Become ungovernable

Daily bunny no.3085 is heading into town

The leaders of North Carolina's state legislature are months late now in coming up with a budget for our state government - and they're not even actively working on it anymore. This is a big, flashing sign of incompetent and corrupt governance - and it has one fundamental root cause.

Ah, forgot a couple: - friends will get you through times of no sex better than sex will get you through times of no friends - extravagant romantic gestures are rarely received in the spirit in which they are intended. extravagant friendship gestures are.

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

what was the last thing that happened that was simultaneously normal, predictable, and inarguably legal

[glumly] i don’t know if it’s morbin time at all buds

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

i simply did not have the disney adult antifascist reading list on my late capital declining democracy bingo card and that’s on me

i see we have added a fireworks display

Sure is bsky.app/profile/kari...

i saw exactly two images of it today and they were a man carrying an extremely heavy wooden cross across the stage grounds but it had wheels hitched to the long end so it wasn't much of a burden and donald trump from behind amid a cascade of pyrotechnics at a funeral and both were very funny

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

you can raise a whole other person from birth and stretch all your resources striving to make life fun and fulfilling for them, and when you ask them, what is your favorite childhood memory, they’ll be like, moose pajama pants I found in the road

it's fine, the lost revenue will be replaced by the tourists flocking to the US. *puts finger to ear* i'm getting an update about tourism to the US...

breaking on cnn 6 *former* disney adults just raided epicot with balaclavas, ar15’s, and 6 Jedi Ultimate Lightning Passes. They have taken the bridge and the Second Monorail. The Mouse has barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. They are coming

If I could only recommend one book on the Holocaust as a European historian, it would be "Ordinary Men."

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

MUST SEE: The ending of this Mariners vs. Astros game is WILD 👀

Quick sentiment check: how many times per week on average does the phrase "To me, that's preposterous. Crab Rangoon, things of that nature" pop into your head for no reason? For me it's 10

Many survivors feel shame about how our symptoms get in the way of "adulting"-- but you need to know tasks like paying bills, being on time, car maintenance, & even basic hygiene often trip the "Big Three" CPTSD triggers: feeling controlled, trapped, or "in trouble." No shame.

hell yeah i bet this is toothsome as hell

I love them "why did you bring us here"

The email from Microsoft

Okay, because life is awful but my mentions have NOT been this week, I think I'm going to start an official thread of all the people who send me gorgeous looking focaccia! This is the book I have mind controlled everyone into getting apparently, but mostly b/c EASY BREAD IS FUN BREAD! 💓

french people be like "why didn't we think of this"

Car companies need to confirm once and for all if Will Arnett is doing the voiceover for a given commercial. The uncertainty destroys me

True age is using the facts I got from Pop Up Video when sick at my Grandma's to make conversation at a gay bar in 2025 "So the Go-Gos were so poor they had to rent the towels from Sears for the album cover to this album"

What the fuck are you even asking people to support if every position is negotiable and every line is movable? 'Vote for us, we'd like to be in office?'

kind of want

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Hospitals are the one I thought of first. They don’t have the money to sponsor the drs, they absolutely will not sponsor anyone in a “lower” position, and no one can afford it themselves. Our healthcare systems are *already* collapsing

*taps sign* sesquiotic.com/2019/07/06/w...

I am overwhelmed with this business whenever I am with my brother Abram. I love him worhy my whole heart, and I cannot suffer him to have a moment of peace.

Outstanding thread and discussion of oppression, allies, trust, & mutual interdependence. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

This is, for Freire, a sign of our supposed "allies" inability to trust us. Because they can't or won't trust not only that we know something, but that our knowledge is valuable, they're fundamentally incapable of being in solidarity with us. This, in turn, fractures our trust in our allies.

Here's the wrinkle, we need these supposed converts. Not only do they possess access to resources that have been denied the oppressed, but our liberation is interdependent with their liberation from being oppressors. If we do not free them from the situation of oppression, they'll just reinstate it.

Because they refuse to let go of this world, because they have been conditioned to see themselves as experts on all things, they can NEVER be the architect of the new world. They lack the capacity to transform the situation of oppression and liberate themselves from the ways it dehumanizes them.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

There is nothing "wrong" w/ us just because we struggle to directly communicate when we're upset. We're responding to conditioning that resulted from real experiences in our past. Realistically moving past it requires patience, not pressure-- from ourselves & others.

Market is flooded with product. As a recovering user, we always knew when a good shipment or new crew was in the neighborhood. Prices went down for a bit or you got twofers

important to remember that apocalypse is a fantasy that absolves you of your responsibilities

(true at a micro level too: part of C-PTSD symptomology is catastrophizing, becoming overwhelmed, and giving up on the insurmountable problem we've created in our heads--absolving us of actually exercising agency to do something about it. it's why "do the next right thing" is so powerful.)

I am an anthropologist whose research includes apocalyptic imaginaries. This is outstanding analysis. I’ll add that apocalyptic imaginaries can also encourage/be deployed/often are used to encourage & enable reactionary/“conservative” politics. Moreover we must destroy ICE & smash fascism.

I tried to say "everything you can measure is kind of a proxy, but not the real thing, and anything you actually care about you can't measure" but they cut the humanities anyway