Wes Modes
wmodes.bsky.social
Wes Modes
@wmodes.bsky.social
Ohio & California art professor and new media artist. Lover of cats, rivers, and trains. they/him 🏳️‍🌈 🧷 🏴 🇵🇸
At first, I was really irritated, but then I remembered how Nazism was defeated by the positivity and good vibes of the allied powers and realized she was right. 3/3
April 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I asked about the people who had a hard time ignoring the negative energy because they've been shipped off to an El Salvadoran concentration camp, and she reminded me that there has always been suffering. 2/3
April 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It looks like you have a raised prow. That will serve you well to keep water from coming up over your front deck.
April 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
That said, I think I mostly regret how much wind resistance we get on the road rather than on the water. Having a sizable bed up in the loft is an absolute joy
April 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
So Dotty is a barge bottom boat, a lot like traditional shanty boats built through the early 20th century. But unlike most she has a gable roof, putting her at about 9 feet above the water at peak. That means that she is kind of a huge sail.
April 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Oh OK, I always have time for Shantyboat questions
March 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
No fucking shit. But you couldn't get a dem to admit that under torture
February 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Is this Columbia University? Are you using your relative privilege to resist? Did you tell them to go fuck themselves? When we comply, we are doing the literal work of the fascist. We will be judged by history.
February 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
You highlighted the wrong lines. The most interesting line is "the only thing we can do about it is go to the courts." Bullshit. We already know they will ignore the courts. *The only thing to do is to fucking riot.*
February 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
What other ways can you think to fail to cooperate with fascist?
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Don't talk to cops (especially ICE) ever.
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Your university exercises pre-compliance by disbanding the DEI committee? Don't comply. Meet anyway to talk about important issues.
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
counter-information campaigns, refusing compliance, destroying infrastructure, and underground organizing. Perhaps the best and easiest thing to do is just simply not cooperate in any way with fascism and any way it rears its ugly head.
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
harboring refugees, smuggling people, partisan warfare, guerrilla resistance, disrupting transport and supply lines, symbolic defiance, mockery and satire, economic disruption, disrupting propaganda,
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Workplace sabotage, slowdowns, strikes, walkouts, black markets, underground trade, banned books, secret libraries, subversive art, protest music, graffiti, underground zines, pirate radio, alternative media, mutual aid networks, refusing to inform, public disobedience, silent protest,
February 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
By whom? And who is in charge of that enforcement arm?
February 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
They are already ignoring court orders.
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM