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If you aren’t solidly anti-fascist right now, you fucked up a long time ago.

Das Disney Jimmy Kimmel wieder ans Mikrofon lässt ist kein Sieg. Es ist eben jener, zur Kultur verklärte Markmechanismus, der uns genau an diese Klima- und Faschismus-Klippe geführt hat, an der wir als Spezies Mensch gerade stehen. Nicht Werte, allein Wertschöpfung bestimmt die Gesellschaften.

Stating the effing obvious.

This machine kills fascists. I recently read someone suggest that games and play were at their core antifascist. I wish it were so, but I don't think that games are inherently antifascist endeavours (war is after all a game)...

You want some grimdark nihilist fun inspired by Mörk Borg and Forbidden Psalm? Well look no further. Fully funded, and eleven days left to go. And it will give you my newest short story to boot! Go go go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

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New paper from Agata Waszkiewicz and myself: Rhyming Rudely: From Medieval Flyting to Invective Poetry in Video Games. For anyone interested in the traditions of insult games journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The month of May should always be about resistance. And watching Babylon 5. youtu.be/pmQmhVDdZiw?...

Do you want total war? Yes, you want total war! youtu.be/HJ8qGOe2K0o?...

Every single European head of state are saying the same thing: this was a shameful display by the US president and vice president. Every single one is siding unapologetically with Zelenskyy. This is the end of an era. The US is no longer an ally of Europe. The US is an ally of Putin.

Maia Sandu President of the Republic of Moldova 👏

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

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One of my favourite shows growing up was V, by Kenny Johnson. In V Alien visitors represents a fascist take-over through democratic means, in the vein of It Can't Happen Here. And the first thing they start doing is demonizing scientists and after a while persecuting them.

(This one is for the norskies out there, my classic Christmas Carol) Eg peaka som journalist i 2008 då eg intervjua julenissen for tidenes beste norske tidsskrift; Knokkelklang. www.patreon.com/posts/118462...

Med TV2s dustete reklamekampanje, økonomisk kvelning av hele kultursektoren, og et stadig voksende FrP, er det jo betimelig å spørre seg om hva ~ den norske kulturen vi må passe på og beskytte!! ~ egentlig er? Er norsk kultur å være hvit, selvopptatt og ha penger?

Facebook keeps asking Reading the headlines of the week I am thinking that there is in reality more than a letter's difference between Assad's regime topples, and Assad's regime topless. Now Facebook regrets asking me what I am thinking.about. How about you guys?

I'm not crying, you're crying! Shut up! And also coincidentally, and completely in related, I just watched the Ibelin documentary om Netflix. And so should you: www.netflix.com/no/title/817...