zx3 @zx3@driveinsaturday.org

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#Cherokee tribes are lobbying the US Government hard to fulfill its 187 year old promise for a (non voting) representative in the US Congress https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/10/cherokee-tribes-lobbying-congressional-seat-00077121

Bolsonaro die you fascist bitch

I'm looking for work!

Some of my skill sets that I can offer: Writing, Technical and Customer Service, Team Management, Art.

Technical and Customer Service
*Over 25 years working in customer service for end user electronics for large companies such as Dell Computers and Nintendo of America.
*Over 15 years working in solution engineering for corporations using software made by or used by Tableau Software, the Texas Department of Transportation, and Wincor-Nixdorf.
*Worked on customer and technical support through phone, email, chat, SMS and letters.

Team Management:
*Managed three teams during product launches and holiday seasons while maintaing responsibilities to other departments in tandem.
*Focused on behavioural management and servant leadership to manage teams and encourage growth in direct reports.

Writing:
*Recently worked on Guildhall Studios' "Sea of Legends" as a dialogue writer, as well as an soon-to-be-produced musical, "'77."
*Featured in the LGBT anthology books "Letters for my Sisters" and two Prism Comics guide-books.
*Currently working on two novels and a radio play.

Art:
*Two web comics that have been running for twenty years.

If any of these skills could help out in your company, please feel free to message me, and lets see if we can work something out.

Private messages or emails only, public posts will not be responded to.

London, 1977

Two years ago, on January 6, extraparliamentary Christian fascists stormed the US Capitol, dressed up in an assortment of antisemitic, anti-Black, and racist “live-action role play” attire—looking both ridiculous, thuggish, and euphorically full-of-themselves in their attempted insurrection.

This January 6, in expensive suit-and-tie and other high-powered professional attire, surrounded by neatly dressed aids, and with no need to breach their own office building, the US Capitol, parliamentary Christian fascists are engaging in an attempted insurrection too—refusing to install a Speaker of the House until they have someone in their pocket.

If January 6, 2021, felt unnerving and even scary, this January 6, 2023, seems much more frightening. As antifascist organizing has demonstrated in the past, such as via efforts like Anti-Racist Action, and more recently, in support of drag shows, it’s possible to get fascists off the streets—the kinds of fascists that went to DC two Januarys ago. Our #CommunitySelfDefense works!

Not that they don’t reappear at times, and not that they aren’t dangerous and sometimes deadly (increasingly so these past two years). And not that they don’t have relations with some of the trappings of the state, like cops. Yet they don’t hold the levers of a world power, with its vast resources and vast apparatuses of state violence/might.

As has been long argued by some antifascists, and rightly so, we are in a three-way fight.

As part of that, we are also far, far past “the fascist creep.” Two January 6ths ago, fascist ran up the Capitol steps and climbed over fences, but then walked around the building taking selfies and confusedly occupying the Senate chambers, unsure what to do—other than pray to their white Christian male supremacist god. Now, fascist congresspeople, having won their race, are confidently in those legislative chambers (not to mention Supreme Court) as superpower powerbrokers.

All to say, suit-and-tie fascism may prove to be much more successful at insurrection, bringing down the state from within.

#FightFascism
#DeathToFascism
#WeMustOutliveThem

(photo: sticker by @municipaladhesives seen on stolen Anishinabeeg lands)

When you lay out the facts and stark reality, the power imbalance, the lack of real regulation or restraint, then the conclusion is that the only way we as a society can deal with this is something I'm not allowed to say or I'd probably be arrested.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/elon-musk-new-billionaire-rule.html

If you’re outraged about Adobe sending your pictures off their servers (you should be), please know other vendors do this too. That horse has already bolted.

Eg Microsoft Edge automatically sends your key presses in Edge to MS - enabled by default https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/how-to-disable-writing-assistance-via-group-policy/td-p/3648422

Microsoft Office 365 sends every photo and screenshot you add in Word, PowerPoint etc (including in emails) to Microsoft 365 Intelligent Services without prompt https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/everything-you-need-to-know-to-write-effective-alt-text-df98f884-ca3d-456c-807b-1a1fa82f5dc2

If you don't like how we punch Nazis now.... You should have seen what we did to them in the 40s... Fascism isn't to be debated it is meant to be destroyed