“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

@timrichards @thomasfuchs @mrundkvist

and rope!

@thomasfuchs the first three for sure. #4 useful to half the population, and #5 I don't believe in the death penalty...as tempting as it may be, especially for a trial of Trump or Musk or Thiel.

@diffrentcolours @thomasfuchs @PixelRobot ventilation and air purification, definitely, especially in ways that are affordable. But the "owners" would want to make air a commodity if they could.

@torf yeah the guillotine fetish is one of the examples of far-right morality popping up on the left. I'd like to see less of that but there's no getting away from some things, I guess.
@maikel @thomasfuchs

@alter_kaker the blocking button does exist

@torf @thomasfuchs

@torf (specifically, washing away degeneracy/evil/the parasites in blood is a core fascist idea, but that's exactly how the guillotine is portrayed on the left. Theoretically the difference is in who gets targeted, but that distinction wears pretty thin sometimes and with some tendencies)
@maikel @thomasfuchs

@maikel you're welcome to block me, friend, but I've been a leftist or leftist adjacent for more than twenty years, so I permit myself to express the odd unpopular opinion, in the spirit of critical support @torf @thomasfuchs

@alter_kaker I'm fine with you here, as far as you can manage my guillotine fetish. If not, then seriously block me, I'm too angry with billionaires to mind my language. I won't hold it against you.

@torf @thomasfuchs

@Michael_1975

Crochet.

@thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs

Switchblades
Locking forceps
Microscopes
mRNA vaccines
Bagpipes
Rib spreaders
Curettes
Books
Printing presses
Lancets
Scissors
The Periodic Table
Hall Effect transistors
Prisms
Piezoelectrics
Carbo nanotubes
Redox meters
Clip-on pulse oximeters

I could go on

@thomasfuchs

The enzyme that reactivates a Republican brain worm.

A vibrating guillotine tuned to attract billionaires.

@thomasfuchs wind, geothermal, tidal! Transparent aluminum! Vaccines that can immunize against entire fucking CLADES of viruses! Sail-assisted cargo ships! Full-motion prosthetics that can be printed at home!

@morgan @thomasfuchs
including ebikes (she said, with old knees but a young heart)

@PaulaToThePeople @thomasfuchs I specifically omitted it from my list, even though it's true.

Because more people on the left need to get excited about it.

@hfinyow @thomasfuchs What we need is a metaphorical corporate guillotine. Nobody dies, but business is absolutely not allowed to carry on as usual.

@thomasfuchs Regenerative agriculture.
Rain/water harvesting.
Peer Governance
Self propelled/small electric mobility
Sodium Batteries
Guillotines
Any tech leading to more sovereignty,
less subjugation, more and better nature, more billionaire heads rolling.

@maikel language is fine, even if I don't like it. So long as you don't REALLY think that guillotines are going to solve our problems. I'm worried sometimes that parts of the left use this language to express their feelings, but then it winds up being a serious thing as people get used to it. That would be bad for the left and for the world. @torf @thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs home made protest signs
whistles
3d printed whistles
stickers
zines
balkonkraftwerk
bikes bikes bikes bikes
multitools
guillotines
bike-portable sound systems
bike-portable guillotines

@float13 @thomasfuchs
“It's the fusion chamber!”
“The what?”
“The fusion chamberlain. The fusion chamberlain show. With your host, fusion chamberlain!”

@alter_kaker if surgical violence of billionaires was possible (that is: without it degrading into a carnage of people killing other people) then I'd be happy with it, I'm not gonna lie.

But that's not feasible, so, I'm happy with murder being illegal and the guillotine being a figure of speech of our collective level of anger.

Thank you for understanding