The Quuuuuill

it’s a healthy sign of a community when dad jokes enter the cultural milieu as something that’s passed from generation to generation. we inherited these jokes, handed them down, and someday they’ll be handed down again

oh man. all the old jokes are new again. shit, am i basically a dad now?

time to go ham sandwich

The united states, russia, israel, and the united kingdom are the major players of white supremacist societies

norwegian waffles are severely underrated

100%. black women especially

we didn’t learn about blair mountain. this is a great tragedy. my elementary school serves an old mining community. my farm growing up had an entrance to the old mine on it. our teachers had an old miner come in to talk to us about how it used to work and the environmental impact. he started telling us about how he volunteered for the civil war, got on a train to head north to fight before they shuffled him out of the room. they said he was old and confused. it took me 20 years to realize he was telling us the realist thing anyone had ever told us. there was a living monument to what it takes to make the world better in our classroom, right in front of me. he’d taken a lever action rifle, got on a train, and headed to blair mountain. he was ready to die. he told his wife and his children goodbye because he didn’t want his children to be abused the way he was. he didn’t know if they would ever see him again, but he knew if he did nothing the world would remain static, and the status quo would be sustained.

the outcome of that battle was weekends. we have weekends where we don’t have to work because of him and men like him. that’s what it took to get that basic dignity given to us. and i’m sure it weighs heavily on him that he survived. that he saw so many of his friends cut down by the pinkertons. if he were alive today, i wonder what he’d think about the pinkertons filling in for the striking hospital police in town. perhaps i’m glad he’s not alive to see the inheritors of the world he and his friends built through their own bloodshed voting to undo all that, to go back to how it was before.

but it’s also an inspiration. our grandfathers and great grandfathers fought fascism because it’s what they had to do. now in the name of them, and for me and you, i’m gonna fight fascism too.

i grew up in Virginia and we had an entire year in our standards of learning dedicated to learning about Nat Turner and John Brown. we might not anymore after that parents’ rights group in loudoun county brought the phrase “critical race theory” to the national table

propaganda works

the biggest thing left wing organizing can do is give people a sense that they are cared for and safe. it doesn’t have to be patrols, though it has gotten far enough that you may have to use your bodies as barricades that won’t let the fascists through. the more likely thing you’ll want to do in counter organizing is give people in need food. people are simple. we will think of whoever feeds us as being our saviors and salvation. you want to make sure people don’t join a right wing paramilitary? give them food. talk to them. listen to what they’re worried about. soothe their pain.

right wing politics are all about control through power. left wing politics are all about liberation through coalition building to resist that power.

i prefer Felon Stank

You’ve not convinced me that bot writers care about efficiency.

and why should bot writers care about efficiency when what they really care about is time. they’ll burn all your resources without regard simply because they’re not who’s paying

fwiw Anubis is working on a more respectful update, this was their first pass solution for what was basically a break glass emergency. i understand FSF’s concern, but Anubis is the only thing that’s making a free and open internet remotely possible right now, and far better it that nightmare fuel like cloudflare

i’m only mildly annoyed that those are f-22s in the thumbnail

it did and still firefox is viewed as slipping, and mozilla is doing little to nothing to fix it

hot, active, new, top, and controversial are all algorithms

i’ve considered this as what’s going on

decent chance lol. but i didn’t ask for this either. it’s like there’s an internet civil war and i got a side assigned to me. i’m not switching sides, i got sorted right, but it’s weird to me, an internet old head

i’m banned from a lot of these communities i’ve discovered. i don’t do downvotes of relevant posts in their own communities, i just block such communities, so it will also be based on comment content it seems.

i contribute code back a lot so any distro i use will end up getting free labor from me so it works a little different for me. like you said, it’s a personal choice