Nora, Tech Witch @tindall@cybre.space

If you are trying to portray pride and BLM as clashing for attention rather than being intersectional and intertwined.

YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.

the lesbian mayor of seattle is siccing the cops on protestors, happy pride month

someone on twitter calling for people to stop making horny art of cops and make horny art of USPS workers instead

"we don't lick boots, we lick stamps"

hey, if anyone *not* trans wants to lift up or speak the names to mark the pivotal, foundational legacies of Marsha and Sylvia — their femmeness and their Blackness/Latineness, their gayness, their radicalism, etc. — maybe *don’t* omit how they were trans,

thanks

everything coming out of Minneapolis right now should show you that mutual aid is human nature and violent hatred is the result of a cruel and unjust system

"I hope this results in good music like in the 60s"

One, fuck you, this isn't about that.

Two, you are admitting that you never listen to hip hop or else you don't consider music about police violence and harassment to be political.

And lastly, name me 10 really political songs from the 60s. There's this idea that the 60s were full of political rock and roll, but it was really few and far between. The political music of the 60s was Soul, and that was political in its existence and proud blackness, not as often in lyrics.

if you're willing to push through stuff like moby dick or the lord of the rings - especially if you're one of those ppl who loves to trot out the list of long "classics" you've read for clout - you can read BIPOC authors. you have the capacity.

a cool thing about donating to bail funds btw: that money isn't one-and-done. unless someone actually doesn't report to court, which almost never happens, that money is returned to the bail fund to be used once again. donating $50 to a bail fund *permanently* gives them an additional $50 to use again and again as that money gets returned to them.

the bigger the pool of money a bail fund has, the more people it can help at once, since ofc your $50 cannot be used to post bail for multiple people at one time.

stonewall wasn't just a riot, it was an anti-cop riot led by black people. any queer not fully on board with black people protesting police brutality is betraying everything pride stands for

Will pigs fight against the national guard if they're called in? Will they protect protestors from right wingers? Fuck no. So don't give them an inch of our space.

Now, will a former liberal or right-winger turned leftist put themselves between the police and vulnerable communities? I've seen more of that than cops ever helping someone.

Learn who you're talking to, what they can use their privelage for to help, and keep on that.

the path to exiting doomerism is remembering that every act of revolution is what bends the arc of history towards justice and then doing whichever acts of revolution you can

the fact that a 'report people to the police' app released and was then completely crashed within about 3 minutes by K-Pop fans bombarding it in music video clips is proof that revolutionary praxis can be both effective AND hilarious

subt00t