@tothedaring@kolektiva.social
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

tothedaring

@tothedaring@kolektiva.social

Queer chronically ill artist in Brooklyn
đŸŒ» 🏮 :heart_bi: :squat: :restinpowertorch:

“To the daring, belongs the future.” — Emma Goldman

‌ Currently inactive here, dm on Matrix at https://kolektiva.social/@tothedaring:matrix.org or email at tothedaring.sprinkled271@slmail.me for other ways of reaching me 😌

#Art, #Design, & #FilmPhotography, #Abolition & #QueerLiberation, #SexTech & #SexPositivity, #DisabilityJustice, #PlantMedicine & #Psychedelic Advocacy, #Privacy & #InfoSec, #StopCopCity

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

HeavenlyPossum, to random
@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social avatar

“The low expected turnout in the upcoming elections reflects a popular rejection of the
political system, which is suffering from a legitimacy crisis and the absence of real opposition forces to vie with the parties in power
”

We have no problem identifying low voter turnout as a consequence of political illegitimacy. People decline to vote because they recognize that voting will not produce meaningful change, because it’s not worth it and because they don’t want to participate in a corrupt system



as long as we’re talking about countries other than the US. When US voters withhold their participation, they’re almost certainly going to hear about how they personally want fascism to win. Haven’t you heard that this is The Most Important Election in Our Lifetime? All systemic analysis goes out the window and all we can talk about is personal failure.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/iraqi-political-systems-legitimacy-problem-low-expected-turnout-provincial

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@moondog548 @violetmadder @phil_stevens @HeavenlyPossum @Radical_EgoCom for nearly a century at this point, people have been saying ‘we can do both!’ referring to engaging in electoral politics and so-called grassroots efforts, but it’s never amounted to anything substantial because the electoral efforts rob us of all of our energy and spirit. and they know it.

it’s not about extrajudicial assasinations or despair, it’s just plain and simple: we can’t ‘do both’ and electoralism isn’t harm reduction—we’re either perpetuating the status quo, or changing it.

the fact is that grassroots / community-led efforts and political dissidents are the real threat to democrats—not republicans—and when we study the work of Hannah Arendt, Robert Paxton, David Graeber, Angela Davis, Astra Taylor
 we find that they’d faster cozy up with their politically and financially-powerful counterparts before they ever fought for us if it comes down to it.

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@moondog548 @violetmadder @phil_stevens @HeavenlyPossum @Radical_EgoCom sure, if it was only checking a box and then heading home, then maybe you’d be onto something, but there’s pressure to phone bank and text and tweet and register friends and door knock and chip in our hard earned money and rally and ‘keep making noise so ppl don’t forget’ and keep up with the debates and watch the polls and pull your hair out because it’s so close so we should just make sure ppl are registered “one more time” and


the fact is it’s never just checking a box.

and with what Biden has done that’s worse than Trump in every way, there’s reason enough to opt out entirely.

Em0nM4stodon, (edited ) to mastodon

What do you like better about Mastodon and the Fediverse compared to other social media?

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@Em0nM4stodon that polls can be 366% instead of 100%

intransitivelie, to random
@intransitivelie@c.im avatar

I'm "not enthusiastic" about Biden, in the sense that I'm not enthusiastic about genocide or weak-willed liberal politics-as-usual or continuing Trump's immigration policies or refusing to use the power of the presidency to do fucking anything, but please, lecture me about how young people need to realize that it's this or fascism. I'm sure that'll move the needle.

I cannot stress highly enough that it's not that young people (of which I am not one, by the way) aren't "enthusiastic" about Biden. It's that they're fucking tired of being told that it's this or fascism so shut up. What happened to the idea that a politician had to earn their votes?

Rather than lecturing young people about the consequences of their "lack of enthusiasm" or you can join them in being fucking pissed off that Biden is doing sweet fuck all to earn their goddamn enthusiasm. And if you think that's not a problem, how about the fact that he's losing Black people? Or maybe you think it's racist to criticize Black people for their lack of enthusiasm? How about Muslim Americans?

The Democrats seem to think that they've got a lock on the youth vote, the Black and brown vote, and women, and they don't need to do ANYTHING to earn that goddamn vote. That's not lack of enthusiasm. That's lack of representation.

And anyway, "not enthusiastic" is news-media-speak for "pissed off about his policies," not, " ultimately not going to vote as harm reduction." So miss me with your moralizing screeds about how young people need to be enthusiastic about a politician who has shown almost no concern for them. I'm not fucking enthusiastic about voting as harm reduction either, but I'm going to do it because as you so love to point out, it's this or fascism.

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@intransitivelie @benfell the thing is that voting isn't harm reduction. not only because biden has caused more harm during his political career than three trump presidencies could ever cause, but because it legitimizes everything you just said about how one side feels uncompelled to do literally anything and only has to appear to be less harmful.

opt out. don’t vote. spend the energy usually spent agonizing over these decisions to prepare your neighbors for natural disasters, organizing a tenant union, sharing the parenting load with other parents, communal-izing your possessions so everyone benefits from them, start a repair cafe, create a microgrid
.

“we can do both” except we can’t and the state of things is proof. we either build truly resilient communities (networks of mutual support, trust, and solidarity—not a group on a discord server) and change the world piece by piece having becoming aware to the reality laid out in the earlier post, or we perish—forever deluding ourselves into believing that the next election will be the one that saves us.

hacks4pancakes, to random

You ever have those, "hey, this is 95% a scam, but fuck it I'm bored and willing to see what comes in the mail for 20 bucks?" moments?

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@hacks4pancakes 😏 it’s just a modern gumball machine for big kids when you think about it and hey don’t we all need that sweet release?

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@hacks4pancakes last time i had one of those i ended up with three boxes of those ShamWow! chamois towels lmao

jcrabapple, (edited ) to threads

Would you be interested in joining a new or instance that defederates from ? Please BOOST for visibility.

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@jcrabapple what if we all just logged off and talked to our friends & neighbors again instead?

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

How to Get Arrested (at a Demonstration — And Why You Might Want To Avoid It): SUPER THREAD đŸ’„đŸ’„

ernie, to random
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

Please use another platform. I do not want to give these people money. https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@ernie idk... this 'rant into the void then retreat to yet-another-corporate-owned-and-operated-platform since the current one is shitty' is getting pretty old, pretty fast. it truly takes up far too much brain bandwidth imo.

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@ernie oh right, no. i was referring to the mass move from twitter and medium to substack and how there will inevitably be yet another similar move in the near future.

and yeah, likewise. idk how we get there tho. bizarre to me how you can show someone something that is nearly as frictionless a solution as a substack and they'll opt for the substack solution instead.

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

listen we can shout about things online or tell ppl to email their reps or whatever but how many civilian lives are being saved by posting the seventy-four thousandth instagram carousel?

Edent, to random
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

Just saw someone arguing that Mastodon should proactively prevent people from posting selfies on the public timeline.

Apparently, people just do not understand that the risk the someone might do something nefarious with them is just too high.

The mind boggles.

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@Edent wait so you're in favor of this ban on selfies? bc of the risk posed by posting images of yourself online? or you're shocked that people are suggesting such drastic measures?

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

Organizers and privacy-minded people: a mini thread on URLs and URL sharing and a tool đŸ§”đŸ› ïž

Lots of apps and sites modify links (like social media apps and news sites, particularly Instagram) to embed trackers that allow them to market to you, among other things.

You might see this in the form of a shortened URL or a link that is hella long, like when you copy a link from Instagram like "https://www.instagram. com/poorprolesalmanac?igshid=98s7duj4ed5". It's typically the part after the "?" that is the culprit, but sometimes it's embedded or not so clear where a link ends and where the trackers begin.

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

"Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms ["covid" and "long covid"] and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words."

@washingtonpost coverage by @taylorlorenz

https://archive.ph/9NNHd

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

boost this if you’re refusing to pay your student loans

tothedaring, to music
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

lowkey obsessed with this alvin and the chipmunks soundcloud project where every track is slowed to 16bpm. it’s dark and drippy and haunting and sorta fkd up—extremely my shit

https://on.soundcloud.com/Lf1iLX5KxLwTSNX88

(h/t @clive)

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@ciggysmokebringer @clive yessss. makes me wanna go antiquing / thrifting / junk diving for old tapes.

fuzztech, to acab

. Body cam video of officer diving into icy pond to save eight year old girl. https://apnews.com/video/law-enforcement-vermont-michelle-archer-national-national-8f1584e36c834c148a7839087f7fc2e6

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@neurovagrant i think this over-intellectualizes it and ignores both the fact that stories like this aren't aiming—or crafted, sometimes—for us to "applaud someone saving an 8 year old like that" but to shape a narrative of and reception toward a punitive state apparatus of coercion, as well as the very real harms caused by sharing it and perpetuating false narratives.

the tl;dr is that if it was "man jumps in freezing lake to save little girl" then sure, applaud them, but in this case, the story highlighted that it was a cop and it came from a source known to peddle narratives that reinforce the status quo, it's state propaganda, or more specifically 'copaganda'

tothedaring,
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

@fuzztech @neurovagrant ah yes, classic copaganda.

congrats for doing what any reasonable person would do. like,,, what was the alternative here? lmao this is so embarrassing.

acab includes this cop too fwiw

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

people have issues with leftists or feel unwelcome in leftist spaces & leftist movements because people bring their prescriptive bs and need for control to the table and peddle it as if it’s enlightenment.

no “in my opinion” here. no acknowledgment of this being a personal decision to interpret ideologies & philosophies this way. no “here’s an interesting angle
 what do you think?”

big yawn from me on ppl like this. catch up or get lost.

https://chaos.social/@redcat/111356255966397150

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

coffee has been so weird for me lately. i seem to go thru these like, idk, bumpy patches? where i have a period of losing my flow and can only brew meh coffee at best

its almost like an art form in a way because with all the other variable seemingly being equal, not having that magic touch or je ne sais quoi really makes all the difference in the results

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

🔔 Friendly PSA for people on @kolektiva & adjacent instances and those following or supporting the movement:

A group known as Refuse Fascism (@/refusefascism/@mastodon.world) is on Mastodon and they seem to have a sizeable reach.

This group is associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party a.k.a. RevCom as well as Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, none of which are to be trusted and I would suggest considering adding them to block lists.

These groups are known among organizers to:
‱ collaborate with police
‱ stifle dissent
‱ perpetuate harmful ideas & myths
‱ perpetuate racism & transphobia
‱ swoop demonstrations or co-opt movement engagement for their own ends (like funneling green protesters into their cult-like patterns of behavior or their fundraising efforts—including merch—that diverting funds away from longtime and legitimate outfits)

The last point is critical because prior to the Supreme Court decision to overturn protections, they had no established presence or platform in this movement space then spun up Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights to capture newly generated interest among new or young activists. They appear to be using the same playbook for the movement.

tothedaring, to KindActions
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

after a turbulent two months of weekly visits to hospitals and EDs, my partner and i finally started feeling that we might get a break, but sometime at the hospital after her last surgery or the other hospital for my monthly visit to get pumped w chemo / immunos., we were infected with COVID.

it takes a lot for me to share personal aspects of my life anymore and even more to reach out for support, but we could both really use some TLC and a respite from the storm!

any support is welcomed and deeply appreciated đŸ–€ solidarity!

https://venmo.com/u/tothedaring
https://cash.app/$tothedaring

tothedaring, to random
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

all i rly want out of any social media platform is to be able to shoot the shit with people that don’t give a fuck but who give a damn

tothedaring, to brooklyn
@tothedaring@kolektiva.social avatar

â€ŒïžđŸšš hey so libraries across NYC are rapidly unspooling.

because of recent budget cuts, they’ve been forced to reduce:

‱ their stock of digital books
‱ the number of materials you can put on hold or have out on loan
‱ their hours of operation
‱ scheduled repairs & maintenance
‱ staff

it’s only a matter of time before these cutbacks cascade into elimination of physical materials and closures, leading to the undoing of the library system in NYC.

i implore you to start discussing how to preserve the institutions you have near you and their materials and take steps to make it happen.

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/service-changes

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • ‱
  • JUstTest
  • GTA5RPClips
  • thenastyranch
  • tacticalgear
  • ethstaker
  • InstantRegret
  • DreamBathrooms
  • ngwrru68w68
  • magazineikmin
  • Youngstown
  • mdbf
  • khanakhh
  • slotface
  • rosin
  • provamag3
  • kavyap
  • everett
  • cisconetworking
  • Durango
  • modclub
  • osvaldo12
  • tester
  • Leos
  • cubers
  • normalnudes
  • megavids
  • anitta
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •