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It's likewise interesting and worrying, how many Open Source conferences have moved out of the U.S.
Interesting, because I can see new countries and meet new people. Worrying, because a lot of these places seem to have worse politics but less media coverage.
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CW: Link to NSFW Blog Post & Photo - Power
Sharing my latest #blog post - a reading of my #poem, "power" - a rhyming reflection on #kink & power play that includes a photo of *yours truly* for #BoobDay 😈
"...for when steel meets flesh
and my eyes are unsighted
i confess to the strength
in being...delighted…by restraints on my wrists
ankles likewise bound -
collar and leash
different…profound..."Poem, photo, & reading in the link below. Happy Friday!
#sex #voice #BDSM
https://carolynaluna.com/power-a-poem-read-by-the-author/ -
"Repression and Resistance in Russia
An Overview
Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin’s government has suppressed opposition in ways that aspiring autocrats like Donald Trump are still striving to emulate. Yet despite widespread repression, there is still resistance in Russia, and as Putin’s model proliferates, people everywhere around the world stand to benefit from learning about it. Likewise, we should support Russian anarchist and anti-war prisoners, both because resistance within Russia offers hope for the eventual end of war and totalitarianism and because, should autocrats consolidate power where we live, we will wish for people to support us, as well.
n Russia, street protests against the war were crushed in 2022, the first year following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to the human rights organization OVD Info, 18,901 arrests for anti-war protests in year 2022 were followed by 274 arrests in 2023, 41 arrests in 2022, and just 13 arrests in first half of the year 2025. The reason for this sharp decline was the “Ilya Dadin” law of 2014, according to which “repeated offenses in following the established organization of protests” across a period of 180 days can result a prison sentence of up to 5 years. Thousands of people were arrested once or twice for taking part in anti-war street activities in 2022 and received either a fine or a prison sentence of a few days—but few risked being arrested for a third time."
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# Joining him was the Price family, who had deeded the land for the meetinghouse. Though their farm had been laid waste they aimed to restore it, grateful at least that their fields had been spared from becoming a military graveyard. Five other families likewise chose to remain. Together, they covenanted to rebuild the house of prayer destroyed in the crossfire. Ariel said the Haivri family pledged to assist any of the brethren willing to relocate far from the threat of the burgeoning war, possibly even to the territories. Several families considered the migration, though liquidating their land and making the necessary preparations for such an overland journey would require considerable time. Furthermore, the seemingly boundless generosity of Ariel's kinfolk continued to engender suspicion among some who feared an underlying motive. Lange reminded them of the Apostle's injunction: “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
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Yet again, USA:
Require that your members of Congress act to end Donald Trump's attempt to wholesale steal ballots and to both #ImpeachTrump and remove the people he appointed who are trying to do this.
Now would be a particularly good time for everyone with a GOP Rep in California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah to tell them to do their jobs and end all of this.
And likewise for Utah's Senators.
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#Wikipedia - Case Study - #Argentina
"#VillaInflamable neighborhood is located in the city of #DockSud and is part of the Greater #BuenosAires Metropolitan Area. The community is situated at the center of a #petrochemical development area, where 44 hydrocarbon companies are currently operating. These same companies are mainly responsible for turning the #RiachueloMatanza basin into one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world.
"Reports from Argentinian and foreign public agencies have confirmed the presence of lead, chromium, benzene and other hazardous chemicals in the water supplies of the neighborhood, in amounts far in excess of what is allowed by international regulations. Journalistic and academic research has collected multiple testimonies of serious health diagnoses commonly associated with the presence of these contaminants. Likewise the book Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown explores the effects of toxicity in the daily lives of the residents of the Inflammable neighborhood, referring to multiple diagnoses of lead poisoning among the inhabitants of Inflammable, especially among children."
Follow-up... #Argentina Abandons #ToxicRiver, Leaving Residents to Face the Fallout
With cleanup halted and drains unfinished, Villa Inflamable residents face rising water and rising illness. Many have nowhere else to go.
#SacrificeZones #SEZs #HumanRights #HumanRightsFreeZone #Pollution #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalRacism #EconomicSacrificZones #AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #Industries #IndustrialUse #Mining #PollutionSacrificeZones
#GlobalSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism -
Patrick Wyman on how Columbus was kind of mid, actually
hooks a little too hard into sports analogies for my taste but some of the intro stuff's good
"pluck a sea-captain off the deck of a caravel or carrack in Lisbon or Seville or Genoa in 1490 or so, we would probably find him to be much like Columbus in most respects...His ideas about commercial profits, the use of violence in acquiring those profits, and the potential of enslavement to meet that goal were likewise pretty standard"
#history #columbusDay #colonialism
https://defector.com/christopher-columbus-and-the-replacement-level-historical-figure
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🚨🆕 Union Saint-Gilloise had identified Bo #Svensson as their preferred candidate for the head coach position, but he declined the offer after insisting on bringing his own assistant coaches. David Hubert will now take over from Sébastien Pocognoli.
⚠️ Svensson were also considered by Glasgow Rangers, ranked behind Steven #Gerrard in their list of targets, but he has likewise decided not to take charge at Rangers.
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Jacques Saurin, French #Reformed pastor, says Christians must help the poor. But it’s a “crime” to do so with haughtiness, hardness, and constraint. Likewise a duty is to help neighbor in their happiness by keeping them on the path of salvation.
Wouldn’t these dual duties just fly in the face of every spat in today’s culture wars?
How can you keep up with the essential duties of religion?
#christian -
Bestial Human Skunk
Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Blood Axe
Bestial skunks are quite distinctive with their white stripe and luxurious, cold resistant fur coats and well-known ability to spray a streamer of stench. They are not welcome in human settlements unless disguised, already a trusted resident, arriving with more normal looking humans, or the gate guards are offered a hefty bribe (30+3d6sp). Likewise, a skunk-man will not be allowed into an eatery or saloon in an unfamiliar community and must take its food outside.You can play these bestial human critters using the new rule book.
https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm#skunk #skunkgirl #pepelepew #stinky #smelly #beast #bestial #manimal #RPG #ttrpg #mammal #bestialhuman #characters #noaiart #wasteland #mutantepoch #apocalyptic #expansionrules #postapocalyptic #themutantepoch #outlandsystem #outlandarts #mutants #mutant #epoch #inkartist #apocalyptic #fallout like #gammaworld #humanoidanimal #roleplayinggame #indiegame #smell
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The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
are easy to trace.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.#Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
—and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
—has also served as a WCF committee member.Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.
To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
settled into Moscow for a
“Demographic Summit,”
the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
“It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
and conservative circles of several European countries
where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:
The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”
Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
or supporting Kremlin policy.Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
has called Putin the
“lion of Christianity.”Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
—who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
—has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”(8/N)
#WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars
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In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.
#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.
#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”
#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.
Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.
Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.
Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.
In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”
Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.
#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”
Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.
The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.
And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.
(3/n)
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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i seem to have forgotten to take the microUSB portion of my microUSB carkit UART cable with me. i could order a new microUSB plug and put it back together... but if i'm already ordering stuff, why not make the debug cable of my dreams?
the general idea:
- the cable can switch between two modes: USB passthrough and UART
- in USB passthrough, the microUSB connection goes directly from the host to the device (in this case, it also acts as an USB-C to microUSB converter)
- in UART mode, the host connects to an onboard UART chip, which in turn connects TX/RX to D+/D- on the cable, as per the carkit schematics (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Serial_debugging/Cable_schematics#microUSB/Carkit_debug_cable). we also need to place a resistor between ID and GND; this is configurable between two common values - 150kOhm and 619kOhm - with a second onboard switch.
attached is my first naive attempt at creating this, using two TI TS3USB30E USB 2.0 multiplexers (one on the device side, one on the host side) and an onboard FTSI FT232R.
i have a few questions about this design:
- can this all be connected to one ground, or are there going to be problems? in passthrough mode microUSB GND needs to connect to host GND, in UART mode we need a gnd connection between the UART chip and the microUSB plug at least
- likewise, can VCC from the host/USB-C receptacle act as VCC for the whole board? (it has to...)
- the USB ICs do the D+/D- switching, but how do i cut the connection between GND and ID in passthrough (not UART) mode, and connect it when the UART mode switch is set to high? quick web search shows a bunch of different transistors or MOSFETS or other things and i'm not sure what any of that is about or which one applies in this case (ID and GND carry no voltage, the MUIC on the target device checks if ID pin is floating or pulled down with a specific resistance)
- is there a problem with using two multiplexers for this? i.e., is it possible that if one mux switches faster than the other, something is going to break?
- ...and, uh, is any of this even correctany thoughts? not really sure where to ask for help with this stuff, figured maybe fedi would know...
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Drones have been on my radar screen (pun intended) for quite a few years...
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
By Matthew Guariglia
July 16, 2021"It’s no longer science fiction or unreasonable paranoia. Now, it needs to be said: No, police must not be arming land-based robots or aerial drones. That’s true whether these mobile devices are remote controlled by a person or autonomously controlled by artificial intelligence, and whether the weapons are maximally lethal (like bullets) or less lethal (like tear gas). [Or #ElectricShockGloves !]
"Police currently deploy many different kinds of moving and task-performing technologies. These include flying drones, remote control bomb-defusing robots, and autonomous patrol robots. While these different devices serve different functions and operate differently, none of them--absolutely none of them--should be armed with any kind of weapon.
"Mission creep is very real. Time and time again, technologies given to police to use only in the most extreme circumstances make their way onto streets during protests or to respond to petty crime. For example, cell site simulators (often called ' #Stingrays ') were developed for use in foreign battlefields, brought home in the name of fighting 'terrorism,' then used by law enforcement to catch immigrants and a man who stole $57 worth of food. Likewise, police have targeted #BLM #protesters with #FaceSurveillance and #AmazonRing doorbell cameras.
"Today, scientists are developing an #AI enhanced #AutonomousDrone, designed to find people during natural disasters by locating their screams. How long until police use this technology to find protesters shouting chants? What if these autonomous drones were armed? We need a clear red line now: no armed police drones, period.
"There are already law enforcement robots and drones of all shapes, sizes, and levels of autonomy patrolling the United States as we speak. From autonomous #Knightscope robots prowling for 'suspicious behavior' and collecting images of license plates [ #FlockCameras ] and phone identifying information, to #BostonDynamic robotic dogs accompanying police on calls in New York or checking the temperature of unhoused people in Honolulu, to #PredatorSurveillanceDrones flying over BLM protests in #Minneapolis.
"We are moving quickly towards arming such robots and letting autonomous artificial intelligence determine whether or not to pull the trigger."
#ICESucks #SurveillanceState #DefundICE #DefundDHS #ArmedPoliceDrones #PoliceDrones
#ACAB #RoboCops #PredatorUAVs #PredatorDrones #UAVs #ICE #SurveillanceState #Fascism #WeaponizedDrones #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#CompliantTechnologies #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol -
Drones have been on my radar screen (pun intended) for quite a few years...
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
By Matthew Guariglia
July 16, 2021"It’s no longer science fiction or unreasonable paranoia. Now, it needs to be said: No, police must not be arming land-based robots or aerial drones. That’s true whether these mobile devices are remote controlled by a person or autonomously controlled by artificial intelligence, and whether the weapons are maximally lethal (like bullets) or less lethal (like tear gas). [Or #ElectricShockGloves !]
"Police currently deploy many different kinds of moving and task-performing technologies. These include flying drones, remote control bomb-defusing robots, and autonomous patrol robots. While these different devices serve different functions and operate differently, none of them--absolutely none of them--should be armed with any kind of weapon.
"Mission creep is very real. Time and time again, technologies given to police to use only in the most extreme circumstances make their way onto streets during protests or to respond to petty crime. For example, cell site simulators (often called ' #Stingrays ') were developed for use in foreign battlefields, brought home in the name of fighting 'terrorism,' then used by law enforcement to catch immigrants and a man who stole $57 worth of food. Likewise, police have targeted #BLM #protesters with #FaceSurveillance and #AmazonRing doorbell cameras.
"Today, scientists are developing an #AI enhanced #AutonomousDrone, designed to find people during natural disasters by locating their screams. How long until police use this technology to find protesters shouting chants? What if these autonomous drones were armed? We need a clear red line now: no armed police drones, period.
"There are already law enforcement robots and drones of all shapes, sizes, and levels of autonomy patrolling the United States as we speak. From autonomous #Knightscope robots prowling for 'suspicious behavior' and collecting images of license plates [ #FlockCameras ] and phone identifying information, to #BostonDynamic robotic dogs accompanying police on calls in New York or checking the temperature of unhoused people in Honolulu, to #PredatorSurveillanceDrones flying over BLM protests in #Minneapolis.
"We are moving quickly towards arming such robots and letting autonomous artificial intelligence determine whether or not to pull the trigger."
#ICESucks #SurveillanceState #DefundICE #DefundDHS #ArmedPoliceDrones #PoliceDrones
#ACAB #RoboCops #PredatorUAVs #PredatorDrones #UAVs #ICE #SurveillanceState #Fascism #WeaponizedDrones #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#CompliantTechnologies #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol -
Drones have been on my radar screen (pun intended) for quite a few years...
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
By Matthew Guariglia
July 16, 2021"It’s no longer science fiction or unreasonable paranoia. Now, it needs to be said: No, police must not be arming land-based robots or aerial drones. That’s true whether these mobile devices are remote controlled by a person or autonomously controlled by artificial intelligence, and whether the weapons are maximally lethal (like bullets) or less lethal (like tear gas). [Or #ElectricShockGloves !]
"Police currently deploy many different kinds of moving and task-performing technologies. These include flying drones, remote control bomb-defusing robots, and autonomous patrol robots. While these different devices serve different functions and operate differently, none of them--absolutely none of them--should be armed with any kind of weapon.
"Mission creep is very real. Time and time again, technologies given to police to use only in the most extreme circumstances make their way onto streets during protests or to respond to petty crime. For example, cell site simulators (often called ' #Stingrays ') were developed for use in foreign battlefields, brought home in the name of fighting 'terrorism,' then used by law enforcement to catch immigrants and a man who stole $57 worth of food. Likewise, police have targeted #BLM #protesters with #FaceSurveillance and #AmazonRing doorbell cameras.
"Today, scientists are developing an #AI enhanced #AutonomousDrone, designed to find people during natural disasters by locating their screams. How long until police use this technology to find protesters shouting chants? What if these autonomous drones were armed? We need a clear red line now: no armed police drones, period.
"There are already law enforcement robots and drones of all shapes, sizes, and levels of autonomy patrolling the United States as we speak. From autonomous #Knightscope robots prowling for 'suspicious behavior' and collecting images of license plates [ #FlockCameras ] and phone identifying information, to #BostonDynamic robotic dogs accompanying police on calls in New York or checking the temperature of unhoused people in Honolulu, to #PredatorSurveillanceDrones flying over BLM protests in #Minneapolis.
"We are moving quickly towards arming such robots and letting autonomous artificial intelligence determine whether or not to pull the trigger."
#ICESucks #SurveillanceState #DefundICE #DefundDHS #ArmedPoliceDrones #PoliceDrones
#ACAB #RoboCops #PredatorUAVs #PredatorDrones #UAVs #ICE #SurveillanceState #Fascism #WeaponizedDrones #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#CompliantTechnologies #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol -
Drones have been on my radar screen (pun intended) for quite a few years...
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
By Matthew Guariglia
July 16, 2021"It’s no longer science fiction or unreasonable paranoia. Now, it needs to be said: No, police must not be arming land-based robots or aerial drones. That’s true whether these mobile devices are remote controlled by a person or autonomously controlled by artificial intelligence, and whether the weapons are maximally lethal (like bullets) or less lethal (like tear gas). [Or #ElectricShockGloves !]
"Police currently deploy many different kinds of moving and task-performing technologies. These include flying drones, remote control bomb-defusing robots, and autonomous patrol robots. While these different devices serve different functions and operate differently, none of them--absolutely none of them--should be armed with any kind of weapon.
"Mission creep is very real. Time and time again, technologies given to police to use only in the most extreme circumstances make their way onto streets during protests or to respond to petty crime. For example, cell site simulators (often called ' #Stingrays ') were developed for use in foreign battlefields, brought home in the name of fighting 'terrorism,' then used by law enforcement to catch immigrants and a man who stole $57 worth of food. Likewise, police have targeted #BLM #protesters with #FaceSurveillance and #AmazonRing doorbell cameras.
"Today, scientists are developing an #AI enhanced #AutonomousDrone, designed to find people during natural disasters by locating their screams. How long until police use this technology to find protesters shouting chants? What if these autonomous drones were armed? We need a clear red line now: no armed police drones, period.
"There are already law enforcement robots and drones of all shapes, sizes, and levels of autonomy patrolling the United States as we speak. From autonomous #Knightscope robots prowling for 'suspicious behavior' and collecting images of license plates [ #FlockCameras ] and phone identifying information, to #BostonDynamic robotic dogs accompanying police on calls in New York or checking the temperature of unhoused people in Honolulu, to #PredatorSurveillanceDrones flying over BLM protests in #Minneapolis.
"We are moving quickly towards arming such robots and letting autonomous artificial intelligence determine whether or not to pull the trigger."
#ICESucks #SurveillanceState #DefundICE #DefundDHS #ArmedPoliceDrones #PoliceDrones
#ACAB #RoboCops #PredatorUAVs #PredatorDrones #UAVs #ICE #SurveillanceState #Fascism #WeaponizedDrones #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#CompliantTechnologies #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol -
Drones have been on my radar screen (pun intended) for quite a few years...
Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
By Matthew Guariglia
July 16, 2021"It’s no longer science fiction or unreasonable paranoia. Now, it needs to be said: No, police must not be arming land-based robots or aerial drones. That’s true whether these mobile devices are remote controlled by a person or autonomously controlled by artificial intelligence, and whether the weapons are maximally lethal (like bullets) or less lethal (like tear gas). [Or #ElectricShockGloves !]
"Police currently deploy many different kinds of moving and task-performing technologies. These include flying drones, remote control bomb-defusing robots, and autonomous patrol robots. While these different devices serve different functions and operate differently, none of them--absolutely none of them--should be armed with any kind of weapon.
"Mission creep is very real. Time and time again, technologies given to police to use only in the most extreme circumstances make their way onto streets during protests or to respond to petty crime. For example, cell site simulators (often called ' #Stingrays ') were developed for use in foreign battlefields, brought home in the name of fighting 'terrorism,' then used by law enforcement to catch immigrants and a man who stole $57 worth of food. Likewise, police have targeted #BLM #protesters with #FaceSurveillance and #AmazonRing doorbell cameras.
"Today, scientists are developing an #AI enhanced #AutonomousDrone, designed to find people during natural disasters by locating their screams. How long until police use this technology to find protesters shouting chants? What if these autonomous drones were armed? We need a clear red line now: no armed police drones, period.
"There are already law enforcement robots and drones of all shapes, sizes, and levels of autonomy patrolling the United States as we speak. From autonomous #Knightscope robots prowling for 'suspicious behavior' and collecting images of license plates [ #FlockCameras ] and phone identifying information, to #BostonDynamic robotic dogs accompanying police on calls in New York or checking the temperature of unhoused people in Honolulu, to #PredatorSurveillanceDrones flying over BLM protests in #Minneapolis.
"We are moving quickly towards arming such robots and letting autonomous artificial intelligence determine whether or not to pull the trigger."
#ICESucks #SurveillanceState #DefundICE #DefundDHS #ArmedPoliceDrones #PoliceDrones
#ACAB #RoboCops #PredatorUAVs #PredatorDrones #UAVs #ICE #SurveillanceState #Fascism #WeaponizedDrones #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#CompliantTechnologies #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol -
Astriferous – Atavistic Unraveling Review By Steel DruhmAstriferous slimed out of the Costa Rican death metal scene back in 2019 and have been on a slow, upward crawl since. Their 2023 Pulsations from the Black Orb debut grabbed them some attention and a mostly positive review from our own Ferox. Their weapon of choice is repugnant caverncore with a dose of dissonance, putting them squarely in the Incantation, Dead Congregation, and early days Tomb Mold wing of the death emporium. Atavistic Unraveling finds them stuck in the same filth and scum with scant migration toward the light of day. It’s still fugly, grotesque death metal of the olden school, with the dissonance element adding a slight touch of modernity. Their sound is a bit more fleshed out this time, and when everything clicks, things can feel pretty goddamn harrowing and brutal. With so many bands trying to ape the classic Incantation sound and vibe, can Astriferous do enough to crack through that thick mucous membrane and claim their share of the cesspool? Let’s test the tainted waters for hazardous algae.
Fucknormous opener “Carriers of the Curse” is a fine way to kick things off, and it has all the crucial elements. It’s not doing anything new, but it comes after you with so much raw savagery that innovation starts to seem trivial. It covers all the bases a caverncore tune should, from ragged blasting to slower mid-tempo plodding, and there’s a meatheaded Cannibal Corpse vibe to the riffs when they aren’t being all snakey and creepy. The only downside is that it feels like the song rambles on for about a minute too long, revisiting the same scorched territory. “The Floating Catacombs” is more of the same high-quality ear abuse, with slimy, repulsive riffs and subterranean vocals teamed with caveman moments and some weirdly Voivodian riffs popping in and out for variety. As the album churns along, you get quality nastiness, but there’s that nagging tendency to stretch out compositions a bit too far, reducing the overall impact. This despite the fact that most song run between 4-5 minutes. It’s a weird thing. “Proto Embryo (The Third Tribulation)” is a remorseless blast furnace with just enough tempo shifts to keep things interesting, but it just keeps going when it feels like it should be over. Likewise, “Arcane Demonomania” is another blistering ass blaster with a jagged d-beat and a plethora of ugly, squiriming riffs. It’s easy to love, but once again, it drags on toward the end.
A few tracks are good but less impactful, like “Mnemonic Phenomena,” despite some effective doomy segments and overwhelming vocal excess. 8-plus minute closer “Resonance Cascade” is more modern-sounding, venturing into sludge doom at points. At its best, it can feel oppressive and suffocating. Over the whole runtime, though, it ends up challenging the attention span as segments of less interesting riffs drift by, offering little to cling to. The album’s nearly omnipresent sense of bloat makes a 36-minute album feel much longer than it is, which is a shame because Astriferous do so many things right here.
Felipe Tencio and new slinger Esteban Sancho are at the center of a maelstrom, casting frantic corkscrewing riffs in all directions when not laying down big power chugs that put the boot on the throat. This tandem knows the ways of caverncore, and many of these leads probably slithered away after recording to become invasive species somewhere. Incantation is a clear influence, but I also hear Immolation, Morbid Angel, and Cannibal Corpse in the DNA. Tencio is a great death metal vocalist possessed with a deep, intimidating roar for the ages. He sounds demonic and gigantic and anchors the material to the Ninth Level of Hell. José Pablo Phillips also impresses with a pronounced and weighty bass performance. The only real knock is that the writing can be undisciplined and too long in the fang, thereby partially unraveling the band’s good works.
Astriferous have a winning formula and the talent to execute it, and parts of Atavistic Unraveling scream of potential and hint at greatness. With tighter, more consistent writing, this would be a must-hear and headed for my year-end list. As it stands, I can safely recommend this for death heads everywhere as the wet, sticky goods are delivered, even if they aren’t all equally malicious and infectious. Like my great-granddaddy Pig Iron Druhm used to say, “If the cave smells of rancid mold, there’s bound to be some gold.” Wisdom!
Rating: 3.0/5.0
#2026 #30 #Astriferous #AtavisticUnraveling #CostaRicanMetal #DeathMetal #Demilich #Incantation #Jun26 #MeSacoUnOjoRecords #MorbidAngel #PulsationsFromTheBlackOrb #Review #Reviews #TombMold
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Me Saco Un Ojo
Website: instagram.com/astriferousdeath
Releases Worldwide: June 26th, 2026 -
Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity
The Bounce Black Team
Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.
His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.
Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?
While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.
The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.
The evolving landscape of racial justice
In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.
Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.
One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.
Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.
These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.
A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon
Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.
Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.
With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.
It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.
For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.
Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.
Organised harassment as a human rights issue
Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.
Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.
Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.
For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.
A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black
At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.
Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.
This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.
This is not unique.
It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.
Where do we go from here?
If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.
This means:
- Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
- Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
- Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
- Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
- Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
- Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories
Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!
A call to action
Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.
We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:
- Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
- Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
- Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
- Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue
The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.
Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.
And to quote a wise Black woman…
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
#blackLivesMatter #BLM #bounceBlack #COINTELPRO #DrTamaraDixon #GeorgeFloyd #healing #intimidation #justice #mentalHealth #racialEquity #racialTrauma #repression #retaliation #sayHerName #sayHisName #socialJustice #surveillance #surveillanceState #transnationalRepression -
Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity
The Bounce Black Team
Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.
His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.
Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?
While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.
The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.
The evolving landscape of racial justice
In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.
Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.
One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.
Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.
These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.
A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon
Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.
Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.
With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.
It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.
For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.
Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.
Organised harassment as a human rights issue
Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.
Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.
Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.
For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.
A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black
At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.
Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.
This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.
This is not unique.
It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.
Where do we go from here?
If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.
This means:
- Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
- Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
- Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
- Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
- Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
- Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories
Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!
A call to action
Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.
We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:
- Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
- Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
- Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
- Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue
The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.
Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.
And to quote a wise Black woman…
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
#blackLivesMatter #BLM #bounceBlack #COINTELPRO #DrTamaraDixon #GeorgeFloyd #healing #intimidation #justice #mentalHealth #racialEquity #racialTrauma #repression #retaliation #sayHerName #sayHisName #socialJustice #surveillance #surveillanceState #transnationalRepression -
Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity
The Bounce Black Team
Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.
His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.
Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?
While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.
The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.
The evolving landscape of racial justice
In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.
Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.
One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.
Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.
These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.
A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon
Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.
Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.
With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.
It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.
For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.
Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.
Organised harassment as a human rights issue
Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.
Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.
Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.
For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.
A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black
At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.
Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.
This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.
This is not unique.
It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.
Where do we go from here?
If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.
This means:
- Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
- Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
- Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
- Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
- Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
- Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories
Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!
A call to action
Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.
We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:
- Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
- Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
- Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
- Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue
The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.
Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.
And to quote a wise Black woman…
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
#blackLivesMatter #BLM #bounceBlack #COINTELPRO #DrTamaraDixon #GeorgeFloyd #healing #intimidation #justice #mentalHealth #racialEquity #racialTrauma #repression #retaliation #sayHerName #sayHisName #socialJustice #surveillance #surveillanceState #transnationalRepression -
Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity
The Bounce Black Team
Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.
His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.
Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?
While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.
The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.
The evolving landscape of racial justice
In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.
Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.
One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.
Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.
These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.
A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon
Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.
Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.
With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.
It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.
For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.
Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.
Organised harassment as a human rights issue
Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.
Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.
Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.
For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.
A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black
At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.
Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.
This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.
This is not unique.
It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.
Where do we go from here?
If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.
This means:
- Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
- Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
- Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
- Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
- Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
- Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories
Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!
A call to action
Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.
We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:
- Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
- Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
- Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
- Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue
The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.
Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.
And to quote a wise Black woman…
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
#blackLivesMatter #BLM #bounceBlack #COINTELPRO #DrTamaraDixon #GeorgeFloyd #healing #intimidation #justice #mentalHealth #racialEquity #racialTrauma #repression #retaliation #sayHerName #sayHisName #socialJustice #surveillance #surveillanceState #transnationalRepression -
Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir Review By KronosDo you ever hear a punk song and think, “Sure, I’d also like to overthrow the establishment, but couldn’t you learn to play guitar a bit better?” Have you ever found yourself embarrassed to be banging your head to a sick black metal riff written and performed by one of the world’s most repugnant lowlifes? Yes. So have thousands of our brethren in every squat and co-op from Greece to Iceland; and as is their wont, they have taken matters into their own grubby hands, pressing a huge variety of records that radiate out from the collision of metal and hardcore in every hue and shade, from the bilious How Hate is Hard to Define to the cerulean Archivist. Rosa Faenskap, unsurprisingly, fit themselves into the long-wavelength end of that rainbow.
Practicing a particularly dark and frostbitten form of Euro-Lefty-Black-Hardcore, Rosa Faenskap find themselves between the vicious pallor of Thurm and the sanguine rage of Svalbard, on occasion reflecting a few fleeting tones from the early Plebeian Grandstand records. Emil Vestre grinds out icy tremolo leads as jagged as they come, crashing and crackling in coupled cacaphony with vocalist Håvard Solli’s snarling bass; in the pre-breakdown chug and pick-scrape of “Faenskap for alltid,” you’d swear you were standing six feet away from their amplifier in a damp Oslo basement. Drummer Anders Jansvik’s performance is likewise big and booming. Whatever the trio might lack, it’s not energy.
Ingenting Forblir by Rosa Faenskap
Though Rosa Faenskap are pretty green, this sophomore record is remarkably focused, holding its space through force and fury, hammering a few riffs as harshly as possible before their close. “Den Svake Mannen” rides a rung-out arpeggio so continuously that you can still hear it when Vestre switches over to tremolos, but I’m never disappointed to hear them return to it halfway through the song. “Faenskap for Alltid” pursues a more straightforward black metal at first, expertly executing a couple of stock tremolo metal riffs with a panache that I’m surprised to hear outside of a Spectral Wound record before the band shift from blackened to bruising, stomping through a breakdown and proclaiming “faenskap for alltid!” again and again.
Ingenting Forblir’s success stands in part on the band’s canny writing, but is far more indebted to its quality of sound. The record’s production and mix, handled by the band in collaboration with Oskar Johnsen Ryd and Torfinn Sommerfeldt Lysne, respects the vitality of the material, sounding live and livid. My only complaint is that Jansvik’s drums can get buried during busy sections, in part due to a muffled snare tone. Despite a low-DR master, the record is dynamic where it needs to be; when the band leave Vestre alone and pensive with their guitar, the quiet registers, and I feel myself slipping a bit closer in towards the record.
“Jeg Våkner Snart” closes Ingenting Forblir as the band’s most ambitious and successful song, layering tremolo leads over gang vocals, retreating into quiet, reverberating melody, and ending in a boiling conflagration of noise. For a sophomore record leaner and meaner than the band’s 2023 debut, it’s just the right ending. Ingenting Forblir hardly breaks new musical ground, but Rosa Faenskap’s sour determination will likely propel it into my regular listening rotation this year. In practice, I might not be up for faenskap for alltid, but I’ll happily recommend faenskap for lenge.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
#2026 #35 #BlackMetal #BlackenedHardcore #FysiskFormat #Hardcore #Mar26 #NorwegianMetal #Review #Reviews #Svalbard #Thurm
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Fysisk Format
Websites: rosafaenskap.com | rosafaenskap.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: March 6th, 2026 -
Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir Review By Kronos
Do you ever hear a punk song and think, “Sure, I’d also like to overthrow the establishment, but couldn’t you learn to play guitar a bit better?” Have you ever found yourself embarrassed to be banging your head to a sick black metal riff written and performed by one of the world’s most repugnant lowlifes? Yes. So have thousands of our brethren in every squat and co-op from Greece to Iceland; and as is their wont, they have taken matters into their own grubby hands, pressing a huge variety of records that radiate out from the collision of metal and hardcore in every hue and shade, from the bilious How Hate is Hard to Define to the cerulean Archivist. Rosa Faenskap, unsurprisingly, fit themselves into the long-wavelength end of that rainbow.
Practicing a particularly dark and frostbitten form of Euro-Lefty-Black-Hardcore, Rosa Faenskap find themselves between the vicious pallor of Thurm and the sanguine rage of Svalbard, on occasion reflecting a few fleeting tones from the early Plebeian Grandstand records. Emil Vestre grinds out icy tremolo leads as jagged as they come, crashing and crackling in coupled cacaphony with vocalist Håvard Solli’s snarling bass; in the pre-breakdown chug and pick-scrape of “Faenskap for alltid,” you’d swear you were standing six feet away from their amplifier in a damp Oslo basement. Drummer Anders Jansvik’s performance is likewise big and booming. Whatever the trio might lack, it’s not energy.
Ingenting Forblir by Rosa Faenskap
Though Rosa Faenskap are pretty green, this sophomore record is remarkably focused, holding its space through force and fury, hammering a few riffs as harshly as possible before their close. “Den Svake Mannen” rides a rung-out arpeggio so continuously that you can still hear it when Vestre switches over to tremolos, but I’m never disappointed to hear them return to it halfway through the song. “Faenskap for Alltid” pursues a more straightforward black metal at first, expertly executing a couple of stock tremolo metal riffs with a panache that I’m surprised to hear outside of a Spectral Wound record before the band shift from blackened to bruising, stomping through a breakdown and proclaiming “faenskap for alltid!” again and again.
Ingenting Forblir’s success stands in part on the band’s canny writing, but is far more indebted to its quality of sound. The record’s production and mix, handled by the band in collaboration with Oskar Johnsen Ryd and Torfinn Sommerfeldt Lysne, respects the vitality of the material, sounding live and livid. My only complaint is that Jansvik’s drums can get buried during busy sections, in part due to a muffled snare tone. Despite a low-DR master, the record is dynamic where it needs to be; when the band leave Vestre alone and pensive with their guitar, the quiet registers, and I feel myself slipping a bit closer in towards the record.
“Jeg Våkner Snart” closes Ingenting Forblir as the band’s most ambitious and successful song, layering tremolo leads over gang vocals, retreating into quiet, reverberating melody, and ending in a boiling conflagration of noise. For a sophomore record leaner and meaner than the band’s 2023 debut, it’s just the right ending. Ingenting Forblir hardly breaks new musical ground, but Rosa Faenskap’s sour determination will likely propel it into my regular listening rotation this year. In practice, I might not be up for faenskap for alltid, but I’ll happily recommend faenskap for lenge.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
#2026 #35 #BlackMetal #BlackenedHardcore #FysiskFormat #Hardcore #Mar26 #NorwegianMetal #Review #Reviews #Svalbard #Thurm
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Fysisk Format
Websites: rosafaenskap.com | rosafaenskap.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: March 6th, 2026 -
Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir Review By KronosDo you ever hear a punk song and think, “Sure, I’d also like to overthrow the establishment, but couldn’t you learn to play guitar a bit better?” Have you ever found yourself embarrassed to be banging your head to a sick black metal riff written and performed by one of the world’s most repugnant lowlifes? Yes. So have thousands of our brethren in every squat and co-op from Greece to Iceland; and as is their wont, they have taken matters into their own grubby hands, pressing a huge variety of records that radiate out from the collision of metal and hardcore in every hue and shade, from the bilious How Hate is Hard to Define to the cerulean Archivist. Rosa Faenskap, unsurprisingly, fit themselves into the long-wavelength end of that rainbow.
Practicing a particularly dark and frostbitten form of Euro-Lefty-Black-Hardcore, Rosa Faenskap find themselves between the vicious pallor of Thurm and the sanguine rage of Svalbard, on occasion reflecting a few fleeting tones from the early Plebeian Grandstand records. Emil Vestre grinds out icy tremolo leads as jagged as they come, crashing and crackling in coupled cacaphony with vocalist Håvard Solli’s snarling bass; in the pre-breakdown chug and pick-scrape of “Faenskap for alltid,” you’d swear you were standing six feet away from their amplifier in a damp Oslo basement. Drummer Anders Jansvik’s performance is likewise big and booming. Whatever the trio might lack, it’s not energy.
Ingenting Forblir by Rosa Faenskap
Though Rosa Faenskap are pretty green, this sophomore record is remarkably focused, holding its space through force and fury, hammering a few riffs as harshly as possible before their close. “Den Svake Mannen” rides a rung-out arpeggio so continuously that you can still hear it when Vestre switches over to tremolos, but I’m never disappointed to hear them return to it halfway through the song. “Faenskap for Alltid” pursues a more straightforward black metal at first, expertly executing a couple of stock tremolo metal riffs with a panache that I’m surprised to hear outside of a Spectral Wound record before the band shift from blackened to bruising, stomping through a breakdown and proclaiming “faenskap for alltid!” again and again.
Ingenting Forblir’s success stands in part on the band’s canny writing, but is far more indebted to its quality of sound. The record’s production and mix, handled by the band in collaboration with Oskar Johnsen Ryd and Torfinn Sommerfeldt Lysne, respects the vitality of the material, sounding live and livid. My only complaint is that Jansvik’s drums can get buried during busy sections, in part due to a muffled snare tone. Despite a low-DR master, the record is dynamic where it needs to be; when the band leave Vestre alone and pensive with their guitar, the quiet registers, and I feel myself slipping a bit closer in towards the record.
“Jeg Våkner Snart” closes Ingenting Forblir as the band’s most ambitious and successful song, layering tremolo leads over gang vocals, retreating into quiet, reverberating melody, and ending in a boiling conflagration of noise. For a sophomore record leaner and meaner than the band’s 2023 debut, it’s just the right ending. Ingenting Forblir hardly breaks new musical ground, but Rosa Faenskap’s sour determination will likely propel it into my regular listening rotation this year. In practice, I might not be up for faenskap for alltid, but I’ll happily recommend faenskap for lenge.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
#2026 #35 #BlackMetal #BlackenedHardcore #FysiskFormat #Hardcore #Mar26 #NorwegianMetal #Review #Reviews #Svalbard #Thurm
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Fysisk Format
Websites: rosafaenskap.com | rosafaenskap.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: March 6th, 2026 -
Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir Review By KronosDo you ever hear a punk song and think, “Sure, I’d also like to overthrow the establishment, but couldn’t you learn to play guitar a bit better?” Have you ever found yourself embarrassed to be banging your head to a sick black metal riff written and performed by one of the world’s most repugnant lowlifes? Yes. So have thousands of our brethren in every squat and co-op from Greece to Iceland; and as is their wont, they have taken matters into their own grubby hands, pressing a huge variety of records that radiate out from the collision of metal and hardcore in every hue and shade, from the bilious How Hate is Hard to Define to the cerulean Archivist. Rosa Faenskap, unsurprisingly, fit themselves into the long-wavelength end of that rainbow.
Practicing a particularly dark and frostbitten form of Euro-Lefty-Black-Hardcore, Rosa Faenskap find themselves between the vicious pallor of Thurm and the sanguine rage of Svalbard, on occasion reflecting a few fleeting tones from the early Plebeian Grandstand records. Emil Vestre grinds out icy tremolo leads as jagged as they come, crashing and crackling in coupled cacaphony with vocalist Håvard Solli’s snarling bass; in the pre-breakdown chug and pick-scrape of “Faenskap for alltid,” you’d swear you were standing six feet away from their amplifier in a damp Oslo basement. Drummer Anders Jansvik’s performance is likewise big and booming. Whatever the trio might lack, it’s not energy.
Ingenting Forblir by Rosa Faenskap
Though Rosa Faenskap are pretty green, this sophomore record is remarkably focused, holding its space through force and fury, hammering a few riffs as harshly as possible before their close. “Den Svake Mannen” rides a rung-out arpeggio so continuously that you can still hear it when Vestre switches over to tremolos, but I’m never disappointed to hear them return to it halfway through the song. “Faenskap for Alltid” pursues a more straightforward black metal at first, expertly executing a couple of stock tremolo metal riffs with a panache that I’m surprised to hear outside of a Spectral Wound record before the band shift from blackened to bruising, stomping through a breakdown and proclaiming “faenskap for alltid!” again and again.
Ingenting Forblir’s success stands in part on the band’s canny writing, but is far more indebted to its quality of sound. The record’s production and mix, handled by the band in collaboration with Oskar Johnsen Ryd and Torfinn Sommerfeldt Lysne, respects the vitality of the material, sounding live and livid. My only complaint is that Jansvik’s drums can get buried during busy sections, in part due to a muffled snare tone. Despite a low-DR master, the record is dynamic where it needs to be; when the band leave Vestre alone and pensive with their guitar, the quiet registers, and I feel myself slipping a bit closer in towards the record.
“Jeg Våkner Snart” closes Ingenting Forblir as the band’s most ambitious and successful song, layering tremolo leads over gang vocals, retreating into quiet, reverberating melody, and ending in a boiling conflagration of noise. For a sophomore record leaner and meaner than the band’s 2023 debut, it’s just the right ending. Ingenting Forblir hardly breaks new musical ground, but Rosa Faenskap’s sour determination will likely propel it into my regular listening rotation this year. In practice, I might not be up for faenskap for alltid, but I’ll happily recommend faenskap for lenge.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
#2026 #35 #BlackMetal #BlackenedHardcore #FysiskFormat #Hardcore #Mar26 #NorwegianMetal #Review #Reviews #Svalbard #Thurm
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Fysisk Format
Websites: rosafaenskap.com | rosafaenskap.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: March 6th, 2026 -
Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir Review By KronosDo you ever hear a punk song and think, “Sure, I’d also like to overthrow the establishment, but couldn’t you learn to play guitar a bit better?” Have you ever found yourself embarrassed to be banging your head to a sick black metal riff written and performed by one of the world’s most repugnant lowlifes? Yes. So have thousands of our brethren in every squat and co-op from Greece to Iceland; and as is their wont, they have taken matters into their own grubby hands, pressing a huge variety of records that radiate out from the collision of metal and hardcore in every hue and shade, from the bilious How Hate is Hard to Define to the cerulean Archivist. Rosa Faenskap, unsurprisingly, fit themselves into the long-wavelength end of that rainbow.
Practicing a particularly dark and frostbitten form of Euro-Lefty-Black-Hardcore, Rosa Faenskap find themselves between the vicious pallor of Thurm and the sanguine rage of Svalbard, on occasion reflecting a few fleeting tones from the early Plebeian Grandstand records. Emil Vestre grinds out icy tremolo leads as jagged as they come, crashing and crackling in coupled cacaphony with vocalist Håvard Solli’s snarling bass; in the pre-breakdown chug and pick-scrape of “Faenskap for alltid,” you’d swear you were standing six feet away from their amplifier in a damp Oslo basement. Drummer Anders Jansvik’s performance is likewise big and booming. Whatever the trio might lack, it’s not energy.
Ingenting Forblir by Rosa Faenskap
Though Rosa Faenskap are pretty green, this sophomore record is remarkably focused, holding its space through force and fury, hammering a few riffs as harshly as possible before their close. “Den Svake Mannen” rides a rung-out arpeggio so continuously that you can still hear it when Vestre switches over to tremolos, but I’m never disappointed to hear them return to it halfway through the song. “Faenskap for Alltid” pursues a more straightforward black metal at first, expertly executing a couple of stock tremolo metal riffs with a panache that I’m surprised to hear outside of a Spectral Wound record before the band shift from blackened to bruising, stomping through a breakdown and proclaiming “faenskap for alltid!” again and again.
Ingenting Forblir’s success stands in part on the band’s canny writing, but is far more indebted to its quality of sound. The record’s production and mix, handled by the band in collaboration with Oskar Johnsen Ryd and Torfinn Sommerfeldt Lysne, respects the vitality of the material, sounding live and livid. My only complaint is that Jansvik’s drums can get buried during busy sections, in part due to a muffled snare tone. Despite a low-DR master, the record is dynamic where it needs to be; when the band leave Vestre alone and pensive with their guitar, the quiet registers, and I feel myself slipping a bit closer in towards the record.
“Jeg Våkner Snart” closes Ingenting Forblir as the band’s most ambitious and successful song, layering tremolo leads over gang vocals, retreating into quiet, reverberating melody, and ending in a boiling conflagration of noise. For a sophomore record leaner and meaner than the band’s 2023 debut, it’s just the right ending. Ingenting Forblir hardly breaks new musical ground, but Rosa Faenskap’s sour determination will likely propel it into my regular listening rotation this year. In practice, I might not be up for faenskap for alltid, but I’ll happily recommend faenskap for lenge.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
#2026 #35 #BlackMetal #BlackenedHardcore #FysiskFormat #Hardcore #Mar26 #NorwegianMetal #Review #Reviews #Svalbard #Thurm
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Fysisk Format
Websites: rosafaenskap.com | rosafaenskap.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: March 6th, 2026 -
By Dear Hollow
I’m beginning to think Mire was a fluke. I’m not saying that as a bad thing, but I remember listening to Conjurer’s debut and thinking that it was a top post-metal album steeped in atmosphere and enigma, tied together with vicious vocals and vindictive weight.1 So then, I was immensely let down by follow-up Páthos because it seemed to shed substance for novelty: if I’m being honest, its stark dichotomy of heartwrenching melodies and kickass riffs felt inauthentic and shoehorned. Thus, I approached Unself carefully, hoping for something like Mire but tentatively expecting Páthos. What I got, however, was neither. You see, Mire was a fluke not in quality but in approach, because Unself proves that Conjurer prioritizes riff, weaponizing it for the very human tale of the deconstruction of self.
The title track enters with what I would expect from an early 2010s metalcore band intro,2 the Americana cover of 1919 gospel song “I Can’t Feel At Home in this World Anymore” morphing into a full-on dissodeath takedown via a barb of squealing dissonance. While this and the final song, “The World is Not My Home” seem to tie up the album into a thematic deconstruction of religion, Unself is a bit more complex than that. It reflects the journey of vocalist/guitarist Dani Nightingale through an autism diagnosis and discovery of them being non-binary. Similarly reflecting this complexity and remaining incredibly difficult to neatly categorize its sonic assault, Conjurer lays a foundation of post-metal’s meandering rhythmic hulk with death metal intensity, sludge tonal abuse, and a sleek modern production built atop, with – in Unself – hints of black metal. It’s not the second coming of Mire – it’s Unself and undeniably on-brand and completely authentic – and that’s perfectly okay for Conjurer.
Unself’s structure shows Conjurer’s devotion to natural growth, a welcome change from the shoehorned Páthos – largely because Nightingale’s sonic struggles with self-discovery undergird the movements. The two halves of the album are divided into three tracks, bookended by the Huntsmen-influenced thematic motif of the aforesaid “I Can’t Feel at Home in This World” morphed into ugly beatdowns and yearning sadness. The meat of the two suites fall into one of three categories: the relatively traditional post-metal waltzing of Amenra’s heavier moments in sprawling weight (“All Apart,” “Foreclosure”), the yearning chord progressions and melodies recalling Páthos’ emotive emphasis to a more effective degree (“There Is No Warmth,” “Let Us Live”), or the outright assaults of blackened sludge and -core breakdowns (“The Searing Glow,” “Hang Them in Your Head”). As the album progresses, so does the intensity. The latter, the most vicious of the bunch, feel like they nearly boil over, nearly forsaking the post-metal attack for an obscure death metal attack a la Convulsing or Adversarial – making interlude “A Plea” truly the eye of the storm in its minimalist approach, distant vocal samples, and acoustic strumming.
The balance between novelty and songwriting remains an issue for Conjurer. Because of the trichotomy of its sounds, Unself offers different levels of quality. At first, the more traditional post-metal cuts (“All Apart,” “Foreclosure”) feel like absolute bangers, touched with darkness and harmony – but then you hear the other two approaches and they suddenly feel overly long and uneventful in comparison. Likewise, there are several tracks that could stand a good trimming, simply because many feature a singular abrupt tonal shift from melodic to dissonant in its last respective third (“There is No Warmth,” “Let Us Live”). A more divisive take is that Conjurer’s production is very modern and sleek, the down-tuned leads more akin to 2010s metalcore acts like The Plot in You or The Sorrow, an accessibility largely contradicting post-metal’s historic opaqueness (Neurosis) and death metal’s hostility (Bolt Thrower), so while I liked its more “loud and ouchy” tones, others may not be so persuaded.
The novelty and the emotion are resolved in Unself, as Conjurer finally feels authentic and realized. No, Unself is not better than Mire, but it feels more genuine and human than Páthos, offering some of the act’s most intense material to date while chronicling the dismantling of the self into something more authentic. Not only does Dani Nightingale embark on a journey of self-discovery, but Conjurer does too. I’m just happy to be along for the ride.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 4 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Websites: conjureruk.bandcamp.com | conjureruk.com | facebook.com/conjureruk
Releases Worldwide: October 24th, 2025#2025 #30 #Adversarial #Amenra #BlackMetal #BoltThrower #BritishMetal #Conjurer #Convulsing #DeathMetal #DissonantDeathMetal #Huntsmen #Neurosis #NuclearBlastRecords #Oct25 #PostMetal #Review #Reviews #SludgeMetal #TheOngoingConcept #ThePlotInYou #TheSorrow #Unself #VeilOfMaya
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What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?
Monday, July 14, 2025
By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan"By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.
"Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.
"The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'
"The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.
"Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members."The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.
"Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'
"Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.
CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory
"The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
"The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.
"As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'
"So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?
"Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."
#WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail