Jess Mahler @jessmahler@wandering.shop

I've been stealing time to read more of @CaribenxMarciaX's book recently, it's well worth a read if you want a good solid essay on confronting architecture and colonial symbols of the state's power through Afro-Indigenous art with a focus on women artists:
https://www.artistmarciax.com/bookorder

Reading this paper about academic colonialism (it's talking a lot about what I talk about, how the language of discovery in academia indicates a deeper harm)

And I'm wondering whether that white person who walked away from me a couple weeks back is still planning to credit me in the work they're doing to secure their privilege in the kyriarchy, or whether they'll use the "abuse" of me telling them not to appropriate my knowledge as an excuse to appropriate my knowledge.

(I bet they do.)

(Curious why I don't just name the academic who has caused this problem? Because every time I name white people who cause harm, the Fediverse, at best, sends me a bunch of spam email, and at worst finds my home address and sends the cops on false premises. Y'all expect honest and open conversations about the future of whiteness but literally pull a gun on folk who offer it up.)

Sharing from Instagram. #mutualaid groups to support in Washington DC
@ kyanite.kitchen
Venmo: KYA-PARKER
Cash App: $KYISM
@ dcfridgecollective
Cash App: $DCFRIDGECOLLECTIVE
curfew begins at 6
If you need help you can DM either account
Email: dcfridgecollective@gmail.com
text 202-743-2782

Please #boost and #donate. Rn, Black leadership is asking us to give so I really hope Masto can show up!!

posting this big list of black-owned goth brands again because i keep continually coming back to it and it's such a good resource: https://stephano.me/blog/black-owned-goth-brands-list/

Anyone proficient with setting up a Jekyll-powered website for github? I've made some progress but I really don't understand where I should put my images, both for structure and blog posts. All help appreciated.

Have you heard of the Royal game of Ur?

It's a 4000 year old game found in a royal gravesite in the ancient city of Ur. What's truly amazing about it is that we've also found a clay tablet with the rules for it! The oldest rule book in the world!

I had not heard of it, until I found this beautiful Free and open source online digital version of it! It looks great, and it's fun too! And you can play two player locally

Give it a go and let me know what you think!

https://royalur.net/ #game

I'm thinking a lot right now about the fact that the initial novel draft I nearly trunked, from which I pulled my Recognize Fascism story, was about discovering a plot to eliminate political opposition to a nationalist despot and frame the violence on young people of colour.

Black Autonomy Podcast is a new podcast about anarchism and Black liberation hosted by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin, veteran organizers, former members of the Black Panther Party and co-founders of the Black Autonomy Federation.

This is a podcast I'm actually really excited about!

https://blackrosefed.org/announcing-black-autonomy-podcast/

A friend needs help paying for DMV license plate tags to make their trip home a bit less dangerous.

They had hoped to be back before the nationwide protection for having expired tags ended with the end of the year, but they were delayed by family matters.

If you're local to Colorado Springs, and have enough to help out a friendly with expired vehicle tags, please reach out and I'll connect you.

They are unable to accept digital payment or money transfer without potentially putting their disability payment status into limbo, and they're trying to avoid that at all costs.

If you could help them, you would be helping me as well.

(Please boost if you're not local to the Colorado area, someone can meet this need if it's spread far enough.)

Might be a good idea to keep an eye out for the next few weeks. Trump and a bunch of other hard right media figures are getting banned from Twitter and Facebook. Parler and Gab are getting booted from Google Play and likely the App Store, too. That's going to shake out a lot of fashies. They'll be looking for new digital spaces where they can recruit and coordinate, and some of them may land on fediverse servers. Keep your guard up.

Client didn't want this one (don't worry, she's taking loads of others) so here's a free #cc0 embellishment thingy if anyone wants it :)

A couple of months ago, when something similar happened in Germany I posted something like this:

If it walks with a Nazi, and talks like a Nazi, and tries to storm the Reichstag^WCapitol like a Nazi, it's a fucking Nazi.

Someone complained, a discussion ensued, I called them a Nazi, was told off by fosstodon admins and now I'm here.

So now that this has happened in the USA, are people ready to see that calling out Nazis is not hate speech?