self-love is not selfish

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

May 24th: Murray Foust found dead in Kentucky, missing since April 27th.

May 18th: Eryka Caldwell murdered in Brooklyn.

May 10th: Juniper Blessing murdered at University of Washington.

May 6th: White House releases "counterterrorism strategy", including "transgender ideology" as a domestic threat.

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Protection??

More like subservience.

How will they know who to infantilize

How will they know who never to take seriously

How will they know who to blame?

"Oh we put you in the life boat before ourselves. That means you owe us your agency forever. We go to war and fight for you. That means you can't complain whenever we do anything we want"

How about make enough fucking life boats for everybody

How about stop creating useless fucking excuses to go to war

Then maybe we won't need so much "protection"

Oh wait, capitalism needs someone to provide a fuckload of free labor so that a few people can live in luxury off of the pain of everyone else. That's what that is. You need literally half of the population washing dishes and folding clothes and cooking breakfast for free because the only way to win as a capitalist is to never pay anyone and the first place to not pay anyone is at home

Pisse? In le pantalons???