I'm reposting something from a couple of months ago to add a list of better words to say at the end

The word "spam" meaning to flood a place with unwanted messages comes from a carnist joke made by Monty Python in which the capitalist product Spam is mythologized as an archetypal unwanted worthless repetition. A murder victims body reduced to a literal throw-away joke depicting their mangled corpse as nothing more than a nuisance. The company that killed them "Spam company" is remembered more readily than the victim

some alternative words you could consider: slop (n.), flood (v.) jibberish (m.) junkmail (n.) solicit (v.) solicitations (n.) offtopic (adj.) disrupt (v.) disruption (n.)

#Speciesism #Carnism #MontyPython #Spam

@Catalyst_A

I just learned about https://sepiasearch.org/ which searches every known instance simultaneously it has a lot of search filter options

#FLOSS #PeerTube #Fediverse

@FediThing

Thank you so much for sharing this, you're absolutely right it needs to be shared on non corporate platforms

I would go further, I think that PeerTube instances need to look into getting onion or i2p addresses to hide their identity

I think this video and others like it will become the United States of America's Tiananmen Square footage

#Tor #I2P #PSA #Anonymity #TiananmenSquare #PeerTube #ICE #Minnesota #Minneapolis #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ImmigrationCustomsEnforcement

@burnoutqueen

Sexism and Speciesism are also deeply linked, the viewing of bodies as property, the viewing of bodies as a baby making machine, seeings bodies as interchangeable status symbols or marks of wealth, the pseudo scientific classification of different "intelligence levels" to classify moral worth and the naturalisation and normalisation of an invented hierarchy man>woman>child>pet>livestock>wild animals

Is it any surprise that misogynists use animal names as sexist insults? Pig and cow most commonly but less commonly "animal" "livestock" "sow" "heifer" "breeder"

Trans women, in subverting the commonly acknowledged hierarchy of man>woman>child also subvert the less commonly acknowledged norm of human supremacism just by virtue of it all being part of the same dominance hierarchy I can easily imagine a nazi saying "treat women as equal?? Sure I'll let the dog and the cow vote next too"

If you want to read more about this from a feminist perspective I have been highly recommended The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams on multiple occasions but haven't found the time to read it yet

#Speciesism #Sexism #Patriarchy #TotalLiberation #Intersectionality #HumanSupremacy #Nazi