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Memory worker playing brass, knotting nets, and doing mad science. I use this space to research, review literature, stay up on news, and draft out ideas. Support my shenanigans at "sambrambling" on cashapp and Venmo. On Letterboxd as "Spudshark"
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Am I considered an annoyance just because I am living through a brutal genocide? For almost a year, I have been attacked on this platform, accused of being a fraud or just an annoyance. Has humanity really come to the point where pain and suffering are categorized as annoyances? I only demand that

“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...

Thanks in part to your generosity, I was able to make sure my friend Ahmed has enough flour for the month. Now he is able to get a kilo of various veggies for around $50/each. Any help you can give, even if it's just a dollar or two, makes a difference. 💕💸🍉 🍉 www.paypal.com/paypalme/Ahm...

in an era of Golden Domes and massive defense contracts for your Palmers Luckey, Ukraine's real innovation is logistics. Open source software. Cheap drones. Trucks. Sheds. Exploiting the enemy's arrogance. www.404media.co/ukraines-mas...

yall FEMA, SNAP, WIC, water shed protection, cultvert repair, Ag Inspection- most of the programs we are worried about loosing are all divvied up based upon the Farm Bill. it's two years post when the dems should have delivered a draft. Trumps admin will be using this bill to fuck us all for 6 +yrs

The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review. I hope everyone really hears this.

Got a package in the mail filled with my baby teeth and a note from The Tooth Fairy that said, "Through the light of Christ I now know that what I did was occult and wrong. Return money now to weaken Satan." Anyone else get one of these?

My message to the compassionate. My family has run out of flour and this will force 11 members of my family to go to bed without food. The price of a bag of flour in the market now exceeds $600. My family needs you and your support, my friends. Does anyone still feel us? 😔💔 tinyurl.com/dtrrjhs2

"This pattern started in the mid-1970s when Congress changed the way the bankruptcy court treats student loans. Probably one of the most well-known facts about student debt is that it’s nearly impossible to discharge in bankruptcy. But that wasn’t always the case." www.teenvogue.com/story/conseq...

Show up for black trans women!

free-to-download poster for printing sajan.itch.io/wizard-poster

They're kidnapping kids dawg

This is happening in Belém where they're hosting COP30 btw.

If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail. Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.

Just 30/a day raised for this family—ever, in 1 month. That won't even cover a handful of vegetables. 🚨 Ahmad is having to choose which of his children to feed—his son with cancer in Egypt, or his three kids with him in Gz. 🚨 Be bold. 69/400 by Friday. tinyurl.com/Help-Ahmad

Jaws, what a movie that was

Hi, I'm a homeless mom of two teen boys, living in a hotel room. Our SNAP has just been cut in half & we badly need help with gas, laundry, and groceries. My goal is $300/wk Anything helps! Cash.app/$Halaylah Venmo.com/Halaylah Paypal.me/Halaylah #MutualAid #HelpSky #HelpFolksLive 💕💸 Thank you! 💜

There has to be a non-zero number of people who become cops so they can cosplay as an action movie hero

“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night. It is too devastating to see how few there are.” On climate change and a shifting world: for insects, for birds, for bats, for us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

This is criminal

My babies my babies, I wish I could hold you safe in my own home. But for now I can do this

The hope I can offer from the deep south, where we've never stopped being policed + surveilled + targeted, is that you can survive this too. Find your elders, stick together, choose your battles. It's not fair, but it is necessary. You've got a community just waiting to welcome you.

I think I was 10 or 11 when I first saw Amistad, sometime in 1999 or 2000. Fundamentally radicalized me. It's a film I revisit as often as I'm called to it and I'll stop whatever I'm doing to watch if it comes on.

Willem Arondeus was a gay Dutch artist who participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazis from identifying Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. His final words before execution were, “Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards.” 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

One thing I learned researching trans communities in the '80s and '90s for Woodworking was how many trans care networks were largely off the grid, trans people dispensing meds and even doing minor surgical procedures. It seems non-ideal, but I found it interesting! Sharing this today for no reason!

If you are looking to donate this Pride month, send money to orgs like Kakuma Queers who are providing support for queer refugees. Big non profits don’t need your money. Put it in the hands of people doing work on the ground.

You can watch the full production of this here: archive.org/details/xebp...

It's Pride Month. While the Trevor Project undoubtedly does important work, it's a union buster and treats its employees poorly. Here is a list of alternate crisis intervention resources to support this month: pflag.org/resource/sup...

Anyway, I don’t like to waste too much of my time or brainspace on JKR, but if she’s aiming the full force of her wealth at removing my rights, I think it’s fine that I spend an afternoon making graphics to help make people aware of it.

But whomst will I kiss on Pridesmas' Eve? *She dissembles*

Just to be clear: I reclaimed my rights back when Unbound missed the first payment, over a year ago. Unbound owe me a lot of money, but I am finalizing my direct contract with my US publisher, and current royalties WILL be paid to me. I didn't ask anyone to stop buying my books. Don't spread this.

Target Scales Back Pride Section To Single T-Shirt Saying They’d Do A Threesome With A Girl For Their Boyfriend’s Birthday

Please help save Ali's sister ❤️

… if you’re talking about “fighting fascism” and not talking about keeping the most targeted people in housing and safety You aren’t fighting fascism You’re just having a discursive pantomime with to feel good It’s gross

Should be a bigger story that John McCain’s widow Cindy McCain went on American TV and called bullshit on Israel’s lies last weekend. Like John McCain’s widow is now to the left of Cory Booker on Israel. That’s how bad the Dems are on Palestinian human rights.

+100 from your friendly neighborhood librarian

Pray, scream, cry, help these babies.