Notices by Kit O'Connell (kitoconnell@anticapitalist.party)

BREAKING: @jk Rowling announces Mastodon Boop Sound is actually gay.

Did we already make this joke ages ago?

“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a bunny in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.”

https://anticapitalist.party/media/4S0ToAiDmfZQJ6heSsM

Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing. -- Ursula K. Le Guin (stolen off Tumblr via M. Christian & others)

Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. ... (Ursula Le Guin, Con'td Next)

Heather Heyer's Mom: I Have To Hide Her Grave From The Nazis http://thebea.st/2AowJWG?source=twitter&via=desktop #Antifa

A Century Later, a Little-Known Mass Hanging of Black Soldiers Still Haunts Us http://progressive.org/dispatches/a-century-later-a-little-known-mass-hanging-of-black-soldier/

#History #Racism #BlackLivesMatter

By all means express your displeasure about Patreon, but please keep supporting creators and please keep actually engaging with our work.

Like I'd like to see as many toots about creators creations as we're seeing about how much Patreon sucks.

Hackers discover that, yup, Amazon Key is as bD an idea as we all initially thought. 🤔

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-key-flaw-let-deliverymen-disable-your-camera/

Publishing Industry, January: Democracy depends on a free press! Support us & support our journalists!

Publishing industry, November: Our shareholders depend on layoffs. Quickly, fire everyone who can string two sentences together.