fruit springsteen

I read once, passingly, about a man named Shakespeare. I only read about him passingly, but I remember one thing he wrote that kind of moved me

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

Safer in the Streets, drawing from protest and direct action vets who have my trust (even once snatched me back from violent cops) & imo deserve yours, have released a handy best practices guide.
https://t.co/3NUtJeyyLE

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

@Meltingpootis @loud_socialist Could you not…finish the sentence? Was it too long?

https://t.co/QOiziRZ3D9

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

don’t know how you act like it’s simple “right-wing” sloganeering and hooliganism. Your ruling coalition is making thousands of arrests to defend immoral and illegal acts by a Labour government, your state broadcaster engages in anti-Muslim chicanery! A portrait of a sick society

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

As tonights UK pogroms — focused in Belfast & stolen counties but reported elsewhere in Scotland & England — take a undeniable racist bent, seems like cowardice to not tie them to the murderous anti-Muslim climate pushed by the Starmer government. Both British wings are flapping

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Just been speaking to a Muslim sister in Belfast. She tells me she knows of a dozen families, mainly Muslim whose homes have been targeted. Masked men checking cars for non-white people and knocking on doors where they know there are minority families and smashing their windows.

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

But if our image & personhood is something of -- a widely held gut reaction -- intrinsic importance, value, and that dignity (and perhaps privacy) is tied to a sense of *self-possesion*, is there a renegotiation we need, that markers of inauthenticity don't abrogate higher values

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

fascinating angle is Texas was lobbied by civil libertarians (whom make some interesting points sans a larger framework for dignity) to define deep fake mediavideos *and then* ban the affirmative defense of disclosure or inauthenticity if its 'sexual' while allowing it if not.

[Reagan Reese @reaganreese_]

NEW: The Trump-aligned org Citizens for Sanity is dropping a six-figure ad buy in the Texas Senate race.

The ad is a 15 second clip of AI-generated James Talarico singing a "trans kids" rendition of “Favorite Things."

Obtained first by @DailyCaller:

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

Not a rhetorical question to me! Active point of social debate we should discuss directly. In this example, JibJab did have significant effects on two political elections in this century. It uses your face! Parody, pathos, entertainment, hyperbole all effective persuasive tools

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

I am not saying this lightly or provocatively but when you seriously consider how painful life can be, the all-but-unspeakable losses & personal suffering, you actually wonder why EVERYONE is not self-medicating.
I did not have that thought until mid-life; it was not a thought I could have entertained in younger years when I believed more in self-sufficiency, strength of will.
some people overestimate their strength- it can be quite a surprise when life knocks you flat.

[dolphin @pwhlharkness]

what happened in the gayborhood today was unacceptable. there were police tasing people to the ground and then chasing people back with their tasers. the gayborhood is supposed to be a safe space for the queer people of philadelphia and it was the opposite today

[dolphin @pwhlharkness]

well philly pride was fun today except for the $12 entry fee at the parkway pride and the cops tasing and tackling everyone when we tried to just go to the gayborhood

[Leila @leilafarroww]

@maddddddigray No fr I was there. Yelling at everyone and pushing, glad I brought my camera

[maddi jo @maddddddigray]

happy pride! a bunch of cops in riot gear just showed up to the gayborhood in riot gear swiveling their batons saying “party’s over” and “if you don’t leave there will be no mercy”!! they have everyone on 13th street kettled!!! it was terrifying and horrible

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

The set money on fire machine

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

Oh my god does PPD have its fucking helicopter out again

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

The most predictable thing ever but no support // no politicization. Feels very like self-satisfied Xennials not just cashing but giving up

[fruit springsteen @prismxp]

actually insane the way the PPD is sweeping up and sweeping out Black queers having fun in the gayborhood (which belongs to them as much as anyone else and is the point of having pride in our neighborhood despite real estate speculation) bc they were abandoned by the Parkway move