"If you had told me 4 years ago that I'd be importing cds in 2025 I would have scoffed but here I am, importing CDs. I cancelled Apple Music several months ago because I'd gotten in the habit of just playing a lot of lofi videos on YouTube. I'd go weeks hardly listening to anything in Apple Music. I've not really missed it. That said, I realized that bits of my library seemed to be missing..."
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-02-01-02.html
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The flip side of crisis is opportunity
"Remember: they want us to be afraid. The way to resist is build community and solidarity by coming together in our neighborhoods. It is feeding each other at potlucks. It is organizing neighborhood defense and mutual aid care. It is making the focus of our lives building solidarity with neighbors. Organize. Talk. Organize. Celebrate with each other.
We build resistance by building community SOLIDARITY..."
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-02-01.html
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I suspect a lot of us here know much of this already. But I suspect that many outside of activist circles do not. It's been a long time since I was in school but I don't recall the people's history being taught. And with good reason. It forms a foundation for resistance that we can draw on.
Nothing we face now is new. This shit is old. The resistance is old.
Tap into the books and the culture that the radical resisters have been writing and creating and find inspiration and strength.
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If you don't already know the history of people's resistance in the US make it a point to learn that. Start a weekly study group to look at indigenous resistance. Learn about the early radical, direct action labor movement of the late 1800s, the Wobblies in the early 1900s. And everything in between and after. The US was built on genocide, slavery and white supremacy but along with that was a constant resistance. Knowing the rich tapestry of that resistance can feed our struggle today.
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Remember. They want us to be afraid. The way to resist is build community and solidarity, it is coming together in our neighborhoods. Feed each other at potlucks. Organize neighborhood self care. Make the focus of your life building solidarity with neighbors. Organize. Talk. Organize. Celebrate with each other.
Build community SOLIDARITY.
And it doesn't hurt to fuel it with some righteous fucking anger. A favorite of mine from the 1990s was Rage Against the Machine.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUaL1FnotRQ&list=OLAK5uy_mG7ndizgcX0QrrKh3zF9lFyU6eFzprgiE&index=1&pp=8AUB
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Tennessee Community Forms Human Chain to Protect Family From ICE Arrest
"It hurts to see people go through what they’re going through.’ — Community members formed a human chain to block ICE agents from arresting a neighbor and his son."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NAQ5A4pRtOU
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Micro.blog is a business not a community
Rather than get into the details of the recent (and ongoing) dust-up between Manton, Vincent and Adam it occured to me that it might be more helpful to write about something no-one (that I've seen) has mentioned. Stepping back and viewing it from a distance it looks like a problem of CIS white men building businesses that purport to create "communities". Frame it up in that context and the idea starts to seem absurd...
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025-01-24.html
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“When I reached my neighborhood, I couldn’t even recognize where my house once stood,” he told +972. “The entire neighborhood was completely bombed.”
The shock of finding his home reduced to rubble left Othman unable to speak for two hours. His family of 14 is now not just displaced but homeless. “I was a homebody,” he said. “My favorite time of the day was when I was sitting in the living room catching up with my mother. Now both are gone.”
[#]gaza #genocide #warcrimes
https://www.972mag.com/palestinians-returning-northern-gaza-ceasefire-destruction/
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"Any sense of relief, however, is tempered by the sheer scale of death and destruction, the profound uncertainties of the ceasefire agreement, and the fact that the underlying issues that have fuelled human suffering in Gaza – and throughout the Palestinian territories – since long before this war began, remain unaddressed: Israel’s ongoing, illegal occupation; its administrative control of virtually every facet of life; and its deliberate thwarting of Palestinian...
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2025/01/20/gaza-ceasefire-sobering-reality-day-after-may-never-come
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"The larger solutions to our common woes, if they ever arrive, will be something new. Something we haven’t tried yet. I feel very confident they won’t take the form of another march or involve everyone finally agreeing to be the same kind of communist/anarchist/whatever. Shawn Fain, chief of the United Auto Workers Union, has called for a General Strike in 2028, and that so far is the only clear plan I’ve heard anyone make that feels like it has a ghost of a chance."
https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-to-stop-the-rise-of-fascism
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Liberals in the US rightly criticize MAGA folk as being delusional in regards to the truth of Trump. But when I see those same liberals praising Biden while ignoring his ongoing support of genocide in Gaza I feel the deepest disgust. History will remember Biden for his role in genocide.
"Respect the process".
Uh huh.
[#]Gaza #Genocide #WarCrimes #Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y_QQW0igcs
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Days of ice and snow
An ice storm rolled through here 10 days ago and then a few days later, snow. Beautiful and destructive with quite a few trees breaking under the weight of it all. We were without power for the first 2.5 days. My cabin was 28 the morning of the third day but it was an interesting and welcome break from the norm of assumed comfort. I generally keep my cabin around 55 during the winter and enjoyed the challenge of greater discomfort...
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2024-01-15.html
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"If you’re paying attention, you recognize that all of this—the unprecedented “hurricanes” of fire, our inability to prepare for them, the systemic failures of our government, the exploitation for political disinformation—are symptoms of collapse in polycrisis. We’ve been seeing them more and more, all over the world. Remember last year’s floods in Brazil, Niger and Spain? Or Hurricanes Helene and Milton? Many call this our new normal...
[#]ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HEgtl_jsfE
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"Letter to Representative Jared Golden (D-ME)
Your decision to vote in favor of sanctioning the International Criminal Court of Justice, (ICC) which had ordered Israel to take steps to prevent genocide in Gaza, was dismaying. This recent vote to sanction the ICC by Representatives of Congress erodes the ability of the high court to adhere to the principles of “ International Humanitarian Law, whose purpose is the reduce suffering during war”...
[#]Gaza #Genocide #ICC
https://www.juancole.com/2025/01/representative-sanction-netanyahu.html
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"Cecilia Vega at CBS’ 60 Minutes did a groundbreaking segment on Sunday in which she interviewed US government officials involved with the Israeli war on Gaza, who resigned in protest either explicitly or implicitly. She also screened the sort of horrific footage of the aftermath of Israeli attacks in Gaza, with the gory parts left in..."
Truth telling about US/Israel genocide on a major network? It's not nothing but it's far too little, far too late.
[#]Gaza #Genocide
https://www.juancole.com/2025/01/administrations-complicity-whistleblowers.html
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'Lets have a real conversation about Hamas' - Marc Lamont Hill
[#]Gaza #Israel #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #Palestine #NeoLiberalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKGokMjoMdg
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Brazilian Judiciary orders Investigation of Israeli Soldier-Tourist for War Crimes in Gaza
[#]IsraelWarCrimes #Gaza #Genocide
https://www.juancole.com/2025/01/brazilian-judiciary-investigation.html
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How the rich talk about us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmBdADq00xc
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Finally watched the ForeverNotes videos and considering trying it out as a supplement to the OBTF that I've been happily using the past 9 months for a basic daily notes that primarily serves as a springboard for blog posting. A helpful minimal implementation of ForeverNotes might cover non-blog text for tracking projects that I would otherwise not add to Reminders app (ongoing/never ending). Maybe for detailed notes for nature studies like bird observations?
https://m.youtube.com/@myforevernotes
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Winter Fungi
ID guesses: Oak Mazegill, Fomitopsis quercina and Dacrymyces spathularia, Fan-shaped Jelly Fungus
[#]Mushtodon #Lichensubscribe
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