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Benjamin Melançon @mlncn
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Benjamin Melançon@mlncn
17 Nov 2020
Replying to @mlncn
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-nort…

Minneapolis Northside Mutual Aid - Open Collective

We are housed and unhoused neighbors supporting each other with masks, meals, heat, and hope during COVID-19 in North Minneapolis.

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Benjamin Melançon@mlncn
18 Jul 2023
Replying to @NicoleP32329282 @MayorFrey
Posted at S Cedar & E Franklin avenues, reportedly: kolektiva.social/@WorkersDef…

TC Workers Defense Alliance (@WorkersDefenseAlliance@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image #Minneapolis to destroy #houseless people's only homes with less than a day notice at the intersection of Cedar Avenue South and East Franklin Ave AGAIN. Temporary night-to-night...

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Angry Grandma@NicoleP32329282
18 Jul 2023
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
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If you never hear from me again, John Myles of the #Minneapolis parks department did it.
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(though you'll have to check out social.coop/@mlncn as i'm only posting on twitter in emergencies like these) social.coop/@mlncn/110623091…

benjamin melançon (@mlncn@social.coop)

5.54K Posts, 2.22K Following, 1.31K Followers · Web dev in a worker coop: https://agaric.coop Fighting for greatest power possible for all people over our own lives-- soon. Meantime, i try to do no...

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Benjamin Melançon@mlncn
28 Jun 2023
Replying to @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: social.coop/@mlncn/110623091…

benjamin melançon (@mlncn@social.coop)

I was in the woods when John approached me. He told me to leave. I asked him to acknowledge my request to leave anyone living outside alone, to not harm anyone. He refused to acknowledge my request...

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Please someone steal this whole thread and put it on Twitter for me social.coop/@mlncn/110618812…

benjamin melançon (@mlncn@social.coop)

Please join me in literally calling on #Minneapolis #Parks and #Recreation #Board to stop their employee, or any employee, from using their #official position to target #unhoused people – who are not...

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perhaps @TCparkresponder could do some selections?
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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 social.coop/@mlncn/110597069…

benjamin melançon (@mlncn@social.coop)

A one-person encampment on railroad land was told shortly after noon today that #Minneapolis Parks & Recreation would be coming through Monday and "you had better be gone by then"

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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

social.coop

A Fediverse instance for people interested in cooperative and collective projects. If you are interested in joining our community, please apply at https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Registration_form

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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=o7zazuy_… hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110…
Credits of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Special thanks: Ryan Clements, Molly White

ALT Credits of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Special thanks: Ryan Clements, Molly White
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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)
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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)
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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" octodon.social/@cwebber/1102… (3/3)
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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)
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civil war that killed hundreds of thousands in the country between 2020-2022. #Facebook #Ethiopia #bigtech #hatespeech #misinformation aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/1… journa.host/@zekuzelalem/110… (2/2)

Meta sued for $2bn over Facebook posts ‘rousing hate’ in Ethiopia

A lawsuit filed in Kenya alleges Facebook's recommendations systems amplified violent posts, inflaming the conflict.

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RT @russss@chaos.social CW: UK, alert test Emily_S there's an "emergency alert history" page buried in the settings chaos.social/@russss/1102485…

Russ Garrett (@russss@chaos.social)

Content warning: UK, alert test

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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)
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but it also may bring a lot more tools to the table. #MentalHealth sciences.social/@yasha/11023… (2/2)

Yasha Hartberg (@yasha@sciences.social)

Content warning: Mention of suicide research

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RT @doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AudreLorde mastodon.world/@doctorjaymar…
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RT @coloradosun@mstdn.social A Durango homeless encampment’s closure left many with nowhere to go. Now, the ACLU is threatening to sue. Read more: coloradosun.com/2023/04/14/p… mstdn.social/@coloradosun/11…
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