I as a rule not to try to yell at machines or call them a bitch or whatever. it does nothing for anyone
i know for a fact human workers are listening in bc they step in and clearly heard the whole conversation
I can only imagine the way people talk to it when customers think it isnt a person
@iwriteok.bsky.social the TacoBell Automated drive thru is already here im sure you've noticed that it sucks to get the rest of "the script" when you don't want to round up your total to pay their taxes or get upsold
The workers can sense that i get the same shit every time and that i dont round up
My local 50501 just ousted its main leader because he got into a polycule with 3 other leaders (hes like 50 they were in their 20s. divorce incoming)
There was an orgy after a protest. Someone took blackmail photos. So so messy.
Its so fucking easy to stay professional and yearn on bsky instead
hello @gwenfulton.bsky.social - today i'm putting on a new hat as a historian for Indy FNB! i found your name in a NUVO article denouncing the raid on solidarity books circa 2003. Do u have any info on fnb back then? Other Stories? Email us (:
Indianapolisfoodnotbombs@proton.me
Trainings available in indianapolis! get a group together and who knows we could come out to "a city in ohio" dm me for signal
@thedugoutpod.bsky.social started yr no kings episode- the main local 50501 organizer threw an impromptu anti police protest after a man was pepperballed and beaten on video
A single drunk guy was yelling and this organizer almost called the cops. Cooler heads prevailed but Im still pissed off.
I hear volunteers talk about activism before fnb. Stories of being passionate enough to start an action
But they didn't have the connections, resources or confidence to succeed. It's so discouraging!
Anarchists have a responsibility to give them those tools and show what ~real shit~ feels like
They came for lots of reasons but it boils down to two things.
1) the democrats are failing and now its their responsibility
2) meeting their own emotional needs that capitalism takes from them: connection w/ radicals, authentically seeing an issue, and feeling effective solving a problem
@thefreeradical.org thank you for the shout!
been in FNB indy for 5 years- most of that time was spent with 8ish people feeding 150 every week with zero funding.
its that simple.
we've TRIPLED volunteers Since trump 2.0
I see my job is teaching people what it takes to do IRL organizing
I work in light tech manufacture i was just held up as an example of someone who loves their job. A flimsy argument against The polls reporting Americans don't want to do manufacturing.
I refuse. Those workers see exactly what i see. trump wont keep his promises. ill contrast my job to trumps plan
Sometimes it just isn't worth giving something airtime when it isnt popping off on the internet, and i get y'all only have so many hours in the day
i got recommended it by a friend gave it and the jakarta method a try
I gave If We Burn a read earlier this year. It was really harsh critique and i took it with a grain of salt- my long term takeaway was to be more careful of centralized political elements. It would help if i had more context about the author and hear others accounts about the events
And i notice this in myself too!! I'm averse to doing things that might carry even light concequences until someone is like hey lets go out together
We can make all the fucking zines we like - a very small percentage will actually do it. but for most? They need an accomplice first
As I work with dedicated nice people who haven't taken action yet but want to- there's one thing that I come to over and over again
Most people wont feel comfortable doing something unless theres someone seasoned next to them. even when the task seems easy, like asking a business to donate bread
@deviantollam.bsky.social thanks for repping the food not bombs Tee on inrange ((:
Indiana is popping off! Double the volunteers since December, a ton more food! community meetings! grocery deliveries! and two more groups in different cities with more to come! ((:
Ragstock is wack. Never liked their stuff
Um wow. 61% rn????? Crushing this poll!
This is what happens when u make cool events for yr community
Wener hersog waxes poetic about the sysiphean nature of skateboarding
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@iwriteok.bsky.social Have u noticed ur skeets popping off elsewhere on the internet?
Maybe the dispossessed had some influence or maybe its like a walkaway type thing
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Hey i heard your account of doing real action on the downside pod and its striking when a trained communicator is spreading radical ideas in such a grounded way -As someone that does mutual aid work week after week you fucking nailed it
thank you! & rekha & izzy! (:
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Repeat after me: "i will not buy fake medical supplies on amazon"
"I WILL learn how to use this in person with a trained professional and now just buy a kit to feel safer"
How could you not?? It comes with the territory of writing and reading out something beautiful and tragic and inspiring.
currently organizing stop the bleed classes and giving out first aid kits to the homies. If youre inspired to help - then ur local food not bombs might know who to call
Haussmannisation is one example! after the Paris commune France poured so much fucking money into moving Parisian buildings further apart and widen the narrow streets into boulevards so theyre harder to barricade
Moreover, friends should show up for the homies!
You can do the consumption thing and give food, clothing, makeup ect BUT what they might rly need is
connection authenticity and efficacy. Get folks together. have a meeting. Make a plan!
Nobody is going to survive this alone including you, reader
No wonder leftists are talking about "hyperboject" this and "climate disaster is far away until youre recording it" that. - When the everyday persons politics is mediated by the spectacle then of course everything feels like a fucking dream we cant wrap our brain around
@miawong.bsky.social FUCKING BANGER of an episode today.
As a mutual aid organizer my greatest hurdle and my biggest draw is pulling people out of their current politics of doom scrolling
the people are craving Connection, Authenticity seeing a problem with their eyes- and Efficacy
Having a day for each of these tasks is ideal
