What book should I read next?

A lot of people gravitate towards "One Simple Trick" accounts of resistance and social change. In part because complexity doesn't make for potent narratives but also cuz folks want to be able to claim a monopoly on impact. In contrast I believe in a diverse array of strategies:

Anyway, security culture and diversity of tactics are good, snitching with cameras is bad. Online celebrities are a risk. Also radicals sometimes over-respond by being nuclear hostile to all normies and believing messaging and public perception are always totally irrelevant.

So like my partner at the time and I went thru a camp and ran across a pile of these normie lib white boys who'd shown up enthusiastically talking to a cop about how "police are part of the 99%" and "we're making lists of the *radicals*, we'll let you know."

The typical story was that anarchists ran the thankless infrastructure necessary to keep camps going, and did the lockdowns or street fighting to defend them from the cops, meanwhile the newbie libs from the internet focused on taking photos with cops and crafting really good tweets.

... because their imaginations are fundamentally captured by the authoritarian system called "democracy" and its mechanism of social change. Getting social media shares and positive writeups from journalists is seen as critical to "winning" in the nebulous sense of getting more voters on your side.

Every normie lib has exactly the same assumptions about How To Do Activism -- everyone should dress nice, pander to media, obey local authorities / laws, disregard security culture -- not just because they've been fed a bunch of lies about nonviolence and the civil rights movement, but also...

Occupy was the first time "people from the internet" showed up in on-the-ground activism, and it so infamously sucked for existing activists that it basically destroyed the counter-globalization era movement.

under no circumstances do you have to hand it to will stancil

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

would you love me if I was an immortal snail?

I wonder if with enough posting, we could get libs to organize the Wide Awake 2.0

Being “Peaceful” and “Law-Abiding” Will Not Stop Authoritarianism A Message from Germany crimethinc.com/MessageGermany In this analysis, anarchists from Germany explore how events from German history should inform those who are resisting the consolidation of authoritarian power in the US today.

My boss just suggested Atlas Shrugged and then called Ayn Rand a communist?????? He then said he's giving me his copy to read

success has many parents, and failure is an orphan, dissected by many hands trying to prove their vision correct.

sometimes I get the intense urge to leave everything in my life and wander the roads I wonder what that's about

just gonna post this thread again

I want you all to remember that no matter who you are or how hopeless it seems, there is always something you can do to help

What could my girlfriends mean by this gift

woooooooooooooooooo

4 girlfriends

one of my special interests is Sondheim shows and oh my gosh you did such a great job

i've been making original logos for sondheim shows for some reason so uhh please enjoy

if y'all are wondering how I'm doing (which more than likely, you're not) bad but good but horrid but amazing but hell but heaven but I've really gotten into sewing lately

Just finished "The Lathe of Heaven" by UKLG and what the fuck

holy shit

go ahead

TOMORROW BELONGS TO US

I wonder what my favorite books on my shelf say about me

"There's no better time to be trans than Seattle in 2025" If I wrote this and published it, I would genuinely walk into the ocean from just the shame alone

Imagine preparing for WW3 for decades only for your own country to decide "actually, we're done being the global hegemon" and detonate the trade power, soft power, and hard power within a year, Like lol, lmao

Being an anti China war hawk rn must be like getting kicked in the balls repeatedly while watching everything you did in life be destroyed right in front of you

Apparently experiencing extreme emotions after mentioning a traumatic event that happens to you counts as a flashback Huh

I keep my weirdness low key on this account but let me inform you that however weird you think I actually am, I'm likely more weird than that

god can i attest to the power of FFS and how it can improve a trans woman’s life. Please, if you can, help one of my best friends Aria. she needs this as much as i did and y’all came through for me 🙏 gofund.me/2fafddbcf

A friend bought me Skullgirls and basically taught me the basics So ig I play fighting games now

the problem with mechsploitation is that if you turn a girl into a dog that's also an ace pilot you've just succeeded in creating Snoopy

The horror of realizing my coworkers and boss love me when I'm dissociated to the point where it's easier to think of myself as a flesh robot that puts bolts in than as a person

What do you mean putting a lot of attention on a very small marginalized group that minds our own business was a distraction??

Probably not a great sign for my mental health that I'm starting to relate to Philip K Dick's tenuous connection to reality and the struggle to realize what is real and what isn't

Great disappointment 2.0 lol

"trans lesbians have straight privilege" as I have to carefully pick between "girlfriends", "partners", and "roommates" with everyone I meet

I give it that when the first food riots happen, if trump doesn't leave office first, the admin will be on the defensive and the ship really really starts sinking

Does the academic study of puppygirls count as animal testing? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Important science is being done

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Does anyone have any links to info about the current protests in Indonesia? I know anarchists are playing a major role and I want to know more about whats happening on the ground

to quote the goat show andor, "id rather die fighting than die giving them what they want" our enemies want us to do nothing beyond sit on our asses and complain on the internet. lets do the opposite of that and make an actual difference together.

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill Moreover, ICE must be destroyed edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...