this planet inside our solar system seems to be showing signs of drum n bass which are potentially highly intelligent
something I think is relevant when talking about how Israel is targeting journalists - people seem to forget that the organizers and people in iconic photos from the Ferguson protests have all ‘mysteriously died’
The iconic photo of a man in a US shirt throwing a tear gas canister back at the police? He’s dead. under suspicious circumstances. One of the lead organizers was found dead tied up in a trunk of a car and it was ruled as not a homicide. The list goes on
It didn’t all happen immediately. But they’re gone now.
fascist governments use fascist tactics.
Here’s a link to the article in the Rolling Stone about it.
Encountered a bloodsucking bureaucrat trying to deprive a patient in a very very bad way of mental health services bc their doctor wrote that their mutism was only “selective” and thus it must be voluntary and manipulative
Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is otherwise capable of speech becomes unable to speak when exposed to specific situations, specific places, or to specific people, one or multiple of which serving as triggers. […] People with selective mutism stay silent even when the consequences of their silence include shame, social ostracism, or punishment.
It’s like watching a lawyer argue the defendant is innocent bc they only committed battery and batteries are not a crime lolololol, except this time they have a chance to get away with it bc the only voice the doctor has is the little report they wrote up and abject ignorance of psychiatric categories and terminology is the norm once you reach the systems involved here
cali:
bro no hate but could u be less weird and complex and multitudinal. cuz its kind of making it harder for me to make my diagram of all things ever at all
staying with my father and my teenage brother occasionally has been very enlightening actually i need to think about it positively
hmmm ok. fascinating. okay. amazing. and i have to live like this? okay
how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes
(…and you don’t want to join 20 new websites)
First, get an RSS reader*:
- Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), QuiteRSS, Raven Reader
- Android: Feeder
- iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire
You’ll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its “feed URL”– often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓– and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.
Some feed URLs for social media:
- Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using “Download a user’s friends list” on Tweetbeaver)
- Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog’s “my art” tag (as an example)
- Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)
- Mastodon: Use instance.url/@username.rss
- Deviantart: Info here
- Spacehey: Info here
- Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with “https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=”
- Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn’t have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it’s not so simple to generate a feed URL.
- Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.
(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere…)
Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don’t have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).
*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.
This!
RSS feeds were a great way to keep track of things before the rise of the platforms, and (if we’re smart) they’ll be great again.











