ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

I worked my whole life to get to this day. My monster has escaped into the world. SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN is out now!

Shesheshen is a shapeshifting monster with a big problem: she's fallen for a human. This human is so kind and thoughtful, but also? This human is hunting her.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739891/someone-you-can-build-a-nest-in-by-john-wiswell/

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/11/everything-israel-is-doing-to-minimize-civilian-casualties-in-gaza/

Six months into the genocide in Gaza, so much is clear.

On the most elementary level, it’s clear as day that this is a genocide. Plain and simple. Bloody, eliminationist, and sadistically deadly. There is nothing complicated about it, nor hidden from view; one has to willfully make it complex or mask it to say otherwise (which alas, many are doing).

On a human level, it’s clearly, to put it mildly, heartbreaking and traumatizing.

It’s clear too, if one opens their eyes, that there is “no state solution” to this genocide. No state is coming to the rescue, nor forming a bloc of Allied forces to intervene; many states have no power to do so, but many more are part of a global “fascist turn” that doesn’t want to. (Meanwhile, progressives and liberals, including ones who play at being radicals, busy themselves with “state solutions” that clearly aren’t there at all, and in the process, close up space and imagination for social transformation.)

Meaning, for many of us, a certain hopelessness or despair or powerless has felt clear.

What’s less clear is how to stop or perceptibly disrupt this genocide and the fascism that fuels it.

Of late, though, friends known and anonymous, have made it much clearer to me that certain types of resistance could be profoundly, actually impactful, including:

Anticapitalist direct action, such as the bold @a15actions’ call for coordinated economic blockades on April 15 and long-standing but amped-up BDS campaign.

Antimilitarist action and military refusal, whether dogged direct actions to shut down military manufacturers or block military supply shipments, to Israelis going to jail rather than serve in the IOF, to Aaron Bushnell’s action, to unrest with the ranks of US troops.

Abundant space for grief, spirituality, and rituals in do-it-ourselves ways—to defend the sacred, communally maintain our solidarity and humanity against their barbarism, and communally embody life and love.

Remaking the landscape into a culture of resilience, daily and ubiquitously asserting that autonomous self-organization is possible, but so too are other worlds.

(photo: “intifada = uprising” seen on my walk #FuckFascism tonight)

‘It should be a much bigger story’: Trump cabinet officials continue to come out against him https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/-it-should-be-a-much-bigger-story-trump-cabinet-officials-continue-to-come-out-against-him-208096837742

TERFS are now FARTS: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FART%20(Acronym)

H/T @slyyy

#transphobia

we've never seen scum levels like this

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Breaking: One-Man Crime Wave Posts Bond https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/04/01/breaking-one-man-crime-wave-posts-bond/

José Andrés' NGO says 4 of its aid workers killed in Gaza strike
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/gaza-aid-workers-killed-strike-world-central-kitchen?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-AxiosNews

computers used to yell at us when we connected to the internet, but in our hubris we ignored them.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, most of y’all don’t know what it’s like to be a fediverse developer of a popular project and have to deal with all the negative feedback and personal attacks

Let’s be nicer to the devs of the fediverse who have been doing this mostly unpaid for the greater good, all I ask is for basic respect!

Anfora, Prismo, Firefish and dozens of other projects have been abandoned by their devs, and I’d bet the fediverse mentality towards devs is part of the reason

good afternoon ⁠✿♡ #bloomscrolling

we're seeing hijinks levels at about 54%

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I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.

If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4