Notices by maloki 🍵 (maloki@elekk.xyz), page 16

@Are0h It absolutely never has. It's never meant anything except permission to hoard resources and do violence without any accountability.

When the term "white" was first used to define a group of people in a U.S. legal document in 1705, one of the first privileges it provided was that "non-whites" could no longer testify against people categorized as "white" in court. Whiteness was explicitly defined by law as a free pass for violence and greed, and that's never changed.

What is one thing you would tell your younger self? — "You are beautiful and magnificent, even if you can't see it now, even if people tell you otherwise. They are afraid of the wonder of what you will become, don't listen to them… https://curiouscat.me/MissFayeSummers/post/861259767?t=1556483103

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@polymerwitch I mean, birdsite admitted they COULD get rid of the white nationalists, but it would take down other conservatives with them... HMM I WONDER WHY

tired: men who go on the offensive if it's even implied they have emotions that might be influencing their thoughts, actions, or statements

wired: men who aren't so insecure as to respond to this toot with #NotAllMen

(checkmate 😜)

Happy #FineFemmeFriday!

So I don't think we (we being broadly, white people) DO have a concept that can translate "spirit animal." But that's okay! I put "problem" in quotes because I don't think it's inherently bad if one culture can't use or translate the concepts of another culture, and in fact, I think it's bad if a culture that has done so much damage to another culture attempts the forcible assimilation (and lets face it, commodification) of the attacked cultures ideas. So in short, if you're white or otherwise not indigenous to the Americas, and you really like an animal, just say "I really like this animal." or even, "I see a metaphor for my life and struggles in what this animal does." but do NOT say "they are my spirit animal"

I feel one of the "problems" we keep running into, with discussions of spirit animals, is that white people really DON'T have anything like spirit animals in their cultures. We can talk about patronus', or daemons, or in some dark corners of the web, fursonas, but all of these lack the spiritual gravitas and register of discussing specifically spirit animals. Familiars are an interesting parallel, but it's worth noting that we only know about them through condemnations of witchcraft, we don't know if anyone practiced a spirituality centered around identifying with animals in the west except through the mouths of accusations of a bestial nature to magic and magic users. In most European writing I've come across about these things, the metaphor is almost wholly negative. It is about how the person who shares traits with animals is LESS than human.

So spirit animals came up, which means it's always a good time to remember that people who aren't indigenous to the Americas don't HAVE spirit animals, that there is more or less no tradition of worshipping and spiritually identifying with the spirits of animals in the European imagination, and that it is grossly cruel and inappropriate, considering the European invasion of and ongoing genocide of the American peoples, for European descended people to make claim to Indigenous spirituality

We clearly have an issue with the person behind the bot and the womenarestupid dot com site.

IDK how easy this person is finding it to make profiles across multiple instances, but we here at PV have a closed registration/invite basis for our instance. Im NOT saying you should do the same but we should really be mindful of who is joining our instances.
As a mod, I don't have ALL the answers to this. But I know for a fact
We need to nip this in the bud.

Speaking of crows, friendly reminder that survival of the fittest doesn’t mean strongest, crows keep on by keepin together

I think we might have been spotted

I want everyone to know spoons is code for energy, is code for the basic needs of a human being that can’t manage their whole life on their own for whatever reasons, is code for “waiter there’s a problem with my soup”, is code for “i feel like i may die if i pretend i’m safe when i’m not”

spoons means i had better find a utensil or a food or a kitchen or a lodging that cares about me and my health because as it is it’s like you’re asking me to eat the soup and there’s no spoon 🥄

I hate having to do this, but I've done a full month of work and haven't been paid. The extra expense of travelling to work has left me with £14 in the bank, with direct debits due to come out on Monday.

I can't get an answer on when I'll be paid, so I'm in line for bank fees for rejected direct debits through no fault of my own.

I assumed I'd get paid, so I've budgeted on that basis and I'm in trouble. Please can anyone help?

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Hi everyone! I just finished creating a set of queer pride emojis, and am happy to announce the Queer Flags and Hearts Emoji Set v1.0. It can be downloaded here: https://nc.klisglitch.space/s/T4W2cYeXoXWcaz2 ! Lemme know what you think, and if you like it, please consider donating to me!