It reminds me of my first labor organizing job when my trainer said "The thing that's different about labor is that you just have to organize who's here" and to some extent, the older I get, the more I realize that's true everywhere.

Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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Part of the Learning for Sustainability portal, this page explores systemic co-design—blending systems and design thinking to tackle complex challenges across a range of fields and problem areas. The page has just been updated with links to new frameworks, tools, and resources:

"A focus on earning power reinforces existing prejudices...The pursuit of capitalist-defined strengths risks excluding people with a learning disability from the neurodiversity narrative.

And researchers are driven to use economic arguments to demonstrate the value of their work."

Whenever we make ourselves smaller for them, they just shrink our box again.

Intersectional, multi-front coalitions mean trusting that even if other the people in the coalition aren't working on Your Segment of the problems, they're still on your side. In fact, they kind of require it. And that goes for friendships and other more intimate interpersonal relationships, too.
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I made a thing!

I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev

It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃

Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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Lord I think about this a lot.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Me: We have to take care of ourselves and each other because opposing authoritarianism is a long fight and you will burn out.

Also me: I cannot remember to eat on a regular basis.

I’ve been reflecting on a motto from Valencia flood coverage, originating in Machado’s letter to Vygodski — solo el pueblo salva al pueblo, only the people save the people. The past few years have left me disillusioned with so many institutions, yet I feel like I’ve never believed in people more.