shello @shello@octodon.social

(Adam Conover streamed the episode and commented on it while fundraising for Reclaim the Block https://www.twitch.tv/videos/636885024)

PrideFall has already started. Be careful of mysterious followers with links in their bios. If you click it, they can get your IP and start to figure out who you are. I already blocked one of these fuckers.

happy pride month, y'all

I forgot to use this account this weekend but I gotta say: black lives matter, all cops are bastards, donate if you're financially comfortable and pick a number that makes you as uncomfortable as the police brutality does

aight i've found someone i can stay with in seattle

now i just need to raise money to actually get up there

i need around $200 for a train ticket and anything else you can spare for everything that'll come after (phone bill, food, etc.)

my paypal is https://paypal.me/v33b33

thank you so much, all of you, for everything

mood rn 👀

If you are not Black, take a moment to check yourself. If you're trying to deny the existence of "outside instigators" make sure you're not unwittingly being one yourself.

This is not your protest. You don't get to march in, yell "LOL FUK DA POLICE" and start throwing bricks around. Show some damn respect.

To directly quote one organiser: "Like I say to all my white brothers and sisters, we appreciate y'all being out here supporting us, but this is not your space."
https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1266626242905886721 (video in link)

Stand with Black protestors. Support them. Stand between them and the police. And do what everyone keeps telling you to do online – listen first before you open your mouth or start doing things no one asked for.

Otherwise, you're just being performative and appropriative. And... yeah, don't do that.

The second thing is something I've seen over here as well as on Twitter. Leftist types talking about the "myth" of outside instigators and something something liberals.

There are Black people on the streets protesting for their lives, telling us that not everything is right out there. But I keep seeing white people acting as if they know better. The best* part is when they dismiss those Black people as "liberals" and tell them to shut up.

*may not actually be the best part.

We have photographic proof that there are undercover cops on the streets, and reports of at least one of them directly instigating violence. They're not difficult to spot (see the attached image and description for an example). And we all know that entrapment is part of the playbook for US police.

Hell, cops are starting most of the violence even when they're in uniform.

The rich and the cops need to be removed of the equation for all of us humans to survive, and create a healthy, caring society.

it’s not appropriate to celebrate someone whose fortune is built upon profits from the apartheid during these days of protests against racial injustice

get you a partner who loves you like this otter loves scratchin an itch with this rock

y'all I am LOSING it at these transit pride stickers rn

blue lives literally don't exist. you are not born a cop, you choose to become a cop, and can quit being a cop. it is an intentional bastardization of the actual legit black lives matter movement that they are able to reinforce by using their state influence to get their propaganda on licence plates and merchandise

does anyone nearby (i'm in riverside county, in southern california) have a place i could stay in the near future? like, a couch i could sleep on? not yet, but it looks like things are gonna go to shit pretty soon no matter what i do, so it'd be nice to have an escape plan ready. my parents have been incredibly abusive since i moved back in with them, especially since they found out i was trans. today they went into my backpack and took all my hormones, and that's only the tip of the iceberg of the bullshit they've put me through. at the end of next month they wanna take me to mexico and i wanna be gone before then. please help.

I understand you may not have the spoons to deal with this right now, but as a white person, it is vital to learn that you cannot force every space to cater to you specifically at all times. This is what whiteness *is*.

Instead, consider extracting yourself from spaces you cannot handle in this moment and understanding it is not always about you. The future will require us to be understanding and cooperative with sometimes conflicting needs.

Hi.
I'm white, perhaps like you.

If you're white too, and upset that people are not CWing toots about the protests happening in the US right now, I have a few options that may appeal to you:

a) Filter the words "Floyd," "protest," "Minnesota," and "Minneapolis."
b) Mute or block users that are not CWing toots.
c) Log off for once in your life.

Regardless of which option you choose, be aware that this kind of tone-policing reinforces the status quo of white power in public spaces.

y'all!! cast your peepers upon this feisty-looking Rachel by the inimitable @quasar !!