Hey y’all 👋🏽
It’s been a moment since I posted to my personal account so here’s an #Introduction post!
I’m a New Texican living in Yelamu on Ramaytush Ohline Land cultivating a heart-first world of liberation.
I am two spirit which is being #trans and #indigenous. I remember the long history of two spirit spiritual and community leaders that colonization took from us.
This is my fun Mastodon! So you’ll find me sharing sustainable #cooking, getting lost in #nature, and crafting #art and #storytelling
It’s a Strike! 🎳
San Francisco Teachers go on strike for the first time since 1979! They are demanding better pay, healthcare, and to maintain services in schools like disability support for students.The whole city is out to support SFUSD and vibrating with organizing spirit!
What does it mean when a society pays it’s Cops $100,000+ salaries and teachers can’t afford to live where they teach?
Neon lighted Bowling alley with a sign in between the lanes saying “Teachers should afford to live where they teach.” With money flying away and a thought bubble “why do cops get paid more than teachers. Asking for a friend.”
#AllOut: Help stop the "queer hunts" in #Azerbaijan. 🇦🇿 Police have been detaining, beating, and blackmailing LGBT+ people. We’re demanding an end to these raids and justice for those targeted.
In many countries, the #Grindr app is being used by police and criminals to "honey-trap" and extort #LGBT+ people. We're calling on Grindr to implement life-saving safety features to protect our community from digital targeting. #petition: https://mmt.is/-peuTVW0
..And lastly, a gay medical student is trapped in #Iran and we need to bring him home. After returning to Iran for family and military service, an error with his permit has left him unable to return to #Italy. In Iran, his life is at risk just for being who he is. Urge Italy to let him return to safety:
Roots breaking through concrete. Logic dismantling hypocrisy.
This is Radical Catkin. This isn't a "polite" feed. Stoicism, radical activism, and feline skepticism.
"Pro-Palestine activists say NSW is using major event powers as a ‘backdoor way’ of banning Herzog protests"
"The New South Wales government handed police sweeping powers for the duration of Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit for the improper purpose of suppressing protests, Palestine Action Group Lawyers have argued in court."
Hello Fedi! We are the still-in-progress Twin Cities Radical Community Archive. This project aims to collect, preserve, and increase access to left-wing, working-class activism in the Twin Cities metro, both historically and currently.
Why are we here?! Because the world is changing and so are we!
From the @ archives, 2021:
“We have been talking about the multiracial coalition tipping point in America for decades. I still remember the dire warnings during my youth in Texas that the state would become majority Hispanic before too long.
Well, that moment has finally come much to the fanfare of those that believe in a multiracial democracy and to the chagrin of those that don’t.”
@ LMAO! 🤣
Democrats dropped the ball so hard. We really did not have to have fascism.
But Democrats gate-kept and made sure my diverse & queer generation didn’t get heard. I witnessed it firsthand. My nose is bruised from all the door slamming.
Now’s as good a time as any for us all to uplift the youth & new voices!
Many TikTok users recently reported problems uploading videos, sudden drops to zero views, or posts getting stuck “under review.” Almost all of those complaints involved videos criticizing ICE or discussing the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3mdewodwync2q
From resistance team of US Natl Park Svc
500+ char posts not resent
Unaffiliated w/ AltNPS
I think today's a good day to remind all #Australia that our corrupt government is STILL paying the U.S. regime $800,000,000 of OUR taxpayer monies every few weeks for the failed #AUKUS outdated and non-existant subs.
1st slide: person says "I'm getting a tattoo"
2nd slide: Person very much looking like a granddad replies "A tattoo will negatively affect your future"
3rd slide: the two persons are looking at each other.
4th slide: the first person says "cut your carbon emissions", the granddad replies "no"
Screen capture of a post on BlueSky:
I am so unbelievably tired of people from outside the US asking why Americans don’t do something about all the shit that’s going on.
We are trying. Many of us are protesting, contacting our representatives, donating to nonprofits/candidates, and sharing resources.
I keep seeing Americans who want to do something about the state of our #politics, but feel like no action they can take will do enough to fix things, so it’s not worth trying.
It’s easy to feel nihilistic. So I’d like to propose an alternative - a 10% improvement approach to political change, of sorts.
It comes from my #PTSD treatment: the idea that no one approach, skill, or intervention can make the #trauma just go away instantaneously. So instead, us humans are left with 10% solutions - things that help a little bit, for some amount of time.
The key to healing is to develop an ongoing set of multiple different solutions that you rotate through based on what feels feasible on any given day / moment. Each one helps a bit. 10%, 5%, 1%. But eventually, you get to making big changes that felt impossible at the start.
The same works for political change and activism. Sure, going to any one protest, or calling your representative, or boycotting a brand, or changing one person’s mind, or donating to one fundraiser won’t fix the entire broken political regime. But it will help A LITTLE.
And if a lot of us continue to find ways to do things that help a little, it will end up doing a lot more.
A movement starts with a thousand little steps that don’t look like much on their own.