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A friend shared this with me. It's for real!

The top part is from page 7, the bottom part is from the forward.

From page 7 of the United States Counterterrorism Strategy:

"In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-#transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like #Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent. We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on U.S. soil or against Americans anywhere.

From Trump's signed forward:

"Our new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy is a return to common sense and Peace through Strength. As I said after our first successful counterterrorism mission, just days after I was sworn back in office – if you hurt Americans, or are planning to hurt Americans, 'We Will Find You and We Will Kill You.' "

Raw Story news article:
https://www.rawstory.com/counterterrorism/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/n7Y2h

PDF [source of the graphic]:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf

#USPol #TrumpSucks #CriminalizingDissent #CounterTerrorismStrategy #Anarchists #Activists

#Trump counterterrorism strategy names “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including #Anarchists #antifascists as 1 of 3 “major types of #terror groups” facing US, placing them in same category list as #narcoterrorists, transnational #gangs, legacy #Islamist #terrorist groups. #US counterterrorism activity will prioritize “rapid identification neutralization” of "violent secular" #political groups whose ideology is “anti-American,” “radically pro #transgender,” anarchist. https://www.bespacific.com/trump-strategy-names-antifa-among-major-types-of-terror-groups/

#Trump counterterrorism strategy names “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including #Anarchists #antifascists as 1 of 3 “major types of #terror groups” facing US, placing them in same category list as #narcoterrorists, transnational #gangs, legacy #Islamist #terrorist groups. #US counterterrorism activity will prioritize “rapid identification neutralization” of "violent secular" #political groups whose ideology is “anti-American,” “radically pro #transgender,” anarchist. https://www.bespacific.com/trump-strategy-names-antifa-among-major-types-of-terror-groups/

#Trump counterterrorism strategy names “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including #Anarchists #antifascists as 1 of 3 “major types of #terror groups” facing US, placing them in same category list as #narcoterrorists, transnational #gangs, legacy #Islamist #terrorist groups. #US counterterrorism activity will prioritize “rapid identification neutralization” of "violent secular" #political groups whose ideology is “anti-American,” “radically pro #transgender,” anarchist. https://www.bespacific.com/trump-strategy-names-antifa-among-major-types-of-terror-groups/

#Trump counterterrorism strategy names “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including #Anarchists #antifascists as 1 of 3 “major types of #terror groups” facing US, placing them in same category list as #narcoterrorists, transnational #gangs, legacy #Islamist #terrorist groups. #US counterterrorism activity will prioritize “rapid identification neutralization” of "violent secular" #political groups whose ideology is “anti-American,” “radically pro #transgender,” anarchist. https://www.bespacific.com/trump-strategy-names-antifa-among-major-types-of-terror-groups/

#Trump counterterrorism strategy names “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including #Anarchists #antifascists as 1 of 3 “major types of #terror groups” facing US, placing them in same category list as #narcoterrorists, transnational #gangs, legacy #Islamist #terrorist groups. #US counterterrorism activity will prioritize “rapid identification neutralization” of "violent secular" #political groups whose ideology is “anti-American,” “radically pro #transgender,” anarchist. https://www.bespacific.com/trump-strategy-names-antifa-among-major-types-of-terror-groups/

@srtcd424 brilliant. I have always said here in #Australia that the #liberals are not #conservative. They are #anarchists. A true conservative would never vote for them.

Anarchistisch blok(je) 1 mei-demo

Langestraat, Brugge, vrijdag 1 mei om 10:30 CEST

📢 Ook dit jaar sluiten we achteraan aan in de traditionele 1 mei optocht in Brugge.

Wat ons betreft mag 1 mei vooral weer een strijddag zijn voor de waarden waarin we geloven.

🏴🚩 Voor solidariteit tussen de werkende klasse wereldwijd, tegen de oorlogen van staat en kapitaal!

🏴🚩 Voor een samenleving waar iedereen gelijkwaardig is ongeacht sociale klasse, afkomst, geloof,... Tegen racisme en xenofobie, tegen seksisme, tegen validisme en de structuren die deze rottigheid in stand houden!

🏴🚩 Voor de vrijheid om ons leven zelf in handen te nemen, zonder bemoeienis van managers, beroepspolitici en leidinggevenden... Voor democratie en organisatie van onderuit!

📍 Afspraak om 10u30 in de Langestraat. We stellen ons helemaal achteraan op.

Het parcours gaat als volgt: Langestraat - Hoogstraat - Burg - Philipstockstraat - Markt - Wollestraat - Rozenhoedkaai - Braambergstraat - Freren Fonteinstraat - Astridpark

[(bron)]

https://acties.todon.nl/event/anarchistisch-blokje-1-mei-demo

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

#Grassroots engagement to build up a stronger, localized, #MutualAssistance network.

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion

#VancouverIsland #AnarchistNetwork resources pamphlet, mini #zines & #stickers.

#DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #AntiFascist #AntiCapitalist #DestroyThePatriarchy #IndigenousFeminism #Anarchists #CommunityBuilding #Comrades

Last time Luke & I saw each other was 2022 -> we were chasing Justin Trudeau around BC Leg, trapped BC MLAs inside; they had to leave their cars & be snuck into chauffered cars through side doors. Then, Trudeau's private driver called cops on me - for standing 10 feet away, saying absolutely nothing & just mean glaring at her 🤣
Cops told her to just move the vehicle because I broke no laws by just glaring.

Horgan & Trudeau had to move their meeting room 3 times that evening 😅 Every time we found the room they were in, we gathered outside & by doors - making a ton of noise. They kept running from one meeting room to another, like cockroaches when light is shined upon them. It was pretty hilarious how much cops they sent to try to get us to stop making noise & chasing dirty politicians inside. Absolutely ridiculous how terrified politicians are when citizens demand public transparency, public accountability & to stop being colonial capitalist wankerbutternoodles.

#Anarchists #Comrades #BCpoli #CDNpoli #FreeThePeople #FreeTheLand #EndAllOppression #DecolonizeYourMind

🏴 #BreakingTheICE: In April, #anarchists from the Twin Cities who resisted the #ICE occupation will tour the US, recounting their experiences and organizing practices. 🤝 At each stop, they will share rapid-response network tactics, explore how #Minnesota disrupted Operation Metro Surge, and draw lessons for defeating fascism through collective self-organization. 💪 Get dates and details at @CrimethInc 👉 https://en.crimethinc.com/2026/03/23/breaking-the-ice-lessons-from-the-resistance-in-minnesota-a-countrywide-speaking-tour #abolishICE #anarchism #antifascism #antifa #solidarity #selfempowerment #mutualaid #communitydefense

🏴 #BreakingTheICE: In April, #anarchists from the Twin Cities who resisted the #ICE occupation will tour the US, recounting their experiences and organizing practices. 🤝 At each stop, they will share rapid-response network tactics, explore how #Minnesota disrupted Operation Metro Surge, and draw lessons for defeating fascism through collective self-organization. 💪 Get dates and details at @CrimethInc 👉 https://en.crimethinc.com/2026/03/23/breaking-the-ice-lessons-from-the-resistance-in-minnesota-a-countrywide-speaking-tour #abolishICE #anarchism #antifascism #antifa #solidarity #selfempowerment #mutualaid #communitydefense

🏴 #BreakingTheICE: In April, #anarchists from the Twin Cities who resisted the #ICE occupation will tour the US, recounting their experiences and organizing practices. 🤝 At each stop, they will share rapid-response network tactics, explore how #Minnesota disrupted Operation Metro Surge, and draw lessons for defeating fascism through collective self-organization. 💪 Get dates and details at @CrimethInc 👉 https://en.crimethinc.com/2026/03/23/breaking-the-ice-lessons-from-the-resistance-in-minnesota-a-countrywide-speaking-tour #abolishICE #anarchism #antifascism #antifa #solidarity #selfempowerment #mutualaid #communitydefense

🏴 #BreakingTheICE: In April, #anarchists from the Twin Cities who resisted the #ICE occupation will tour the US, recounting their experiences and organizing practices. 🤝 At each stop, they will share rapid-response network tactics, explore how #Minnesota disrupted Operation Metro Surge, and draw lessons for defeating fascism through collective self-organization. 💪 Get dates and details at @CrimethInc 👉 https://en.crimethinc.com/2026/03/23/breaking-the-ice-lessons-from-the-resistance-in-minnesota-a-countrywide-speaking-tour #abolishICE #anarchism #antifascism #antifa #solidarity #selfempowerment #mutualaid #communitydefense

🏴 #BreakingTheICE: In April, #anarchists from the Twin Cities who resisted the #ICE occupation will tour the US, recounting their experiences and organizing practices. 🤝 At each stop, they will share rapid-response network tactics, explore how #Minnesota disrupted Operation Metro Surge, and draw lessons for defeating fascism through collective self-organization. 💪 Get dates and details at @CrimethInc 👉 https://en.crimethinc.com/2026/03/23/breaking-the-ice-lessons-from-the-resistance-in-minnesota-a-countrywide-speaking-tour #abolishICE #anarchism #antifascism #antifa #solidarity #selfempowerment #mutualaid #communitydefense

#Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the great novels is still vital and relevant over 200 years after its publication.

The daughter of firebrand British #anarchists #MaryWollstonecraft and #WilliamGodwin, #MaryShelley infused her masterpiece with the values of her radical milieu and her own experiences as a political and social outsider.

https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/an-anarchists-guide-to-frankenstein/

#Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the great novels is still vital and relevant over 200 years after its publication.

The daughter of firebrand British #anarchists #MaryWollstonecraft and #WilliamGodwin, #MaryShelley infused her masterpiece with the values of her radical milieu and her own experiences as a political and social outsider.

https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/an-anarchists-guide-to-frankenstein/

#Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the great novels is still vital and relevant over 200 years after its publication.

The daughter of firebrand British #anarchists #MaryWollstonecraft and #WilliamGodwin, #MaryShelley infused her masterpiece with the values of her radical milieu and her own experiences as a political and social outsider.

https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/an-anarchists-guide-to-frankenstein/

#Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the great novels is still vital and relevant over 200 years after its publication.

The daughter of firebrand British #anarchists #MaryWollstonecraft and #WilliamGodwin, #MaryShelley infused her masterpiece with the values of her radical milieu and her own experiences as a political and social outsider.

https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/an-anarchists-guide-to-frankenstein/

Dear Friends of the instant instance,

As you may know:

+ occasionally parts of the fediverse are attacked by rogue mis-governments such as the current mis-admin in USA (Useless State of America) 🌎
+ The fediverse has recovery built in by our beloved creators, hosters and admins :blobheart:
+ one day god and finances willing I will have my own instance, maybe even posthumously or from a benevolent zombie... :ablobwave:

Obviously I would not be a fair admin. I will put in the edit box "Have you kicked a Nazi in the nuts", instead of the more usual 'What's on your mind'
I Iz violent and illegal and non kosher.

Woe is me. 💩

Be that as it may. I would welcome #anarchists of all available #genders. Support bigoted #atheists and religious types to change their opinions for #FAQ's.
I would also have a troll feeding area (they taste of jerk chicken) for the famished. Other innovations would be the banning of any rules that can not be changed. Might need a Judge for that... :omya_mastodon:

Oh yes I have a plan (which I will abandon as soon as possible or at least regularly. If you wish to be a part of the admin team please contact someone (preferably not me) :blobDab:

Have a great day everyone. Release the Wombles. Fredom 4 Tooting. She who dares. Wins. [lobster rambles off into the sunset] :elmo_fire:

:hearthands: :fedi: :vulcan_hmn_g1:

So, I am a Computational Biologist. Keep that in mind. I’m an actual scientist who works with ecological concepts, specifically the microbiome. One of the most insufferable reactions to the cyberpunk era we inhabit is the emergence of anti-science ideas from the left in response to techno-fascism. The strange part is that many people on the left do not even recognize them as anti-science, because they assume the left is aligned with science and the right opposed to it; ergo, if the left says it, it must be scientific. It is insane: washing your hands is technology. Medicine is technology.

I think, because the Internet has hijacked people’s brains, many conflate technology with electronics or machines. Anthropologically, technology consists of material objects, techniques, and organized practices through which humans intentionally intervene in their environments. Technology is culture, and human culture is technology. When someone learns a skill or a discipline from someone else, that is an extension of technology.

Technology encompasses craft traditions (blacksmithing), agriculture, and institutionalized processes of teaching and learning. Agriculture is one of the oldest forms of technology. Yes, farmers are tech workers. I write code, but I also spent a large amount of time on a farm, and I can tell you that many tech workers who pride themselves on writing code would not know what to do with farm equipment.

So, from that broad perspective, we can sum technology up in one word: education. A basic heuristic for determining if something is cultural or not is: can it be taught and learned? These words? I was taught English, and I am using an invented language to transmit knowledge to you; ergo, I am using technology to transmit cultural knowledge to you. Reading a book is thus using a piece of human technology. So, being anti-tech connotes being anti-education.

What got me thinking about this is a toot I read on Mastodon:

The truth is that society needs to develop ethically and ecologically more than it does technologically. That’s not to say that we should shun technology, but our development along other lines lags far behind our technological capacity.

↬ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/116052113455871454

Sounds valid, right? That is the distinct smell of bull shit.This is a clear example of what is called a platitude. Platitudes are memetically hijacking people’s brains. Memetics actually hijack your brain—they change it. It’s similar to how a retrovirus can alter the genome of its host. So, trying to have conversations with these people is pointless, which is why I avoid the chronically online Internet scene and arguing with them.

It made me want to scream. As I mentioned earlier, technology is basically a set of things you learn from other humans—typically within a culture—that helps you do or make something. You know what else is learned within human society? A normative set of cultural values about how we ought to behave. So, both technology and culture emerge from the same thing simultaneously and mutually. You cannot have humans intervening in things to achieve ecological development, because that is technology, and you cannot educate humans on ethics without an invented language. It is literally an anti-education argument.

Ethics and technology arise together from the same human conditions and social processes. It makes little sense to claim that technology is “outpacing” ethics. The two do not develop independently. We form ethical norms in response to new capacities and circumstances. There would be no cultural norms about how to use the Internet if the Internet did not exist. And, there would be no ethical debates about AI if AI did not exist. Ethical reflection emerges alongside technological change because both are products of human culture.

As new problems create new technologies that create new problems, societies respond by negotiating norms, rules, and expectations appropriate to those contexts. The same pattern appears in politics. Politics concerns who gets what, when, and how—it is the negotiation of power, rights, and resources. Without resources or competing claims, there would be nothing to negotiate. Ethics and politics are not trailing behind technology because they are co-emergent responses to the same underlying realities.

@benlockwood

Stepping Back From Social Media To Read a Book

I’m taking a break. After spending like two years in the worst parts of the Internet modeling the memetic spread of conspiracy-driven behavioral patterns and developing social media software as a side hustle, I think I’m going to take a step back and… I don’t know… maybe read a book? lol.

I’m a Computational Biologist who pretty much studies the memetics of conspiracy theories and how they act as another vector/epidemiological layer. I’ve also been working on various contracts for social media development stuff. Working on the shit I’ve been working on for years forces you to see the worst parts of people that they split off. It makes you hate everyone — and I mean everyone.

Your BlueSky Feed Is Porn You Didn’t Ask For Because Your Friends Are Gooners With a Severe Porn Addiction

A common complaint I see people make on Bluesky is: why am I being served so much porn or things I am not interested in? They will incorrectly believe that the algorithm is broken. It’s not broken. You didn’t know the people you knew as well as you thought you did. Porn addiction is a thing, and porn addiction is especially common with weebs. You’re seeing deranged shit because people you follow have porn addictions and are into deranged shit. So, though you may not be consuming porn, people in your network are. That activity kicks into your feeds.

The issue I have with that is that it essentially normalizes being sex pests in a space on the Internet. That sets the expectation that it is good—attractive, even—to act like that elsewhere. That expectation alienates relationships. Bluesky creates a cultural space that offers an unrealistic, bizarre representation of social relationships, which isolates and alienates the users who stay on there consuming erotica and porn like they do.

So, user repos in Bluesky have a property for likes. Bluesky’s underlying AT Protocol stores likes as first-class structured records in each user’s AT Protocol repository. In the AT Protocol lexicon, a like is an app.bsky.feed.like record type. Unlike a simple boolean flag on a post, it is its own record with a creation timestamp and a subject field that holds a strong reference to the liked record.

That strong reference is composed of an AT-URI and a CID. The AT-URI identifies the exact record in the network by DID, collection, and record key. The CID is a cryptographic content identifier that uniquely identifies the exact content of that liked record.

These like records exist under the app.bsky.feed.like namespace in the user’s repo. Bluesky’s repo model is built so that these repos are hosted on a user’s Personal Data Server and are publicly readable through the AT Protocol APIs. Because of that, the like record and its fields can be fetched, indexed, and used by any client or service that can query the protocol.

The protocol exposes operations like getLikes. This returns all of the like records tied to a particular subject’s AT-URI and CID. It also exposes getActorLikes. This returns all of the subject references a given actor has liked. Those API calls return structured like objects with timestamps and subject references directly from the public repository data.

Various feeds hosted by different PDSs use the likes property to construct the feeds that you see. Since the likes of people you follow are included in your social graph, along with your own likes, you’re going to get served the porn they are consuming. Because likes are public and anyone can write an algorithm to see everyone’s likes, you can clearly see just how much porn people are consuming.

Honestly, what started to turn my stomach about the people on Bluesky is how they behave across different contexts. If you look through the records of the posts they interact with, you’ll see them engaging with political posts in the replies like a normal person. Then, when you look through their AT Protocol records, you see hours and hours of them interacting with every kind of porn imaginable. I am not exaggerating. Hours of likes for porn posts within 1–10 minutes of each other. Am I sex-negative? A prude? No, this site is filled with furry, gay bara porn, lol. You can have a drink without being an alcoholic. The problem with these people is like people who can’t have one drink without drinking the whole fucking day; they can’t consume porn in healthy ways.

I think people assume that their feed is customized for them and based on their likes. No—feeds are generalized based on what everyone likes and then served to your subgraph. It’s not just about who you follow; it’s about who they follow. So if you follow someone who follows a lot of people with porn addictions, you will see porn. Bluesky isn’t weighting the algorithm to do this. Basically, it’s the people in your social network with furry, hentai, or trans porn addictions who are driving it.

BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity

I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”

Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.

Bluesky mentions that here:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update

As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.

I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.

Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.

Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.

Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.

Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.

Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.

Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.

I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.

In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.

I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.

This can be modeled by representing each item as a node in a weighted graph, where edges are weighted by dissimilarity rather than similarity. Highly similar items are connected by low-weight edges, while less similar items are connected by higher-weight edges. Distances in the graph, computed using standard shortest-path algorithms, then correspond to degrees of similarity. Closely related items are separated by short path lengths, while increasingly dissimilar items require longer paths through the graph. It turns out that attempts to generalize metric spaces for noetic domains—to model noetic/psychic spaces—are actually pretty useful for social media algorithms, lol.

BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity

I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”

Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.

Bluesky mentions that here:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update

As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.

I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.

Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.

Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.

Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.

Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.

Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.

Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.

I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.

In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.

I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.

BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity

I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”

Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.

Bluesky mentions that here:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update

As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.

I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.

Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.

Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.

Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.

Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.

Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.

Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.

I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.

In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.

I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.

This can be modeled by representing each item as a node in a weighted graph, where edges are weighted by dissimilarity rather than similarity. Highly similar items are connected by low-weight edges, while less similar items are connected by higher-weight edges. Distances in the graph, computed using standard shortest-path algorithms, then correspond to degrees of similarity. Closely related items are separated by short path lengths, while increasingly dissimilar items require longer paths through the graph. It turns out that attempts to generalize metric spaces for noetic domains—to model noetic/psychic spaces—are actually pretty useful for social media algorithms, lol.

BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity

I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”

Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.

Bluesky mentions that here:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update

As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.

I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.

Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.

Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.

Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.

Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.

Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.

Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.

I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.

In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.

I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.

This can be modeled by representing each item as a node in a weighted graph, where edges are weighted by dissimilarity rather than similarity. Highly similar items are connected by low-weight edges, while less similar items are connected by higher-weight edges. Distances in the graph, computed using standard shortest-path algorithms, then correspond to degrees of similarity. Closely related items are separated by short path lengths, while increasingly dissimilar items require longer paths through the graph. It turns out that attempts to generalize metric spaces for noetic domains—to model noetic/psychic spaces—are actually pretty useful for social media algorithms, lol.

Astroturfing Is Pretty Pointless When Social Subgraphs Are Fragmented (e.g., the Fediverse)

I am seeing astroturfing in the fediverse again, by AT Protocol developers implicitly trying to shill their products. I think it is stochastic behavior by developers with too much time on their hands. Honestly, I do not care. I like the people on ActivityPub more, but I like the AT Protocol better, and I have developed for both. Astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is fascinating to me because it is so pointless.

I am actually a Computational Biologist and Computer Scientist whose specialty is combinatorics, social graphs, graph theory, etc. Specifically, I use this to create epidemiological models for the memetic layer of human behaviors that act as vectors for diseases, using the SIRS model. I do not just study germs; I study human behaviors.

The models I construct extend into a “memetic layer,” in which beliefs, norms, and behaviors (such as risk-taking, compliance with public health measures, or susceptibility to misinformation) spread contagiously through social networks. These behaviors function as vectors that modulate biological transmission rates. As a result, the spread of ideas can accelerate, dampen, or reshape the spread of disease. By running computational simulations and agent-based models on these graphs, I study how network structure, influential nodes, clustering, and platform-specific dynamics affect behavioral contagion. I also examine how these factors influence epidemiological outcomes.

To say it very concisely, I study how the spread of bat-shit insane beliefs, shit posts, and memes influences whether or not there is a measles outbreak in Texas. Ironically, this is an evolution of my studying semiotics, memetics, and chaos magick in high school. I got a job where I can use occult, anarchist techniques professionally.

I think a large reason why I do not care about astroturfing in the fediverse is that it’s so pointless, lol. Astroturfing to manipulate the narrative would actually work better on Bluesky to keep people there than trying to recruit from the fediverse. Furthermore, big instances are relatively small. Some people on Bluesky have follower lists larger than an entire large instance in the fediverse.

Within ActivityPub networks, astroturfing rarely propagates far, because whether information spreads depends on properties of the social graph itself. Dense connectivity, short paths between communities, and a sufficient number of cross-cutting ties support diffusion. ActivityPub’s architecture tends to produce graphs that are fragmented and highly modular. This limits the reach of coordinated activity.

ActivityPub is a system where each instance maintains its own local user graph and exchanges activities through inboxes and outboxes. This makes it autonomous and decentralized. The network consists of loosely connected subgraphs. Cross-instance edges appear only through explicit follow relationships. The ActivityPub protocol does not provide a shared or complete view of the network. Measurements of the fediverse consistently show uneven connectivity between instances, clustering at the instance level, and relatively long effective path lengths across the network. Under these conditions, large cascades are uncommon.

Instance-level clustering means that in ActivityPub networks, users interact much more with others on the same server than with users on different servers. Because each instance has its own local timeline, culture, and moderation, connections form densely within instances and only sparsely across them through explicit follow relationships. This creates a network made up of tightly connected local communities linked by relatively few cross-instance ties, which slows the spread of information beyond its point of origin.

However, with the AT Protocol, global indexing and aggregation are explicitly supported. Relays and indexers can assemble near-complete views of the social graph. Applications built on top of this infrastructure operate over a graph that is denser and easier to traverse. There are fewer structural barriers between communities. The diffusion dynamics change substantially when content can move across the graph without relying on narrow federated paths.

Astroturfing depends on coordinated amplification, typically through tightly synchronized clusters of accounts intended to manufacture visibility. Work on coordinated inauthentic behavior shows that these tactics gain traction when they intersect highly connected regions of the graph or bridge otherwise separate communities. In networks with strong modularity, coordination remains local. ActivityPub’s federation model produces this kind of modularity by default. Coordinated clusters stand out clearly within instances. Their effects remain confined to those local neighborhoods.

Astroturfing on ActivityPub therefore tends to stall on its own because of the underlying graph topology. Without dense inter-instance connectivity or any form of global indexing, coordinated campaigns have a hard time moving beyond the immediate regions where they originate. Systems built on globally indexable social graphs, including those enabled by the AT Protocol, expose a much larger surface for viral spread. Network structure and connectivity account for the divergence where that is independent of moderation, cultural norms, ideology, or intent.

It’s just really funny to me how these stochastic techbro groups waste so many resources. I personally don’t want to go viral, which is why I avoid platforms where I can. The fact that it’s harder to achieve high virality on ActivityPub is exactly why I prefer the fediverse over the Atmosphere. One way to think about it is that you can change the ‘genetics’ of a system with a retrovirus, where memetic entities act as cultural retroviruses to reprogram the cultural loci of a space. That is their end goal. They are trying to hijack cultures memetically. You see this a lot with culture jamming.

Basically, the astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is designed to jam and subvert the culture. But, as I have already said, the topological structure makes memetic virality stall. They cannot achieve that kind of viral spread in the fediverse, which is why I cannot understand why they do this every year.

"#anarchists" who aren't also #communists give me a very bad vibe ngl

#anarchocommunism #antifa #antiauthority #classwar

Greek anarchist legal aid benefit

Vrankrijk, Amsterdam, vrijdag 12 december om 19:00 CET

Röt Stewart (be) / Nn17 (nl) / Crowbite (nl) / Dj Rengo Estar / Greek Anarchist Legal Aid Benefit

Friday Punk Night!! Voku 7-9pm & Gig 9pm-Late

The benefit is for comrades in Greece who are currently in an appeal procedure over incidents during the resquatting of Matrozou 45 and have been handed a 6.5 year sentence. The appeal trial is taking place on 02 December 2025. Initially the sentence was lower but the Greek state intervened and wanted to make an example of them and demanded the sentence handed out was more severe.

The four accused comrades were found guilty with a total sentence of 77 months for property damage and grievous bodily harm against the riot cops involved in the eviction.

All proceeds will go towards their ongoing trial costs. No squatters in prison!

• With Röt Stewart (be)
  Fast and ugly hardcore from Belgium

• NN17 (nl)
  Punk from the sewers of Amsterdam

• Crowbite (nl)
  Folk core punk from Amsterdam

• Dj Rengo Estar playing ska punk oi plus merch stands

• Date & Time:
  Friday, 12 December, 2025 - 19:00

• Price:
  3-5 €

👥 by Autonomia Promotions (source)

https://acties.todon.nl/event/greek-anarchist-legal-aid-benefit

A friend texted me this image. Great morning text to receive 🥰

#Antifascist #Anarchists #Feminists #Communists #Antifa #PowerpuffGirls

A friend texted me this image. Great morning text to receive 🥰

#Antifascist #Anarchists #Feminists #Communists #Antifa #PowerpuffGirls

A friend texted me this image. Great morning text to receive 🥰

#Antifascist #Anarchists #Feminists #Communists #Antifa #PowerpuffGirls

A friend texted me this image. Great morning text to receive 🥰

#Antifascist #Anarchists #Feminists #Communists #Antifa #PowerpuffGirls

The second, on which I'd particularly welcome feedback from #Anarchists and #Communists, is 'On #Communism':

#Anarchism

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2025-10-26-on-communism/

Looking forward to reading

Spanish Maritime Radicalism in the Americas 1875 - 1930.
https://www.akpress.org/spreading-rebellion.html
#CNT #directaction #frombelow #IWW #labourmovement #maritimeworkers #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory

Anarchists and Comrades At War Against the State in Spain, Myanmar and Rojava
https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html
#Anarchists #Burma #Myanmar #Catalonia #Rojava

#AKPress #BooksOfMastodon

Looking forward to reading

Spanish Maritime Radicalism in the Americas 1875 - 1930.
https://www.akpress.org/spreading-rebellion.html
#CNT #directaction #frombelow #IWW #labourmovement #maritimeworkers #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory

Anarchists and Comrades At War Against the State in Spain, Myanmar and Rojava
https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html
#Anarchists #Burma #Myanmar #Catalonia #Rojava

#AKPress #BooksOfMastodon

Looking forward to reading

Spanish Maritime Radicalism in the Americas 1875 - 1930.
https://www.akpress.org/spreading-rebellion.html
#CNT #directaction #frombelow #IWW #labourmovement #maritimeworkers #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory

Anarchists and Comrades At War Against the State in Spain, Myanmar and Rojava
https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html
#Anarchists #Burma #Myanmar #Catalonia #Rojava

#AKPress #BooksOfMastodon

Looking forward to reading

Spanish Maritime Radicalism in the Americas 1875 - 1930.
https://www.akpress.org/spreading-rebellion.html
#CNT #directaction #frombelow #IWW #labourmovement #maritimeworkers #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory

Anarchists and Comrades At War Against the State in Spain, Myanmar and Rojava
https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html
#Anarchists #Burma #Myanmar #Catalonia #Rojava

#AKPress #BooksOfMastodon

Whether it's #Antifa, #Anarchists, #Anonymous (the real one, not Q-Anon crappo), #Socialists, #Environmentalists, etc. -- seems to me that we're all fighting for the same thing! Getting rid of #Oligarchy / #Capitalism, ruling ourselves, and building a #sustainable life in harmony with Mother Earth and making adjustments for #ClimateChange (and preventing the problem from getting worse). And what is wrong with that? IMHO, nothing! Well, unless you're a billionaire / CEO / Oligarch!

#EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #Degrowth #Oiligarchy

Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression

How to Respond to Donald Trump’s Threats

#CrimethInc, 2025-09-18

"In a post on Truth Social yesterday, Donald #Trump declared that he is designating '#Antifa' as 'a major terrorist organization.' What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm? Everyone should read this guide.

"It’s always difficult to tell how seriously to take Trump’s performative declarations. He makes wild statements to see what plays to his audience, throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, and then doubles down wherever there is no pushback. But this time around, his administration has stuck very close to the classic fascist playbook, with one supporter going so far as to declare without any irony that the shooting of #CharlieKirk 'is the #AmericanReichstag fire.' The obvious next step in that playbook is to expand from targeting immigrants to go after #anarchists, #leftists, and other opponents of the #regime as well.

"Yes, Trump has previously declared that he would designate 'Antifa' a 'terrorist organization,' most famously at the outset of the #GeorgeFloydRevolt. But at that time, the rest of the federal government largely acted as a brake on his impulses — whereas today, the entire executive branch of the federal government is comprised of toadies and sycophants who are incapable of distinguishing their interests from his.

"Granted, there is no law authorizing the president to designate domestic terrorist organizations. But even without new legislation or an executive order, Trump has direct control over the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and other federal agencies. What he says on social media is probably indicative of what he will direct his underlings to do.

"The fact that 'Antifa' is not an organization at all, but rather a nebulous category that could include virtually anyone who disapproves of Trump’s #autocratic agenda, is convenient for Trump.

"This means that, regardless of who you are or what you do, you, too, could become a target. That’s why everyone should review the following suggestions, whether or not you think they apply to you. Rather than spreading panic, preparing ourselves in concrete ways will enable us to approach this situation calmly and effectively.

"While no 'domestic terror organization' designation currently exists — and nor does any obvious mechanism to establish one — far-right prosecutors already have a track record of groundlessly pressing trumped-up terrorism charges as a means of terrorizing activists and supporters of social movements. Trump has explicitly called for the use of #racketeering charges to suppress his critics. #FarRight Republican senators are already sponsoring a bill that would add rioting to the list of offenses that the Justice Department can use as part of a probe under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations [#RICO] Act.

"There are obvious precedents for how this might go. Two years ago, a wide range of defendants in #AtlantaGA were randomly charged under the RICO act as part of the repression of the #StopCopCity movement. The cases have been endlessly delayed—and earlier this month, a judge dismissed most of the charges on a technicality.

Under Donald Trump, many federal agencies are disorganized and focused chiefly on managing perceptions. This precisely describes the authorities who brought the haphazard RICO charges in #Georgia two years ago. If the trajectory of the Stop Cop City RICO case offers any indication of how other RICO persecutions of accused activists might go, the chief threat may not be that the crackdown Trump is calling for will send people to prison, but rather that the charges will discourage and immobilize people, creating the conditions for the Trump administration to eventually supersede this form of repression with something worse.

"It remains to be seen how seriously the administration will carry out Trump’s threats, and whether they will start by attacking #grassroots groups or proceed from the top down, targeting massive liberal institutions and fundraising platforms. In either case, our long-term prospects will depend on whether we can enable large numbers of people to act in solidarity with each other, taking up the kind of grassroots direct action tactics that can be effective regardless of whether the people who control the state wish to listen.

"We all live in Atlanta now.

"Here are some steps you can take to protect yourself and your community, proceeding from the immediate to the general."

Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/09/18/make-ready-safeguarding-our-movements-against-repression-how-to-respond-to-donald-trumps-threats

#SolidarityIsPower #Solidarity #Authoritarianism #TrumpIsAFascist #NoDAPL #Resistance #SilencingDissent #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #ResistICE #ResistFascism

Sunday 31 August 2025

BASE #Bristol – #Easton – 14 Robertson Road – BS5 6JY

18:00 Food
19:00 Talk

The International Week of Solidarity with #Anarchist Prisoners[1] takes
place every year between 23-30 August to commemorate the murders of the
Haymarket martyrs in Chicago, 1886, who died for freedom, labour rights
and dignity.

This year at BASE we’re holding a fund-raising dinner and letter writing
event along with a talk by ex-prisoner Toby Shone.

Two years since Toby was snatched[2] for attending an International Week
of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners letter writing event at BASE,
he’s back. The Counter Terror Police South-West and the National
Security Division couldn’t keep our comrade out of our arms for long.

Too many #anarchists and #activists remain behind bars. Everywhere the
authorities are cracking down against dissent and protest. When freedom
is outlawed, only outlaws will be free!

Vegan food. Fundraiser for the
Anarchist Defence Fund[3].

If Solidarity is Terrorism Then We Are All Terrorists!

Fire to the Prisons!

[1] https://solidarity.international/
[2] https://thebristolcable.org/2024/08/bristol-anarchist-community-centre-under-surveillance-counter-terror-police-anarchist-locked-up-for-visiting/
[3] https://afund.info/

PROTECT THE #PROTEST
THE #SOLIDARITY WAVE

What to do if someone does something you don't like:

1. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
We're all here for the same cause. There is no legal requirement to alert police to potentially illegal activity.

2. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE
If someone’s behavior raises your risk level beyond what you're comfortable with, leave the situation and head to a safer space.

3. ASK FOR SUPPORT .
If someone’s behavior raises your risk level and you're unable to leave, ask for support from the people around you or see if the person is able to accommodate your needs.

4. RESPECT DIVERSE TACTICS
Engage with curiosity about people who do things differently from you. What motivates them to be courageous in the face of police violence?

5. KEEP COMRADES INVISIBLE
If someone needs to blend into the crowd quickly, help them. Learn about de-arresting and support people who are being targeted. Together, we can be powerful, strategic, and united.

#SolidarityWave #EffectiveProtest #PeoplePower #Gelderloos #NoKings #NoKingsEvents #ResistFascism #DontSnitch #PeterCoyote #Anarchists #AuthoritarianRule