Not sure how f this is just a South African thing or if neighbourhood WhatsApp groups always end up being about some “dodgy character” walking somewhere who always turns out to be a person of colour.
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The problem isn’t Trump or fascism, it’s democracy itself
This guest column, written by PG on Crimethinc eight years ago, just after Trump was elected, pound out that “Fascism is Obsolete, Whiteness is Here to Stay”: https://crimethinc.com/2016/12/13/feature-does-trump-represent-fascism-or-white-supremacy
While that is a good point, I do believe it’s correct to call Trump a fascist: https://crimethinc.com/2016/12/16/counterpoint-yes-trump-represents-fascism even though that label might not be very useful as pointed out by PG and Robert Paxton: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/magazine/robert-paxton-facism.html
Hey Parents, Make Halloween Dangerous Again
In many ways, Halloween was my first taste of Queer anarchism
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/31/hey-parents-make-halloween-dangerous-again/
We are fucked no matter who wins
The idea that Trump could return to the White House is terrifying. Even if he doesn’t win the election, the fact that it was so close says everything, not just about the US but about the world we live in. Fascism is on the rise everywhere and I don’t even know what to say. Really depressing world we live in. And Gaza and Climate Change and the general state of affairs.
DJ St Dic still deeply mised
In the late nineties I went to study at the VUB in Brussels, it was also the time I got into partying to house music and into DJ’ing. At that time Pascal Saint Dic aka DJ St Dic was resident DJ at Fuse club in Brussels at the first floor playing house music. Scalle as he was know to his friends was an inspired me to dance my ass of and to play amazing music, no matter what genre. He sadly took his own life in 2006 and is still dearly missed by all those who knew him. I can’t say I knew him well, I only spoke to him a few times, he studied at VUB and worked as a barman at Kultuur Kaffee, the on campus bar and my favorite hangout. But I can say I still miss you, great DJ, great human.
Connect with Princess on the Fediverse | Mastodon
I have updated my profile on zonk.be and am connected to the fediverse. If you are on Mastodon, follow me as @dimi@zonk.be or go to zonk.be/author/dimi/
Website traffic spikes : spam or ?
In the Jetpack app on my phone, which keeps track of my WordPress sites, I keep getting these messages about this blog (zonk.be) getting lots of traffic: about 50 hourly views (which is a lot since I might get one visitor a day):
If you’ve ever managed a WordPress blog you’ll know spam is a huge issue. Even if you hardly get regular visitors those spambots will find your site and if you have comments enabled will pummel you.
It just seems weird that spambots would generate so many hits on the same page or all visit at the same time. So I’m unsure what the unusual traffic is about. It all seems to f be going to the archives page.
Anyone else experiencing this and figured out what it could be?
dimipiraat on Twitter/X is not me!
I deleted my Twitter account (now X) a while ago and I heeded the warnings that someone might take my username (dimipiraat). I just found out that has happened, so contrary to most places on the internet the user dimipiraat on Twix is not me!
Losing 2FA access
Two factor authentication is great and very necessary, I enable it in most places where it is available.
The one downside is that when you lose access to your phone you need to reset 2FA in a lot of places. And obviously the backup codes also always seem to get lost.
BTW: This is a message to Matthew who I hope can help met get access again to my Matrix Mastodon account that I have access to this domain and the e-mail I sent him wasn’t spoofed! 😉
Following my dreams
What are you most proud of in your life?
First time answering one of these prompts. What I’m most proud of in my life is that I’ve been doing exactly what I dreamed, imagined, wanted do. The most recent example is sailing across an ocean (check svtropicaldawn.blog for more on that), which has been a dream since I was a teenager.
Sailing from Cape Town to Brazil has been the culmination of a process of imagination started about ten years ago when I decided to first visit and then move to South Africa. And that was set in motion by the imagination of living somewhere else then Belgium where I was born and grew up.
I know I have been extremely privileged to be able to realise these dreams, I definitely do not want to suggest that it’s easy to just follow your dreams. But I know a lot of people actually could do it, if they let go of the fear, if that voice (inside or outside your head) telling you it’s not possible.