Re: ask a punk - I lived in a warehouse that did most of the shows in Richmond for a few years. People couldn’t / didn’t keep the address out of the public sphere and I ended up evicted, arrested, and on probation for two years. If you don’t get it fuck off elsewhere.
I hope that everyone (rightfully) tweeting about how powerful this story is understand that gestures of obedience don’t get you here. A police force that fears entering zones in which they are not welcome (+ a lot of work, solidarity, and vision) is what gets you here.
a hotel in minneapolis was taken over by the community and turned into housing for unhoused people😭
> “George Floyd has given us power,” Fister said. “And we have the power to take care of each other … that’s what we’re doing right now by housing people.”
Richmond (+ Henrico / Chesterfield / Hanover / VA State / Capitol / etc.) Police are now walking around residential neighborhoods smashing out unoccupied car windows. Last night they were firing tear gas into second story apartments of people filming or yelling at them.
@alyvore
The most ghoulish aspect of this particular retcon is its propagation’s contingency upon the near population-level annihilation of its scapegoat.
Richmond police are brutalizing random people, snatching drivers out of their cars, slashing tires, towing without reason. They know none of these curfew charges will stick so they are trying to do as much punitive damage as they can to bodies and wallets.
This kind of thing is (obviously) far from the most pressing problem at hand re: policing but if you can’t understand people strategizing to avoid ending up in contact with law enforcement you should probably find other avenues for entertainment.
Also - we had already tried to do things on the up and up. The city makes code impossible to fully comply with in order to selectively police specific communities. Maybe other cities’ cops aren’t interested in digging in to subculture but ours were.
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There’s a certain demographic that loves talking about Bernie’s “cult of personality” while yearning for the days of Obama, who sold a nation on ramping up deportations, drone strikes, black sites, propping up finance vampires, and foreverwar by, um, speaking congenially.
My PhD supervisor and, much more importantly, my friend David Golumbia passed this morning. I don’t really know what to say beyond echoing others’ remarks on his kindness, his intellect, and his commitment to criticality in spaces deeply hostile to thinking against the grain.
I am very sad to inform this place, which he pretty much hated, that
@dgolumbia
died this morning. Any of his friends can contact me for further information. The love he shared with his friends and his brilliant research and writing are his legacy.
What went down at the Lee monument tonight was deeply sus. Why was an unconfirmed threat of police with gas en route deliveredto the march on mic? Hundreds of people left. It decapitated the action with the best energy since last weekend.
#richmondprotest
who is vetting speakers?
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the DOM test press drawing - by the time it was finished,
@RVABailFund
did not need more $. In consultation with them, we’ve sent $800 to
@RVANewSouth
, who have been fighting on all fronts for Richmond’s under-supported neighborhoods and
And for everyone else, here and elsewhere, when organizers putting the work into DIY culture spaces + avenues ask you to follow simple rules and protocols for sustainability and safety, you really should just fucking listen to them.
There are LOTS of teenagers in the streets. The police are cementing generations of hatred and they seem to understand it. They’re laughing watching kids collapsing, choking, getting kicked and beaten.
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The hatefulness, the sadism, the cowardly giddiness at any opportunity to asymmetrically deal violence to a population who _cannot_ answer in kind - none of this can be reformed away. Where are all the “good cops” everyone keeps talking about because I’ve never fucking met one.
The silence of academic labor unions - mine included - in the US regarding the absolute destruction of our Palestinian colleagues’ livelihoods and lives is an indictment of the deeply impoverished concept of ‘solidarity’ that pervades US labor politics. Demoralizing and shameful.
The Israeli army detonates the last university it hadn't destroyed yet. A scene from the explosion of the Palestine University with 315 bombs. The university is owned by businessmen and is not affiliated with any political agenda.
Israel has destroyed all universities and about
Pre-defense dissertation draft due April 1. Laptop logic board bites it Feb 20. Desktop in my campus office lost two semesters back to budget cuts. Final edits happening on my studio desktop one thin wall from the room where four raves and eight shows happen this month. We move.
Yikes @ twitter today. All I can say is;
A. For the love of god keep the Warehouse out of the Discourse.
B. If someone with the tenure of
@jpetaNY
in our weird little world dropping a little wisdom and experience constitutes gatekeeping to you, HC just might not be your thing.
The Warehouse is not does aspire to be the be-all-end-all of DIY in Richmond but it’s worth noting that I - amongst others - notice the characters who want to enjoy the benefits of its existence while actively contributing to efforts to sabotage that very existence.
Surveying the responses to decades of apartheid conditions in Palestine and taking note of when and how ‘innocent civilian’ tropes are deployed make it painfully clear how many westerners accept the premise that every Palestinian is a legitimate target for violence and terror.
Police murder with impunity because it is important to the powerful to demonstrate that they can and will. It’s not new and it’s no abberation. It may seem novel, but what is growing is the availability of documentary technology. You should consider what has shielded you from it.
I’m not a very sentimental person and I try not to live in the past but I would give just about anything to have one more conversation or evening together. I’ll miss you forever.
Forgive the futile & miserable gesture but the world is so brazenly killing off everybody that it no longer has room for and I don’t even know how to make room for the information, let alone what to do with it. Overdose, suicide, airstrike, virus. Good fucking god. Useless words.
EVERYONE in the streets has one another’s back. Lots of impromptu aid and education going down. If you have been sitting at home it is a GREAT time to keep your assumptive commentary on the tone, tactics, and composition of these actions to yourself.
Pardon the overshare: living in the US with a chron illness req very expensive meds for the past 10 yrs has been a nightmare. Debt, unstable access, weighing debilitating pain vs. the risk of accruing costs of more than I make in a year. list goes on. 🖤 to 🇬🇧 friends.
A few friends and I have organized a fundraiser to help one of the most important people in my life cover transition related healthcare costs. This is a pivotal moment for someone very dear to me & I appreciate anyone reading + sharing.
Last night was brilliant. Thanks to all who played and all who joined and all who danced and all who worked. We were able to pass on some $ to the PCRF - give them a look if you aren’t familiar. Richmond, always. Free Palestine.
Surveillance need not be top-down to inform the behavior of the surveilled. Hyper-documentation and the expectations that come with it have fundamentally changed the dynamics within every subcultural space I’ve ever known.
When Stripes played NDY however many years ago I was almost done with my MA thesis. Of course - while in Canada - I lost my laptop with all of my research and ~ 100 pages of completed work on it, foolishly not backed up anywhere. I was in despair, just kind of fatalistically ...
To clarify - any organizer working with or sharing information with the RPD or city officials is endangering lives and should be considered compromised. Any organizer or speaker forcefully delivering unverified info that causes mass dispersal is suspect. Full stop.
The classroom in which I teach my 9:30 section has a giant wall of eastward facing windows and some sadist keeps leaving the blinds open. It was 85°F in there this morning. I’m spray painting the windows black.
Little Rock, AR is still haunted by an honest to god independent video rental - seemingly kept on life support by adult novelty and vape accessory sales.
Re: pitchfork - this isn’t a rupture, it is a continuation of its role in optimizing music (and other spheres of cultural production) for the machinations of market exchange. The fantasy of a rarefied enclave exempt from this process is precisely a fantasy.
Sanctimonious white liberals and assorted bullshit artists pushing the good, noble black protestor / bad, opportunistic white rioter narrative - you might as well just shoot the gas and use the batons yourself. You are doing cop work. It is primarily POC who are suffering for it.
My students are all, more or less, on the other side of the “always had the internet” divide and it’s surprising how much that impacts their read on essentially everything I want to screen for them. Today it’s ‘12 Monkeys.’
to make me feel better. I remember the smile on his face when they played their first note and I would always remind him of that night when he was worn thin from tour or depressed for one of the million reasons this miserable world hangs on our shoulders ...
City gov is attempting to pacify by pulling down monuments while simultaneously beating, gassing, and arresting anti-eviction protestors at the courthouse. Symbolic gestures are not victories and Stoney + co. are emphatically demonstrating just how empty those gestures are.
A few days ago I defended my dissertation via Zoom from Glasgow after health issues and work commitments made an in-person defense unfeasible. The variety of academic adjacent developments in the current conflict have really amplified the difficulty I feel immersed in the /3
This guy is defending his MA thesis in fucking refugee camp tent because Israel blew up every university in Gaza, along with 5500 students and 100 professors, and we have to waste precious energy hearing the US press talk about aggrieved zionists who “don’t feel safe on campus.”
Maybe there’s not much to this observation, but it’s clear that the speed of spread on the burning man ebola rumors meme is due at least in part to the fact that a lot of people desperately want it to be true.
moping in our hotel room. I was convinced I was going to have to ask for an extension, start my work over, etc etc. Riley convinced me to walk down the street and at least catch the Marked Men set - he told me that being around a bunch of Texans while they played was guaranteed
Division of Mind is raffling two test presses to fund resources for the protests against the brutal, racist, and dehumanizing police culture in our city and country. Thanks in advance for spreading + contributing. Keep fighting.
Biden kicking Weinstein’s PR firm $800k to kill his accusation story and his staff, likely at Anita Dunn’s behest, mass deleting their Kavanaugh tweets should tell one everything one needs to know about how full of shit the Dem party is, but here we are...
The most mind-melting quality of the recent developments in Palestine is the collapse of “state aims-boast-deny-obfuscate-minimize-deflect” into a zone of incoherence where it all happens simultaneously, obliterating any ability to even adequately communicate the horror.
A lot of white liberals admonishing _everyone_ to their left for not listening to a caricature of “black leadership” that is - curiously - monolithic, hegemonic, and always seems to echo the positions of cops, corporate PR, and white liberals.
internationalist labor solidarity was the bare minimum that we owed our 🇵🇸 colleagues. Feels pointless to say, and is far from the most pertinent issue but I feel utterly adrift. Anyways, I’m a Doctor now. Solidarity with this man and all across the world facing the unimaginable.
All the careerist academics (particularly those w/ tenure) who have equivocated and kept silent these past months won’t be held responsible for their role in facilitating the current wave of police violence and repression, but they should.
I don’t think that
@seaofsinxxx
and I have ever looked less alike than we currently do. Still doesn’t stop the “good set man” comments he gets whenever D.O.M. plays out of town and he is there.
@Chicken_Face1
So much here is predicated on maintaining the fiction that the post WWII opportunities for attaining a measure economic security are still in place. Our whole culture unravels once one starts pulling on those threads.
@Bob_WilsonGEO
@NorthS2021
@freganmitts
They don’t often bother to prompt in a way that to minimize the rigid syntactic style and awkward use of near-synonyms in contexts that don’t make sense endemic to LLMs. Also, when multiple students simply input the question into GPT the results are often structurally identical.
Almost everyone I know is self-flagellating over lack of productivity while trying not to die and the DNC, yesterday, sentenced an unknown number to death to try and hedge against Biden having to speak in public again. America is a sociopathic hell.
There is a crude, approach to decolonial ‘thought’ that looks to quantify when the blood + soil relationship ‘begins’ in order to formulate a property based regime of ownership (of land, culture, etc.) Israel has seized on this to obscure the very real colonial _process_ /1
If one is invested in these spaces it should go without saying that the perspectives of those who have experienced both sides of that historical/technical juncture are valuable. Accessibility is not neutral, uniform, nor intrinsically good; to whom, how, and to what ends?