Here, have some better propaganda

as for those who are riding high on the gains of the dsa in new york city and the possibility of wresting more positions from right-wing democrats, i can sympathize with your feeling of relief. these are signs that the word "socialism" carries more allure than historical debris for many young people in america.

but make no mistake: what they bring about is not socialism. it may be called social democracy or social reformism, and it is the fulfilment of some big demands for reform behind which working class people in new york have rallied. yet as luxemburg wrote:

"The entry of a socialist into a bourgeois government is not, as it is thought, a partial conquest of the bourgeois state by the socialists, but a partial conquest of the socialist party by the bourgeois state."

One element of neoliberalism is that many many people live with huge amounts of debt. It's bad.

This goes back to my point about the difference between calling a public political gathering a "protest" versus calling it a "demonstration"

The Patriot Front gathering together dressed fairly uniformly is meant as a demonstration. They understand what they are doing. They are creating a visual demonstration meant to impress you with their organization and numbers and will.

They intend to intimidate through the image they create.

The same images that people who I'm sure think of themselves as "good guys" and "allies" and all that other self-congratulatory horseshit are boosting willy nilly because "it's important".

Yes. The Patriot Front wants you and everyone to think they are "important"

That is the whole fucking point.

Use your head and your hearts people and stop letting yourself be led around by the nose.

God damnit, we are too far into this shit for your amateurish bullshit.

It's the #4thOfJuly

i'm not going to say "happy #FourthOfJuly"

i'm going to say "release the #EpsteinFiles"

so this rotten country can only just begin to claw its way back from plutocrat corruption, gleeful bigotry, and prideful ignorance

#USA #politics

Also, they only got like four hundred dudes? That's like one per million Americans. That's pathetic. So much money and logistics, and this is all they can muster.

Firstly and most obviously: the clothes are uniform.

No two people in a black bloc will be wearing the same getup, besides black and a mask. Some wear hoodies, some snoods, some baseball caps. Some wear trainers, some walking boots and some Docs. I often wear hoodies and army boots because it's what I'm comfortable in.

You will frequently see people turn up to black bloc wearing battle jackets, or band hoodies, despite these being a bad idea because they identify you.

These fash are all wearing exactly the same clothes. Exactly. This is a uniform and it means someone bought it for them (edit: or they have a supplier they all buy from, and enough discipline to ensure they all obey.) Either way this means there's organisation and money behind it, and while these fash might be the very visible front line, they're also just part of a larger machine.

UK petitions web site summarily rejects petition asking them to stop rejecting every petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/771707

RE: https://typo.social/@sol/116862739422569941

How can I not share this, I ask you. 😂

@PhoenixSerenity Hope he tries to do his big speech through it, and suffers the same consequences as the seven people now on life support in hospital, because it was too hot, with no water and no air con at the ‘Great State Fair’. Something like forty odd others needed attention, but were well enough not to need hospital.

Womp womp, the guy spamming the retrocomputing hashtag with his AI slop articles and pics got banned from mastodon.social. As usual, Mastodon admins are the best out there 🙂‍↕️

Happy Birthday, #USA!

"Photo by Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as Lady Liberty in chains during the 'No Kings' national day of protest in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026."

#America250 #Americas250th #USPol #FirstAmendment #NoKings #StatueOfLiberty #LadyLiberty

@admin@burnout.cafe @staff@mastodon.social I'm unsure if we do want a "family-friendly" "bigger public" on here. I quite enjoy my bubble of queer folk and internet creatures and some of them occasionally post nsfw content, always hidden behind a content warning ofc, that I may or may not look at depending on my own mood of the day.

"sandboxing" specific content to dedicated instances definitely doesn't work, that's been tried plenty of times before. And "Big Tech" platforms definitely aren't child safe at all if you can ai-generate the clothes off of minors on X nowdays, by paying 7€ for ai access.

> Don't we want to cultivate a more "family-friendly" environment that will attract a bigger public?

No, we don't. Specially if it means kicking out the people you find inconvenient because they don't fit your bullshit ideas. The Fediverse should be the place for the people who don't fit in other spaces, no more corporate bullshit that wants to grow by sanitizing human communication.

Go back to Threads.

@admin https://burnout.cafe/@admin/116857804772538444

Wir brauchen da auch mal eine Strategie für Deutschland
#datacenters #rechenzentren #ki #ai #meme #memes

I will never understand why so many activists still use generative images for their content, and rely on big tech for communications and organizations when there are now so many practical, more secure, and much more ethical alternatives.

Your principles aren't just to be stated, they must also be embodied and integrated in your work.

We must show by example what can be done with ethical tech and ethical practices.

#Activism #NoAI #NoBigTech

There are two races, white and political.

There are two genders, male or political.

There are two sexual orientations, straight or political.

-Emma Vossen

You want me to tick the verification box to prove that I am a human...

To pay my water bill????

Why would a bot be paying my bills?

One aspect of retail we've forgotten after generations of conglomerated big box stores and subsequent online conglomeration is that of curation of products.

When you went into a family-owned hardware store in 1985, you got experts who chose products based on a balance of price and quality. Maybe they only had two kinds of hammers or one brand of bolts, but somebody selected those. There was some level of trust in what you were getting.

Now that labor is on us to filter from dozens of types and brands, based on reviews that are gamed by botnets, against manufacturers who change up the models yearly to dodge bad reviews. It's a race to the bottom because we don't have local curators who are personally invested in your returning to their store.

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In the late Middle Ages the area of Ireland under the direct control of the English Crown was known as the “Pale”. This was where English laws and culture were dominant, and was in chunks of area around Dublin, Kildare, Meath, and Louth.

If you were outside of this area you were “Beyond the Pale”. You might have heard or used this term, without knowing the reason.

Here endeth today’s lesson.