William Gillis 🏴

There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.

Fascists are stupid whether they call themselves multipolar or antiimperialist, and the great power contradictions between US and China were always much more shallow than their infrastructural, economic and material codependence, hence China doing nothing for Iran and why the US can go full Samson

But it sure is comforting to some.

O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation—anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.’ ‘But you do not! You are not even masters of this planet. What about Eurasia and Eastasia? You have not conquered them yet.’ ‘Unimportant. We shall conquer them when it suits us. And if we did not, what difference would it make? We can shut them out of existence. Oceania is the world.’ ‘But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny helpless! How long has he been in existence? For millions of years the earth was uninhabited.’ ‘Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.’

‘Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.’ ‘But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals—mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.’ ‘Have you ever seen those bones, Winston? Of course not. Nineteenth-century biologists invented them. Before man there was nothing. After man, if he could come to an end, there would be nothing. Outside man there is nothing.’ ‘But the whole universe is outside us. Look at the stars ! Some of them are a million light-years away. They are out of our reach for ever.’ ‘What are the stars?’ said O’Brien indifferently. ‘They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.’

Just re-reading this section and it strikes me that this is the *opposite* of cosmic horror, like, this is like Orwell read Lovecraft and said "nah, the OPPOSITE thing is far more horrible." As I think @rechelon.bsky.social would agree, "nothing is real" is far more horrible than cold materialism.

Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work

It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"

My understanding is the key is generated from user password and Riseup doesn't store it. HOWEVER this had to be manually activated via settings for accounts created before June 2017

"as of March 2017, the storage for all new accounts is personally encrypted. Riseup is unable to read any of the stored content for these accounts. Any user with an account created prior to March 2017 may opt-in to personally encrypted storage."

Don't forget, campists are bottom of the barrel scum. Left unity's a tankie scam. Never stop flipping their tables.

Canada’s Visa Requirements Are Forcing Students in Gaza to Put Dreams on Hold Students accepted by Canadian universities struggle to figure out how to leave Gaza and comply with strict visa rules.

It is horrific that Palestinian students from Gaza, admitted to Canadian universities, are not being granted student visas to Canada.

Amidst an ongoing genocide and occupation, denying Palestinian students is continuation of same violence and anti-Palestinian racism.

truthout.org/articles/can...

I'll also selfishly note that I was the one to raise hell bringing to public attention Riseup's canary going down and an ex of mine sneered a bunch and publicly bet me on twitter $1000 that Riseup did not have a gag order and they have *still* not paid up.

Support Coordinator for Informant Darren Thurston, Megan Adam, Disrupted at Under the Volcano | Vancouver Media Co-op

Also worth noting here re lay of the land that the canadian version of riseup that was once held up as an alternative, resist .ca, ALSO demonstrated some very bad policies, refusing to stop hosting a snitch's support website: vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/blog/lyn-...

To be fair to Riseup, they *did* implement account encryption in 2017 after they cooperated.

It's fairly ridiculous that they had dragged their feet until that situation with them snitching on the chud accounts, but they did encrypt finally:

help.riseup.net/en/privacy-p...

Don't trust any email provider with your credit card information, IP address, or phone number. Don't expect Tuta to fight government orders on your behalf. All of these companies will comply rather than go out of existence, so you need to make sure they don't have your PII to begin with.

Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek X.com Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says that Israel should depopulate and destroy every village in southern Lebanon, with the Yellow Line in Gaza as the model, and that "it may not be pleasant to scrape off two or three Lebanese villages, but they brought this on themselves." NEWS 0:45 2:44 PM • 3/5/26 • 103K Views

The “reasonable opposition” to Netanyahu has similar genocidal, expansionist goals:

Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.

If you must pay for a Proton account for a radical project, pay with cash (you can mail it) or washed crypto (Monero -> Bitcoin).

All credit card payments are traceable, even to a privacy-focused company.

Your security model should not rely on a business to fight the state on your behalf.

Using adblockers such as privacy badger or ublock origin is a necessary step, not just for privacy but for safety!

I'm really glad that 404 Media correctly called out the "Proton did not provide any information to the FBI" line as disingenuous. It's not a good sign when a provider is more interested in playing semantic games than realistically explaining their threat model.

Mullin next to the words "the only true native american in the senate"

Markwayne Mullin will undoubtedly be dubbed "the first Native American to lead the Department of Homeland Security." As a friend wrote to me, "Wow, there's the Overseer Class and then there's putting a Cherokee citizen in charge of forced removal"

yeah no shit, we have essentially validated the iranian government’s whole worldview for the past 40 years in 3 days

Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot A first-ever trial against an alleged ‘antifa cell’ in Texas could be a playbook for cracking down on administration critics.

"The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy: photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called zines."

No paywall: archive.ph/whWm0

Should tell u everything u need to know about anyone crying about trans-humanism.
They all fundamentally despise bodily autonomy.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the...

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

It's wild to think the xenofeminist manifesto is now over a decade old and some folks haven't encountered it?

There's a zine version folks made too: anarchotranshuman.org/post/1222154...

0x04 Xenofeminism is a rationalism. To claim that reason or rationality is 'by nature' a patriarchal enterprise is to concede defeat. It is true that the canonical 'history of thought' is dominated by men, and it is male hands we see throttling existing institutions of science and technology. But this is precisely why feminism must be a rationalism -- because of this miserable imbalance, and not despite it. There is no 'feminine' rationality, nor is there a 'masculine' one. Science is not an expression but a suspension of gender. If today it is dominated by masculine egos, then it is at odds with itself -- and this contradiction can be leveraged. Reason, like information, wants to be free, and patriarchy cannot give it freedom. Rationalism must itself be a feminism. XF marks the point where these claims intersect in a two-way dependency. It names reason as an engine of feminist emancipation, and declares the right of everyone to speak as no one in particular.

Kurds were urged to rise up against the regime of Saddam Hussein, only to be abandoned ... No one came to our defense when the regime deployed helicopter gunships and tanks to crush the uprising...

What happened in ... Rojava ... after Syria's Kurds stood on the front lines of the war against ISIS.

Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’ Struggle Against ICE For some time, I was thinking about writing a review of Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State, which helped inspire me to become an anarchist back in 2016, to see how it aged in the decade ...

What can resistance to ICE in Minneapolis teach us about decentralized social movements? @mutual-a.bsky.social examines the struggle:

c4ss.org/content/60977

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Beyond being morally repugnant, snitching is demonstrably not a winning strategy: