LiesSlander

joined 1 year ago
[–] LiesSlander@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, this is sick! Thanks for posting your art, it's great to see even if I've never played the game.

[–] LiesSlander@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get that the EFF has to say this bill has "laudable goals" for political reasons, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Protecting children is a typical excuse for broad expansion of State power, and this is no different. Don't be fooled, and remember it's the democrats who are trying to push this through. Both major political parties in the US are enemies to personal autonomy, one is just more subtle about it. Liberation will never come from within the ruling power structure.

[–] LiesSlander@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I have one of those too! Glad yours is blooming. Mine flowers sometimes, but sadly it got infected with thrips a couple years ago and I haven't been able to kill them. It flowers less often, but does okay with regular maintenance on my end (rubbing all the surfaces with a little neem oil and soap in water).

[–] LiesSlander@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Holy moly this is a wild story. I really hope people don't get murdered, and Braxton gets a positive outcome from the legal system. But beyond the shock from reading this, I'm left with anger.

The sheer audacity of these racist clowns, and the fact that its working!? Like, courts just refuse to hear cases on a lot of the discrimination that happens surrounding elections, so even though it might be illegal its the white courts that decide that. And they BURNED DOWN LEWIS' HOME! Holy shit is that terrifying, and we know nobody's ever facing any consequences for it.

One thing that is truly inspiring amidst all the racism and systemic violence is the mayor himself. This guy is out here practicing mutual aid, organizing community events, and fighting to get food for his community. One of his goals with becoming mayor was to get a grocery store in town, huge respect for this guy.

Fuck White Supremacy, fuck the State, but hats off to this man. I hope he gets what he's fighting for.

[–] LiesSlander@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we gotta work on building community if we want to see people really move away from streaming services. One person with a NAS in a small apartment building could help a lot of their neighbors out with entertainment. It would be more work for the person hosting, but if the folks who benefit help their friend out too it might end up being less work overall.

I'd give someone access, teach them how to use the software, and download some of their favorite shows if they let me borrow their truck when I needed, shared dinner sometimes, or helped me clean house. I think a lot of folks would benefit from that kind of thing, but it would require us making friends with our neighbors. Which, on reflection, is actually really really hard. I imagine it would be kinda awkward to start the conversations around this, but you'd get around the step of everyone getting their own NAS at least!

[–] LiesSlander@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

How horrible, the majority of these men's lives wasted behind bars. Colonial "justice" systems need to be abolished. No change or reform can fix the deep, structural issues with what these systems consider "justice" to be. Justice is possible, but not if our imaginations and actions are bound to existing racist, classist, ableist systems.

[–] LiesSlander@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

How horrible, the majority of these men's lives wasted behind bars. Colonial "justice" systems need to be abolished. No change or reform can fix the deep, structural issues with what these systems consider "justice" to be. Justice is possible, but not if our imaginations and actions are bound to existing racist, classist, ableist systems.