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I love how varied and universally weird the circumstances for making lifelong friendships are. Here's this guy I accidentally messaged once and I could not imagine my life without them now. Here's this girl I was so scared of when I met her, I would kill for her and remind her to rest on the regular. Here's this other guy we have so much in common we used to joke we were the same person in different timelines. It took us years to meet in person and I attended his wedding. There are also people who entered my life in absolutely unremarkable ways but changed it forever for the better. It's wonderful how easy it is to find people to love.

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Los Angeles folks - how would you like to be part of something new on Dropout?

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I reblogged it earlier but I'm glad the Something Awful Forums 9/11 thread was archived because it's an incredibly important slice of internet history. For the record I think 9/11 was thousands of personal tragedies for the direct victims of the attacks but one big national farce that led to America's ongoing slide into fascism, and the nationalism and remembrance around it is a joke especially in the wake of the same amount of deaths every fucking day in the US during the height of coronavirus.

Nevertheless I think it's important that if you do not remember because you were too young or just didn't exist on Sept 11, 2001 to read the Something Awful 9/11 forums to get an idea of what the internet was like at the moment when America changed to 24 hour news cycles and renewed hyper-nationalism not seen since WWII.

This all happened before Twitter, Facebook, before Discord. Before smart phones. Before most people had cell phones. When a lot of people still had dial-up internet, even. Some people in the thread were relying on radio because internet and TV weren't keeping up.

It was a live event of internet denizens reacting to the biggest national event (and among the biggest international events) of the past 25 years. It was also a slice of what the internet was like at the turn of the millennium. Not only that, but people accurately calling out who was responsible, and what would result before the attacks even finished.

Keep in mind that the links that follow contain images of the event, lots of Islamophobia, people calling for the Middle East to be nuked, people blaming Palestine, casual racist and homophobic language (this was Something Awful after all), etc etc. They preserved the first 17 pages which spanned about 24 hours during the events. It's the origin of the "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR" screenshot.

Links under the fold. I've also annotated the pages with notes regarding the timeline and any posts of interest. Note the thread was preserved in Pacific Time even though the page says times are Eastern. That's incorrect. Post timestamps are 3 hours behind Eastern Time, which is the time zone where the attacks occurred:

Page 1 - Note the first post was edited to include images of the second attack. The thread started after the first plane hit. Second plane hitting the WTC happens here too.

Page 2 - Poster accurately calling out Bin Laden was responsible at 9:14 AM EST

Page 3 - "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR"

Page 4

Page 5 - First official acknowledgement it was a terrorist attack.

Page 6 - Pentagon hit

Page 7

Page 8

Page 9 - Commercial flights grounded by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

Page 10 - First mention of towers collapsing at end of page

Page 11 - More reactions to collapse of first tower. People thinking it was a bomb or yet another plane. Rumors about a fourth plane just missing the White House (these are false and predate the actual 4th plane crash by minutes)

Page 12

Page 13 - By this point there's just rampant speculation about more bombs at the WTC, the US Capitol building being hit, etc (all false). Remember this is all just people reacting to TV news and radio and the rumor mill via phone, AIM, IRC, and maybe text messages.

Page 14 - By this point internet news sites are overwhelmed

Page 15 - Second tower collapses. First acknowledgement of the fourth plane that crashed in PA.

Page 16 - There's an abrupt time jump in the threads, I think it was the result of admins pruning the activity or the SA forums going down. This page starts on 9/12 even though it is page 16. American flag signatures and ribbons start appearing.

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[Fig. 01 Mikuchondria]

The powerhouse of YOUR cell

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the runes say: wet food in yor future..

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This was posted before but this version has the answers in expected order so as to not skew the results. I also saw someone not know what a quesadilla is, so I added that option.

(a quesadilla is a toasted tortilla with cheese)

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I don't know how many of my followers are furries but we just lost one of ours.

He died because the medical industry in the US refused to help. He was murdered in a million little ways, with a million automated systems.

He was on bluesky no more than five hours ago, now he's gone.

Dragoneer ran FurAffinity, which is more or less the furry art site. It looks like its' from the early aughts, has no native pdf support, and has zero discoverability or algorithmic function. It's home to me, it's always been home.

No matter how often I moved or how often my life radically changed, there was FA. I met my husband on the forums. Through the majority of its' life, Dragoneer kept it running. He never sold us out, never tried to keep up with trends. It's a community.

And there is something bitter about losing someone who was key to keeping one of the relics of the internet before corporations took over.

We have our home, but it's lost its' keeper.

Good night, Neer. You kept the lights on.

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do you have any recs for readings on black anarchism? i’ve been feeling pretty frustrated with discussions of race & white supremacy in white anarchist texts

Sorry I took so long to respond to this. I thought I did.

So disclaimer, I am not sure what you think when you think of Black Anarchist because I am definitely not that person as I think I am more Anarchist than Anarkata. I mean I am definitely pro-punching the police, illegalism, burning down institutions of capital and oppression, prison riots, rioting in general, and all of that crusty white anarchist shit knowing that the police will gladly crucify my black ass. I read Bakunin even though he was an anti-semite, and David Graeber. I am a Black Anarchist who acts like he got the privilege of a white one. However, I do understand the frustration of dealing with white leftists disregarding race so because I feel like I was really late in my response, I am going to list not only black anarchists, but also non-Western Anarchists.

Black Anarchism/Anarkata

Black Anarchism: A Reader

Black Armed Joy

I think this one is more of what you are looking for.

Anarcho-Blackness by Marquis Bey

Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

The Ballot or the Bullet by LKE

The Anarchism of Blackness

A Soldier's Story

The Dragon And The Hydra by Russell Maroon Shoatz

I don't think Maroon Shoatz was an anarchist. This was just his critique of the Black Panther Party and what led to their ruin.

Also for normal contemporary commentary of Black Anarchism, look up @saint-drew on Youtube.

General Non-Western Anarchism

Non-Western Anarchism

Asian and Pacific Anarchism

大逆事件 (Taigyaku Jiken): An Introduction to the Anarchists of Japan

The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman

Because I wanted to by Kaneko Fumiko

I love this woman. So this is a diary of an anarchist Japanese woman living in 20th Century Japan. She plotted to kill the emperor. She was dope as fuck. I am basing one of my characters of my book off of Kaneko's nihilist philosophy.

God Is Dead by Kurihara Yasushi

Anarchism In The Chinese Revolution

Anarchism and The Chinese Political Culture

The Alternative Education of a Chinese Punk

The Art of Not Being Governed: The Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

The Soft, Warm, And Wet Technology of Native Oceania

‘Anarchism, pure and simple’: M. P. T. Acharya, anti-colonialism and the international anarchist movement

Anarchism in Korea

Mèo Mun, Anarchist Views from Vietnam

The Chinese Anarchist Movement

Middle East and North Africa

Anarca-Islam

Egypt's Black Bloc

Revolution in Rojava

Palestine: No State Solution

Anarchism in Israel and Palestine

Latin and Caribbean Anarchism

Anarchist Influences on the Mexican Revolution

A Zapatista Response to “The EZLN Is NOT Anarchist”

I personally call this the "White Anarchists, Shut the Fuck Up" text.

Indigenous Anarchism in Bolivia: An Interview with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

None Shall Escape: Radical Perspectives from the Caribbean

Venezuela: Chavistas and Anarquistas

A History of the Anarchist Movement in Brazil

Introduction of Anarchism and Resistance in Bogota

Indigenous North American Anarchism

Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory

Gasoline On the Fire

Imagining Autonomy on Stolen Land

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

I think this is enough. Again @anarcblr is an excellent study guide and resource. @effectiveresistance is great as well on finding where the action is.

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“Bit nippy.” ► Some favourite comments by Kaidan in ME1.

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Nani & Aqua surfing buddies~? ᐝ ꕀ࿐ ࿔*:･ﾟ✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡˚

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Palestinian girls and women are forced to use tents as pads. People boost. Donate if you can

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My dreams haven't really been subtle lately.

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The anti-imperialism posting experience

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I hate the US so fucking much you wouldn't believe. The CIA killed my grandfather for trying to organize a union in the british-owned textile factory. To this day they keep my entire continent poor.

🦝 genderqueer-bernie 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 follow

Hey OP I like this post but uhhhh

You're not the only one oppressed by neoliberalism

Middle class Americans got screwed over by Reagan

Corporate profits are at an all time high and we need solidarity more than ever

So instead of hating on Jessica from Idaho we should all work together against Power. Volunteer at a soup kitchen! Attend your local protests! Join the DSA!

#not ninjago #vote blue #progressive #social justice #sj #dsa

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If I were to post my mecari, would anyone be interested in buying anything? lots of toreba exclusive plushies, most being on the bigger side, with things like cinnamoroll, assorted pokemon plushies, and some madoka magica items as well.

I can't start my new job this week due to a plethora of reasons, the main being that I'm just so fucking depressed and mourning my best friend's tragic and sudden death while preparing for the viewing and funeral.

if anyone wants to just help me out with bills, my cash/app is here, and my pay/pal here. I'll go ahead and add my mecari page as well since I'm about to post more stuff in a moment.

thank you all for listening to and helping me out. I was able to afford groceries, rent, and utilities, thanks to everyone's help. please tell your friends, family, or whomever you love, that you love them, for me, and for yourself. you never know when it'll be the last time you'll get to say that to someone.

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Like we know Biden would never but God imagine if he just had Trump assassinated as an official act right now and then resigned from office. What would SCotUS even do.

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I didn’t do the cosplay just for the meme….

Flying to Italy and finding the exact field to recreate the picnic scene was pretty amazing. The costume took me a month to make 😮‍💨 it was so nice to shoot it in THE field!!