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aby, 6 months ago to random

This is going to be unpopular.

I keep seeing people say they're shocked how anti-Indigenous Australia is, and when I go look at their profiles they all have "leftist" written.

You all need to understand what this means for how your leftism is tied in to white supremacy.

If you're shocked to find out that a colonised country is racist, you haven't been listening.

If your leftist selves haven't been listening to Indigenous people on this Stolen Land, you're leaning into white supremacy.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

aby, 1 month ago to Women

More men need to take active measures to not follow women tbh.

Like, my partner will cross the street and go out of his way if he's walking behind a woman, so that she doesn't feel threatened or bothered by his presence.

Today I was "followed" by a man in a parking lot. I know he wasn't following me, I knew it at the time as well, that he was just walking to his car the same as I was.. but it scared me. A lot.

I would have appreciated it if he crossed away from me. It would have been a great kindness.

#Women #gender #trans #agender #queer

aby, 10 months ago to random

There is a Google doc that lists gynaecologists who will perform tubal ligation (tie tubes) without asking if you have kids/your partners permission/are married etc. as long as you're old enough to consent to surgery.

It's sorted by alphabetical order by state.

If your city isn't listed, keep checking because it's constantly being updated.

So far there are entries for USA, Canada, and Australia. Europe will hopefully soon be added.

GOOGLE DOC https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/htmlview?usp=sharing&pru=AAABgbyEz80%2Aki0mctT40bBlN9NCfbfg6w

#RoeVWade #gynaecology #ForcedBirth #RightToChoose #ReproductiveRights #BodyAutonomy #PleaseShare

aby, 6 months ago to random

He is taking a course on Marxist ideology.
He says, “The only real solution is to smash the system and start again.”
His thumb is caressing the most bourgeois copy of the communist manifesto that I have ever seen,
He bought it at Barnes and Noble for twenty-nine U.S. American dollars and ninety-nine cents,
Its hard cover shows a dark man with a scarved face
Waving a gigantic red flag against a fictional smoky background.
The matte finish is fucking gorgeous.
He wants to be congratulated for paying Harvard sixty thousand dollars
To teach him that the system is unfair.
He pulls his iPhone from his imported Marino wool jacket, and leaves.

What people can’t possibly tell from the footage on TV
Is that the water cannon feels like getting whipped with a burning switch.
Where I come from, they fill it with sewer water and hope that they get you in the face with your mouth open
So that the hepatitis will keep you in bed for the next protest.
What you can’t tell from Harvard square,
Is that when the tear gas bursts from nowhere to everywhere all at once,
It scrapes your insides like barbed wire, sawing at your lungs.
Tear gas is such a benign term for it,
If you have never breathed it in you would think it was a nostalgic experience.
What you can’t learn at Barnes and Noble,
Is that when they rush you, survival is to run,
I am never as fast as when the police are chasing me.
I know what happens to women in the holding cells down there and yet…
We still do it.

I inherited my communist manifesto,
It has no cover—
Because my mother ripped it off when she hid it in the dust jacket of “Don Quixote”
The day before the soldiers destroyed her apartment,
Looking for subversive propaganda.
She burned the cover, could not bring herself to burn the pages,
Hoped to God the soldiers couldn’t read,
They never found it.
So she was not killed for it, but her body bore the scars of the torture chamber,
For wanting her children to have a better life than she did,
Don’t talk to me about revolution.

I know what the price of smashing the system really is, my people already tried that.
The price of uprise is paid in blood,
And not Harvard blood.
The blood that ran through the streets of Santiago,
The blood thrown alive from Argentine helicopters into the Atlantic.

It is easy to say “revolution” from the comfort of a New England library.

It is easy to offer flesh to the cause,
When it is not yours to give.

— Catalina Ferro, “Manifesto”

aby, 8 months ago to Autism

I just had an interesting moment in therapy.

I said something, and my therapist responded with "oh, that's really well put.. do you mind if I just write that down quickly?"

I know that you can't win at therapy, but I feel like I'm at least getting a Distinction grade..

#audhd #autism #adhd #disability #neurodiverse #MentalHealth #Anxiety #MentalIllness #Therapy #psychology

aby, 10 months ago to random

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness

aby, 1 month ago to linguistics

#language #linguistics #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded

aby, 7 days ago to random

2018 was 6 years ago.

That feels like targeted violence.

aby, 6 months ago to Weather

When I looked this morning there was a 0% chance of rain until Friday. So I've spent the day watering the garden, popping the sprinkler on and going out every 15 minutes to check and move it so the water doesn't get wasted spraying on the paths as the wind changed direction etc.

It's just started raining.

#weather #drought #WaterRestrictions #Australia #gardening

aby, 11 months ago to random

Black activists are extremely controversial.

Native decolonizers are extremely controversial.

Kanaka Maoli nationalists are extremely controversial.

Anti-Zionists are extremely controversial.

Queer radicals are extremely controversial.

Marxists are extremely controversial.

Corporate media pointedly ignore all of them.

But those media love to cover Jordan Peterson and other reactionary hacks (including neo-Nazis). They don't provide that coverage because the subjects are controversial (see above). It happens because corporate media have an affinity for regressive ideas and a vested class interest in promoting them. By conditioning debate around spectacle, with a cast of smug and unlikable protagonists, reporters and pundits can ignore economic and racial injustice, even as they gesture at disapproval of the provocateurs they cover. (You disapprove of Peterson? Great! Maybe start ignoring him?)

Don't let reporters and pundits absolve themselves of introducing awful people to wide audiences by hiding behind sensationalism. The world has tons of controversial thinkers who are also insightful and compassionate. Arbiters of the newsworthy don't want to cover them. And they wouldn't be allowed to, anyway.

Pay attention to all that is missing from corporate media rather than assessing what they offer. The real story, as always, exists in the systematic absence of certain narratives.

• Steven Salaita

#anarchism #queer #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #activism

aby, 4 months ago to random

I just saw a HUGE shower of green and yellow sparks shoot up over the houses across the road from behind them, and then all the lights went out everywhere.

The lights have come back on my side of the street, but not the other side. The street light is on steady the other side of the street but is flashing on and off on my side.

The lights in my house keep dimming in and out.

Outside smells like a metallic burning smell.

I don't know what's happening.. I'd say maybe a dry lightning strike, but there was no sound, and I've heard a close up lightning strike before.. you definitely don't miss that sound.

aby, 6 months ago to animals

When the pile of your beds is taller than you are...

#DogsOfMastodon #Dog #PrincessAndThePea

aby, 5 months ago to anarchism

#anarchism #activism #Leftist #community

aby, 10 months ago to anarchism

Prison is not about rehabilitation, if it was they wouldn't do shit like this.

Prison is about disappearing people.

"Decision could make inmates’ contact with family and friends unaffordable, despite studies showing it reduces recidivism"

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/27/prison-inmates-to-be-charged-24c-a-minute-for-phone-calls-as-nsw-scraps-cheaper-providers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

aby, 6 months ago to KindActions

I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).

After living in the same house for almost 10 years, I recently had to move as the new landlords decided to renovate so they could increase the rent.

Moving has cost me over $4000, and ended up putting me almost $2500 in debt.

I didn't get rent assistance for the first 6 weeks of living here because they lost my lease copy and they're refusing to backpay it. So I started the first 6 weeks here adding over $180 a fortnight to that debt as well.

I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to make rent at the moment, let alone cover bills and food.

I hate asking, but please consider helping if you can - I'd be super grateful.

https://www.paypal.me/kittensmeow

https://ko-fi.com/abydarling

#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #IndigenousMutualAid #queer #trans #autism #audhd #disability #JobSeeker #PleaseShare #Help #BegPost #PleaseHelp #SettlerSaturday #SettlerSunday

aby, 4 months ago to disability

I don't know.. I feel like this is going to be unpopular, but I'm going to say it.

I feel like not posting AltText because "I don't know how", or "I don't have the time/energy" needs to just fucking stop.

If you don't know how - learn.

If you don't have the time/energy - save the picture and post when you have the time/energy to AltText it.

It's giving businesses who whine "we didn't build a ramp because they're expensive.."

If the social model of disability is a thing (it is!) then the onus for accessibility is on able people (it is!)

Accessibility is mandatory.

Do better.

#Disability #accessibility #AltText

aby, 2 months ago to random

The Guardian reporting on how the use of slurs contributes to the dehumanisation of Aboriginal people, and just using the slur in the story 🙄

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/22/kumanjayi-walker-inquest-zachary-rolfe-text-message-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

aby, 2 months ago to WFH

"In other words: Forcing employees to work in an office doesn’t benefit companies, but does harm the lives of employees — at least in the short term.

More to the point: Most companies cannot show actual monetary benefits from RTO mandates. But most employees can show actual and significant monetary costs from RTO mandates.

In essence, these kinds of mandates represent a transfer of wealth from employees that their employers don’t even benefit from."

#WFH #RTO #COVID #jobs

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712843/the-hidden-high-cost-of-return-to-office-mandates.html

aby, 8 months ago to random

Look at this chicken.
🐓

It's giant. It's bigger than a car!
🐓🚗

It's getting bigger!
🐓🏡

The horror. The horror.
🐓🗼

god help us all..
🐓🌏

aby, 7 months ago to philosophy

#philosophy #Foucault #School #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition

aby, 6 months ago to random

A lot of leftists are using criticism of the state of Israel as an excuse to lean into their anti-Semitism.

A lot of leftists are using criticism of Hamas as an opportunity to lean into their anti-Indigeneity and anti-Brown racism.

Shit is nuanced. Do better.

aby, 11 hours ago to random

I think I'm going to try to make a minestrone soup tomorrow!

aby, 1 month ago to america

Help, I've fallen down a conspiracy theory hole and the comments are fucking FASCINATING.

The discussion:
if the US and Russia share a border, why does it take 19 hours to fly from Alaska to Moscow?? What are they hiding???

Some of the comments:

• One day I looked at the back of the globe and my mind didn’t feel right

• It's strange how the flight is still 9+ hours no matter which airline you take

• Sooo where does that put australia & New Zealand, Papuan New Guinea?? Ive have suspected all is closer then we are told!

• cause every time you change time zones you go into a new dimension and you have to adjust to it . just a theory

• anybody else think it's strange that airports use...flight manifests??? them naming it a manifest infers they're manifesting or 'creating' falsehoods...

• You just clicked something in my brain😫 How are we SO programed?????

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• the US and Russia DO share a small maritime border, that's about 55 minutes "drive" to cross
  ** it's a maritime border, so you can't really "drive" across it

#America #Conspiracy #ConspiracyTheories

aby, 8 months ago to anarchism

#anarchism #activism

aby, 3 days ago to random

"Move fast and break stuff" may be a decent tactic with regards to engineering practices, but..

checks notes

..NOT WHEN THE THINGS BEING BROKEN ARE HUMAN BEINGS ,YOU FUCKING MONSTERS