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The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

DO NOT CALL THE REGULAR POLICE.

they are not on your side.

Very explicitly, in the video, the regular police straight up lie to the couple, telling them they will go to jail for harboring a fugitive if they dont hand the doordasher over, and that it doesnt matter if ice has a warrant for her arrest. NEITHER OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. You CANNOT be harboring a fugitive if the person you are haboring doesnt have a warrant out for their arrest! The warrant is what makes them a fugitive!

If ice wants access to someone on your property, do NOT hand them over unless you are shown a warrant signed by a judge! Make as much noise as you can to attract bystanders - it was the fact that a crowd gathered and started yelling at them that made ice leave in the video. And DO NOT expect the regular police to help you - they are just another arm of the state and will only do or say whatever they think is necessary to make you comply.

And make sure you film everything so you have evidence of what really happened if ice tries to enter your property illegally.

The couple DOES NOT DO THIS ALONE. A few neighbors come out to see what's happening, start shouting information back and forth with the couple, reminding them of their rights, start filming, start blowing whistles, and then the couple, with this reinforcement, knowing they're not facing this alone, tells the ICE agents to show a signed judicial warrant or to fuck off. And the ICE agents fuck off.

THIS is why you need to organize with the people in your IN-PERSON community, and you need to start doing it NOW. Start a signal chat or text chain with your neighbors. Be able to communicate quickly in an emergency. Be able to show up for each other in an emergency. None of us can do this alone, but none of us has to do this alone. Reach out to people. Organize.

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you say "i mostly just think people should be free to live their life as they please" and somebody will respond "oh so you think EVIL MURDERERS should be allowed to EVIL KILL PEOPLE" and its like.....

first of all obviously not, thats such a bad faith argument for the sake of arguing and i think you know it is

second of all its weird thats the first thing you thought of? its weird that you went to such an extreme? since you allowed bad faith arguments into the discussion i could argue its reasonable for me to think you might wanna evil murder someone based on how quickly you thought of that

third of all and perhaps most importantly. evil murderers already evil kill people. not being allowed to hasnt stopped them so far. thats uh. thats why its called murder and not silly joes knifey knifey end a lifey power hour fun time

When there is a normative system, whether it is gendernormative ideas of what a man or a woman is, neuronormative ideas about what sanity is and what disability is, heteronormative and amatonormative ideas about what a normal relationship is, and more

That normative system always centers whiteness. It is always build on ideas about the world, about individuality and identity, about our relations to others and to our planet, that come from white-dominated culture and that center white perspectives. And it always punishes deviants harder if they're not white.

So any critique of that normative system and rebellion against that normative system, whether it is queerness, transfeminism, crip theory, or what have you, is going to have to confront whiteness, white supremacy and colonialism.

It's going to have to ask the question "WHY did this become the norm?" and realize that the answer is rooted in colonialism and white supremacy (and quite often in capitalism too).

If challenging whiteness is not a core part of the critique and of the rebellion against the normative system, then it'll inevitably fail because it's always only attacking a part of the normative system and leaving the other part in tact.

hate when mummy movies use Imhotep as the big bad. He was an architect. Imagine a mummy movie but the mummy is Frank Llyod Wright. And he was buried at the House On The Rock. Ok nevermind that would be a sick ass movie.

anybody else uhhh. anybody else. anyone else uhhhhh

the thing about dissociative amnesia is it's not always like "how did i get here whose clothes am i wearing why dont i remember buying this pineapple" a lot of the time you don't actually notice the memories disappearing until someone asks you how your week has been and you try to remember your week and realize that your memory somehow has 4 wednesdays in a row, no thursday, and a seven minute long friday afternoon, but nothing that could be said to be Your Week

Doing small diy "facelift" things around the house has made me go into woodworking forums for tips more often, which has increasingly highlighted how much materials have gone into the shitter.

Example.

I'm stripping the paint off of the odd, built in closet/cabinets that are in my finished attic/bedroom.

These guys

We estimate they were built between the 70s and 90s, and beneath the paint they're a pretty sturdy and well constructed, but still very standard pine. The doors and side are a high quality sanded plywood, but it's still pine plywood.

In woodworking spaces, these are in the "cheap, but sturdy" zone. I've learned that staining/finishing them (which I'm doing) is putting lipstick on a pig, and the fact that the grain was visible through paint is a sign of the wood being cheaper.

It's that last bit that's been breaking my brain a bit. I see woodworker forums talking about ways to best avoid the grain showing through paint on pieces meant to be painted.

What I also see, in century home discussion spaces, is a pattern.

Someone reveals something like my closet. Not original to the house, but still a few decades old. They ask how they should finish it and there are two types of answers

40+ year olds: "it's pine plywood. It's fine quality, but it's just pine. Just repaint it bc that's what it's made for"

Under 40: "do you know what I'd do to have cabinets/shelves that are actually wood and not flat plastic with a wood pattern painted on it???"

Nearly every thing that I've seen that's new these days is plastic over shit particle board. They're light, they're constructed as simply as possible. They're meant to be disposable. I just saw shelving that is white with a wood grain pattern stamped into the laminate. recreating the look of paint over cheap, but real wood. and ever since I saw that stamped on plastic grain pattern I've felt slightly insane.

I know solid wood is not feasible for most people. Ive done apartment living and moved furniture. I know how lucky I am to have scored a sturdy old little house right before the market would've made that impossible. I'm not getting into All That bc that's not the point. Idek what the point is except that it's bullshit how cheaply expensive things are made these days and nothing is built to last. I'm not saying anything new but I'm still going crazy about it.

The people this house was built for were railway workers and meat packers. They were working class and this house was meant to be affordable to them. The bones are oakwood. The plaster and lathe is still under the drywall of the outside walls, and when I exposed it it was still rock hard. When I'm drilling into a wall I can tell when I hit some of the original house because the drill screams. This was a house meant to be mass produced and affordable to the working class, and the floors from 1905 look nicer than the newer flooring.

Anyway, if you wanna also go insane just look up home inspectors going through new luxury builds on YouTube.

Also. Thrift your furniture. Not mattresses though.

i feel like those posts thatre like “REAL gay people don’t talk about yaoi discourse they go to gay clubs and do ket” are crazy like i understand they’re critiquing a hyper specific genre of online queer but babe they can do both… i know people who are ravers and are always on shrooms and read mcr rpf like i feel like we draw a big line between the online queer community and the in person one but that girls at gay bars have tumblr accounts it’s really not that seperate

I feel like it's a really common trope to have a non-biological entity disgusted by squishy bio things like secretions and flesh and stuff but. Wouldn't they utterly lack revulsion to those things? The reason we are repulsed by things like blood and shit and corpses is because they are intimately connected to our bodies, are uncomfortable reminders of our animal mortality, can be vectors of harm, or are a signal of danger. A being made of energy, metal, or plastic does not have the same sympathetic connections to these things that we do, except as a kind of intellectual sympathy for what people they care about fear. Disgust is repulsive, and you can only repel something if it's close to you. I think the things that viscerally repel a non-biological mind are not going to be biological.

Hmm... Maybe not as extreme as a corpse, but if you handed someone composed of mostly metal an extremely corroded piece of copper, I could see them reacting like you just handed them a very moldy orange.

To reach "handed a decomposing roadkill squirrel" level, maybe give them something with identifiable parts similar to what is in their body, like corroded circuit boards, batteries, wire connectors. That's a more direct reminder of mortality.