Sam Danger Warner

forget jumping over the moon. have you ever seen a cow weep? shit stays with you for the rest of your days

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Wtf dude, "bred"? "Aren't human"? This is a Russian y'all

I hope my Facebook friends come say hi!!! 🫶🏼

In April, go buy a bag of potting soil. Lay it on a baking sheet somewhere warm and not in the dark. Cut strips in the top. Put lettuce (or cabbage or kale) seeds (at library) just under the surface of the soil, 1/4", 2" apart. Sprinkle water daily. Move some outside in midMay. Harvest 5 wks later.

Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.

We're about to have food shortages. Get your local garden beds ready.

"It’s vitally important that we fill our reservoirs in the rainy season so water is available for farms and cities...farmers were counting on that water to be available for summer irrigation."

www.latimes.com/environment/...

I think it already is.

But seriously. Don’t call them names. We want the door open for them when they realize the mistake they made.

We are for a better America. Not a vindictive America

I don't think I know how to thread things. Is that a verb in this context? Dunno what I'm...is this thing on?

Do u like how quickly I veered from one sentence corn dog jokes into multiple preachy essays

Anyone experienced at marketing offline? I want to know how to let people in my area know I'm holding events. I want to know how to disseminate information on paper. What can I do other than leave flyers in cafe community boards?

I'm 30. I created a Facebook account when I was 13. For the most part, I don't remember using other search engines or other email providers or reading blogs. How did all this used to work? What did it look like? What could we take with us from the past?

Endless feeds are an addiction. Having three apps I can open and find the world immediately around me is convenient. How do we break these cycles, or at least hold our own reins? Any addicts have advice?

How do you find new content on this "indie web"? (About that term...we can do better gang...what do we use?) Like where can I go for exploratory vibe checks, or for finding stuff when there isn't an almighty profit-bloated algorithm telling me where to go? Can you QR code that for me for paper? ✍🏼

How/where do I host a blog? Would it cost any money? Do you have any cool examples to hype me?

I want a phone with a decent copy clipboard built in instead of having to go open a notes app every time. Can I do that on an Android phone without my privacy bouncing down the curb like it's trash day? How do I customize my phone?

How do I use RSS feeds to hear from my friends' blogs? (Isn't that what "feed" came from before it became about profit via addiction? I don't even know!) No one wants to lose track of friends and even acquaintances. What can I use as tools to prevent that?

Things I wanna learn, maybe from your zine/zine page? 👀crammed into weird 300char blocks:

We will put it anywhere anyone wants. Local libraries, cafes, here. I have no network of zine proliferators. I'm not making promises of greatness. But I think we need more of an alternative to envision than a knockoff of a centralized power.

I've also been hearing lately about people exploring the "indie web" or the "personal web". I'm thinking about making some zines. Would anyone want to contribute to a zine collection about a new Internet? The tones I'm going for are hopeful, useful, and offering a practical vision of how to proceed.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

Check out specificallysamantics's Shuffles #unionize #solidarity you know, Enoch's friends sort of went through this once already... Check out specificallysamantics's Shuffles #unionize #solidarity you know, Enoch's friends sort of went through this once already.... Shuffles is here. Now you can unlock your creative energy and conn...

Oh, what do i do for fun? I make digital collages so esoteric that without my faded memories you couldn't know what they're about. In other words now none of us know. We're in this together

shffls.com/shuffles/536...

Was thinking today on what we may need in order to preserve whatever information we can as the Internet changes. First thought that came to mind was I ought to make a website.

...does anyone remember how to look things up in unknown books? I don't think I ever learned. Cleveland library?

Just like you wouldn't approach an unknown body of water and say "yum! slurp slurp!" (pesticides! dysentery!) you should no longer take in experiences on the Internet as likelier to be information than disinformation. The well is officially poisoned. Adjust your instincts manually if you have to.

Learn something about woodcutting. Enjoy your thirst posts. Everyone loves a peaceful video of someone enjoying their life. But the moment politics even REMOTELY enters the chat, get outta there. Assume at all times that you're drinking in disinformation, even if it's shaky phone video footage.

Don't expose yourself to politics on TikTok. Not even the stuff that agrees with you. Perhaps especially not the stuff that agrees with you. We have lots of evidence that Russia wants to divide Americans into more and more extreme disagreements.

AI can make it look like anyone is saying anything.

EU investigates TikTok over alleged Russian meddling in Romanian vote Romania's election was cancelled after thousands of TikTok accounts were activated backing a little-known candidate.

"25,000 TikTok accounts were suddenly activated weeks before [Romanian voting] polls opened...The accounts backed the independent candidate Calin Georgescu, a largely unknown far-right campaigner..."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ding ding it's TikTok and it's still dead

Me, being sexy: have u seen the latest Atlas Obscura?

I'd make u a sandwich