PolymerWitch @polymerwitch@anticapitalist.party

Polymerwitch the 🍄 🧙‍♀️

I plan to use this aspect/account for more private and personal connections (digital friends welcome!).

This aspect is locked, and default posting is followers only. I will be doing a quick pass of followers/following and cleaning up public posts here today. If I delete you it's only because we don't interact much. Say hi, and we can talk about adding you back <3.

#introductions

Hello, I'm a #tranarchist from #Portland, OR. I work in a democratically managed food #coop. A lot of my work regarding anticapitalism is in the form of #neighborhood uplift and resistance to overt hate groups, calling out modern day redlining, and supporting the local houseless population. I also regularly train #queer folks on how to safely handle and operate #firearms.

My main account is over at polymerwitch@toot.cat

My pronouns are she/her

#anarchism #electronicmusic

You know I have always been unable to talk on the phone for my 35 years. You were part of the reason I had to do months of therapy where I was forced to talk into a toy phone. And still you get mad at me when I don't answer when you call.

Just text me, pls 😭

what if there was a group of anti-fascists dads that started a group called the Proud Men and just showed up and shamed Proud Boys whenever they were in public?

I wish there were more themes for mastodon. I like light themes, but I'm not a fan of the periwinkle and white light theme :(

So, I setup an account over on cathoderay.tube. Don't know if I'll use it much, but I wanted to be educated on pleroma's feature set.

Things I like:
* User customizable themes (see screenshot)
* Only one feed per screen!
* Very quick load times
* In place convo popup

Things I don't like:
* No tooltips for icons
* Unfinished features (why is there a chat bubble in the corner with random chat from the last few days in it?

@polymerwitch

Do you ever think about how one of those followbots could be a state or security industry actor? All of the posts that get federated to this new bot are pulled into their datastore.

Then you think about how it's probably already happening, because we all know of instances and other bad actors that violate the inherit trust of the fediverse.

Then you start becoming terrified because you realize a bad actor could also alter content before federating it.

😂

I'm gonna setup an invite system on it soon. Then folks who aren't trolls can join the anarchism.online homeserver!

I got my matrix server running and federating :D

So, leftists and marginalized folk in Portland have to watch their back right now.

The next fed or cop crackdown is around the corner, and the next MAX train murderer is out there too: https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/god-will-wipe-them-out-white-supremacist-preacher-promises-bloodshed-future-rallies

Also, the police and feds now have legal ammunition to dig into groups that were there, and surveil and crush support networks in those groups. Considering the feds are pissed about the ICE blockade and opened fire with less lethal rounds on anti-fascist protesters it seems likely they will strike back. And we know which side of the fasc/antifa divide police align with (http://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/06/27/portland-police-saw-right-wing-protesters-as-much-more-mainstream-than-leftist-ones/)

The thing that scares me the most as I reflect on what happened in portland yesterday (http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/06/30/portland-police-declare-a-riot-after-right-wing-marchers-begin-beating-antifascists-with-flag-poles/) is how this is going to influence rogue action by individuals in the coming months. We saw it with the MAX train murderer last year where he got hyped up after a march and started going around attacking people.

Now a whole new crop of them has been planted.

Last night I dreamt about what the Smithsonian and the History channel will say about this time in history. They were using infographics to traverse the zeitgeist through social media records. Tiny clips played at times to emphasize points.

when it comes to national pol SCOTUS shifts are the most terrifying to me. Like we could be fucked for the next 50 years, and literally only revolutionary action will save us.

The US is a nation where law and order are supreme, and the arbiters of that order are about to be shifted in what I can only assume is a dark direction.