Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

Asker-Zade, 35, is one of Vladimir Putin's key allies and is the girlfriend of the despot's private banker Andrey Kostin, whose business and personal life has also been restricted for his role as Putin's "piggy bank".

She’s sanctioned by Canada and the U.K.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/elon-musk-caught-rubbing-shoulders-28770636?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

I suck at shameless self promo, but I used to sell a bunch of these over on the bird site. When I left my sales of my 2023 calendars dropped. These calendars are full of Minnesota images, so I don't think the appeal will be large beyond The North and the Midwest. Anyway, if some of my bird site friends made it here and were looking, here it is. Now back to my regular sharing of art.

You can get them for 10% off using the code: BLIZZARD10

http://www.bryanhansel.com/calendar

#Minnesota

I was on the impeachment team after January 6 and I saw Donald Trump's guilt firsthand.

Trump pledged to defend our Republic. Instead, he incited a mob to storm the Capitol and left everyone inside for dead.

Now, @TheJusticeDept must ensure that justice is served. No one is above the law.

This story about a newly-elected Republican house member lying about basically every detail of his background is bonkers. Probably would have been a good idea for the Times to look into this before the election, though? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html

Dear reporters, news people, etc.,

The reason you're not getting any reach on Masto is because you rarely interact. You just come here, post your news article, and don't engage with the community.

You will never get reach if you don't interact with people. This is not Twitter. This is not Facebook. If you want this platform to work for you, you have to become a part of the community, not just shout at us and leave. Forget everything you learned in the walled corporate digital gardens.

#Introduction #Intro

TL:DR: I'm mostly posting this intro to connect with other Black and BIPOC Anarchists or Anti-authoritarians. Hit me up!

Hey, everyone

My partner and I are currently working on a docuseries, @Elememts_of_MA, about the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid-based organizing. The project isn't exclusively profiling anarchist groups, but it is deeply anti-authoritarian - we're especially staying away from charismatic leaders and celeb "activist" types.

The whole thing is independent - no producers; everything is out of pocket. We've been living out of a van we converted so we could make this happen; which has been amazing. We've been on the road since May Day this year, and have already filmed some amazing interviews as far north as Montreal and as far south as Puerto Rico.

However, I'm personally struggling to find Black organizations or collectives that aren't MLM, AADOS, authoritarian, Black Capitalist, nonprofit style groups. Reading and theory groups or media collectives are rad, but I'm really looking for groups that're doing interesting work on the ground (*not food distro*) from an anti-state-nationalist analysis.

Lorenzo and JoNina Irvin will appear in the film, among other radical Black people like Jessica Gordon Nembhard, The Northeast Action Collective in Houston, and Arm the Girls in Oakland. So, I'm not at a complete loss.

But, please send me all the rad groups of Black people you know that are creating long-term, democratic, mutual aid projects in their communities. They do not need to identify as anarchist, but they *cannot* be down with the nation state and have to be doing more than food distro.

Thanks a ton, y'all.

Beyond all that, I'm also really interested in connecting with people to write Star Wars analysis and fan-fiction. I think the galaxy far, far away is an interesting canvas to explore the tensions of autonomous world building vs authoritarian revolutionary movements. If I lived in that universe, I'd no doubt be getting into arguments with the Rebel Alliance.

Thanks for reading this long-winded post.

#Solidarity

#Black #BlackMastodon #BlackAnarchism #Anarchism #Anarchy #Antifa #Antifascism #Antiracism #Feminism #DisabilityJustice #BlackLiberation #IndigenousAnarchism #indigenousFedi #BlackFedi #blackfediverse #decolonize #decolonization #TransLiberationNow #transliberation #LGBTQ #queerliberation #QueerLiberationNow #StarWars #Andor #SciFi #Literature #creativewriting #creativewritingsocial #documentary #documentaryfeaturefilm #documentaryfilm #film #antiauthoritarianism #antiauthoritarian #vanlife #anarkata #anticapitalism #antinationalism #AnarchismOfBlackness #AnarchistPeopleOfColor #APOC #democraticconfederalism #MutualAid #collectivism #Zapatismo

@w7voa As a pilot: please keep your seatbelt tightly fastened at all times. We’re really not joking about that. Aircraft are very strong and can withstand quite a lot of turbulence. Humans are substantially less sturdy.

It's December 18th, and that means it's time for the ceremonial recitation of "How the #Grinch Stole #Chanukah"

https://youtu.be/9DGg2Vt_LSQ

Anybody can make a difference but most people shouldn't.

@gwensnyder "and that was how i ended up getting 3,175 DMS in one hour..."

On 12/16/20, the “national council of Three Percenters” issued a statement, “We stand ready & are standing by… We are ready to enter battle with GENERAL FLYNN leading the charge. WE WILL NOT ACT UNLESS WE ARE TOLD TO.”

Where was General Flynn after Trump’s speech on Jan 6?!

Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604287395653832704.html
#sedition #january6th #january6 #Flynn #MichaelFlynn #insurrection

Wow. Now URL defanging is prohibited on Twitter. Musk just killed discussion of infosec/cyber threat intel.

He's doing this to stop automated tools that help people migrate away from Twitter by scanning for URLs/handles to other platforms in Twitter bios and pined tweets. This seems worthy of FTC antitrust action. I hope the FTC, EFF, and others sue the shit out of them.

Maybe QElon didn't want his flight info talked about yesterday because he was heading to the World Cup to hang out with Jared and his Saudi Twitter investors in Qatar?