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My camera shoots fascists

After the protest in Tucson today, a group went to the iconic "a mountain" and hung an upside down flag

Hanging upside down flags on local iconic landmarks should happen everywhere. After the one in Yosemite on El Capitan, the meaning is widely recognized. It is an easily reproducible meme-action.

An aerial view of a desert mountain with a giant painted white Capital letter "A". The "A" is made of cemented rocks painted white and stands for university of Arizona. It is visible from all across the city of Tucson. I'm guessing it is approximately 80-100 feet tall. Across the middle of the "A" protestors have draped a giant American flag upside down.
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My camera shoots fascists

"A Mountain" flag protest up close for scale.
I'll have more pics from Tucson later.

A dozen people or so are holding a giant American flag upside down on a hillside where there is a giant letter "A", made of cemented rocks and painted white. The "A" is probably around 100' tall from bottom to top, dwarfing the people standing on it.
My camera shoots fascists

This is a large, busy intersection with people lining both sides of all four cross streets. Constant honks and waves from vehicles going by. I don't have an estimate on the number of people, but it was quite a respectable number and a very lively crowd.

A group of people lining a busy street all holding various signs protesting Elon Musk and Trump. One visible sign says "stop the coup" and another says "shame on Elon" and another says "democracy dies in silence."
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Tangential: as an experiment, I posted the same OP photo, the aerial of the flag on the "A" on my infrequently used Instagram account. As of just now: Mastodon: 87 shares, 88 likes. Instagram: 10 likes.

Granted, I have half as many followers there and haven't been following new people for quite a long time and don't engage much there, but corporate slop aside, that's one of the reasons. If you're not willing to aggressively attention-farm the algorithm, you don't exist.

Edit: 32 hours after OP:
Instagram: 14 likes, 1 share, 1 troll.
Mastodon: 112 likes, 105 shares, some nice comments by actual people.

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@Mikal

Nice to see! Must say american protesters are very civil about it. In most european countries the protesters would probably glue themselves to the road blocking the whole intersection. Or pile up tractors and hay bales over the road.

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Jef Poskanzer

@Mikal I do similar measurements occasionally and every time Mastodon gets way more engagement than other systems. So why, you might ask, does the myth that 'No one uses Mastodon' persist? Simple: it's because Mastodon uses the 'nofollow' tag, which means that the engagement can't be measured remotely. You have to actually participate here to see it.

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@jef

I do that with new blog posts, by posting here a couple of days ahead of any corporate social platforms. There may be some random organic traffic, but when I post here and there's a sudden spike, I can pretty much assume virtually all of that comes from Mastodon. After that, compare Instagram and Facebook, if I decide to post there. Occasionally, Facebook will cause a big spike, but never as much as fedi.

Again, I don't even try to work those other platforms because I dislike their very existence, but that's what it is and I'm not willing to work for free for a billionaire who could decide to delete me.

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