Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

If you've ever been involved in activism, you've probably heard someone tell you that "these things always take time, it's a slow process", as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

But... is that actually normal? *Should* that actually be considered normal?

Building a new highway is a relatively fast, procedural process. Getting a train line built is a very slow process of convincing people with no guarantee of success.

Increasing police funding is a relatively fast, procedural process. *Decreasing* police funding and reallocating it to social services instead, is a very slow process of convincing people with no guarantee of success.

Why do we consider any of this normal and acceptable? Why do people consider us to live in a functioning democracy, when this kind of asymmetry for 'doing the right thing' exists?

How does any of this constitute a healthy society, even on paper, even according to liberal political norms?

The upside is that that whiteboard was definitely never gonna fall off under any circumstances, this tape is honestly pretty cool

(The whiteboard has been removed now but it took a solid few minutes of prying to get it off the door)

Looks like the hypothetical removability of the tape I used for the whiteboard was largely hypothetical indeed

(I don't really give a fuck about companies deciding to build on unpaid labour and getting burned in the process, but this stuff affects other people too, building community projects - often people who do *not* have copious amounts of time on company dime to fix and replace things later!)

Corollary: don't make your project website look like "a project that's in it for the long haul" if it's just meant to be a short-lived hobby project. Again, hobby projects are completely fine, but you need to communicate that that is what it is!

Please stop making "alternative to <other thing>" projects with no further information! Why does it exist, what is different about it, when and why might I want to use it instead, when and why should I not?

It's okay if the answer is just "it's probably not better, I just wanted to make my own thing" but then *say so*! Don't leave me and many others guessing what the purpose is, spawning all sorts of imagined differences and other misinformation as people try to explain away the existence of two options

Yet another bunch of people trying to make a quick buck off selling scammy products by misusing activist and anarchist aesthetic and rhetoric: https://activiststoolbox.com/

These same people are advertising on the website of the The Light paper, a fascist conspiracy rag in the UK.

Fuck people like this, honestly. Going off some of the text on the website, I'd not be surprised if they are trying to draw people into conspiracy shit *within* activist movements as well, so probably keep an eye out for them.

I swear, every time I see people bringing up 'spirituality' within supposedly leftist activist movements, it's some thinly veiled bullshit like this...