Gregory Boyce

Gregory Boyce

@techstoa.bsky.social

Software engineer. Linux and open source. Anti-Fascist independent. Writer. I try to share meaningful lyrics, because I think they're important. https://medium.com/tech-stoa

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Good morning! I'm still 27 short to be able to stay sheltered due at noon. Could you please amplify? I might have to go to the hospital today again but hoping I don't. Much appreciated, and I hope you all have a safe and peaceful weekend full of love. Details in comment below, and pinned post.

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Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get. Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

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True allyship means listening to and learning from Black, Indigenous, and anti-racist Latine folks, POTGM who have had no choice and been involved in community, social justice, racial justice, environmental justice movements, etc. for survival. 2 Part Thread 🧵 1/2 (next)

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for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

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Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one:

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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness possitively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

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"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine "Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

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Zay has been in and out of the hospital and UCC with LC complications. They have been trying to reach a week or two goal since their hospital discharge to stay housed. 43 would at least cover today due by noon. Any aid is appreciated, including amplifying. VM & CA: ZayCrescendo PP: Zay88

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Here’s an idea for a reporter: Gather some retired cops or MPs together and show them how ICE handles hecklers and protesters. I guarantee you’ll get some amazing copy. Especially if your outlet lets you reprint profanity.

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I ended up losing shelter at noon and am still 27 short to get re-housed. Please read the details in my pinned post, and please spread the word if you have the extra energy. Many thanks in advance.

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For our entire lives the state has been slowly conditioning us to accept dehumanization and unrestrained violence. It's the carceral state. Intentional scarcity and poverty. The exploitation of people around the world and within our borders. Designations of "criminal" and "terrorist."

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I'm still short 11 to be able to remain hauzed due at noon, and still urgently need to cover copay for a prescription, and food. If you could please amplify my pinned post I'd wholeheartedly appreciate it.

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It's 20 Fucking 25, we're staring down the barrel of full-blown fascism, and centrist Democrats are STILL talking about Bill Clinton, Sister Souljah, and the need to "moderate" the party and make nice with the fascists. I can't do this. I literally can't. I'm going to scream.

From "The Master And His Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist: Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way.

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And then the hands are part of the lived body – or, put more conventionally, are the vehicle of the mind, which is in turn the product of all the other minds that have interacted with it, from Beethoven and Michelangelo down to every encounter of our daily lives.

From "The Master And His Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist: Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way.

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That is true of perceptual qualities, not just of values. If there is no ‘real’ mountain, for example, separate from one created by the hopes, aspirations, reverence or greed of those who approach it, it is equally true that its greenness,

or greyness, or stoniness lies not in the mountain or in my mind, but comes from between us, called forth from each and equally dependent on both; as music arises from neither the piano nor the pianist’s hands, the sculpture neither from hand nor stone, but from their coming together.

From "The Master And His Emissary" by Iain McGilchrist: Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way.

The fact that a place is special to some because of its great peace and beauty may, by that very fact, make it for another a resource to exploit, in such a way that its peace and beauty are destroyed. Attention has consequences.

One way of putting this is to say that we neither discover an objective reality nor invent a subjective reality, but that there is a process of responsive evocation, the world ‘calling forth’ something in me that in turn ‘calls forth’ something in the world.

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The national Democratic Party has forgotten how to fight. But in this critical moment, we need fighters — not folders. We need a Democratic Party that is a little less Washington and a little more Texas.

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Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.

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30 FEMA employees wrote an open letter to President Trump complaining FEMA is not operating the way it should because of the person who Trump made FEMA Director is extremely inexperienced. They were all placed on administrative leave today. .Deadline WH, MSNBC

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Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.