paranoid @paranoid@darkest-timeline.com

Hi Fediverse

it seems to me that switching.social closed down it's services. All social media accounts are deleted and the site is currently offline.

Unfortunately, I have no clue what happened, I'm as surprised as you are. I already contacted the French, Italian and Turkish version of the site.

In case someone knows anything about what happened or has backups of one/multiple pages of the website, I would be very happy to get in touch with you.

#SwitchingSocial #offline

Today, Seattle Proud Boy Zac Staggs attempted to infiltrate the #ClimateStrike march in black bloc gear, but was reportedly identified immediately under his mask and got beat up... at an event organized by high schoolers.

Sean-Michael David Scott is a member of proud boys and lives in Ballard. Know your local fash.

Basic rundown is included in the poster (I will add an image description in the comments), more info can be found here:

https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/community-alert-neo-nazi-proud-boy-sean-michael-david-scott-exposed/

question for tech/union fedi:

does anybody know if recent tech unionizing attempts (kickstarter, npm, etc) have worked with existing labor orgs/what orgs those are? i'm curious how much external support these groups had or if they were mostly homegrown organization efforts

vox media is unionized, gizmodo group (which contains splinter, the root, etc) is unionized... as a result, these places tend to produce pro-labor pieces more frequently, and with more insight and nuance, than non-union newsrooms. they’re not perfect, of course, but i’m glad they’ve organized! ✊️

A screenshot of a Twitter post posted to Tumblr then posted to Instagram now posted to Mastodon

The 2068 speculative journalism issue of High Country News is outstanding. It's fun storytelling, but also impressively researched. https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.14

The editor's note is more worth reading than such things usually are, because it lays out the case for why they did this: https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.14/editors-note-the-case-for-speculative-journalism

Even as someone who follows these issues closely and with an ever-increasing sense of dread, reading these stories has a different sort of impact from reading a research paper.

fuck I want this shirt

The Columbia City Neighborhood of Seattle woke up to these racist flyers all over. If you got hit please let antifa206@protonmail.com know so it can get added to a fash map.

wanna live with me? we have a room open in our big queer house near the Alberta Arts District. It's $600 a month. DM me for more deets

In short

its important for everyone to know that service-dogs-in-training get their own special theater productions, where they practice sitting politely while the actors on stage perform an entire show for them

Its suddenly occurred to me how ive been tripping over backwards for years to try and always call linux by stallman's preferred gnu/linux monicker but he wont use 'they' as someone's preferred pronoun.

That's fucked up when you think about it.

Police Officer Who Sent Protective Texts to Joey Gibson Cleared of Wrongdoing in City Review https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/09/12/27136199/police-officer-who-sent-protective-texts-to-joey-gibson-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-city-review

I just received a first-hand report in a private channel from one of the union organizers who was just fired from Kickstarter. It sounds like clear union busting.
Some details here:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-union-organizing.html

Okay, I've uploaded "Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin - American Masters S33E09" to Peertube now.

https://peertube.social/videos/watch/71519137-9952-4315-ad46-11f6e235a0e9

#sharing #anarchy #movie #film