🐚 ms_xenophora 🐚 @xenophora@mastodon.art

I have another small art project on the back burner. If you're comfortable with languages besides English, I'd love your help with it:

What's the most coherent and/or poetic way to translate the following sentence:

"Will the rose survive?"

I know online translators exist, but they're not always sufficient.

Thanks in advance. ☕

Without anti-militarism (or anti-interventionism) your anti-fascism is doomed to be as frail and hollow as a blown-out egg. :(

"Hi I'm Fred The *~*Prog*~*Creative*~*. For 3 yrs. straight I will attack mainstream Dems to get the social capital & hits I crave. During the election year it's different. I slam Greens & any other Left off-road challengers using the same bullshit vote-Neolib-or-die arguments rags like *La Nation* were already peddling when I was still learning to read.

"I'm Fred & I don't really understand shit but ha ha ha I win b/c neither do my fans."

[robo voice:] Oh yes please more auto-crossposts from Birdland build build build your *~*brand*~* and preen endlessly about all the platforms you spam while never even once having a real convo with another human oh yes please I just can't get enough [whirr click]

So glad about Le Birdhouse's new layout, which makes it so much easier to see that Jeff Conehead and Tiger Bratdown Lady still exist and are both still unrepentant barrels of slime.

"I'm not a Neolib I'M NOT I used to like that Lefty candidate but then I stopped b/c Lefty's fans are so rude and MEEEAAANNN!!"

Sure, Pal. And I'm better at tennis than either of the Williams sisters.

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It can feel painful and disorienting to see our Whiteness as others see it. On the other hand, just imagine if we could see (and articulate) real challenges to White corporatism in our daily lives, even in the relatively modest ways we see challenges to Whiteness on this platform.

...And before anyone asks, I'm not disputing the need for us to make better buying choices if we can. Nor am I disputing the value of mass revolts against corporatism and environmental destruction led by POC. But obviously we need to do more ourselves, higher up the food chain, and it's clear we have yet to really address that with each other.

Now if we could just create a force or platform that would make it possible for us to move beyond the mantra of individual choice as the driving wheel of world-saving. Now if we could just get in front of White Corporate leadership en masse and make its engineers heed us, the way we are trying (albeit in baby steps, and with setbacks) to heed and do better for oppressed people we meet on Fedi every day.

Who decided it should be this way? Who decided that this state of affairs was purely the result of the individual buyers at big chain markets? It wasn't you, and it wasn't me. Though obviously, these are mostly decisions which originated with other White people.

I'm glad that we can interact with each other in this space and try to understand the impact of racism and our responsibility to end it...

I mentioned this example before in another setting: I buy vegetarian "burgers," which come in a big, unnecessary plastic tray (and in plastic and paper wrap, to boot). The tray has a recycling stamp on it. Nobody in this town recycles it. Most plastics I bring home with me after a shopping trip are stamped with a recycling symbol, but they still end up in the trash because no one will assume responsibility for collecting the plastic.

Praise Dog! Tomorrow I can go in at my regular time! 😅