karenm @karenm@librem.one

Punk—Dangerous Utopia
Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism

https://crimethinc.com/PunkUtopia

How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the resurgence of anarchism around the world at the end of the 20th century? How did it prefigure the participatory media of the digital age? And what can its legacy teach us today?

Happy ACAB Day to all who celebrate!

People outside the law & order part of the political spectrum need to begin reclaiming space within public safety discussions:

"A regulated supply is not charity for criminals. It’s common sense for communities. We’ve done it for decades with alcohol. Best of all, it’s voluntary and consent-based, and avoids traumatizing people."

Co-written with Petra Schultz & Dr Ginetta Salvalaggio. #yeg #yegcc #yyc #yyccc #SafeSupply #HousingFirst #HarmReduction #DrugPolicy
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-off-ramp-to-drug-crisis-its-safe-supply-supported-housing-and-voluntary-treatment

There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.

-Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"

https://crimethinc.com/climatechange

its Kropotkin's b-day so a good day to remember that while he is often remembered as a scientist and writer, he also fought with police in the street with brass knuckles :)

big reminder that one of the reasons we don't have universal healthcare is because when its provided by our employer they can use our literal lives against us if we try to fight back against unfair labor practices.

Saloniki w Grecji: Protesty po śmierci 16-latka romskiego pochodzenia, zastrzelonego przez policję. Nałożyły się one na rocznicę śmierci innego nastolatka, który zmarł z rąk aparatu państwowej represji, Alexisa Grigolopoulosa, zmarłego 06.12.2008 roku.

#ACAB #AbolishThePolice

Welp. Google being shady again. https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google

At the #NewYork state capitol on J6, Proud Boys attacked counter-protesters with weapons. Alex Stokes defended several people and was arrested, getting 20 years in prison. In court, Proud Boys labeled him a "maniacal radical." Here's his story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CIWwnH6M34

RT @JessicaValenti@twitter.com

These are pregnancies at 6 weeks and 9 weeks - right now, they have more rights and legal protections than women in 14 states.

If blocks are lifted, eight other states will soon follow suit.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/1599858593745948672

This is how the books of writers who spoke against the war look like in russian bookshops. #Russia #Censorship

you'll never convince me that God-Emperor Leto II Atreides named his all-women army "Fish Speakers" as anything but a joke about cunnilingus

WhatsApp and the domestication of users - Seirdy #privacy #FLOSS
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users/

70 years ago today, on December 5, 1952, the Great #Smog of #London began. Lasting for 4 days, it was an air #pollution event that resulted from a period of unusually cold and windless weather. Airborne pollutants from burning #coal collected over the city.

Contemporary medical reports estimated that 4,000 people died, and another 100,000 suffered some degree of illness. Modern estimates, however, put the #fatalities at 10-12,000.

The event resulted in the Clean Air Act 1956.

Once again, borders, passports, visas, and other fake things we invented to separate ourselves under the pretense of so-called national identity directly get in the way of academic progress.

https://www.science.org/content/article/visa-bureaucracy-makes-scientific-conferences-inaccessible-many-researchers?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=LinkedIn