Benjamin Melançon

Please donate what you can financially, and contact me if you want to help in other ways, to help people find places to move and fund the move or make this stable community safer in their current location if the police will back off. opencollective.com/mpls-northside…

@NicoleP32329282 @MayorFrey Posted at S Cedar & E Franklin avenues, reportedly: @WorkersDefenseAlliance/110732761205966636" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">kolektiva.social/@WorkersDefens…

Every time the city evicts a encampment they put indigenous women at risk of being sex trafficked we need a solution @MayorFrey NO MORE STOLEN WOMEN

(though you'll have to check out @mlncn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">social.coop/@mlncn as i'm only posting on twitter in emergencies like these) @mlncn/110623091223130535" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">social.coop/@mlncn/1106230…

If you never hear from me again, John Myles of the #Minneapolis parks department did it.

@MarcyHolmesMpls Remember, hostility toward all people starts with hostility toward the most marginalized— while calling them please also let them know you are aware of their employee John Myles making threats both against unhoused people who are not on park land… and me: @mlncn/110623091223130535" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">social.coop/@mlncn/1106230…

Commissioner Billy Menz, District 1 bmenz@minneapolisparks.org Commissioner Meg Forney, President mforney@minneapolisparks.org MRPB Superintendent Al Bangoura abangoura@minneapolisparks.org (2/2)

Just learned that the Mpls Park Board is currently crafting a plan to shut down all access to the Stone Arch Bridge each night this holiday weekend (June 30 thru July 5) from 8PM!!! to 6AM. Please let the MPRB know how you feel about this: (1/2)

perhaps @TCparkresponder could do some selections?

Please someone steal this whole thread and put it on Twitter for me @mlncn/110618812471257090" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">social.coop/@mlncn/1106188…

and that one in particular you don't have to be in #Minneapolis there's a million ways to undermine this little local fascism DM me even if you don't join social.coop or another fediverse server first

a lot of the important news is getting broken not on this site and i don't mean the Russia thing i mean injustices you can do something about @mlncn/110597069998790062" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">social.coop/@mlncn/1105970…

RT @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io John Oliver did a crypto episode on Last Week Tonight! 😁 (I'm not in it, I just helped a little with the content and fact-checking) youtube.com/watch?v=o7zazu… @molly0xfff/110254763000226608" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/11…

browser to clear my cache every time I restart my browser, so seeing this happen multiple times makes me think there's been intentional effort to have this kind of "algorithm onboarding" @cwebber/110255571350968464" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">octodon.social/@cwebber/11025… (3/3)

religious stuff too eg you're listening to lofi girl and then suddenly at "catholic lofi" girl praying rosaries and you didn't notice and then suddenly you've got all this deeply religious christian stuff and you can't stop it without clearing your cache I set up my (2/3)

RT @cwebber@octodon.social somehow I've noticed that the youtube engagement algorithm seems to be repeatedly sneaking in a bunch of "subtly religious" content that then walks you into more and more extremely religious stuff, with more and more of it being right wing (1/3)

civil war that killed hundreds of thousands in the country between 2020-2022. #Facebook #Ethiopia #bigtech #hatespeech #misinformation aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/1… @zekuzelalem/110244414531190682" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journa.host/@zekuzelalem/1… (2/2)

RT @zekuzelalem@journa.host THREAD: Meta's massive Ethiopian failures are the subject of a multi billion dollar lawsuit. An intro for my new fediverse family, highlighting how hate speech and misinformation on Facebook incited bloodshed, worsened ethnic tensions amidst a (1/2)

RT @russss@chaos.social CW: UK, alert test Emily_S there's an "emergency alert history" page buried in the settings @russss/110248517560901920" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">chaos.social/@russss/110248…

but it also may bring a lot more tools to the table. #MentalHealth @yasha/110236980803505159" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciences.social/@yasha/1102369… (2/2)

RT @yasha@sciences.social CW: Mention of suicide research The current model for understanding suicide seems to be: faulty brain in a body. The model I think we need is more along the lines of: working brain in a body in a social context. It may be a subtle difference, (1/2)