oya @oya@ubuntu.buzz

Maine is home to a sovereign nation whose language was technically owned by a dead white man who had devised a way to write it down. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/19/how-did-a-self-taught-linguist-come-to-own-an-indigenous-language

like any other white person from a lot of parts of the US, i grew up speaking a lot of indigenous place-names and wasn’t taught to even think about it. that’s bad enough. but then to claim it as ones own? maximum gross on every conceivable level, i am withered into a husk by this shit

This is normal

I'm done! I wanted it to be a little eerie and menacing, but he's a cheerful fellow isn't he

ACAB motherfuker.

@glitter Amber Ruffin breaks down the direct connection between slavery and modern policing in the U.S. here: https://youtu.be/jdRAuBuZMNQ

it really doesn't matter what the cops are or are not allowed to do. the entire system is a direct descendant of the thugs employed by slavers to keep their property in line in whatever gruesome way tickled them that day.

after the american civil war, these thugs were ""reformed"", put in uniforms, and allowed to continue their terrorizing of free citizens.

what we are witnessing is not a parallel to the past, it is exactly the same as it ever was albeit highly sanitized, glamorized, and deified.

a bill passed thru the texas house today that would eliminate the need for background checks, permits, licenses, and training in order to openly carry a handgun. if it becomes law, goddamn any person can buy a gun off any random stranger or at a gun show- no wait time, no vetting, and proceed to carry it with them in any goddamn place. like this state wasnt fucking dangerous enough.

I’m trying to wrap my head around the fact that if an AI had made a different choice, a child would still be alive tonight.

“The initial gun shots were detected by ShotSpotter audio, gunfire detection technology that is used by the city.”

From: http://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_a028bd5c035a17cc801a1318e99dd14f

An AI heard a sound and decided to dispatch police who then killed a 13 year old child.

https://www.shotspotter.com/technology/

@ trans ppl on here

here's some people doing jail support locally in case you wanted to know who is doing that. https://mnuprising.wordpress.com/