#pacifist — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/01/esther-cohen-poet-laureate. Only #Trump supporting #Republicans could fire this woman - a #pacifist - on the grounds that she supported #violence, @DoomsdaysCW. What was their #evidence? Yes, she opposed Trump & voted, & campaigned for, Zohran #Mamdani. Was that supposed to be "violent"?

I might give this a go. For as much as I love chess, I can't bear the shame of losing and quickly implode. I'm better off at encouraging absolute beginners, at this rate.

PACIFIST CHESS
These non-violent rules may be applied to any form of Chess.
There are no captures. Pieces are converted.
https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/pacifist-chess

#pacifist #chess

In light of today's news, reminder that I'm a #pacifist opposed to all use of lethal weapons, from nuclear warheads down to handguns.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/dare-to-disarm-29add7b6cc4a?sk=97a86f01eb9ca427063774ff79704dd2

Just updated my Profile:

Experienced #gamer with a strong passion for strategy, tactics, stealth and #retrogames. Also a dedicated #GNU #Linux enthusiast with a deep interest in #opensource software and #free platforms.

I believe #gaming is more than just entertainment, it's a way to challenge the mind, boost creativity, and explore new perspectives.

🌱#Vegan 🕊️#Pacifist 🖱️#LinuxGamer
💻#OpenSource 🛠️#FOSS :b90gruene:#Gruene
:piraten:#Piraten 🧠#Freethinker 🧘#Mindfulness
🌍#Sustainability 🔒#DigitalPrivacy

Wish you all a good evening, and a good start to the week ✌🏻

Last night, I woke up screaming from a nightmare. This morning, my spouse informed me that we are at #war with #Iran. Coincidence, as humans do horrible things to each other every day. (And I've been taking medication to reduce my nightmares that stem from this.)

In any case, I normally avoid news and social media on Saturdays, but I make exceptions for major events like this.

Reminder that I am a #pacifist opposed to the intentional killing of anyone, for any reason.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/is-pacifism-a-privilege-b6d56b932711?sk=82a375ab1bdd313ac2d2c03ba8a4922b

If war isn’t radicalizing us to radical action, then nothing is going to point us toward living out our purpose on this planet.

https://buttondown.com/impureleftist/archive/wartime-reading

#iran #war #wartime #reading #writersofmastodon #newsletter #trump #uspol #israel #worldpol #politics #politicalactivism #activism #activist #peace #pacifist #radical

She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods & used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society & was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography & president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Born in poverty in Ireland, her mother left her father & 🧵2

I'm a #pacifist, but have no problem with people damaging property for a good cause. Maybe I'm a hypocrite for not doing so myself, but as a #Black transmasculine person, I feel highly vulnerable and don't expect I'd survive an encounter with the police, or jail without being raped or worse.

Those who can take that risk, I urge you to do so. General strike, whatever it takes. Rallies have their place, but I feel we need more than that at this point to turn things around.

(3/4)

#BlackMastodon

If #Trump attacks #Iran,will
#Meloni allow him using US military bases in #Italy?
This is what happened w/ #Iraq: Italy's #pacifist #Constitution (Art. 11)was totally bypassed:"the largest air drop since WWII",US diplomats wrote,"we got what we asked for"
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03ROME2045_a.html

Today's = 1st 🎂 of article in International Affairs articulating #pacifist critique of reactions to Russian invasion of #Ukraine ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275 #nonviolence #pacifism #war #Russia #militarism

Summary: 1/ asks whether military path worse than coordinated mass
#nonviolent civil disobedience 2/ exposes 2 ingrained assumptions (on efficacy of #violence, & violence in 'human nature') 3/ reflects on how war transforms agents of violence & entrenches 'warism'/militarism

As I have stated often, I am a #pacifist opposed to all firearms and all deliberate killing of others, police and military included. I don't believe in "war crimes" because to me, war itself is a crime.

All the bigotry and hatred spewed by #Trump last year, including on Christmas Day, upset me. But it also made me decide to try harder to embody and project peace and kindness, rather than reacting with more hatred. I want an end to the violence, and that starts with me.

#USPol

New year, time for a new #introduction.

I'm a queer Black #trans (agender/transmasculine) #vegan #pacifist, freelance writer/blogger, long-time #Wikipedia editor, and #SanFrancisco resident.

If you like my writing, please follow me at https://funcrunch.org/blog, where I share my stories about gender, social justice, veganism, and other topics.

I'm also on #Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/funcrunch

#BlackMastodon

I'm also derided for my #pacifist stance, being told that this is a privileged position and that Black and trans people like myself need to take up arms against oppression.

The amount of violence and hatred in the world is becoming too much for me to cope with. I feel there's nowhere on Earth I fit in at this point.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/is-pacifism-a-privilege-b6d56b932711?sk=82a375ab1bdd313ac2d2c03ba8a4922b

#pacifism

Reminder that #RemembranceDay is coming up, and there's plenty of time to buy #WhitePoppies from the Peace Pledge Union.

🛒 https://shop.ppu.org.uk/collections/frontpage

The #WhitePoppy has been worn in the run-up to Remembrance Day for over ninety years, as a symbol of remembrance and peace.

#peace #pacifism #pacifist #heddwch #SayNoToWar #PacifistNotPassive

☮ 🕊

This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac070

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.

This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac070

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.

This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac070

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.

This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac070

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.

This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac070

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.

#SanaeTakaichi also favors revising Japan's #pacifist postwar constitution & suggested this year that Japan could form a "quasi-security alliance" with #Taiwan, the democratically governed island claimed by #China.

“Takaichi is a very experienced politician. She has had some experience working in the US as well, a long-term observer of US - #Japan relations, so that's her strength,”said Yuka Hayashi, VP at The Asia Group in DC.

#geopolitics #Japan #Asia #AsiaPacific #conservative #nationalism

were all the same.” She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods for structure & used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society & was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography & president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

🧵2/

For the record, I'm a #pacifist and opposed to all use of #firearms, by anyone, anywhere.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/is-pacifism-a-privilege-b6d56b932711?sk=82a375ab1bdd313ac2d2c03ba8a4922b

To clarify, I am a #pacifist opposed to the use of all bombs, firearms, and other lethal weapons.

(Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall)

https://funcrunch.medium.com/is-pacifism-a-privilege-b6d56b932711?sk=82a375ab1bdd313ac2d2c03ba8a4922b

The pacifism movement and the vegan movement are greatly intertwined, and veganism could be seen as the ultimate peace movement. This article looks into this intersection. 🕊💚 #intersectionality #intersection #peace #pacifist #vegan 

Veganism and the Peace Movemen...

The pacifism movement and the vegan movement are greatly intertwined, and veganism could be seen as the ultimate peace movement. This article looks into this intersection. 🕊💚 #intersectionality #intersection #peace #pacifist #vegan 

Veganism and the Peace Movemen...

Nguyễn Quyền (1869–1941) was a #Vietnamese #scholar & #AntiColonial #revolutionary #activist who advocated independence from #French #colonial rule. He was a contemporary of Phan Bội Châu & Phan Chu Trinh & one of Tonkin Free School's founders.

"The more I read the more I become aware that the things we studied, our examination system, were wrong – indeed the real reasons for our having lost our country. From that point on I was determined to seize upon our country's literature and on modern learning to awaken our citizenry."

Quyen advocated the modernisation of Vietnam's #education system. Around 1903 or 1904, Quyen met Tang Bat Ho, who had returned from his travels abroad & talked extensively about the modernisation of Japan. In 1904 he met with Phan Bội Châu, but Quyen had little in common with Chau's ideology of using violence to achieve independence. Quyen went on the work with Lương Văn Can & Le Dai in setting up the Dong Kinh Thuc Nghia, which sought to strengthen the Vietnamese people & thereby the likelihood of independence through the training of a new, more modern generation of scholars.

In 1908, Quyen was arrested in a general crackdown by French authorities and sent to jail on Côn Lôn island. He died in the prison which was infamous for torturing political prisoners.

Ref: Marr, David G. (1970). Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885–1925. Berkeley: University of California. ISBN 0-520-01813-3.

#AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseRevolutionaries #ColonialResistance #Pacifist #VietnameseHistory #AsianHistory #Educator #SouthEastAsia #Viet #Geopolitics #LongLiveVietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #LearnHistory #TootSEA #FrenchColonialism #Indochina

She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods & used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society & was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography & president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Born in poverty in Ireland, her mother left her father & 🧵2

Happy New Year and hope it only brings a few tears. 🥂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aejRd0U_kL4 🎵

#HappyNewYear #NewYear
#NewYearsEve #NYE #NewYearsDay #Peace #PeaceForTheNewYear #MayPeacePrevail #PeaceInPalestine #NoMoreWar #NoMoreGenocide #NewYearsWish #NewYearsResolution #HappyNewYears #2025newyear #newyear2025 #twentytwentyfive #Hope #Wish #Manifestations #AntiWar #EndTheWars #NoMoreWars #WorldPeace #Pacifist #Socialist #Socialism #Caring #PeaceEconomy #FreePalestine #DoveOfPeace #HappyHolidays #Celebrate

📢 Today = 2nd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/66

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.

This deserves wide distribution
@votevets has made an excellent video about #TFG at #Arlington & his abysmal contempt for #Veterans

I'm a Christian #pacifist & So Sick of pols gleefully sending our (poor) people to war & then dodging responsibility for the ones who don't get all the way killed

You wanna #SupportTheTroops? Start by voting in people who aren't trying to privatize the #VA

https://youtu.be/LMrK2Zw4bgc?si=kYBmC4N9s8fc0cKZ

National Service: pacifists are already fighting back against plans
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/05/26/national-service-pacifists-general-election/

#NationalService
#Conscription
#Pacifists
#Pacifist
#Tories
#GE2024
#PeacePledgeUnion
#PPU
#Cleverly
#WarResistersInternational
#WRI
#InternationalConscientiousObjectorsDay

National Service: pacifists are already fighting back against plans
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/05/26/national-service-pacifists-general-election/

#NationalService
#Conscription
#Pacifists
#Pacifist
#Tories
#GE2024
#PeacePledgeUnion
#PPU
#Cleverly
#WarResistersInternational
#WRI
#InternationalConscientiousObjectorsDay

National Service: pacifists are already fighting back against plans
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/05/26/national-service-pacifists-general-election/

#NationalService
#Conscription
#Pacifists
#Pacifist
#Tories
#GE2024
#PeacePledgeUnion
#PPU
#Cleverly
#WarResistersInternational
#WRI
#InternationalConscientiousObjectorsDay

National Service: pacifists are already fighting back against plans
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/05/26/national-service-pacifists-general-election/

#NationalService
#Conscription
#Pacifists
#Pacifist
#Tories
#GE2024
#PeacePledgeUnion
#PPU
#Cleverly
#WarResistersInternational
#WRI
#InternationalConscientiousObjectorsDay

National Service: pacifists are already fighting back against plans
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/05/26/national-service-pacifists-general-election/

#NationalService
#Conscription
#Pacifists
#Pacifist
#Tories
#GE2024
#PeacePledgeUnion
#PPU
#Cleverly
#WarResistersInternational
#WRI
#InternationalConscientiousObjectorsDay

https://punnypeak.com/sans-puns/
" "Why did Sans go to the dentist?

To get a BONEless smile! #Sans #Puns #DentalJokes #Undertale #Pacifist #SansxDentist #ComicSans #FunnyBone #SkeletonHumor"

Contrary to the #ColdWarrior #PopeJohnPaulII,who made the #HolySee a U.S. ally in the #ColdWar and in the #WarOnTerror,#PopeFrancis has an uncompromising #pacifist stance on the #Ukraine and #Gaza wars

(Italian)

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2024/03/10/il-papa-a-kiev-serve-coraggio-bandiera-bianca-per-salvarsi/7474412/

Happy birthday to Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) who solved a longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene, here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene explore shape in different forms. Her husband said, “Before prison it might have bothered her to go to Buckingham Palace. Afterwards, Holloway or Buckingham Palace were all the same.” She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. 🧵1/

Some of us understand “God” as a symbol of human values and some of us avoid the concept while accepting it as significant to others. We differ greatly in our religious experience and in the meaning we give religious terms.

We are not a pressure group trying to move Quakerism toward nontheism. We bless what our theist brothers and sisters bring to Quaker meetings and worship. All Friends have much to learn from each other. We hope to strengthen the Quaker tradition of welcoming people of diverse religious experience and to show by example that this can include nontheists.

She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. She was the 1st to employ Fourier spectral methods & used them to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene in ‘31. In ‘45 she was one of the 1st 2 women elected Fellow of the Royal Society & was the 1st woman: tenured professor at UC London, president of the International Union of Crystallography & president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

🧵2/n

Roguelike Celebration Talks Start Tomorrow!
Ah, it
https://setsideb.com/roguelike-celebration-starts-tomorrow/
#play #indies #niche #retro #roguelike #play #2023 #ai #alphaman #asphynx #backpackhero #banishedvault #blaseball #cavesofqud #datascience #dos #geologicalfinitudes #heatsignature #hobbits #indie #jefferyolson #klingons #larp #loveisland #mcmansions #music #nethack #niche #oregontrail #pacifist #puzzles #retro #riddles #roguelike #roguelikecelebration #spryfox #sudoku #textgames

Roguelike Celebration Talks Start Tomorrow!
Ah, it
https://setsideb.com/roguelike-celebration-starts-tomorrow/
#play #indies #niche #retro #roguelike #play #2023 #ai #alphaman #asphynx #backpackhero #banishedvault #blaseball #cavesofqud #datascience #dos #geologicalfinitudes #heatsignature #hobbits #indie #jefferyolson #klingons #larp #loveisland #mcmansions #music #nethack #niche #oregontrail #pacifist #puzzles #retro #riddles #roguelike #roguelikecelebration #spryfox #sudoku #textgames

Roguelike Celebration Talks Start Tomorrow!
Ah, it
https://setsideb.com/roguelike-celebration-starts-tomorrow/
#play #indies #niche #retro #roguelike #play #2023 #ai #alphaman #asphynx #backpackhero #banishedvault #blaseball #cavesofqud #datascience #dos #geologicalfinitudes #heatsignature #hobbits #indie #jefferyolson #klingons #larp #loveisland #mcmansions #music #nethack #niche #oregontrail #pacifist #puzzles #retro #riddles #roguelike #roguelikecelebration #spryfox #sudoku #textgames

Roguelike Celebration Talks Start Tomorrow!
Ah, it
https://setsideb.com/roguelike-celebration-starts-tomorrow/
#play #indies #niche #retro #roguelike #play #2023 #ai #alphaman #asphynx #backpackhero #banishedvault #blaseball #cavesofqud #datascience #dos #geologicalfinitudes #heatsignature #hobbits #indie #jefferyolson #klingons #larp #loveisland #mcmansions #music #nethack #niche #oregontrail #pacifist #puzzles #retro #riddles #roguelike #roguelikecelebration #spryfox #sudoku #textgames

Roguelike Celebration Talks Start Tomorrow!
Ah, it
https://setsideb.com/roguelike-celebration-starts-tomorrow/
#play #indies #niche #retro #roguelike #play #2023 #ai #alphaman #asphynx #backpackhero #banishedvault #blaseball #cavesofqud #datascience #dos #geologicalfinitudes #heatsignature #hobbits #indie #jefferyolson #klingons #larp #loveisland #mcmansions #music #nethack #niche #oregontrail #pacifist #puzzles #retro #riddles #roguelike #roguelikecelebration #spryfox #sudoku #textgames

📢Today also = 1st 🎂of my article in @ISQ_Jrnl
presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/66/4/sqac070/6748234

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism

#introduction

I fight for the users.

I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.

I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.

I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.

I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.

I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.

I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.

I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.

I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.

I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.

I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.

I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).

I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.

I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.

I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.

I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.

Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we call Tyoma.

I'm currently working at Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc. on FOSH assistive consumer electronics.

I'm sober.

#users #fightforusers #userrights #programming #thinking #thinkingaboutthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #neuroscience #journalism #science #scientificprocess #peerreview #foss #fosh #flosh #floss #freeandopensource #freedomsoftware #libresoftware #copyleft #gpl #agpl #mozilla #license #ls #academia #privacy #security #democracy #internet #socialnetwork #distributed #cnc #3dprinting #locallabor #localmanufacturing #coop #workerowned #democracyatwork #regulation #laws #money #corporations #government #socialagreement #boycott #controlcapital #nonviolent #pacifist #antivolence #antigun #noguns #schoolshooting #antiwar #plantbased #vegan #climatecrisis #animalindustry #animalcruelty #extinction #animal #plant #ecosystem #environment #retinituspigmentosa #rp #agerelatedmaculardegeneration #amd #blind #lowvision #bci #games #computergames #ageofempires #rimworld #gamedev #music #bassguitar #rageagainstthemachine #enya #religion #reading #books #readingbooks #buddhism #baby #sober

James #Cameron has destroyed what could have been the movie of the decade by drowning its beauty in a never-ending flood of #sexist clichés, dumb dialogues, and openly anti-#pacifist war rhetoric. #Avatar #TheWayOfWater #sexism #genderstereotypes #pacifism

So four #Oscars for "All Quiet on the Western Front", one for #Navalny and none for #Ukraine. Of course, there are many possible views on this, but with the first being a #pacifist drama and the second a #documentary about a rather #dubious #Russian, I do wonder what on earth was on the jury's mind. Back to normal as soon as possible? Genocide just a spot of bother? Don't want to get used to the idea of a nation defending itself?

A page filled with #sketches of #Hane, an #AirUser. He was a #pacifist and #vegetarian (and a hypocryt, because he put aside his pacifism when it suited him). I never really liked writing about him. We all have characters we like less, and he was mine.

I only like the 2nd and 5th sketch. The first one... let's just say profiles are really hard to draw.

References: @AdorkaStock

#anime #chibi #cute #fantasy #kawaii #magic #manga #oc #prettygirl #sketch #wip #漫画 #アニメ #イラスト #可愛い #sketchtember