Reviewer 2 @reviewer2@qoto.org

Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, because I have brain cancer.

I would like to connect with the #accessibility dev community, something I have never figured out, probably in part for neurodivergence reasons. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

I'm a Jew who's been afraid at Palestine protests.

Then, I learned more. I learned that I didn't know what people were chanting. I learned there was a lot to unlearn.

Then I decided I don't want my identity used to shield a genocidal apartheid state.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/being-afraid-does-not-mean-youre

Some people in The Comments seem to be misunderstanding my point to be that individual actions don't matter. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that actions which influence and restrain institutions are the only ones that matter on the scale of institutions, which is the actual scale of the problem.

Your neighbor throwing out a bottle is unfortunate, but every ounce of effort you expend on being mad at them, rather than the company that made a billion bottles last year, is wasted.

Two rival gangs had divided up the city between them and agreed to a code of conduct.

But one day, one gang thought that other had encroached on its territory too closely.

“This is our part of the city and these are our people to exploit!”

So the gang attacked the other, killing some gangsters inside its own territory.

So THAT gang launched its own attack, gunning down a few of its rivals and a bunch of innocent bystanders.

Maybe we shouldn’t have gangs ruling and exploiting and murdering us?

“Noooo!” cried the liberal institutionalist. “Those gangs had an agreement. It had a right to retaliate. A riiiiiiiight!”

Being neutral on starvation means people get starved. Being neutral on genocide means people get exterminated.

This is so you know what academics and journalists who are framing their neutrality as the high road are doing.

The United States is not trying to be what Nazi Germany was.

Nazi Germany was trying to be what the United States is.

You need to understand this in order to comprehend this country’s relationship with white supremacy, genocide, and colonialism.

"Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within." https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

"Let in the migrants, kick out the racists"
Seen in NYC

Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has died in prison, presumably murdered on the orders of Vladimir Putin.

In the run-up to the rigged Russian elections this March, the puppet opposition figure Boris Nadezhdin became a rallying point for genuine anti-war sentiment and subsequently began to act in defiance of the Kremlin—not unlike how Yevgeny Prigozhin began as Putin's lackey but eventually struck out on his own. In this context, Putin likely feels that he cannot afford to permit any opposition figure to remain alive.

Navalny himself does not interest us. As a Russian anarchist put it a couple years ago,

"Navalny is an opportunistic ultra-nationalist bigot of a politician who paints himself as a populist using a narrative of anti-corruption politics that would only prop up a different batch of oligarchs."

Still, the protests when Navalny was arrested in 2021 were arguably one of the last expressions of the kind of mass resistance that could have prevented the invasion of Ukraine:

https://crimethinc.com/2021/01/24/letter-from-russia-on-the-protests-of-january-23

The recent events in Russia show that when authoritarians like Putin or Donald Trump gain power, it is only the beginning of the bloodshed.

But the tendency to rally around opposition figures rather than developing horizontal networks of resistance is part of the problem.

There’s a certain kind of shill who can watch the Israeli state chase a mass of brutalized, starving Palestinians civilians into Rafah and then prepare to chase them back out of Rafah and still somehow deny genocide because it doesn’t look like their idealized imagining of a genocide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march

I'm gonna keep posting this as it keeps annoying bootlickers.

#ACAB #FuckThePolice

We understand that stepping back from the platform formerly known as Twitter remains difficult as long as so many trusted voices continue to prioritize it. By adopting the X-last approach, you can take collective action to address Elon Musk's hateful and dangerous direction: http://www.xlast.org

I know some of you think Bluesky is strictly for the birds, but it occasionally throws up some hot theropod content instead:

just sayin’

#California in the 21st century:

#ClimateDiary #WarOnCars #Infrastructure