A colonial, rationalist, or white understanding of technology generally prevents many of us from seeing the great intelligence held by all the peoples around us.

https://twitter.com/samdknowlton/status/1669707663528312832

A note on terminology. Cops, landlords, millionaires, and politicians are not people. Beavers, trees, and ponds are people.
If you would talk to a cop or a politician and not to a pond, you're a fuckin idiot.

The fires in Quebec are raging in tree plantations that get counted as carbon offsets.
To the millions being evacuated or choking on the toxic smoke: anything you do against those responsible for greenwashing is legitimate self-defense. A forest is a complex, resilient ecosystem. It's also vulnerable to climate change, but Canada doesn't actually have much forest. It is mostly tree plantations, which are more similar to a monocrop desert than to a forest, and much more prone to catastrophic burns.
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Visca la revolta dels Segadors!
In a project for rebellious memory with @Col_lectiuBauma and @SegadoresEd we celebrated 7 June as el dia de la insurrecció, Insurrection Day!
(Thread on memory, rebellion, and joyful celebration!) The 7th was the beginning of an anti-clerical, anti-rich, anti-monarchist, and anti-militarist uprising by Catalan peasants and urban laborers (the revolt was eventually coopted by the Catalan bourgeoisie and French monarchy).
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Also, anarchists: scientists, stop addressing yourselves to the State. All states have been ecocidal. They are taking you for a ride. Lend your resources and platforms to those of us risking our lives to stop this machine.
For decades, they haven't listened and now it's too late.

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1666300852863221760

In case any scientists are interested in some of the movement research backing this up
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akpress.org/worshipingpowe…

We should be immensely worried that the people with the most power to sculpt the social architecture of the next decades promote the same kinds of pseudo-science used to justify slavery and segregation.

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1647644010104901633

Yann might be surprised to learn that the brain in fact contains no wires at all. It's not hardwired to do anything.
This is why the study of discourse matters. Because how research is framed *will affect the data;
petergelderloos.substack.com/p/thats-not-wh…

Re the #LACityCouncil a brief thought on some emerging dangers of #antiBlackness.

Anglo whiteness is particularly self-referential, unable to recognize the codes of other histories of whiteness. For example anglos read all latines as non-white.
1/ The xenophobia with which anglo whites try to racialize latine whites is real and harmful, but it is also real that white latines, whether in the US or farther south, have access to powerful, genocidal modes and histories of whiteness and settlerness.
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The technology debate
Or why claiming to be pro- or anti-tech is nonsensical.

An anecdote: This wall has probably been standing here for close to 2000 years.
1/ Due to the forcible impoverishment and depopulation of the countryside carried out by the State with accelerating vigor in the 19th and 20th centuries, there were fewer hands and resources to maintain the wall. Over the decades, some stones fell out.
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News flash: The lion is not the King of the Jungle.

1. Lions live in the savanna. If there is a lion in a jungle, he has probably taken a wrong turn.
2. Historically, jungles are hostile to absentee rulers.
3. Lions are not practitioners of hereditary monarchy.
a/ 4. Lionesses have more influence in social decision-making than male lions.
5. There are no species in the jungle or savanna that swear fealty to lions, though sometimes particularly old and tired wildebeest will be seen to offer themselves up.
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All but the most bigoted of people in the political mainstream would suddenly see things clearly if Western media occasionally surveyed and interviewed Israelis. The level of explicit racism against Palestinians surpasses what US whites would say publicly during segregation.
/ Antisemitism is a real problem, and the Israeli government is firmly on the side of antisemitism. They have long been political allies of rightwing fundamentalist Christian orgs in the US and the most antisemitic govts in Europe like Orban's Hungary.
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I want to make an apology to everyone for how I write. I've always expressed anger and love in my writing, but I've also cut out nearly all references to my life and experiences, reinforcing certain patriarchal patterns.
1/ I don't struggle (and write) because I'm a neutral observer who came to the rational conclusion that anarchism is the best, but because of my experiences in a patriarchal family, an abusive school, the psychiatric hospital, prison; because of seeing the forests and farmland
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As the world burns, it can be therapeutic to imagine throwing the wealthy on the fire and cackling as they writhe in the flames. (It's been a hard year, lay off). But there's a hitch: using monstrous tactics makes monsters of us.

*Anarchist ethics in the collapse*
1/ The fundamental idea of anarchist ethics is that means and ends are inseparable. But it goes beyond ethics. The idea that ends can justify the means is simplistic. It is a case of confusing the categories we use to parse reality with reality itself.
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Oh @GeorgeMonbiot you're soo close! This article is actually good, right up until the end, the classic pitfall of how do we solve this, where you fall into the delusional, magic wand solution of the 25% tipping point at which society spontaneously changes.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/… And what a perfect irony, the scientific study that supposedly backs up the idea of these magical tipping points is behind a pay wall.

My new book with @PlutoPress is out!
The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below.
Here's a short thread on what the book is all about, from the critiques of green capitalism to the interviews with effective movements!
plutobooks.com/9780745345116/… It's an anticolonial, anticapitalist critique of mainstream environmentalism, a window into some of the most effective and realistic movements right now, and an exploration of what an honest and comprehensive response to the ecological crisis would entail on a global scale.
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Every now and then a nutshell comes along, and they find a way to stuff it so full of unintentional social critique.
To wit, "we have found the cause to health problems harming hundreds of millions of people. We will now endeavor to treat the harm while leaving the cause intact." Scientists acknowledging that their institutions are incapable of effecting social change, so they will instead engage in slow and costly research to produce new instruments of intellectual property that will enrich some of the wealthiest corporations on the planet,
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So I'm getting bad-jacketed by Twitter marxists. Bad jacketing is when you spread rumors about someone to get them ostracized from the movement, and to cause infighting and suspicion. It was one of the most effective tactics the FBI against the movements of earlier generations
1/ destroying groups like AIM and the Black Panthers.
While it's much less common that people are getting killed over such rumors today, infighting, rumorology, and suspicion are frequent, serious problems today.
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I'm not the biggest fan of civil disodedience, so it came as a bit of a surprise that I started off my day sitting in front of a bulldozer. Okay it was a farmer's tractor and I was on my feet, f* sitting, but here's the story about how I unexpectedly saved a few squatted gardens: There's a sometimes active assembly in my neighborhood ever since the city govt tried to demolish our housing blocs. With protest and direct action, we got them to shelve that plan. The 'hood is surrounded by agricultural land, much of it abandoned and subsequently squatted,
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The way Science is wrong (sometimes)
A thread
Anti-vaxxers, climate denialists, and other conspiracy types err by ignoring how seldom scientific knowledge is fabricated out of whole cloth, disrespecting and obviating the work of hundreds of thousands of specialists.
1/ On the contrary, those who fetishize Science as pure knowledge obviate how it is always a process. Ironically, the very construct of ahistorical pure scientific knowledge existing independently of the processes that created it is a highly cultural framing.
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Some concerns regarding abolition.
A thread.

Obviously, abolishing prisons and police would be a wonderful thing, but I'm finding certain problems in the framework of "abolition" that are setting us up for failure.
1/ Reading the following from Saidiya Hartman crystallized it for me. The 19th century abolitionist movement was controlled by white progressives. They didn't want to talk about taking the war to the bankers, merchants, & landowners nor to center armed resistance by enslaved people.

To see things clearly, one needn't read Galeano, Vine Deloria Jr, Howard Zinn. Colombo supported mutilations, land theft, total slavery, and sex slavery for children in his f*cking diary.
#NothingtoCelebrate

This demonstrates the limits of debate. Anyone who negates the genocidal reality of Columbus, the US, whiteness, the bourgeoisie: those aren't beliefs that deserve respect. They're alibis to facilitate life in a world constructed by mass murderers like Columbus (and George Washington)
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When I got to one thousand followers, I sent out a booty shot. I don't know what you're supposed to do at 10k, so I'm going to send out

*Kill Anarchist Idols*
A Thread: If we're on here to spread anarchist ideas (is that why we're on here?), it helps to have some larger accounts because of the way Twitter is structured. But it's probably not a great idea for those accounts to be in the hands of a few individuals.
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There's a great morass of misinformation around yesterday's "anarchist gulags in Catalunya" crap, which is not surprising, given it came from authoritarian socialists deflecting from their history of systematic repression and murder.

Thread: Repression in an anarchist revolution The most true thing about the shitposting is that anarchists generally responded: if anarchists really did set up gulags in 1936, that was wrong of them;