Kiran Opal @KiranOpal@mastodon.social

This is what's popping off in Canada right now. Solidarity with everyone resisting. Fuck "Canada 150." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/teepee-erected-in-ceremony-on-parliament-hill-after-opposition-from-police-1.4183202

Any machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.

@KiranOpal the CW function is in the paperclip menu!

@KiranOpal in the sidebar that appears when you swipe right from the left side of the screen. also, if you're fiddling around with settings there is an option to export/import settings.

Imagine being a human being who believes they're a slave to the instincts of our primordial ancestors

Imagine thinking "It's natural to be racist, because humans are hard-coded through evolution to be suspicious of people different than them. It's a survival instinct."

How tragic it must be to think that your mind is developed enough to recognize and understand these cognitive biases, but not developed enough to overcome them

If you think Mastodon should allow you to set up aliases so that you can join multiple instances using the same profile (just as you set up Gmail to look like it is using your work email address), then add your support to this feature request: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3796

@PoojaSlays To paraphrase the words of Sojourner Truth, 'Ain't women from the Global South women too?'

If the answer is yes, and it's obviously yes, I think liberal feminism is oxymoronic. As a cis man I don't think it's my place to tell liberal women to not use it, but I think a good argument could be made that they have no right to so long as they aren't anti-imperialism.

@TransCommunist being a Marxist means constantly being at war with who you were two days ago, and it's also liberating coming out the other side

"mastodon is dead" directly translates to "i don't see a way to monetize my presence here" in shithead speak

#introduction

I'm someone who is extremely disillusioned lately with the world but can't seem to stop caring about it despite this. Socialist, supporter of healthcare, education and housing for all.

It depresses me that we don't have to have the system that we have (it's created by us after all) but no one seems to be able to do anything to change it. I try to remain hopeful about the future but its really hard.

Big animal rescue person and cat person.

If you're sad here's a photo of Fidel with a little bear.
https://mastodon.social/media/Bx21pr95fIIsHNQWTTE

keep in mind that everybody is problematic at first because the society we're born into indoctrinates us with problematic ideas and passes them off as "normal" by making them blend into the background of our everyday lives. the challenge is identifying our problematic beliefs and behaviors and doing better lol

The fucking US embargo on Cuba is fucking deadly and one of the biggest shits that pissed me off is Trump reassuring his buddies that their Cuban cigars will be fine. WHO IN THE FUCK ARE YOU? I WILL SHOVE THAT CUBAN CIGAR SO FAR UP YOUR ASS YOURE GOING TO FEEL IT POKING AT YOUR HEART UNTIL IT STOPS

don't say a site is dead if it's just morning because:
1. if you say that, people will actually think its dead instead of just morning
2. if people think its dead, they will leave
3. if people leave, then it will ACTUALLY be dead

i like this site, please don't encourage people to leave

"Power causes brain damage" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/?utm_source=atlfb