Poet. Activist. Storyteller. Handyman for hire in the Portland, OR area (no, really.) Former circus acrobat. Eternal antifascist.
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Last Notes npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Y'all, the day before yesterday I was stung by some kind of insect which I didn't see but I suspect it was an ant) and now that spot on my leg is swollen, hot, itchy, red, and almost hard with inflammation in about a 4 X 6 inch area. Does Oregon have ants that venomous? Could it be a secondary infection? What should I do? npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Piers Morgan and B-Shap just chin-jawing away about the failed Trump shooting, talking about acts of God and other poisonous thoughts. Piers only makes one good point: why the fuck did the Secret Service suck so hard, including ALLOWING DIPSHIT TRUMP TO STAND UP ABOVE HIS HUMAN SHIELDS FOR PHOTO OPS WHILE THEY WERE UNSURE IF THERE WAS ONLY ONE SHOOTER? The answer may surprise you npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta We are, of course, probably fucked at this election, now. The only thing worse for Biden than the assassination of Trump is a failed assassination attempt on Trump. Remember: Americans are very stupid. Biden is the old guy who can barely talk and Trump is now "bulletproof." This is clip-tastic npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta So someone shot at Trump. This could just as easily be a staged accelerationist moment as it could be a legit assassination attempt. But that doesn't really matter. They haven't needed an excuse to come after us so far anyway. If you've lived in Portland for years as I have, you know what I mean. There have already been shots fired. Stop clutching your pearls at the left. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1qtf…yq3j @npub1jce…9qgc suck a Glock, Nick npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1tra…npqw yep. But also Biden is shit-tier and we all have brains in our heads. Where are the real candidates? npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Well, the other lamb has dropped. Lamuel has a new half-sister. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/743/273/579/303/442/original/ba04374f9628ffb1.jpg npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Reminder: always face the teeth on your saw-blades in the direction of the hand you use to throw them —otherwise they won't bite. Right for right hand, left for left hand. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/725/431/900/378/404/original/358a7c1dfa1b48bf.mp4 npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta They hate us, and they hate our neighbors. "When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that cities are free to outlaw homeless encampments, Republicans in Oregon wasted no time calling for changes to a state law they say hamstrings local governments from cleaning camps. Now some Democrats have begun to join that call, potentially heightening the chance state lawmakers will act when they meet next year." npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1k7q…3lrw as ever it goes. Sigh. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta To quote a flawed hero from my childhood: "let's get dangerous" npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx DA Summer Stephan is tied to far-right orgs. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1qjr…kgt0 once again I am outraged and taken back to my helpless position as a caregiver in a place like that when I was 18. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Project 2025 is currently accepting ... resumés? Y'all know what to do. https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/login?session=405880319552596 npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Folks, we are the baddies https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/6/14/pentagon-ran-secret-anti-vax-campaign-to-undermine-china-during-pandemic npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx previous toot removed. Not my right to share that. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1z36…n0u6 I hate the future npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1x7f…hwwr gilded Toot TBH npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta I have never had a worse customer service experience —ever— than I have had over the last 111 months with AT&T as a phone carrier. For those who know me: yes, this includes the Portland Police Bureau; and they gave me covid AND kicked me in the balls. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1ugh…92hc fair enough! npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1ugh…92hc no. You really don't. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta I'm not trying to freak you out or nothing, but civility may fail us when it comes to saving the world. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta I really don't understand why some people on social media will denigrate others for speaking emotionally, even if it feels bombastic or theatrical to them. It's like shaming someone for singing. You don't have to like it, but maybe it isn't for *you* Maybe people sing because they have to. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta If Biden loses this stupid election to Idiot Hitler just because he loves murdering brown people overseas, it ultimately will result in MORE brown people murdered here as well. Amazing how both of our "only" choices in the US are going to get brown people killed. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub156n…mvgw oh shit, I had no idea! Thank you for sharing this. Mr. Jenkins is a real one. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Written for me today by my lover. Already this difficult day feels easier. "I am just a man," He said, His hands of warmth and gentleness His voice of goodness and passion and outspokenness His breath sweet His attention sincere His mind of lyrics, movement, care for his fellow His humility His waterfall of laughter His skin of fire "I am just a man." #poetry npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1k7q…3lrw gods, we're so fucking embarrassing npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx this is why we do it, from across the world. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub10y2…9tyn "dissent must never lead to disorder" is unvarnished fascist rhetoric npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Washington Post garbage article by Todd Frankel interviews Chris Marsicano, who says student protestors should try becoming investors in US defense contractors so they could push for change from within. Because students in America famously have investment money and also they should give it to the companies they're actively trying to subvert. Makes perfect sense if you don't think about it npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta So this asshole who took pics while driving to PSU to assault us and then drove his car into a crowd is definitely going to get the same kinds of charges from Mike Schmidt that I got that time I repelled a nazi murder attempt, right. Right? https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/375/469/401/838/471/original/6ef141ffdbd98a2b.jpg https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/375/469/906/835/246/original/a7d24f6074a08e6a.jpg npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Leftists don't do enough damage. That's our biggest weakness right now. Cops should be afraid to go to work. Their homes should not be secure. Same goes for liberal, centrist, and rightwing politicians. They should be harmed or living in fear of being harmed, because that's where we live. In fear of harm. All the time. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx I challenge Gavin to a bare knuckle fighting match. I will tie my right hand behind my back. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1200…aqy2 I got you beat there, cousin. I got Covid from the fucking cops. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx absolute gold npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Amazing https://youtu.be/BirJMnMcfBs?si=8pjYVd0zxa77aN-O npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1wwc…88qz right, but we are talking about a system that calls itself "justice" not "whatever is easiest" npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1wwc…88qz maybe so, yeah. But wouldn't it be better to hold his feet to the fire like anyone else? npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1gmx…atcq "you don't have permission to view this page" npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Donkey blep https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/165/285/121/803/039/original/fc45b4fb7a6c5db9.jpg npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx horrific. Fuck those cops. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Fuck. Dad's girlfriend flew to Canada last week and either she brought Covid back with her, or he picked it up playing bagpipes in a crowd on St. Patrick's Day —WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID WOULD HAPPEN. Dad is now testing positive. It scares the shit out of me when he gets Covid. He's tough but he is old and this is a reinfection. They're always a crapshoot. I'm testing negative right now but I've had (very limited) exposure to them both the last 24 hours. So now the household is in quarantine again. Goddamned Boomers. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx @npub1qmq…0f3v 1312 npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta I wish there were more of this transcript. It's from the day I was arrested and my arrest was pretty high-profile. Ahern sued PDX over her arrest. And rightly so. They injured her with a violent arrest for spitting *near* them. Not long after, they tackled Alonna Mitchell and injured her, too, also resulting in a settlement from Portland. https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2024/03/12/recordings-from-a-police-plane-show-officers-looking-for-reasons-to-arrest-the-leftist-protesters-below/ npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx finally got him npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1mmf…eknq doesn't really seem like a fan npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx thank you for this. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta I've said this before, but here it is again: Anytime you can safely do so in person, be disrespectful to cops. ALWAYS be disrespectful to them as a general social tax. Find out who the cops are in your town. Don't let your kids go to their houses. Never allow them into your house, on or off duty. Bonus points: put up fliers in their neighborhoods that doxx them as pigs. Cops should be deeply, constantly, thoroughly uncomfortable in any community other than the one they've chosen at our expense. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx Portland's leaders are monsters and our Police Department is a bunch of racist dunces from Washington State. They're all liars. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Back in 2009, I was in a big circus show in which a pair of very talented aerialists did a a lyra act. These artists were women and also lovers. At the end of their act, they had a chaste but definitely intimate kiss, to cap things off. The show was an all-ages event, and I didn't find out until later that the kiss had generated controversy for the production company and thus friction between it and the artists. Two athletes, both women, briefly kissing, aloft, surrounded by applause and music, buoyed by the holy effervescence of the stage. A "controversy." In the year of our loud 2009. What a fucking joke. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Prometheus thinking "Dare I? Nay, I daren't. Or dare I? No. Unless..." #PrometheusTheCat #cats https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/956/153/910/364/614/original/116245b3b8e84d54.mp4 npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1gmx…atcq man, you have to really blow a lot of k to cause that kind of damage. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1c3m…43se I FUCKING CALLED THIS RIGHT AFTER ISRAEL RETALIATED. I am a wizard. Or, maybe it's pretty obvious that the US and Israel's alliance is really about our own globally-imperial military strategy of constantly threatening the entire world and good old-fashioned dirty industrial apocalypse money npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta #CDCsays don't throw out that betamax. Do you not understand the meaning of value npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta #CDCsays your corneas need vitamin D from the sun, so get them eyeballs an attractive tan npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta #CDCsays remember to boil your lucky condom before and after every use npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta #CDCsays "in my day we sacrificed 1 of every 4 babies born to our weird god. And nobody complained." npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1gmx…atcq Makes perfect sense if you don't think about it npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta I try to be upfront with people https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/920/631/517/228/100/original/71acd8b800f5608d.jpg npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Millenials (or whoever, actually): do you ever find yourself intentionally not using digital map apps when driving to an unfamiliar place? You know, only using road signs and your skull-goo/soul muck as a way to keep your sense of direction sharp? npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta I despise the algorithm patois that worsens all our language online. "Comedian EVISCERATES Trump supporters with basic fact" "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS college student" "Nancy Pelosi EXPLODES over migrant issue" We are talking like this to appease machines, not people. It fucking sucks. It's poisonous, escalatory, and needlessly violent speech. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub164l…qy04 youngest black dude I've seen here, yeah npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta also, this guy was always trying to sue the government over his student loans. Pro se, which is a real winner's strategy —not. Check it out. https://casetext.com/case/mohn-v-united-states-11 npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx also, this guy was always trying to sue the government. Pro se. Check it out. https://casetext.com/case/mohn-v-united-states-11 npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx This is bad. This murder is driven by christofascism and it is emblematic of the absolute worst we can expect from the Right if they seize power. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1gmx…atcq I feel lucky that my symptoms subsided with age, but I can't be sure why they did. I made lots of changes to my diet and stuff, but like... that's not a scientific story, and I still have mild hayfever anyway. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1gmx…atcq rheumatology and autoimmune disorders fascinate me. I had incredibly bad, debilitating allergies as a child and I go super into figuring out wtf was wrong with me, because back then they would just give you more and more benadryl. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx murderers npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub15th…6nvx Cops are not members of society. They exist separately as parasitic predators of society. Fuck the police. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1xpc…3t05 it's actually pretty shortsighted to discount the platform as a viable source of news. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx ohhhhh yes, we got him npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Storytime! I went to high school in Southern Oregon. For those who know, Oregon has DEEPLY white supremacist roots, unusually so for a west-coast state, and this is reflected in the way policing is done here. I was a queer, punk, theatre kid at a peckerwood/redneck high school in a bedroom town called Phoenix. There was a lot of cultural friction for me and my little cadre as we black-swanned through adolescence. Some of us punks were spikier than others, like my very good friend, T. T was a classically visible punk kid, with a foot-tall mohawk stiffened with furniture lacquer and Unruh patches on his ragged leather jacket. I was a poorly-dressed poet-in-rags type who got in a lot of fistfights with bullies. One day, T was accused by the school of having set fire to a piece of paper that was taped to a brickwork exterior wall, partially charring it (note: the paper was not incinerated or destroyed, and in fact was still intact according to the pictures submitted as evidence) and of course myself and my ragged, gum-chewing cohorts were hauled into the office and interrogated about it. The Phoenix police department arrived to question us separately, and none of our parents were notified. As I sat there in the nursing room with some 26 year-old pig shithead telling me that he KNEW my friend had set the fire and that I had "assisted" him, I told him that I saw no such thing and no one else had either, and I demanded to know who had told them this story. He said it was T who had confessed. I knew T had about as much respect for authority as I did, so this seemed implausible at best. Not knowing any better, (I was 14, having advanced a grade early) I assumed cops couldn't lie, so I figured there must be some mistake, or that the police had been lied to themselves. I denied everything. They tried to make me write a statement about the incident while they had me locked up, so I stole as many wet-naps as I possibly could fit in my pants and wrote 200 or so words about my aspirations to become a garbage man. They took the paper and left me there for another 30 minutes or so. The next person to enter the room was my mother, and she did not come gentle. I heard her before I saw her. "Where is Alexander?" She bellowed. "Where is my son?" The door came open and she came in with an officer and the vice principal. She absolutely lost her mind at the sight of me in handcuffs and called the officer -who shrank before her barely five foot height- a "peasant traitor" and got me out of there. Then we saw T being arrested just outside the office. He said nothing to me at all, but the look on one of my best childhood friend's faces was like a spear of ice through my heart. The charge they hit him with was ARSON. Their witness? Me. They had lied to him, telling him that I had sold him out, coercing him into a weak confession. Ultimately, the charges were reduced and he only had to do community service, but it was a difficult thing to mend our friendship. We figured out what had happened pretty quickly, but to a 14 year old, two weeks of believing in a betrayal from your best friend is an eternity. FUCK the police. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Dad is unreasonably excited about the disco ball he got for Xmas. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/727/259/944/514/546/original/3502eff4f0c4a81f.jpg npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx Cops are not members of society. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx heroes npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1200…aqy2 I legit forgot Paris Hilton was a thing npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1200…aqy2 yeah, fair enough. Sorry. I'm bitchy today. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1200…aqy2 categorically false and weirdly gendered npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1ahq…wjwd uhhh. This is pretty irresponsible verbiage, Warner. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx kick their asses the fuck out npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta 40% of my friends who went out on MYE have contracted Covid-19. Exactly like I said they would. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx PDX here. 🔥 npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta New Year's Eve will be the superest of Covid-19 super-spreader events. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1gmx…atcq yeah, we're just chillin' in the Fuck You zone for disabled folks in this country atm npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta It really bugs me how many Americans talk so cavalierly about an armed civil conflict here. A real civil war, even a relatively contained/short one, would not be an organized Red VS Blue slugfest on open fields. It'd be an incredibly chaotic, paranoid nightmare of having no idea who might assume you were an enemy and bomb your house or shoot at your car, with emboldened accelerationists carrying out terror attacks on infrastructure, leaving people without power, without water, without communications. A pants-shittingly horrifying episode of stupid, frenetic, isolating violence from which your stupid little guns would not avail you or those you love. Fuckin' grow up npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Oh, so the bathroom isn't haunted https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/610/927/385/384/974/original/0e9d7f508ea18284.mp4 npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Cousins, I got a friend who is being stalked by a piece of shit who's mad that she makes OF content with people outside her race. He is threatening her and her mother and has demonstrated that he knows where they live. He is using a VPN to hide his identity. I know VPN's aren't foolproof to keep a person anonymous online, but I'm not savvy enough to find him out myself. Anyone have any tips? This situation is very dangerous. No suggesting police involvement. They will not help and also fuck that. We have screenshots of his threatening messages but the email addresses are all burners that just lead back to his VPN. He has never met the victim IRL (that she is aware of) and they have never had a relationship outside of him following her OF, apparently. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta So I was trying to solder an end cap on this vertical copper pipe but the main valve does not completely seal the line, so drops of water kept running into the end during blowtorching, making the job literally impossible without a specific and expensive plumber's kit. So I broke off a hunk of white bread and stuffed it into the pipe to stanch the water so I could do the job. The bread will dissolve eventually, not clogging the line, but also this is an end anyway. It worked! I don't remember ever learning of this trick, but I don’t think I came up with it, either. I must have heard it someplace and filed it away long ago. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/576/128/155/475/294/original/e84c66d51dbc4cfb.jpg npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx welcome back, Eric! npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Reminder: the Uvalde cops whose cowardice and stupidity got a fuckload of children killed faced basically zero consequences. They had level 4 ballistic armor and there were over 100 officers responding to the scene. They should be treated like shit for the rest of their lives, everywhere they go. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1qjr…kgt0 my first jobs at 18 years old were in care facilities of different sorts. They were all awful places in their own ways, but we definitely never served this kind of shit to the residents at any of the three places I worked. What a travesty. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1vkc…0wyj I spent 5 years at a shitass company run by a manipulative asshole who absolutely used every one of us and cheated any way he could. That place was called Magic-Flight, run by Forrest Landry. I was like, employee #8. Most of the time I was there, I did exactly as this guy in the video suggests. Unless your boss is actually a friend of yours, your boss is NOT your friend. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx yo, that's my hometown area. I may have grown up fighting these same assholes. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx I'd fight that guy npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx I despise these mass-murdering shitvipers npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub14ha…pqf0 @npub1avh…xckt . . . This is a horror story npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta Anne Boyer has resigned from her position as Poetry Editor at the New York Times. This is another omen in a growing line of portentous signs about the seriousness of Israel's United States-backed genocide of Palestinians. Though accurate, that last phrase feels *inadequate*, doesn't it? Let's try it again: Israel's genocide against Palestine is being funded and supported by the United States military and its massive, opaque budget. ... no, still not good enough. Your personal tax dollars —the money you earn but then lose at your master's discretion under pain of imprisonment— is being used to waylay and murder babies as they and their parents huddle in impotent fear or flee for their lives. Nah, not quite. Once more. You —you, personally— and I are both unwillingly but directly and personally complicit in the mass murder of an entire nation. Those of you with functioning souls who know what poetry really is and why it matters probably already understand why Boyer's hard-nosed exit from the NYT is such a storm warning. Boyer is a cultural fixture. Poets, much like songwriters (but subject to fewer creative boundaries) are bellwethers of the zeitgeist. People have long looked to these kinds of artists to get a sense of which way the wind blows in the realms of our many disparate cultures. As a compulsive poet myself, I can confidently tell you that when poets say "no poetry for you" you know things are bad. In her resignation letter, she said that she "won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering." To put it another way, she is setting aside one of the most important things in her life —perhaps even what she considers to be her purpose— because dire times call for such a drastic measure. Boyer's work is amazing. If you haven't read Garments Against Women, you should. I bought that book in order to read it with Mom before she died, but I was too late. The first book of Boyer's that I read was The Romance of Happy Workers, and yo, if that title doesn't grab you, I don't know that you're the type to appreciate why a genocide might be a bad thing. Boyer's (and others like her) rejection of her obligate art in the face of the actual literal atrocity that you and I are personally backing is a big deal. It's a sign. Check the wind, cousins. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta @npub1p9t…mltx FUCK those pigs npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta 77 year-old white American lawyer Kenneth Darlington shot and killed two environmental protestors in Panama over a roadblock. I hope he suffers for the rest of his fucking life. npub1lfya3mx7sv5aja2eth3n7myx6n2hd0zy9pz2jmklruzlqgn9km9sep4lg8 AlphaBeta DEAR ASSHOLES ON THE MEGAPHONE IN PDX: WHILE YOU'RE ORDERING PROTESTORS TO SIT ON THE GROUND AT AN ANTI-WAR PROTEST IN ORDER TO "SHOW THE COPS THAT WE ARE PEACEFUL" HERE IS MY SUGGESTION SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU: PLEASE THRUST YOUR THUMBS DEEEEEP INTO YOUR EYE SOCKETS AND THEN FUCK OFF #PDX #FreePalestine #PeacePolice #ShitLeftists #Portland #Oregon