Cybercat Works 2.0

Nederlandstalige versie kunt u vinden halverwege! Content warning: Discussions of racism, racist depictions, Dutch people being stubborn and extremely defensive about said racism. Inhoudswaarschuwing: Discussie van racisme, racistische afbeeldingen, Mensen die ongelooflijk koppig zijn over dit racisme. People protesting "Zwarte Piet"/Mensen die Protesteren tegen Zwarte Piet (English) It is almost December which means that the season of celebration and winter festivities are almost upon us. If you live in the Netherlands this also means that you will probably hear the discourse again about the tradition of "Zwarte Piet" and the racism it entails. About a year ago I wrote a script for a video about this subject, however I never made a video about it because I was afraid of the backlash I would get and because I feared that YouTube would delete the video and give me a community strike. In hindsight I am kind of glad that I never made the video because looking back at t...

Note: While I am going to be talking mostly about the Netherlands since that is my main point of reference I think that a lot of what I am going to say would also apply to how a lot of American Liberals talk about the Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Norway or even other European countries like Germany. Cw: None really but Pim is complaining about Liberals again I watch quite a lot of YouTube videos. This is not necessarily a good thing since YouTube has a lot of issues as a platform and there is quite honestly a lot of misinformation and misdirection on that site. However it also offers me a lot of content that is way more varied and interesting then anything I could ever dream off back when I still watched television. The internet has become a ripe source of information for me about almost every subject and YouTube is no exception to this. One subsect of YouTube is the educational video. These are videos often made with flashy animations that often explain a subject in clear te...

Content Warning: Discussion of police violence  It is a well known phrase among the left. "All cops are Bastards" or ACAB for short. It stands for justice and to make clear to the world why the institute of the police should not exist. You have all probably heard the theory and reasoning behind this phrase already. "All cops are bastards because they exist to protect the wealthy elite, they are bastards because they oppress the lower classes and marginalized groups with extreme prejudice, they are bastards because they protect Fascists and other far right agitators". This is all fine and dandy but I am not here to give a theory lecture. If you want to read about theory then go find some video essay on YouTube or read some literature. No instead I am here to talk about the powers that are behind those cops, how even so called "moderate" politicians and people are more then willing to defend the brutality of the thugs in blue.  Police brutality nowadays is m...

So this is not really a blogpost but a little while ago I created a bunch of sticker designs for protesting Tesla and Elon Musk. I made 2 designs in 2 languages but I never really got to creating stickers for them or really distributing the designs so hereby I am distributing the designs in both jpg and svg forms for the world to use.  I am distributing the designs under the following conditions:  You are basically free to use these designs for the creation of stickers and you are free to adapt these designs however you see fit. However I would prefer if you did not use these designs for a commercial purpose. Covering the costs for stickers and selling them like that is fine but I don't want to see like t-shirts being sold with them for commercial purposes. I made both Dutch and English language versions and they can be found as such: Design 1 English Version Design 1 Dutch Version Design 2 English Version Design 2 Dutch Version  You can find full size versions of the jpg...

 Content Warning: Discussions of Ableism, some criticism of left wing groups Intersectionality is the theory and framework by which we explain how a person's social and political identities combine, to measure the different modes of discrimination and privilege. This means that many forms of discrimination(and privilege) will often cross each other on an axis. We can use this analytical framework to measure the ways in which many people are disenfranchised and it has spread from it's origin in academia, to left wing praxis on the streets. Without intersectionality, civil rights issues and labor issues would still be separated from each other. Without intersectionality, queer rights would at best still be limited to decriminalization of homosexuality. Without intersectionality left wing groups in the US would have never grown after the 2016 elections and would have been completely crushed under the boot of Fascism, Capitalism and the American State.  Intersectionality is one of...

Disclaimer: The main bulk of this blog was written originally as a script for an unfinished video I planned to make about a year ago. The main reason this video was unfinished was because during recording and editing I noticed that the subject was a bit boring. Now that I have a blog I realize that the script is much better suited for this format. Small changes have been made to accommodate the medium Oh hey I get to talk about a hobby of mine for a change! You know, I get so stuck into politics-mind sometimes that I often forget that there is more to life then crippling depression and our selfmade impending doom. A very old hobby of mine that I recently managed to breathe some new life in is trains and railroads. As a kid I was always fascinated by trains, especially steam locomotives. The sounds they made, the smells they produced, the rhythmic thumping of the pistons, it always managed to calm me down somehow. Let's go back in time a bit and talk about a very interesting experim...

English Below Nederlands Een vrij lange tijd ben ik qua stemgedrag een aanhanger geweest van de SP. In die tijd heb ik meerdere malen op zowel lokaal als landelijk niveau op de SP gestemd. Dit heb ik gedaan in het verleden omdat de SP destijds de partij was wiens agenda en standpunten het meest bij mij paste. Echter naarmate ik mijzelf meer in politieke zaken ging inlezen(voornamelijk uit noodzaak vanwege mijn situatie als een persoon met een "beperking") is het mij echter meer en meer duidelijk geworden dat de SP met hun huidige partijbestuur geen interesse heeft om linkse politiek te voeren. De redenen hiervoor zijn mij niet helemaal duidelijk en zijn iets waar ik alleen maar over kan speculeren maar het is wel duidelijk geworden dat de SP partijbestuur in het afgelopen jaar een aantal beslissingen heeft genomen die mij heel duidelijk maken dat de SP niet mijn vriend is en ik zeker niet op hun voor ondersteuning kan rekenen.  Ik denk dat in dit geval dat het belangrijkste e...