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Hwæt! The youths on TikTok have spirit. But harken thee to the older folks with more experience in protesting things.

Also, if anyone tells you to sit down in the face of police aggression, don't do that. Unless you want to get maced, beaten, and arrested while sitting down. Then do that I guess.

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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Re goggles...do not wear swimming goggles. They shattered in a way that safety goggles do not and this can result in extra sharp plastic being added to your eyes. You don't want that. Unless you do, in which case...do that on your own time, not during protest time.

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Small, individual acts of rebellion are important for reminding yourself that the bastards don't and can't own you. Practice them daily.

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stop being silly in front of me

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In your view/experience. is the rate of "incompleteness" among webcomics more or less the nature of online personal projects as a whole? Or is there something specific to webcomics like laboriousness, audience expectations, relative medium infancy or whatnot?

well for one thing webcomics has changed significantly in the last ten years. it used to have a much lower barrier for entry, just get a smackjeeves account or set up a website with a wordpress plugin. starting a webcomic when i started my webcomic vs starting a webcomic now are totally different experiences.

so i can only speak to people who started their webcomics roughly ten years ago. and roughly ten years ago a lot of us were a whole lot younger with a lot more time and energy to spend on a comic for free. this part is probably still somewhat true for new artists.

but then you get older. your ideas change. your skill develops and the old stuff isn't as good. or you don't have as much time, you got a day job. unless you're one of like five people on earth your webcomic is not paying your rent. you need to make money. your shoulder hurts. you're 30 now. you're struggling to make updates on time between whatever else makes you happy and what else you need to do to live. you wrote this story when you were 21, you don't relate to it anymore, you have different ideas, you've grown up, your audience has noticeably dropped off from the peak, social media managing is hard, you have to go to work, you're so tired, all the time.

it's a lot of things.

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"We can handle one 10,000-person protest, but ten 1000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us."

-LAPD Chief Michel Moore, discussing the 2020 uprising

Decentralization is key. Don't let anyone tell you our movements need centralized leadership or control.

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Story here. Soldiers were also checked for skin color by the looks of most of them.

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My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

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@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.

Those source links are here

cambridge.org

Youtube

ucl.ac.uk

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Nice people make the best Nazis. Be mean, be tough, have a fascist tooth/skull collection.

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They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

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