your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

am liza sabater (she/they) the og blogdiva & resident afroboricua #antifa #dyslexic #ActuallyAutistic #GenX tití. surviving breast #cancer and still chronicling #AmericanFascism.

thank you fediverse for #dogs, #cats, #sports, #sewing, #cooking and #Monsterdon. so #fuckCancer #COVID19, mask up, join a #union & fight for #UBI & #Medicare4All

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2026-03-18 16:34:37 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116250307009987299
by the way,
don't expect the malignant narcissists ―who supported giving power to one of their own, to destroy everything meant to be a social good supported by the federal government― to finally snap out of it and come to their senses.
there are 70 million malignant narcissists who will double down on their denial. there are 70 million malignant narcissists ready to burn it all down than admit they were wrong.
y’all need to clapback these assholes among your families & relations NOW.
#note1ydp…ukhp

2026-03-18 15:36:40 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116250463343585617
sweartagawd this is the consequence of having 2 generations of computer users gaslit about “smart phones”.
we carry microcomputers for which, at least here in the USA, we have no default root access to and, therefore, can’t use fully as computers.
if people hadn’t fallen for the techbro propaganda of “smart phone”, we’d have a country with better tech literacy; but that’s been completely on purpose.
Americans have paid techbros to stalk and dumb them down with the mobi “revolution”
#note14v9…723c

2026-03-17 05:20:04 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116241115723191964
the US and Israel #EpsteinClass are getting away with #warCrimes because they got away with #pedophilia and #rape.
the longer you don't take down every billionaire in the Epstein Files, the more bloodshed they’ll get to enjoy.
#note1m69…3323

2026-03-17 04:52:52 UTC

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the #pedophilia #rapes #murders have been part of the Silicon Valley #wealth #valuation process. you don't need to read all the #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles to get that the #broligarchy isn’t a meritocracy based on assets. it’s based on what they could get away with; especially the most unspeakable of crimes.

2026-03-17 04:42:12 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@mattmay/116242313660334112
Gay Hitler is the biggest grifter on the planet, successful beyond Trump’s wildest dreams.
yet the nihilist who spent EONS selling himself as an objectivist atheist, wants us to believe he is an end-of-times evangelical.
SO ASK YOURSELVES:
why is Jeffrey Epstein’s favorite mammon-loving misanthrope ―who has played Putin, bin Salman, Netanyahu, Trump & every tech rube for the last +20 years― eager for World War 3?
THIS IS ABOUT THE #EpsteinFiles & HOW THIEL’S WEALTH IS TIED TO PEDOPHILES
#note1j96…d7mm

2026-03-16 03:10:51 UTC

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i just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaant!

2026-03-15 21:15:53 UTC

RE: https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/116233785931986954
may a new era of "illegal" libraries, mobile and tethered, rise across this country
#antifa #libraries #education
#note123n…j047

2026-03-15 03:46:44 UTC

IN OTHER NEWS
every day i wake up doubting my ability to communicate in the language of Izzard and Shakespeare, yet there’s some of y’all hegemons using can’t in a contracted double negative on friggin Midsomer Murders:
❝ this can’tn’t be easy for you ❞
really karen? REALLY?!?!?
unfuckinbelievable.
#tv #language

2026-03-15 00:03:26 UTC

WARNING: the #fediverse is not immune to #blackface #astroturfing; especially in the age of #AI.
just blocked an AIslopped account literally invoking the same Bernie Sanders grievances of the last 20 years, with a guest apperance of corporatist dems new target, Zohran Mamdani.
the #USApol consultant ecosystem is a special kind of grifting hell. they are sociopaths who don't care about political parties, only how much money they can make wrecking havoc.
block them with prejudice.

2026-03-14 05:05:57 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/116225753982841015
this is bullshit #propaganda and wish fulfillment spread by #GOP #MAGA and their gringolarchy so they can send actual military troops across all USA states.
don’t spread these lies of an imminent Iranian invasion or bombing. just like it was the Saudis on 9/11/2001, it will be some “ally” or even the gringolarchy’s mercenaries attacking us to make it seem we are at war.
i cannot impress upon everybody, how #Republicans are acting like they will never leave the White House.
#note1k3p…9swl

2026-03-13 17:29:32 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/health-88gtjf45z/-/a-T-J3HaF9QfKV7f2gkhjMKA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
something an ER MD told me during my #fuckCancer debacle is that the hospital hoarded rooms for the wealthy.
since there are no regulators keeping track of how many rooms a hospital has in total and how they’re allocated; they can claim full capacity even as they have full floors empty.
they said "full capacity" was hospitalspeak for rooms allocated to people under health insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. that patients paying cash upfront (usually in the thousands) always have a room.
#note1g0j…28pr

2026-03-13 01:11:25 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.com/@latimes/opinion-uc4d9e86z/-/a-Rntk1PhbRuyEwFYuB8K_-Q%3Aa%3A460011909-%2F0
LA Times, bought by a techbro, says taxing the boss won't solve anything.
sure, becki.
#note1cw4…psls

2026-03-13 00:38:32 UTC

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jesusjosephandmaryonapogostick DAHELL?!?!?

2026-03-13 00:32:59 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/116217634545241753
what’s amazing about this #AI #techbro worldview is the belief that knowledge and creativity are finite commodities.
they’ve been groomed to believe Labor is what happens to other people; and that it’s their birthright to take ALL the fruits of other people’s labor.
they believe that’s what predators do: take all the wins and none of the losses.
but real predators do not decimate their feeding grounds.
parasites, on the other hand, always do.
#fascism #capitalism
#note122c…pxje

2026-03-12 21:45:50 UTC

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217480209079374
been saying for years that #AI #crypto data centers are an oblique way of privatizing potable #water
#techbros are a fascist, eugenicist death cult. they must be stopped.
#note12hw…wtae

2026-03-12 21:31:18 UTC

IN OTHER NEWS
you know how y’all in Europe and elsewhere are skeeved out about pharmaceutical ads in USA radio and tv.
i find absolutely wild the cremation ads on UK tv. that so would not fly here with the yeehawdist Y’all Queda crowd.
#tv #ads

2026-03-12 15:06:31 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116216751079652006
this bootlicking, fascist-enabling fucker needs to be kicked out DC. he is the one who helped rig the South’s primaries in 2020, so we could end up with fucking Biden. fuck this guy and his one photo op with MLK.
there is nothing more hateful than white supremacist patriarchy and the Black patriarchal wannabes enabling it.
yeah, you run and tell them La Negra said that.
#note1gm9…chdv

2026-03-10 22:19:46 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116206611073364054
boycott FIFA 2026
#BDSUSA #sports #fascism
#note1ur7…mvnn

2026-03-10 22:03:57 UTC

REMINDER:
“AI” is a marketing term. AI, like all software, cannot hallucinate.
#linguistics #propaganda #techbros

2025-09-22 23:34:22 UTC

my mom’s sister was born in 1943, about 12 yrs before #acetaminophen #panadol was invented. she would have been diagnosed autistic these days but because my grandparents were dirt poor ―literally still living in a house with dirt floor― my aunt didn’t, just like neither Mami nor any of my uncles, get the kind of pediatric diagnosis nor care, upper class #autistic Americans got at the time.
it’s 2025: we know #autism can be hereditary. we also know #viral #infections may be an epigenetic cause.

2025-09-16 21:29:15 UTC

is this happening to other people: my insurance is declining prescriptions for generic medications which, for decades, they forced me to use.
my pharmacist called incredibly confused because the insurance is declining payment for what they enforced for ages. now the insurance company is demanding my doctors re-issue the Rx for the brand name medication.
what the hell is going on?!?!?

2025-09-12 18:53:46 UTC

BUT BUT TECH AND UI/UX ARE APOLITICAL!!!
just came across a post with racist asshats complaining that Mastodon will finally turn into Blacktwitter with quoted posts and i want to burn all the things down.
fuck those people and fuck everybody catering to their racist, white supremacist asses by refusing to add features to the software lest the UI/UX becomes too Black and Proud to handle.
#tech #racism #fascism #Mastodon #UIUX

2025-09-04 14:04:48 UTC

had not read the whole Caroline Kennedy letter rebuking her cousin as a sadist who got off on putting LIVE baby chickens on a blender to feed his pet birds of prey, which he kept in his drug den.
knew of Robert Kennedy Jr being a drug dealer but had never heard of the depths of his depravity.
#animalCruelty is a HUGE red-flag for domestic #abuse, #rape, mass #murder
indifference to suffering is a rejection of the #GoldenRule and all social contracts. it’s corruption that ends in #fascism.

2025-08-28 02:30:50 UTC

LOL que se joda. facha de mierda.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/28/argentinian-president-javier-milei-leaves-rally-after-protesters-throw-rocks
#Argentina #TrumpitoDePacotilla #fachas

2025-08-18 20:11:45 UTC

am i the only one who doesn’t want to know who is behind the Inspirational Skeletor account?
in my head canon @npub1c8j…wng2 retired from their days of annoying He-Man, is studying Buddhism and yoga, and are on a journey of learning power isn’t violence, destruction, conquest.
i love this Skeletor.
https://mas.to/@skeletor/115050716201443141
they’ve turned Mastodon into a liminal space between Snake Mountain, the realms of Eternia and our world… one shitpost at a time.

2025-05-08 19:31:16 UTC

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never has a #Catholic #pope had such a ringing endorsement from a fascist like Laura Loomer:
❝ He is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis. ❞
yes, this is a huge statement by #RCC #conclave : it took them less than two days to realize they need a YOUNG & AMERICANO leader who saw USA #MAGA #fascism as the existential to humanity that it is.
just because he’s from Chicago, don’t get it twisted: Prevost’s favorite punching bag is USA catholicism
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/473/866/021/160/841/original/4e3446514d27adf0.jpeg

2025-02-21 00:16:49 UTC

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what’s wild is that, it absolutely was included in primary school history books to teach kids how to “correctly” read this kind of propaganda.
it’s so deliberate, so much so, when i was a high school history teacher here in NYC, i spent more time teaching kids how to question the history book and how to use primary sources to verify. i basically taught them how to learn because so much was propaganda.
all public school USA history textbooks are propaganda. all of them.
@npub1s5e…ffjs

2025-01-27 18:42:29 UTC

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and it was what Silicon Valley used to be known for. not anymore. AI is a wasteful travesty of tech know-how. it’s a forgery for the kind of innovation USA was known for.

2025-01-27 17:06:06 UTC

fantastic article about the #DeepSeek brouhaha with gems like this that shows why true innovators make do with what they have:
https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/
❝ So was this a violation of the chip ban?
Nope. H100s were prohibited by the chip ban, but not H800s. Everyone assumed that training leading edge models required more interchip memory bandwidth, but that is exactly what DeepSeek optimized both their model structure and infrastructure around.❞
seams the 1990s #AI team went retro in coding… 🧵

2025-01-20 20:02:28 UTC

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Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail : NPR - https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/956741992/documentary-exposes-how-the-fbi-tried-to-destroy-mlk-with-wiretaps-blackmail
#JAN20 #MLKDay

2025-01-20 20:00:32 UTC

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❝So long as one spark of prejudice lies latent in the heart of any white American, there is a possibility for it to develop into a [strikeout illegible] flame of intolerence at the unpredictable moments.
❝We must not become so complacent that we forget the struggles of other minorities. We must unite with oppressed minorities throughout the world. (Africa & Asia).
"The Peril of Superficial Optimism in the Area of Race Relations" https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/peril-superficial-optimism-area-race-relations
#JAN20 #MLKDay

2025-01-20 19:55:37 UTC

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FBI docket on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
KING JR., Martin L. - HQ 100-106670-4620 OPR Report : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/KINGJR.MartinL.HQ1001066704620OPRReport/page/n1/mode/2up
#JAN20 #MLKDay

2025-01-20 19:47:10 UTC

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❝ King claimed that America made “peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments” (King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 157). King urged instead “a radical revolution of values” emphasizing love and justice rather than economic nationalism (King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 157).
"Beyond Vietnam" | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute - https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/beyond-vietnam
#JAN20 #MLKDay

2025-01-20 19:44:49 UTC

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❝ "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as Riverside Church speech, is an anti-Vietnam war and pro-social justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1967. The major speech at Riverside Church in New York, New York, followed several interviews[2] and several other public speeches in which King came out against the war in Vietnam and the policies that created the war.
Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence https://archive.org/details/BeyondVietnamATimeToBreakSilence4467
#JAN20 #MLKDay

2025-01-20 19:42:49 UTC

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money, like some demonic, destructive suction tube. […] it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor.
https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=819842&p=5924547
#Jan20 #MLKDay

2025-01-20 02:12:11 UTC

WAIT! THIS IS A PORNO?!?!?!
#BeeGirls #monsterdon

2024-11-21 15:25:52 UTC

am Tony Manero’ing my breakfast this morning: pizza and coffee.
#nyc #IYKYK

2024-11-20 16:34:46 UTC

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i make mine without the raspberries. it’s a recipe i found in Bon Appetit like 35 years ago and have made my own ever since (i’ve changed a few things from the original). and i make enough to last a year, so Thanksgiving is kinda my jellie making season.

2024-11-17 01:10:46 UTC

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i just realized the crew they have prepared, look like out of a cult. what's the name of that death cult that they all offed themselves in their jumpsuits and Adidas?
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

2024-11-17 01:08:49 UTC

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this scene with the government guys, setting up the stage for plausible deniability?
so enraging.
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

2024-11-17 01:05:05 UTC

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seriously, the screws unscrewing themselves and all the gadgets turning on by themselves and then fucking Barry going in thru the dog door laughing?
nightmare fuel.
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

2024-11-17 01:01:41 UTC

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THE BABY ABDUCTION SCENE
just pure nightmare fuel.
that is all.
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

2024-11-17 01:00:57 UTC

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for the longest time i confused Wyoming’s Devil’s Peak with New Mexico’s Enchanted Mesa. it's wild that the United States is so big it has these amazing geological outcrops.
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

2024-11-17 00:50:45 UTC

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it’s also a magnanimous fuck you who those who think science nor tech depend on the Liberal Arts.
without the translator/mapper, played by Bob Balaban, there is no movie. each major plot point is moved forward by his intervention.
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

2024-11-17 00:49:05 UTC

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GOLDSTONE OBSERVATORY
so upon announcing to my brood that i was rewatching ―yet again― THING1 told me that he found out Spielberg’s father was a software developer and his mother a musician.
this movie is literally a love song to both his parents (software was developed to play the famous encounter music at the end).
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

2024-11-17 00:42:47 UTC

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the irony of not knowing they are asking the state to Stop & Be Friendly.
#LizaIsWatching #CloseEncounters #movies

2024-08-06 17:40:48 UTC

i just deleted another one of those unwanted DMs from people i do not follow. it said they had fired 78 DMs to my account.
again... ahem...
🗣 WHY THE FUCK MASTODON.SOCIAL IS MAKING ME DELETE THESE FUCKERS IF I ALREADY HAVE IT SET UP TO *NOT* ACCEPT DMs FROM NON-FOLLOWS?
also 78 DMs from one account!
that immediately should set up alarms and be completely banned.

2024-07-31 23:54:17 UTC

btw been #sewing all day, watching #Olympics feeds and not paying attention to the #USpol. it's been glorious. what did i miss?

2024-07-31 23:45:12 UTC

#Serbia destroyed #PuertoRico's men's #basketball team cuz they really couldn't hide they're boricua hobbits. they fought hard, but didn't have a chance against those g'damn Balkan giants.
also tragically, the women's basketball team, lost by ONE DAMN POINT to Spain.
i will be wearing a black band in mourning for the rest of the #Olympics 😭 😭 😭
#2024Olympics

2024-07-28 20:22:28 UTC

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or the ever popular "just change instances" when you're a lonely user. they're the same asshats that find very little wrong with migrant policies for certain groups of people. cuz, you know, they believe in the unicorn and ponies of meritocracies 🙄

2024-07-27 20:34:28 UTC

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all this to say: the fascist non-profit complex works because they are paid to reproduce top-down structures they want to control.
we can't follow that model if we're fighting it. so we need to start laying the foundation literally from the codebase up. and that means cooperatively owning what we build.
won't be perfect, but its the better way out of this fascist quagmire because it's sustainable.
non-profit isn't and that's by design. 3/3
@npub1g8l…vwtm @npub1sac…kcpe @npub1ev3…sk2l @npub1rd9…8n78

2024-07-27 20:29:10 UTC

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2. the fediverse doesn't work if it's based on the top-down model of charities. charity is a trickle down economics without the fascist business suits.
for real federation we need people to own the instances they are in. if not they run the risk of ending up like USA southern states where residents are just living in an open prison.
the fediverse should be predicated on users owning the means of their social media production.
2/3
@npub1g8l…vwtm @npub1sac…kcpe @npub1ev3…sk2l @npub1rd9…8n78

2024-07-27 20:22:31 UTC

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two things because am recharging my spoons with the Olympics and this topic always gets me agitated. so here's the thing:
1. fascists are not driven by abstract notions of power. they're driven by money. so they've literally stolen money from all of us to destroy us.
asking folks to go hungry and homeless to fight pigs at the through is fucking stupid at the very least, puritanically malicious at it's worst.
non-profit needs to die
1/3

2024-07-27 19:44:20 UTC

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"“the left” is arguably hamstrung by our sense of urgency and inability to get excited about things that require… years"
pin that.
that's the forever wisdom that's truly urgent in 2024. it's fucking exhausting to deal with people for whom everything is an emergency and nothing that needs building for the long term ESPECIALLY COALITIONS is worth their while.
@npub1g8l…vwtm @npub1sac…kcpe @npub1ev3…sk2l @npub1rd9…8n78

2024-07-09 03:21:06 UTC

y'all!
it's too hot. been spraying myself with water and sitting in front of a fan and it's not enough. can't run the AC often because the compressor is borked.
am reckoning #cancer and maybe #COVID19 have altered how i handle extreme weather. this summer is hard.
if you're in NYC and need respite, go straight to a hospital atrium.
NYC hospitals open their doors during extreme weather conditions. wear a mask, take water and munchies.
also, #fuckCancer
#ClimateCrisis #Heat

2024-07-08 23:06:46 UTC

there is so much joy in witnessing other people's joy. there's ways to love and happiness that never crossed my mind and yet, because everyday i choose to open my heart to the universe, i find new ways to smile and feel full of love.
why would anybody not want that all around them? why not want joy, happiness, well-being, health for others?
why would anybody want to justify their life by the amount of people suffering around them?
that sadistic emptiness escapes me.

2024-07-06 19:21:42 UTC

JK Rowling, with her level of transphobia defies the JK Rowling author of the Harry Potter books.
there's a level of disconnect that is too vast and wide to defy logic.
so i posit: putting aside the labor from editors, there is no way JK Rowling wrote alone the Harry Potter books.
sure, there's no question she had a hand in them but it seems to me that there's a heart and mind missing in her that it's in those books.
there's no way JK Rowling is the sole author of the Harry Potter books.

2024-06-12 21:53:06 UTC

#BASH NERDLETTES!
am trying to understand why y'all say «mkdir -p -- "$1" && cd -- "$1"» works.
i have something like this for creating site folders in Backdrop & Drupal multisite installations.
the scripts DO create the folders and update & copy all the files that go into them; but it bothers me that the terminal prompt never switches me into the folder.
my expectation is that "cd" moves my prompt into the new folder, not the bash process.
so is that what's happening when in a function?