Kit Malone

* Political Strategist @ Creative Political Strategy
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2026-02-25 13:25:50 UTC

Just because I believe detransitioners (who represent a miniscule minority of people who've received trans affirming care) deserve empathy and care doesn't mean that I think the detrans activists (themselves an even tinier minority of detransitioners) should get to weigh in on whether or not I am to be "allowed" access to medical care.

2026-02-05 00:01:06 UTC

I'm pretty excited about watching me some Muppets tonight!

2026-01-31 00:22:21 UTC

So let me get this right...
... the guy who owns a website that lets people create and share child pornography on demand would like you to believe there's nothing notable about him trying to get an invite to a "wild" party with the world's most infamous child rapist.
Again, just trying to get the story straight here.

2026-01-25 17:31:39 UTC

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THANK YOU this is exactly what I want.

2026-01-25 16:00:59 UTC

Looking for grassroots, local organizing efforts that are supporting the community response in #Minneapolis who have material support needs that I can amplify. Drop links here.
#ICE #AbolishICE #Minnesota #ICEout

2026-01-24 15:47:54 UTC

Listen I roll my eyes at the #JustInstallLinux beardoes as much as anyone but if you are engaged in resistance work and don't want Kash Patel to be able to comb through your laptop at will I will be happy to help you.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare

2026-01-13 22:52:28 UTC

For decades folks have been pushing back on the myth that presidents will act with restraint when we erode checks on the executive branch:
1) presidents have always abused that power to some degree and 2) all it takes is one fucking guy to really show you why it's a bad idea to erode the checks on executive power and oh look here's that one fucking guy.

2026-01-06 17:52:26 UTC

Hey it's ok to just mute stuff on social media that stresses you out.
Like, yeah, nobody should hide their head in the sand completely, but there are better ways to stay informed than your feed.
Consider that making us feel overwhelmed is their actual strategy.

2025-11-12 03:33:42 UTC

Anybody have aurora photos? My group chats are going crazy!
#HoosierMast

2025-10-28 15:50:55 UTC

The #Indiana BMV Is Trying Again — and So Are We
Earlier this year they tried to ban #trans Hoosiers from updating gender markers. Thousands spoke out. Hours of testimony poured in. Not a single person testified in favor of the rule.
In response, the BMV quietly withdrew it.
Despite overwhelming opposition, they’ve reintroduced the same harmful language for another round of public comment.
SUBMIT TESTIMONY
https://bit.ly/bmvtestimony
ATTEND HEARING
https://bit.ly/iygpacktheroom
#HoosierMast
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2025-10-25 19:22:29 UTC

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yes. that is definitely an accurate takeaway.

2025-10-25 18:01:17 UTC

I'm not uncritical of processed foods.
But the conservative obsession with them is very much about convincing women to feel super guilty about using innovations that enabled us to unshackle ourselves from the kitchen.

2025-10-24 02:09:19 UTC

I too find it a bit rich that people in the moveable middle seem more animated by the destruction of a building than by the litany of cruelties but you also don't get to choose which symbolic moments animate people, you just need to take full advantage of them when you get the chance.

2025-10-16 16:40:25 UTC

So a thing that will not be a surprise to men is that if you pretend you are in charge of things enough people will eventually put you in charge.
Weirdly learned this lesson from another woman who had realized the same thing and it's been a good strategy lol

2025-10-04 19:35:40 UTC

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not really a fan of the "owning them with quotes" Internet game but have fun or whatever

2025-10-04 19:24:49 UTC

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Is it, though?

2025-10-04 18:08:59 UTC

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ok, this has descended into talking points. Have a great day.

2025-10-04 17:43:19 UTC

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Same then. This idea that the discrete "behaviors" that you've decided completely represent a fairly large and highly diverse group of ordinary people to such a degree that they can safely be painted with the fascist brush. Just yuck. It's not useful, and it's not true. And it's an attitude that does actual, material harm.

2025-10-04 17:34:49 UTC

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The idea that Dems are corrupt is hardly hidden behind a curtain.
I see that you feel justified in making the kinda banal "fascism" comparison because you believe that the "liberals" represent a discrete point of view or position. I don't.
I think everything materially good I've accomplished woulda been impossible without the bulk organizing that I could only get out of engaging liberals and moderates and even the occasional conservative in good faith without reductive name calling.

2025-10-04 16:13:40 UTC

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Well I think you are moving the goalposts pretty rapidly in this conversation. It's true that liberals and liberal policy failed to halt the rise of fascism and in several cases accelerated it but that doesn't seem even kind of relevant to whether or not liberals as a group of people are comparable to fascists.

2025-10-04 15:37:25 UTC

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1) Yes. My position is there is a real difference between liberals with positions that produce bad outcomes and fascists for whom those outcomes are the overt goals.
2. I agree that the model of liberal (who is quite real and certainly mainstream) that you have decided is the *defining* element of this large and historically complex group we call "liberal" is ... bad?
3. It's far too boring to me to list the actual positive policy accomplishments of modern liberalism here but, come on.

2025-10-04 14:51:12 UTC

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Rhetorical division -- using language to separate the entire bloc of their opposition into specific identities that they can turn against one another?
That's like the most standard fascist play and it's disheartening to see how many folks still fall for it.

2025-10-04 14:42:47 UTC

Fascists love jargon because it allows them to decouple ideas from reality. To create situations in which a clearly unreasonable proposition flows easily from a rhetorical position.
If they decouple "liberal" and "fascist" from their meanings and make them broad standins for "things we don't like" then a lot of patently nonsensical bullshit follows. Suddenly the category that includes Harvey Milk and John Lewis is in or near category "fascist," right next to, say, Stephen Miller.

2025-09-26 21:06:24 UTC

A dear friend who happens to be raising a trans kid let me know that she has pulled stakes and fled the country practically overnight.
She didn't feel comfortable telling anyone ahead of time because she fears, rightly, that her family might be targeted.
I can't stop crying over what I am l losing. My family, my community. People I love.
I don't know what is going to happen to them and for the first time in my whole life I don't have anything hopeful to offer anyone.

2025-09-21 20:14:14 UTC

Disney cooperated enthusiastically during the Red Scare too.
Maybe it's just who they are.

2025-09-20 12:14:48 UTC

Not wanting a giant AI data center in your backyard doesn't make you a NIMBY because it's possible to believe that nobody should build a giant AI data center anywhere.

2025-09-19 22:42:08 UTC

The overwhelming problem with public education in the US is simply that nobody these days can agree on how to pay for it at a level where it would work properly and nobody really wants to solve that problem.

2025-09-13 23:51:36 UTC

Brian Kilmeade is a disgusting, bloviating slug but when he, on live tv, suggests that we murder people who can't afford a home he is only saying out loud the subtext of policies backed enthusiastically by a lot of so-called liberals.

2025-09-13 22:33:04 UTC

Another reminder that you should move to another VPN service.
#proton
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/

2025-09-12 21:17:40 UTC

Hey evergreen reminder that anyone posting about their desire to commit violence or do illegal things on federated social media like Mastodon is putting lots of other people who they don't even necessarily know in danger due to the way these platforms work.
Also, they are probably cops.

2025-09-11 15:58:18 UTC

I too abhor violence.
But when they say we must turn away from it, they never mean violence against people like me.

2025-09-05 17:49:49 UTC

This such a fucking avoidably incompetent self-own. Tell me more about how arresting the people bringing manufacturing to the U.S. without cause fits into your grand strategy of bringing manufacturing to the U.S.
https://electrek.co/2025/09/05/hyundais-new-ev-plant-raided-by-ice-hundreds-arrested/
(h/t @npub1d36…94hn for the link)
#ICE #USpol #racism

2025-08-30 01:23:26 UTC

Here we go.
https://apnews.com/article/texas-governor-redistricting-trump-33bfdc8790cdf8201d80c8c89258df3d
This thing is just going to spread now and who knows where it ends. Madness.

2025-08-29 15:54:26 UTC

Mastodon is a place you go to have nerds explain to you that what you said happened did not happen.

2025-08-28 23:47:32 UTC

Mastodon is a place where you go to have computer nerds explain politics to you

2025-08-25 18:26:29 UTC

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Like literally everytime I've done this over the last decade there has been one weirdo whose only contribution is just this weird weak bullshit. Like why did you even go to the effort to type that?

2025-08-25 18:23:09 UTC

People who reply to your rally announcement with "I agree with you but I'm not coming because it's hopeless"
Jesus Christ what the fuck is wrong with you. I don't mean your opinion (which is also bad), I mean your actual sense of politeness and appropriateness.
Do you normally walk up to people on the street in public and just piss on things strangers are doing?

2025-08-11 20:01:08 UTC

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Doubt that it's possible? It's already exactly this easy:
OFFICER: Stop, you are under arrest for being an illegal immigrant.
YOU: But officer, I'm a citizen. Here's my driver's license.
OFFICER: I think that looks fake. You are an illegal. Get in the van.
YOU: But this van says "Alligator Alcatraz" on the side and don't I have a right to see a lawyer??
OFFICER: [Fingers taser] Nope. I say you're an illegal. Get in the van.
Think that's an overstatement?
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311554316.html

2025-08-11 19:46:32 UTC

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tl;dr If even *one* person can be denied due process rights, those rights by definition cease to exist for everyone.
We are left with "who can we get away with arresting without provoking a public outcry."

2025-08-11 19:39:15 UTC

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Now that due process is gone for undocumented immigrants, it is functionally gone for everyone. At this point, the only thing holding it together for anyone is the social norm.
The administration is already trial-ballooning arrests of citizens to see how the public responds. If the people accept it well enough, they'll keep doing it. The number of people who we "can't afford" to give due process rights too will steadily increase to include anyone inconvenient.

2025-08-11 19:36:30 UTC

Due process is the legal framework that is supposed to protect us from being snatched off the street.
It can mean a lot of things, but generally its supposed to be a process for determining if someone can be arrested, and to offer them an opportunity to mount a defense.
If they are allowed to make one exception, it all crumbles - they can just grab you on the thinnest of excuses. Wrong race, wrong language, wrong neighborhood. Or because an officer doesn't like the way you looked at them...

2025-08-07 20:07:17 UTC

OPEN THREAD
Are you one of the growing number of techies finding creative ways to use old or used hardware?
Any success stories or inspo that you'd like to share?
#EverydayThrift #Survival #Recycle

2025-08-05 21:03:02 UTC

We need to ask every candidate in every state-level and up primary to outline their plan to help end the ICE concentration camps.

2025-08-01 19:21:15 UTC

Individual self-sufficiency is a capitalist myth. Everything about our individual lives is made possible by the work of many hands. This has been true for as long as there have been people.

2025-07-06 23:36:43 UTC

Trump won Texas by only 56% of the vote in 2024. That's an awful lot of collateral damage for all you "they deserve what they voted for" types. Nearly 44% of the state actually didn't vote for this mess.

2025-06-28 17:16:18 UTC

Challenge to Democrats to, just once, maybe not tank every candidate who's repeatedly shown they can get votes and capture voter enthusiasm just because they are scared of low propensity voters who probably aren't going to vote for them anyway.

2025-06-17 12:50:26 UTC

Here to support anyone taking action but not here for defeatism. I've survived and overcome too much bullshit to be patient with a bunch of cis people throwing up their hands after voting in an election or two and attending a rally.

2025-06-13 22:34:05 UTC

The assignment tomorrow is to post pictures and articles about #Pride celebrations and the #NoKings events.
No coverage or postings about that pathetic, fascist military stroke-off that is apparently happening in DC. Who cares? Sounds stupid.

2025-06-12 14:43:13 UTC

Yo I'm probably going to have to replace my old phone soon. I'm also probably going to switch away from Pixel. What name brand phone (ie available on my upgrade plan) should I be looking at? Especially if I intend to degoogle it as much as possible?

2025-06-08 12:49:01 UTC

If those militia types actually had any convictions other than gun worship and racism they'd notice that the ICE raids and the invasion of LA is exactly the kind of overreach they pretended to be worried about back when a black person was president.

2025-04-26 13:39:47 UTC

I've stopped calling it a mobile phone and started calling it a horror rectangle in order to be more accurate.

2025-04-24 23:40:40 UTC

If your social network can "go down" than it is not decentralized.

2025-04-21 13:58:15 UTC

On the one hand I'm glad that the Pope did his best to remind folks to be kind to others.
On the other hand, he didn't really live up to his own standard when it came to people like me.

2025-04-19 10:37:41 UTC

When the US created the Dept of Homeland Security, ICE, the PATRIOT act, and all this other post 9/11 police state nonsense -- a lot of us knew the day would come when it was all used against the American people and here we are.

2025-04-17 18:16:56 UTC

If you could only share one piece of practical howto-type information about the #fediverse with the general non-techy public, what would it be?

2025-04-10 13:54:49 UTC

Are you good at managing your checkbook?
#HoosierSocial is recruiting a volunteer treasurer to join our steering committee and help us manage our money with @npub14h9…7ass.
You don't need to be a CPA - just have a passion for building community and be reasonably good at math. You'll be responsible for tracking donations and working with the committee to approve future expenditures.
DM me or @npub1q4h…yqgf directly with your contact info if you are interested!
#HoosierMast

2025-04-08 23:37:06 UTC

They aren't being stupid, they are being evil They are purposefully crashing the economy, erecting a trade-wall, dismantling organizing rights, and gutting oversight so that the oligarchs can get rich doing whatever the hell they want with a newly minted class of increasingly desperate, low-wage workers.

2025-04-06 21:53:07 UTC

How is a democracy supposed to last when it is definitely political suicide to speak to the American public like adults?

2025-04-03 02:56:49 UTC

Hey #HoosierMast I hope you are safe tonight that was wild

2025-03-20 21:26:00 UTC

ICE is officially the gestapo - as many of us predicted it would become the moment it was created under the Bush admin. It's only a matter of time before they start disappearing citizens for speaking out. (If they haven't already.)

2025-03-04 22:17:37 UTC

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All the cis people who insisted that they had a right to be "skeptical" and that they "weren't hateful" and would "speak out if we were really being threatened" are curiously silent these days.

2025-03-04 21:03:50 UTC

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Like you don't have to have any particular position on gender to know that isolating a group of people and purposefully ginning up public resentment against them with misinformation and propaganda is going to lead to something terrible.

2025-03-04 21:00:34 UTC

In #trans people, right-wing extremists have finally found the perfect minority threat. An insular, minuscule group about which the general public knows little. They're primed to believe any ridiculous made-up nonsense.
The rhetoric is getting more extreme literally by the day. Academics can debate gender theory and feminist critiques, but out here in reality-land we can see very well where this is leading.
That should concern anyone with a conscience.

2025-03-02 12:42:16 UTC

That "first they came for" poem says you should speak up for certain minorities because eventually you'll be a target too.
But you know, you could also speak up simply because it's wrong to target people. Self interest isn't the only reason to oppose oppression.

2025-02-19 21:13:16 UTC

Listening to the latest @npub1psa…j5uh podcast episode detailing the hacks on DOGE's website.
Just wanna shout out their coverage these days. Talk about the exact right investigative journalists for this exact moment. Really grateful that they exist.

2025-02-19 15:50:09 UTC

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that bill is *so* stupid. Augh. But please let us keep some of our Blue counties we need all of them!!! lol

2025-02-07 01:49:21 UTC

We're not mourning some childlike version of the American dream. Or some fake idea that America was ever what was printed on the label. We're not stupid.
We're mourning our hope that someday we'd be safe and accepted in our communities. In the actual physical places we call our home.
That hope feels distant now.

2025-02-05 20:43:32 UTC

TWICE in the past couple of days, @npub1s9r…mgl3 and the crew at @npub1ua3…6srt have *rapidly* responded to folks in my network who've needed access to research that was removed by the Trump purges.
Just really incredible activism happening right here.
#safeguardingresearch

2025-02-05 19:43:01 UTC

There it is. There's what's up with Musk.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

2025-02-05 18:57:46 UTC

I know it's personalizing but it's *incredibly* demoralizing to spend 16hr work days responding to sobbing parents, working the Trump EO situation in my community, trying to keep on top of my state's horrible slate of bills, only to come to the internet to see the general sentiment from the peanut gallery is that nobody is doing anything.
I don't need a cookie, and I'll stop for no one, but some of you have no idea what those of us who've been doing this for a long while are managing.

2025-02-05 17:56:57 UTC

My job requires me to be on top of current events.
Even without algorithms all social media can create a "bubble" effect. That might have you convinced of all sorts of things that aren't objectively true. Or you miss important developments that your own network isn't surfacing.
That's why I use a feed reader, and recommend it. It also helps me take in the news during a controlled time -- which limits my doomscrolling and improves my mental health.
https://www.wired.com/story/best-rss-feed-readers/

2025-02-04 23:19:11 UTC

Social media by level of average user's resistance:
Facebook: "Guess I heard something but my grandson says it's fine."
X: : racist bot tries to sell you NFTs:
LinkedIN: "Join my webinar on realigning corporate priorities to achieve synergies and maximize shareholder value."
Bluesky: "everything is terrible and we're all going to die... but what can you do"
Fediverse: I'M JUST GONNA PERSONALLY MIRROR THE CDCs WEBSITE SO PEOPLE CAN KEEP USING IT.

2025-02-03 13:45:03 UTC

Of all the ways I thought US global hegemony would end I did not expect it to be because the CEO of a social media company was going through a manic episode.

2025-02-03 13:16:28 UTC

Every post on LinkedIn looks like an email that I would mark as spam

2025-01-31 19:54:09 UTC

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the real problem is when energy somehow decided, against all available evidence, that becoming matter was a good idea. WHAT A DISASTER

2025-01-31 16:42:36 UTC

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Can we just retire this whole 'well actually the "real" problem is" thing? It is boring. Stupid. And always incorrect. You don't know what the one single magical "real" problem is. Stop.

2025-01-31 16:39:31 UTC

I'm serious. If you are in my mentions to quibble with me about how the "real" problem is ideologically imperfect people who also oppose this regime then it's an instablock. I'm sure that at least a few of you are actual oppo bad actors. The rest are just tiresome.

2025-01-30 13:48:30 UTC

Advice from someone who cares/thinks a lot about effective messaging?
Don't use the acronym. Say the words "diversity, equity, and inclusion." Slowly and with emphasis.
Every time.
Don't let them hide their opposition to these basic, common sense, and popular ideas behind an acronym.

2025-01-28 12:44:52 UTC

We told folks years ago that these corpos would turn on us the moment the wind changed no matter how many rainbows they added to their logo during Pride month. It's a hard lesson, but I hope we've learned it. We'll need to build the future without their help, just as we always should've

2025-01-27 16:14:23 UTC

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I thinking #EverydayThrift -- which encompasses a lot of what I think about this subject.
#EverydayThrift can be thrifty crafts, tech advice, recipes, financial advice, green wisdom. Just about anything. But I want it to be "Everyday."
Too much survival culture focuses on huge projects that are out of reach for most instead of low-hanging fruit that matches most people's abilities and needs.
Would love y'all to post ideas to that hashtag too and maybe make this A Thing?

2025-01-27 01:01:45 UTC

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Awesome! I wonder if there's a hashtag other than #survival for like, downhome tips and redneck wisdom and home ec secrets?

2025-01-26 21:56:34 UTC

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So I'm going to be posting *more* of my weird little household thrift projects because ... well I find them fun and I think that soon #survival is gonna be more about weird things your grandma knew and less about how much toilet paper you can hoard.
4/

2025-01-26 21:54:29 UTC

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But looking at current events ... I can't help but think about "survival" and what it means. And how it looks like those skills are going to be needed.
And how much of them are so much less about "how do I hole up in a bunker with a bunch of ammo and canned peaches" and more about "how do I make friends in my community and share knowledge and skills."
3/

2025-01-26 21:53:03 UTC

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And I'm not locked in now, and the grocery shelves are full, and me and my husband have a good income. For now.
But I *still* practice all of those skills. 2020-2023 ... changed how I think about them.
And y'all I get up to some crazy shit, and people sometimes shake their heads at my various household projects.
But I like knowing that I can *do* things rather than buy them. And I'm more proud of the end result. And my paycheck likes that I know how to be thrify.
2/

2025-01-26 21:49:46 UTC

The #survival skills I learned as a poor #Indiana redneck didn't have much to do with the suburban prepper fantasy play I see a lot of these days.
For us, survival was mostly about knowing how to:
Fix things that break..
Feed ourselves with little $.
Make things instead of buying.
Be good to our neighbors.
During Trump's first botched pandemic response and tradewar buffoonery, I remember *well* how little was on the shelves, how expensive it was and how having those skills helped.
/1

2025-01-24 18:29:37 UTC

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Right now - if a fascist is proposing it, I oppose it. Whether it looks like a good idea or not.
We can't give them anything.
If the fascist offers me free lunch? I don't accept it. There is no policy they can propose that I am willing to support.
Everything they do is in service to tightening their grip.
No pats on the back for fascist politicians.
No money spent on fascist corporations.
No comfort for fascists.
They have to go.
/4

2025-01-24 18:22:28 UTC

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And working across ideological lines? That's something that corporate social media has made nearly impossible for some by driving the discourse into opposing corners and ironically eliminating the public square by pretending to BE the public square.
I cannot say this more loudly. I have a few bright lines, but I do not have to agree with all of your positions to join you in defeating fascism.
/3

2025-01-24 18:19:48 UTC

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Under this new regime everyone on the outs is now your ally. Whether you like it or not. We are in a mutual survival fight.
THE GOAL needs to be to fight every single fight. To never give an inch without pushback. To be unified in our rejection of fascist policy.
When we waffle, give credit for some accidental good thing the regime does, or cave from expediency ... we're doing its work.
We have to get used to working across some of our most sacred ideological lines to defeat fascism.
/2

2025-01-24 18:17:09 UTC

The entire collection of different types of people who will have to push back on the new regime need to remain clear eyed about the regime's strategy.
That's to push very many national and local policies as far rightward as they can in this moment. They aren't trying to get all of it to stick. They just need us to accept a rightward shift as politically inevitable. To demoralize us into accepting compromise positions that we wouldn't have accepted 8 years ago.
Don't fall for it.

2025-01-24 12:49:08 UTC

All the fediverse has to do is stick around and keep developing. As every new shiny corporate app inevitably begins to enshittify itself into unusability, some percentage of folks will choose the decentralized alternative over whatever new toy the oligarchs are dangling in front of them.
We just have to be here to welcome them each time it happens. We don't require constant, massive growth to survive over time. We just need staying power and solidarity.

2025-01-21 19:22:17 UTC

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Thank you for this background!!

2025-01-21 14:08:02 UTC

Signal is great and widely used but it's still closed and owned by one company. I find that to be a security risk and it makes me feel weird recommending it.
What's the best E2EE messaging app that is community developed, open source and potentially self hostable?

2025-01-21 04:05:57 UTC

You already knew what he was about before he made the gesture.
There's never going to be a thing these people do that everyone can like, point at and make a face and yell about and suddenly all the holdouts and fence-sitters will get it.
We're just gonna have to build this shit without them.

2025-01-21 03:02:17 UTC

Caring for and nurturing spaces that exist outside of the grasp of the ruling class is a form of activism and that's why I'm here.
I'm awake to the current limitations of this place, and I don't care. None of them are worse than the disgust I feel at the idea of giving any of these fascists a single fraction of a penny's worth of my online life.

2025-01-20 13:00:06 UTC

Good morning. I've shouted these words many times over the years, as have many of you. But today, let's speak them again because they are good and true and particularly necessary:
"It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains."
- Assata Shakur
Love you. Happy #MLKjrDay, the only event I'm recognizing today.

2025-01-19 05:17:44 UTC

The mass deportations are set to start tomorrow.
We are not going to cooperate with ICE in any way. We are not doing to snitch. We are not going to pretend that this is normal, necessary, or moral.
Immigrants have rights. #DefundICE
https://www.ilrc.org/resources/community/know-your-rights-toolkit

2025-01-18 00:01:36 UTC

Something in me has finally unlocked. I've been stewing in trauma from previous political fights. Afraid that I was too old or too broken to work at the level I used to.
Today was incredibly fast paced and I needed to produce a lot of high level work quite fast. It was like the old days, and I could feel the same fire that I used to feel. Like I'm still the battleaxe that everyone seems to remember me being.
It feels good.

2025-01-17 12:43:52 UTC

hey @npub1xh7…v9hj -- I'm moving my service away from Proton. I believe in freedom of speech and a right to differing opinions, but I don't want to give my own money to a company that publicly supports and endorses hard right fascists.
Mullvad seems to be my best choice so far - can you confirm that your company does not and will not endorse fascism?

2024-12-27 16:40:08 UTC

I have the misfortune of needing to prepare for attacks on my family next year.
History shows that moderate supporters follow the pendulum during times when it swings away from justice.
When you are tempted to, remember how little harm my husband and I are. Compare the way we live our lives to the way they describe us.
Every "necessary" oppression is a Trojan horse to enable worse.
Do we deserve it?
I don't believe we do. And I don't think you do, either.
Still #trans. Still proud to be.
https://cdn.masto.host/hoosiersocial/media_attachments/files/113/725/774/682/964/533/original/76c884c0553455bc.jpg

2024-12-06 14:23:14 UTC

Reminder that under the current US administration gender markers on passports can be changed via simple self attestation and that a passport is a primary identification document in all jurisdictions, even those that ban gender marker updates by other means.
You probably have a couple of months at minimum before the incoming administration gets around to rescinding that rule but why wait?
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/selecting-your-gender-marker.html
#trans #lgbtq