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artist/maker/problem solver and finder of secret spaces.
gender is a prison and I chewed through the bars.
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Either there is significant missing context or your headline editor is NUTS.
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150k for marketing is LESS that previous years.
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A million dollars where?
The article does not contain numbers that add up to a million dollars, it looks like 40k for Promote Lowell, 150k for general marketing, plus some money for lowell pd / Guilfoil to spit out copaganda / PR.
It links to a FOUR HUNDRED MB PDF as evidence with no context.
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i always figured if i needed to make easy money i’d sell feet pics but apparently all it took was calling a fascist a bitch…
and i think that’s beautiful
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✊
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The Exit 8 may be something you'd like, it's the most brightly lit "horror" game you'll ever find - it takes place in a Japanese subway station.
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...I hit send on that before I realized it had weed in it and I stand by it.
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Saugus in a Can
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Remember tribute albums?
*sigh.
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#photography
#lowell
#massachusetts
#pride
#lgbtqia
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(a cool answer like "Yep!", even, apparently.)
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While I was out taking these, a teenager crossing the river said ARE YOU A PHOTOGRAPHER?! and my brain short-circuited.
Thanks kid. Needed that. Sorry I didn't have a cool answer for you.
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I like the symmetry too lol but they're as likely to show up, realize it's ICE, and hug it out.
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I don't call cops for literally anything so I don't really have any advice here other than don't assume cops will do anything useful for you, ever, even by accident.
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(I asked one of the at-large city councilors if he was going to say, you know, anything, about any of this and was mocked for it).
You just need to keep an eye out. lowell's internet is like 70%fb, 20% reddit, 5% bluesky, but we have massive blindspots.
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so far, lowell police have avoided interacting with ICE at all while also not really offering any advice other than "know your rights" etc which is true but unhelpful.
They (and city hall, and the city council) are not really talking about ICE at all.
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also to get them out of our fucking backyard but in a grand scheme of things overall picture of it: we need resiliency, and momentum. Things are not going to stop getting bad.
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The purpose of going where the fash is is to see who else shows up, and to build that community. We are separated from each other in every conceivable way. We need to build resilience, and that starts with figuring out who you can trust, and to do what.
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One person with a smartphone is a THREAT to their deal - they do not know if you are streaming, who your audience is, how many people, or who will show up because you are there. That information imbalance is baluable.
Do not physically interfere. Stay back. But mockery works REALLY well.
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The most valuable resource you will have if ICE comes to your neighborhood is knowing as fast as possible that they're there, and how fast you can get there. Lowell is big and spread out and our infrastructure keeps us apart. Proximity is key.
IMO: Go watch, film, and heckle them. Don't wait. Move.
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I'm not saying there's causality here; I'm saying ICE is predictable and lazy and wants the PR of them looking fashy during arrests and will go where that is easiest. They love Centralville, it's half brown people and half cop relatives. They haven't been back downtown.
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ICE relies on our hesitance to stop and get into their context to grab people and go - we showed up when they hit downtown and they fled after the slightest pushback. The outer districts seem much friendler to them; it seems they focus their efforts there.
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