Notices by b9AcE 🐊 (b9ace@soc.ialis.me)

Yeah, so... trying to use accurate reporting of underreported events as a form of activism doesn't work when posts that may have taken well over an hour with translations, extracting video/pics, editing, etc and then realizing "shit, I have to Content Warning-tag this, which means it will reach nearly nowhere".
To bad, as the Content Warning-tag probably could have been the best feature of Mastodon.

I might be back.
<3

“No China extradition, no evil law”
Hundreds of thousands march in Hong Kong to protest China extradition bill
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-march/hundreds-of-thousands-march-in-hong-kong-to-protest-china-extradition-bill-idUSKCN1TA05L?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29

People take part in the annual "Equality Parade" rally in support of the LGBT community in Warsaw, Poland, June 8, 2019.
Pics: Kacper Pempel/Reuters

#Pride

"Inside Lebanon’s most dangerous camps:
Palestinian refugees who are incarcerated and abandoned
…how the world has turned its back on the Palestinian refugees and left them without any hope"
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/lebanon-palestine-refugees-abandoned-a8947256.html

I think we've all had those days when mood is just... this:

[Album cover of new "Sandokushi" by the excellent Shiina Ringo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u77yCRwSCXg)]

"Alerta, alerta, antifascista!"
"No racists on our streets!"
Some of the slogans in Lund, south Sweden this afternoon,
as hundreds with flags and banners of various leftist organizations and the flag of Rojava marched against Nazism, following NMR's assaults on locals a week ago.
-SDS

Huge demo against Turkey's illegal invasions of Afrin and South Kurdistan/"Kurdistan Region of Iraq", held in Cologne, Germany.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/thousands-protest-turkish-invasion-in-cologne-35486
[full video in the article]

@gumcap Obviously, that will mean all spoons will be one meter large. It's in the name.

Several hundred people demonstrated against Nazism in Lund, south Sweden, following the Nazi group NMR's repeated assaults on locals a week ago.
Pics: SVT, No PEGIDA Sverige & Victor Pressfeldt.

Librarians are superheroes.

They have the power to find humankind's knowledge that it would take others a sometimes near impossible effort and... knowledge is power.
As with all superheroes, they thus empower all humanity equally against potentially lethal threats, such as lack of science.

"the global tyranny of the metric system"
:-D :-D :-D

@Ethancdavenport Aha.
There is no DSA in Sweden of course. ;-P

The name may be impossible for any group with similar ideas in Sweden, because the "Social Democrat" party is the probably longest/most frequent ruling party over the last (guestimating here...) 80 years or so and now are somewhere between (euro-)conservative and neo-liberal in policies.
I would claim they have not actually been Social Democrats for a many decades, but they stick to the name.
They used to be... at least divided. ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinke_Bergegren (etc)

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasterbotten/enorma-mangder-tistelfjarilar-i-umea-flyr-medelhavets-varme

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasterbotten/enorma-mangder-tistelfjarilar-i-umea-flyr-medelhavets-varme

"Enormous amounts" of "painted lady" butterflies in northernmost parts of Sweden now.
Usually arrive late summer or autumn, but this year the Mediterranean area is to hot for them.
"I have never experienced this before. […] Just like the migratory birds they are fleeing the heat of the Mediterranean", says expert to SVT.

"He always hated women.

Then he decided to kill them.

His attack at a yoga studio offers a chilling look at male supremacy, a movement with ties to other hate groups."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/local/yoga-shooting-incel-attack-fueled-by-male-supremacy/

@Ethancdavenport Some forms of self defence of course doesn't require any equipment.
They're probably preferable in case the law-system later gets involved.
I recall one Stockholm-group trained Krav Maga.

In the USA, it can be different of course.
I recall one Oakland queer group going to problem-filled areas where they lived, as "armed feminist vigilantes" probably around 2011-12 or so.

@Ethancdavenport I know there have been/are LGBTQ-specific self defence training initiatives in some places, which unfortunately is obviously needed.
No idea about if it's the case in London though.

@vfrmedia I think the best hope is for such acts to be strongly and extremely widely denounced, so it's made clear that it's simply not socially acceptable.

I believe such violent bigotry bullying (a weak word for these acts, but I can't think of a better one) is often based in perception by the participants that those bullied are outside social acceptance and the violent acts of their bullying is therefore accepted and/or endorsed by the dominant norms.
It's not.

@vfrmedia Thanks for the info.
Sickening behavior. Literally felt nauseous at reading this. :-[