Eldritch Ash (They/Them) @smokeandash@eldritch.cafe

Good morning, basil on the roof 🌱

Facebook gave $50,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association, who through their 501(c)4 arm Rule of Law Defense Fund helped organize the protest preceding the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol that took place on January 6, 2021.

Other corporate sponsors of domestic terrorism in US include Koch, Comcast, Walmart, Home Depot, Amazon, TikTok, 1-800 Contacts, Chevron, NRA, Monsanto, Fox, Uber, Coca Cola, and Google.

https://documented.net/2021/01/republican-attorneys-general-dark-money-group-organized-protest-preceding-capitol-mob-attack/

#fecebook #uspol #terrorism

between:

- trumpian fash being banned on neolib social media and looking for new online spaces
- strange bots posing as trans women and reposting popular reddit content
- upsurge of kiwifarms pleroma activity

it seems like the fedi is an unsafer space as of now, and that (more than usual) one shouldn't assume good faith just because somebody has pronouns in bio and light side keywords. it's one thing to deal with tech libertarians and obvious fash trolls, another with kf infiltrators.

will be leaving my alts locked for now and using locked posts more. I'd recommend being extra careful posting any sort of exploitable content.

#fediblock kiwifarms.cc

Delicately crafted bespoke gender designed to be gay no matter what you pair it with.

when u see this say something nice to urself

cop klan shitpost

...To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”

― Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

There are shogi pieces symbols in unicode and that makes me happy tbh

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If you'd like some ideas of how to write an image description/alt text, you can refer to this handy guide: https://www.americananthro.org/ImageDescriptions

There are many other guides out there, too, if you do a quick internet search.

If anyone who regularly appreciates or relies on image descriptions want to reply with their own tips/tricks/links/resources, please do! I am by no means an expert on such things!

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> Amazon Tribes Are Excited to Use Drones to Detect Illegal Deforestation in Brazilian Rainforest

> Indigenous rights’ groups and WWF International are beginning to train Andean tribes people deep within the Amazon rainforest in the use of drones so that they, as forest-dwelling specialists, can help protect wildlife, and identify, compile evidence for, and report on, illegal logging activities.

https://mondestuff.com/world-news/amazon-tribes-are-excited-to-use-drones-to-detect-illegal-deforestation-in-brazilian-rainforest/

Pro tip tho..
If you get called out for antiblackness and playing victim when you go hard going at it with a Black nonbinary person, then refuse to have a civil conversation of any kind with them and use the excuse that said conversation would be "bad for your health..." does not make your behavior any less antiblack.. Antiblackness does not have to be intentionally malicious. Please listen when people are trying to point this out to you... Everyone has antiblackbias to unlearn.