Hey guys, I found this tweet from yesterday (June 3) and decided to post as an alert. They might decide to do it again in NYC and other places, so please, take care.

READ THIS THREAD!

A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.

Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food. 

i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!! 

Also, by the car stopping for them, that hedgehog has two other species actively working to help it stay alive for no gain of their own. 

Reminds me of that professor who said the beginning of civilization was when someone took care of another. The broken thigh bone thing.

“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts. We are at our best when we serve others.” - Margaret Mead

Love how ppl literally respond to a video of an animal helping another animal by talking about the (propaganda) idea that humans helping each other started with civilization. Literally the video is a counter-example to that narrative.

national holiday

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but this feels vaguely relevant…

Read the full text of It Can’t Happen Here on Project Gutenberg: X

Have I ever hit “reblog” so fast? No.

Arizona Republic, Phoenix, September 20, 1942

glad to see that absolutely fucking nothing has changed since september 20, 1942

A million angry, unemployed, fucking restless new yorkers vs 36,000 worn out demoralized cops

Keep the protests up until all the cops quit after one too many 84-hour work weeks

It’s only a trickle but it is starting :)

from Salish Sea Black Autonomists

whoever made this is a shitty ass anarchist

1. anarchy is chaos - order is what created whiteness and the police in the first place

2. fuck "leaders" - they are tone policers trying to turn this into a shitty reform push rather than a movement that seeks the abolishing of all police violence

3. community care and support is not protecting businesses - it means burning down your local precinct

support black autonomists and not black "leaders" - most people claiming to be leaders are liberals and ngo runners who seek to profit from defanging your riots

Try listening to black anarchists?

This is at both non anarchists and other white and nonblack anarchists.

THE FBI HAS A WEBSITE TO LEAVE TIPS ABOUT LOOTING AND THE PROTESTS IN GENERAL IN THE FORM OF DIGITAL FILES AND I’M NOT SAYING GO AND SPAM THEM WITH EVERYTHING YOU HAVE BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I AM SAYING

GO FORTH AND CRASH THIS SHIT

Memes, vines, music videos, concert videos, random cat pictures, PDF files of whatever you want renamed to shit like “protest looting plan” or something like that idk, whatever the hell you like, just go and crash that site

If you do decide to do this, please scrub your metadata, use a secure VPN, and don’t hand over anything you wouldn’t be cool with being on the front page of a newspaper and archived in every library in the world.

Tactics like this work because being part of the swarm makes the chances that you will be specifically picked out very low. It’s the same strategy that makes fish schooling such a popular and effective survival method in the open ocean. But most aquatic species don’t live in open ocean, because it’s basically guaranteed that any time a predator comes by, the school will lose some portion of individuals.

The more care and thought you put into protecting yourself, the less likely it is that you will be the one chased down by the FBI in retribution. They’ll be as lazy about it as any other massive, comfortable predator. Don’t be the easy catch.

So the secret police are interrogating people about their disagreements with fascism *in those words* and their alleged ties to an organization that doesn't exist

Welcome to the Cool Zone, space cadets. Go plant some tomatoes and get caught up on your union dues b/c It's gonna be a long, hot summer.

okay i just realized they meant "fascist" and not atleast 2 other words i can think of that are funnier

HEY BE CAREFUL CHECKING OUT ANY TAGS LIKE #WHITELIVESMATTER ON TWITTER

THE FURRIES ARE HELPING OUT NOW AND WHERE I EXPECTED TO FIND RACISM I INSTEAD FOUND ANTHROPOMORPHIC NEON GREEN TIGER BALLS

GODSPEED YOU WONDERFUL BASTARDS

hey y’all. it would mean the world to me if you would share Justin Howell’s gofundme. We’re from the same area, and hearing about him on the news yesterday was like a punch to the gut. During a protest in Austin, Texas, Justin was shot in the head by an officer. He suffered a severe brain injury and is in for a long, long road of recovery. his family are accepting donations here for medical bills and more importantly, bringing the APD to justice. #HisNameIsJustinHowell

if an instance of violence discredits the movement then why don’t y’all hate the police?