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seachanger

@seachanger@alaskan.social

obligate organizer, systems thinker, radical optimist, public good believer, artsy generalist

living in Lingít Aani, my ancestors were quebecois & ukrainian jews

posting ideas at #SocialTech; always boosting #alaska;

⚠️: I’m often wrong

Avi is wild hair blowing in wind, cover is a watercolor I made of a volcano

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raph, to random
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Me: I really care about the hostages but the horrors unfolding in Gaza require all our attention

Rando: you're a pick-me Jew pandering to global antisemites and the Arab Islamist Imperial expansionist project of Pan-Arab hegemonic domination

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seachanger,
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@raph thanks for using your voice so clearly and effectively!

seachanger, to random
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“Because of my Jewish origin, because of my love for Mexico and because I feel like a citizen of the world, I share with millions the desire for justice, equality, fraternity and peace, and therefore, I can only see with horror the images of the state bombings,” she wrote at the time, adding, “No reason justifies the murder of Palestinian civilians … Nothing, nothing, nothing, can justify the murder of a child.”

https://mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/112553957578352484

EBecker, to random
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Very compelling. Would love to hear more from the authors of the Science articles who argued for the animal market. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html?u2g=c&unlocked_article_code=1.w00.ot6u.Y1doZMx4c2EF&smid=url-share

seachanger,
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@EBecker I mean it’s always been a head scratcher that we were asked to simply overlook the fact that that particular lab just so happened to be operating in that particular city in that particular time

seachanger,
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@dcbaok @EBecker i tend to be skeptical of absolutists on this issue

jeridansky, to random
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My favorite fire prevention methodology: goats eating all the dried vegetation, just down the highway from me.

seachanger,
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@jeridansky I was surprised to learn how many catastrophic fires really get bad due to dry, often non native, grasses - go goats!

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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just to expand on Arendt's whole banality of evil thing: this entire climate crisis, gaza genocide and a great deal of past and modern white supremacy and colonizer bullshit coasts on social processes made possible by careerism and respectability politics. the road to right now has been so polite, so professional

seachanger, (edited )
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to speak up or oppose the genteel norms and processes of colonization with any kind of consistency makes the truth seeker a 21st century untouchable. it's not that any of this is corrupt or wrong, it's that you personally are too weird too angry too insane

seachanger, (edited )
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@ricardoharvin and really what's more important, justice for oppressed communities or the career trajectory of individual americans!

seachanger,
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@Loukas seriously! Raucous and loving community among the malcontents is the only thing with the power to flip the script

seachanger,
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Injustice proceeds via long timelines of thousands of bureaucratic acts, protected by careerists who are personally invested in being unable to see anything nefarious about any of it, and of course far more concerned with not appearing as a dreaded conspiracy theorist than they are with stopping actual conspiracies

seachanger,
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@inquiline im just like at what point in this poly crisis will folks start to assume that those in power may actually be doing bad things on purpose and also coordinating them with one another — apparently never! apparently it will always all be random and we will always all be insane for suspecting otherwise

seachanger,
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if evil is operationalized by all of us putting our heads down and doing our jobs, than it is a distraction to focus on a particular political figure or party or even group of (non)voters as The Problem. the problem is that we are all caught up in a very tangled web and it takes a lot of courage -and mutual aid- to break free & practice solidarity with the vulnerable, rather than the powerful

seachanger,
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@Loukas and by better surviving this shit we do change the world ❤️

tzimmer_history, to random
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There was a wave of “It’s actually a 3-3-3 Court!” takes in 2021, when the rightwing supermajority decided it was best to wait another term before going full berserk on democracy and the modern state. That was just regular dumb.

Resurrecting them now is next-level bizarre. Remarkable stuff.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/02/supreme-court-justice-math-00152188

Screenshot of a graph in the Politico piece, presenting Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh as centrists

seachanger,
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@tzimmer_history “right but this is just math Thomas”

-weird nerds diving in front of fascist takes

ayoub, to random
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The New York Times seems committed to destroying any semblance of journalistic integrity. How else can we describe such a headline on Palestine? Internet users rightly mocked it on an IG page

IG comments mocking the NYT headline: segamascot 2d in new york city, explosions and two airplanes signal a town's new vacant lot setnickonfire 2d In Auschwitz, armed guards and work stations signal this Polish countryside's new residents timbo34679 23h A giant cloud obscured the sun in Nagasaki today, causing general discomfort

seachanger,
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@ayoub must be wild running a paper that could have stopped the war in Iraq or this current genocide merely by reporting the truth and conducting actual journalism. hate to be so dramatic but honestly NYT has a lotta blood on it’s collective hands

rickirobin, to random
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feeling the urge to step back on that slippery slope of addressing my frustration with an organization by proposing that i just take control of it myself oh no

seachanger,
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@rickirobin don’t do it

signed, Petersburg arts council board president

inquiline, to random
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People shaming others to vote and saying we mustn't say anything bad about Biden/DNC makes more sense when they reveal that they think the problem is the voters, not the very, very rigged system we are forced to submit to

seachanger,
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@inquiline I know I’m Sarah Kendzior pilled right now cuz I’m listening to her book but she really names institutionalism a lot and I think that explains so much here — if you believe that change hinges on the good experts being in governmental office than all of this really does come down to voting (spoiler the institutions haven’t and won’t save us)

seachanger,
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rage-loaded binary thinking seems to happen when people are scared/traumatized/triggered 🤷🏻‍♂️

elfkin, to random
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A couple of shots from today's big queer brunch (category was Mrs. Roper in St. Tropez). There are, of course, the kaftans for @socalgecko, my (chosen) sister, Kat, and myself. And the brunch spread before it was decimated by the ensuing crowd.

Happy Pride, y'all!

A carb heavy brunch spread with banana cake, whole wheat rolls, ciabatta, salami, smoked salmon a variety of cheeses, jams, capers, pickles, red onion, and onion quiche.

seachanger,
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@elfkin i love this

seachanger, to random
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ever think about how we’re the last apes to live in a world ruled by aspirational democracies in a climate favorable for our species survival

seachanger,
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anyway < hits play on another 6 feet under Ep from 2001 >

seachanger,
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@rimu I’ll look it up!

seachanger,
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@rimu yep, this seems right. we’re headed for actual post-governmental, militarized capitalism. Sigh

“Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world's political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical alternatives truly imperative.”

seachanger,
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@rimu following the current trend lines, it’s hard to imagine a series of events that could alter the history and scope of that momentum, but I’m interested in what else they can imagine!

seachanger, to random
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my artist friend talks about how cool it is that the world speaks emoji now, a universal language of stylized pictures. and I was thinking about how almost everyone who uses phones uses the circle face emojis to express feelings, which only works because we evolved over millenia to communicate with our faces. it’s weird but also amazing: I can look at a tiny circle with a few lines and instantly be feeling, more or less, what you are feeling

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