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weekend twitr @WeekendTwitr Valentine's Day is so commercial, let's not lose track of the real meaning of this special day the day native Hawaiians stabbed British Captain James Cook right in his colonizing fucking neck on February 14, 1779

all jokes aside, we shouldn't forget the real Reason for the Season

Flyer: BOND NEEDED. The family that runs a beloved South Minneapolis restaurant needs $5000 to pay for bond and legal fees to return a loved one from ICE detention. Please donate using the cash links below. Fuck ICE. Venmo is @morning-person and Cashapp is $moldyturnip. Add a cupcake emoji to the description.

We’re fundraising for bond to bail a community member out of detention. This family runs a beloved South Minneapolis restaurant that was already targeted by ICE. Now one of them has been abducted.

Thank you for anything you can contribute. I’ll keep y’all updated. 🩵

"the wise loon does not celebrate that the poacher has moved on to another lake"

or some shit

get real

We’re still seeing ICE going in and out of the Whipple building. As long as they’re still here working to separate families, we need to make sure people are out patrolling & keeping watch.

We don’t accept their behavior happening here or anywhere else which is why all of DHS needs to be dismantled

bringing a “skills can be learned through practice” philosophy to life that people who believe in immutable hierarchies don’t really seem to like

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

a facebook post from Ashon Crawley on February 13, 2021. It reads: i am sympathetic to folks that say *the* reason why the black panther party of self defense was a threat was because of the breakfast program. i am also sympathetic to the folks that say that is too reductive, that they were more than a breakfast progrum.* i think it’s in the middle: the BPP was a threat because they practiced care. and care showed up *as* a breakfast program, yes, but also as health clinics, as armed defense, as reading groups. care work as political organizing. care as the grounds for its emergence. care. one reason i’ve focused on care in my own work for years now is because black feminist thought informs my own, and black queer critique. and because care is often considered the antithesis of “serious things” and i’m just fundamentally against this. if care is soft or frilly or whatever, we need to have a preferential option for softness. care is something white supremacist capitalist patriarchy cannot give nor withhold, even when it tries to privatize care as an industry that is primarily about making money and exploiting workers. care is not private property, it only exists when it is shared. care is the antithesis and alternative to white supremacy, to riff on cedric robinson, because it must be. but it is so much more. it exceeds the logic of reactive response to practices of violence. it precedes the violence and political economy of extraction and exploitation. care, even if soft, ain’t easy. it takes courage. and conviction. and clarity. (i’m a former preacher, so the alliteration is a throwback lol.) you only have care when you share it. and sharing it is difficult precisely because the political economy of racial capitalism wants us to privatize and hoard what we consider it to be. care. let it flower and bloom. selah. 🌸💕

Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...

Be careful, folks. ICE is still out there, circling the schools this morning. Even if this withdrawal is happening over the next week, some of the agents want to get their last bit of being shitheads in.

This little weasel twerp twisting Aisha’s words for his purposes… instead of cutting the police budget. Fuck you Jacob Frey.

I've been wanting to do this for a while, so here we go. This is a thread of some of the reports coming out about the issues with genAI, specifically negative impacts on people.

I'll do my best to keep this updated while it's relevant.

Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get ...

the future of labor is armies of gig workers babysitting robots? www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Poster to fight against ai. Visualized is a cave painting inspired horse, with text that reads "art has always been accessible"

I hear a lot of people saying that ai makes art accessible.. well I personally think that's bullshit- so I made this to drive my point home.
#regalsart #illustration #fuckai #digitalart

No seriously. They're withdrawing ICE a day before the DHS funding vote and I see a lot of people going "We won!" or even "Why are they doing this now?" and I feel like I'm losing my mind.

Can you establish any fucking motive here? Try real hard.

So AI is

- A zero-profit money sinkhole
- Slowing down workers who have to keep fixing its hallucinations
- Filling the internet with lies and deception
- Fighting creativity
- Ruining the customer tech market
- Killing open source software
- Destroying education

But for some reason we "need" it?

Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?

"The purveyors of modern fascism are so scared of other people, and so full of hatred for humanity, that they’re even outsourcing the thing they like best—literally doing fascism—to computers." - read @andreagrimes.com 's latest below!

MIRAC’s Erika Zurawski spits fire on MPR: MN leaders agreed to “quiet violence.”

“[S]tay in the streets; ICE isn’t done. Quiet violence is still violence, and we have to put it to a stop. We are solely responsible for making that happen because we saw our state leaders will not do it for us.”

It is NOT over. CDC axes $38M in public health grants, $250k of Core State Injury Prevention Program, and more to come for preventive services and HIV and STI surveillance, prevention, and control grants to MN. Fellow @mapeunion.bsky.social members face their 3rd or 4th potential round of layoffs.

Another is what happens with everyone still at Whipple?

Sure come at me. I’ll have you stricken from the Annals

The City of Minneapolis alone was losing $20-$30 million a WEEK. This is nothing lol

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

still looking for those photos of amy klobuchar on the streets standing up to ICE like we saw from jason chavez and elliott payne and doron clark, to name just a handful of electeds who are out here protecting people

Homans announcement just means they’re going somewhere else.

TODAY YOU MUST CALL YOUR SENATORS AND DEMAND THEY ABOLISH ICE AND DISMANTLE DHS AND RETURN OUR NEIGHBORS. CLOSE DOWN THE CAMPS!

Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?

Today for @theflytrapmedia.com I wrote about the (techno)fascist push to grant personhood to anything except people

Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨ Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors. What can I do? You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased. ➡️ Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives. ➕ Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.

If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.

If you are wondering how Mpls is, please consider how f***ed it is that

"school dismissal is always a peak time for them"

We and our schools and our kids are not okay. Our communities are not okay.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

If you thought this paradigm was going to last 30-90 days and then end and now, at day 72, you’re realizing the fallout is actually an indefinitely permanent paradigm, it makes sense you went super hard at a pace that is unsustainable.

Recalibrate now before you’re hurtling into the concrete floor.