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@schratze ktorrent 4 lyfe. I can't believe I used to use linux kernel network namespace commands to make deluge not do this. The interface dropdown select should be fucking standard.

@ombres ah. I guess I'll amend what I said before just a bit since I forgot about some parts of Crimethinc. I think my perception of Crimethinc is influenced by not taking the blog kind of content as serious as the reporting. I have complicated thoughts on martyrdom, I think it might actually have a place in the world, if that's how close friends/family of the dead knew they'd wish to be remembered. I'm more uncomfortable with the idea of strangers being made into martyrs, possibly against their wishes, with no way of checking that.

@ombres there are so many people who want the anarchist look, but functionally only as wallpaper for their new reform party. There was definitely a historical trend pre-internet towards anarchists being under-identified, or too humble to identify as anarchists (Ursula Le Guin mentions this, and anarchist anthropoligists have described many historically analagous lifeways). But it feels like nowadays that has been complely reversed. Far more people are willing to identify as anarchists than there are actually anarchists who engage in anarchist praxis now. And if I'm gonna be honest whenever crimethinc-haters come up that's where my mind goes. Because this is the fucking basics, the editorial flair may not be everyone's taste, but what's in the text is just the basics of anarchism. People who take serious issue with it are basically self-described anarchists who get upset when they find out what established anarchist thought, and its practitioners have to say about anything.

Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti
An eyewitness account

crimethinc.com/AlexPretti

On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Five agents tackled and beat him, then an agent shot him multiple times. In response to the murder, the Whittier neighborhood immediately rose up and battled ICE, Minnesota police, and Minnesota State Troopers for over four hours, eventually forcing them to withdraw.

This murder occurred one day after a historic general strike in which more than 100,000 workers in the Twin Cities walked out against the ICE occupation. Many people in the streets expressed the opinion that the federal agents murdered Alex as an act of revenge for the strike.

The hyper online perception of crime as "silly" and cutesy-coded is a bit wearing. Not because crime is bad or anything, its just a matter of trivializing the table-stakes, and treating anyone making that calculation from a different social position than you as "unserious" in some way. It feels a bit hand-washy. Like okay here is how we are gonna wash our hands and excuse ourselves from explaining or attempting to address the very serious risks people take to survive in a hyper legalized world.

I’m calling on the world to see my story — a father from Gaza trying to protect his child from an inhumane life.
Your support or share can save my family 🤍
chuffed.org/project/162499-hel

I am ✨ manifesting ✨ having gone to a specialist criminal therapist for 5 years, your honor.

cursed, maaaybe nsfw?, nonsense 

The next step in evolution is random federated gene transfer over ActivityPub.

Innovative:
New technique for imagining a better society. Doing it. Use this life hack to up-end the social order and restore the complete natual range of mollusks worldwide.

New form of therapy where you imagine your can afford therapy

New form of therapy:
Your nice patient is really mad and shit and you give them a fucking katana when they get so mad they "wanna murder somebody" because they are just so so nice and correct. Time to explore your feelings ✨

Please commit healthy crimes when you fully understand the risks ✨

The hyper online perception of crime as "silly" and cutesy-coded is a bit wearing. Not because crime is bad or anything, its just a matter of trivializing the table-stakes, and treating anyone making that calculation from a different social position than you as "unserious" in some way. It feels a bit hand-washy. Like okay here is how we are gonna wash our hands and excuse ourselves from explaining or attempting to address the very serious risks people take to survive in a hyper legalized world.

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