025-05-03 17:16:41

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@nprofile…l25h it's one of the strangest Paul McCartney albums, too.

2025-04-28 22:31:42

i keep forgetting this.
to vote anywhere in canada, you are required to have a permanent address.
that makes elections automatically a classist, ableist event.

2025-04-24 20:08:16

canada was never great.
instead of strengthening the borders of nation states, which is fascist action, why aren't we working on destroying walls, borders, and nation states?
never mind crossing a border, who did your border cross?
#ShutDownCanada #LandBack
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/394/741/022/942/339/original/8c211c0ff38640cd.jpg

2025-04-11 20:08:43

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@nprofile…2wkl
no, i'm saying Mexico has its own colonial genocidal history to contend with, which it is also still carrying out.

2025-04-11 19:17:23

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@nprofile…2wkl
Mexico, where people are disappeared and massacred regularly and no one with power does anything to stop it, needs to stfu.

2025-04-04 18:27:37

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@nprofile…fynq
Josh Haldeman, another wonderful product of canada.
#ShutDownCanada #LandBack

2025-03-31 22:10:03

okay folks. things just keep coming along as they should, but without enough notice from those who need to notice it.
if your regular protest march has 50 - 80 people showing up every time, for a year, and it's about the same 50 - 80 people... you need to do something with those people other than convince them to march one more time. those people are dedicated enough to show up every time.
that's a whole union in your pocket. you can start an IWW branch with a lot less than that.
if you wonder why your protest marches aren't really doing anything and people are dropping out, it's because those people who are dropping out aren't seeing tangible change and are getting tired.
everyone has got to level up at this point. the protest march is the entry point for learning to fuck shit up. fucking shit up is good, but we've got to get better at it.

2025-03-30 01:04:17

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@nprofile…k6sd Peter McPoyle is like poster boy for Dunning-Kruger. all he's got is being an obnoxious piece of shit you'd like to punch in the face repeatedly.

2025-03-29 23:45:42

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@nprofile…r5de get a bicycle ffs

2025-03-29 23:32:58

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@nprofile…r5de
oh no, so sad, Rod Stewart might have to take a bus.

2025-03-26 23:35:30

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@nprofile…args he and Steve Reich used to hang out, apparently. they owned a moving company together, of all things.

2025-03-25 00:04:33

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@nprofile…args @nprofile…nmyt
archaeologists believe they have found Soddom, Gomorrah, and the lesser-mentioned three other nearby cities, in a completely different place from where they were looking but still near the Dead Sea. what they found fits the Biblical description of their destruction in a truthful way.
they found skeletons, nearly all of which had broken bones from bodies being smashed against hard things by some kind of incredible force, like a huge explosion. near the skeletons, they found pottery which had all been partially glazed on the same side, facing the direction the blast came from. this culture did not glaze pottery at all. then they started finding a glassy-sandy amalgam all over the area. the only other place this amalgam has been found is at the Los Alamos nuclear bomb test site.
the theory is, because there is no crater, that two large objects (the "angels" in the Bible story), possibly pieces of a comet or an asteroid, fell to earth and air-burst over those five towns, causing an explosion hundreds of times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, described in the Bible as "a column of smoke, like a chimney".

2025-03-23 09:56:54

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@nprofile…jd74 @nprofile…kwt3
use a large boulder the size of a small hole

2025-03-23 09:56:54

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@nprofile…jd74 @nprofile…kwt3
use a large boulder the size of a small hole

2025-03-21 21:43:26

i wonder if the citizens of the collapsing Roman empire also thought "why aren't the judges stopping these Vandals and Celts from sacking us again??"

2025-03-21 01:02:55

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@nprofile…args not as often as i'd like to, and mainly for my mind often going blank if i try to start writing something while i'm feeling like i don't have much of anything interesting to say, and then i'll take forever to mail it, if i ever do.
i used to make CD mixes and mail them, but that's not a format i want to return to. i'll probably mail out some art whenever i decide to make more linocut prints.

2025-03-16 23:47:18

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@nprofile…args i don't remember what happens in Grave of the Fireflies, but i'm pretty sure that's not it. :blobcatsip:

2025-03-16 23:01:02

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@nprofile…85tn that's how all of this ableist shit is maintained. poeple like to say "TV won't affect me", but they don't know the difference until they stop watching TV every day.

2025-03-12 22:43:47

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@nprofile…args
must have been Wu-Tang!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJk0p-98Xzc

2025-03-10 23:24:06

tired of the boss' news?
then you've got to get involved in writing the news!
freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. do you have a printer, have access to one, or know someone who has one? can you make photocopies?
figure out how much it costs to put it all together, sell copies on a street corner, or give them away and ask for donations!
don't worry about people thinking you're a kook. if your journalism is truthful and tells people what's going on, providing information the corporate media won't, they'll come back for more.
punks have been making zines for decades. people like I.F. Stone did it during the USA invasion of Vietnam. you can do it too.
we know we're not going to get an accurate sampling of reality from fascist-owned media. we've got to be the news media when this happens.

2025-03-07 11:21:21

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@nprofile…args is this just techbro King Lear?

2025-02-22 20:38:02

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@nprofile…fynq it was never supposed to be metaphorical. they are literally our streets. who built them?

2025-02-19 01:30:34

what we already knew...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/wetsuweten-charter-rights-breached-1.7461745

2025-02-12 01:42:52

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@nprofile…s06p @nprofile…qdk8 it really mostly depends on if someone has hiring and firing power, and is paying wages to workers.

2025-02-12 01:37:51

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@nprofile…s06p @nprofile…qdk8 it may depend on law where you are, but in canada, your business must turn a profit. it doesn't matter if it's just you and three friends in a garage making custom skateboards, or if you own a grocery store chain, profit is the bottom line and that's the law. this means that you will be forced to make unethical decisions to comply with the law.

2025-02-11 23:14:58

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@nprofile…s06p @nprofile…qdk8 it's not just "multinational corporations". it's everywhere that a wage is paid to a worker and the boss takes the "surplus value" as profit. all profit is unpaid, stolen wages.

2025-02-11 23:09:12

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@nprofile…qdk8 as long as profit is the bottom line and that's the law, it is impossible to be ethical. the decision will always come down to "do the right thing, or make profit", and the decision will always be profit.

2025-02-10 03:49:52

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@nprofile…wuyc
is that why i'm saying this? so i can feel "better" than canada?
that's a pretty cynical, pouty response from someone who talks up their anti-fascist ancestors so much. does history only matter when you want to pat yourself on the back? seems that way.
if you've read any of my posts, you'd know that i have zero sympathy for nationalists because there is no difference between them and the rest of the fascists. magical thinking and DARVO are what got us here, and magical thinking and DARVO will keep us here.

2025-02-10 03:25:29

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@nprofile…wuyc
"learn from history", until open fascism comes along, then it's "oh well, whatever. what's history? why does that matter?"
we're talking about things that happened less than ten years ago, and people who were around for that are acting like it never happened and there was nothing to learn.
if that's not a problem, and no one deserves criticism for it, then i might as well go fucken bury myself.

2025-02-10 03:12:38

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@nprofile…wuyc wishing is fun, but let's stick to reality.
no one was "dragged in". people chose to ignore *VERY RECENT* history.

2025-02-10 03:10:06

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@nprofile…wuyc who actually believes he isn't serious? who, really?!? who are these assclowns that think he isn't being serious?

2025-02-07 15:14:59

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@nprofile…args i think any major city probably has some rivers flowing under it. there are also artificially dry lakes that come back in a flood.

2025-02-07 04:31:41

organising isn't "let's all individually come up with complicated Rube Goldberg nonsense to act like we owned the fascists", it's "what actions can be taken to collectively refuse our labour?"
you may think that clever prank is really clever, but it's just a waste of effort when there are simpler methods of *directly* saying NO, WE WILL NOT WORK, AND WE WILL NOT BE MOVED.