zx3 @zx3@driveinsaturday.org

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."

Ursula K. Le Guin

The skyline above the port was beautiful on fire
Uh, the sunsets were.
Purple and red and yellow and
tuned to a dead channel

🧵 For #BlackHistoryMonth I want to recognize contributions made by Black people to some of the things I care about. I'm gonna kick things off by shining the spotlight on #MikePondsmith, best known as the creator of the #Cyberpunk tabletop RPG. Pondsmith enjoyed playing traditional games as a kid, went to school for graphic design and behavioral psychology, and ended up working in publishing. [continued]

the Voight Kampf test scenes in Blade Runner, but instead it's just Harrison Ford like "please try to draw a woman with correct number of fingers or teeth."

We all want the same things.
Physical safety.
Economic safety.
Love.
Happiness.
Some of us just want it for other people too.

Black men deserve to grow old.

Is it too late to amend the whole “punch Nazis” directive? While less environmentally friendly, this just seems way more efficient:

Word on the tweets is that Ngo is coming to Mastodon, look out for suspicious new follows!

#antifascism #antifa #Fediverse #FediBlock

Make art. Anything. Just make life more beautiful. We need it.

On this day in 1945, Auschwitz was liberated. Today, the world marks International #HolocaustRemembranceDay.

We can say “never again” all we want, but only constant effort to defend universal human rights has a chance of making that ambition a reality.

I'm just over here trying to process the fact that the guy who leaked damaging news about Hillary Clinton was literally being paid by Russia, and was instrumental in burying the evidence that he, and many other Republicans, were directly working for Putin.

And we're just... I dunno. Going to work and having bagels and shit.

Russia. Owns. The. Republican. Party. Russia had spies in the highest levels of the FBI. Russia had spies in the highest levels of the NRA. Russia owns US Congresspersons.

But whatevs. It's just a literal takeover of the government by our sworn enemy.

Rest In Power Tyre Nichols.

Solidarity with the rebels shutting shit down in Memphis right now.

Abolish the police.

You know, I understand why people who have built up community on Twitter stay post-Musk (esp #BlackTwitter), why people put up with the #enshittification of Facebook & Instagram because their offline friends are there. I get it. But- the naked truth is no matter how much social media became the default public square in the last decade, they’re all private platforms owned by people who (at the very least) are tolerant of fascism. Whether you stay or go, we all have to come to terms with that now.