Rejection of AI slop cannot be couched in an adherence to the past! Without an articulable vision of the future you are doomed to be beholden to someone else’s. Why do we keep playing this game??

Example #1000 in the aestheticization of politics: many leftists hate liberals more than fascists because they cling to an entirely counterfactual idealization of 'authenticity'

The history of colonialism is a fucking bonechilling horrorshow whose extreme grotesqueries linger on as porn/ideology.

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

I need people to understand how disturbingly normal this is in academia.

people who live in modern western societies should be almost entirely vegan* *exceptions for ppl connected to indigenous foodways, occasional cultural tradition eating, etc. i don't get in people's business but if you care about labor abuse, land abuse, animal abuse, water conservation, etc.

Doing organizing work is putting in 20 hours of labor so that your coworkers can spend 30 seconds misreading a meticulously crafted email and respond with grammar suggestions before never showing up to an action.

Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint' 'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.' www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Enrique Tarrio is indeed here and currently chatting it up with honey badger. They also walked over here together from down the block

I think there is an idea on here that Access to Medical Transition is the most radical/root Material Demand, which is why there is a certain anger when that framing gets questioned. But I believe that while obviously access to medical transition is part of the agenda it's far from the most important

Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (2017), Melinda Cooper

This is obvious, but the refusal to fund SNAP is a means of boosting crime and further justifying fascist police escalation.

Interesting how Bari Weiss doesn't dare show her rat face on bluesky She prefers the swastikas on X

Love Portland Here are some restaurants in Portland providing free food as many people in Portland face food insecurity this next month Heretic coffee

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

While most of my peers were lavishing in their generational wealth, networking and securing book deals and postdocs, I finished my dissertation at Southeast Grind (RIP) while living in my car and between bouts of Postmates delivery driving.

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

We’re goin to fucking win.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

I am begging folks to acknowledge that the American people are morons who revel in their own cruelty. They are getting exactly what they want.

Liberalism is the weakest it’s been in a long time. There is potential in that. Exploit it. Build something radical, mutable, and sustainable.

How much is it pure ignorance and how much is it relatively well off liberals calculating that they can use radicals to slow down the fascism machine then swoop in to set policy when the tide turns, relatively unscathed?

Make no mistake, when the state imprisons a trans woman in a men's prison, it intentionally procures her for the purpose of having her raped. The statistics are extremely clear-cut and consistent in every jurisdiction where they have been collected. There is no way around them

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

If you aren't already boycotting Bison Coffee over their "coffee with a cop crap," you might want to start now. PDX-local.

Immergut: What I'll do is not modify my original TRO but issue a new TRO that prohibits the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to the state of Oregon....

As the mediated decay accelerates, our success depends on that which has become correspondingly difficult to manifest: how to transmit valid information effectively.

Legit think it’s fascinating to hear people say that the answer to centralized social media power can’t be decentralization because dispersed moderation is hard and full of drama. Mf you can’t make a server and you’re gonna overthrow the US govt??

Finally some good news!

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

One of the great and most exploitable weaknesses of fascism is that it genuinely comes to believe in the hype of its own claims to superiority, rendering caricature reality, and in doing so severely underestimating the resolve of groups it is targeting

the following is another survivor's statement about piper smith aka @/yourfriendpiper

🚨ATTENTION PRE RAPTURE CHRISTIANS🚨 God cannot allow your Toyota Tacomas and Four Runners into Heaven with you. I will buy them for pennies on the dollar and will assuredly not use them for sinfully hot gay sex

doctors don't want you to know this but the way to prevent having autistic children is to blow really hard into the husband's urethra before intercourse this one easy trick really works

I won’t be the first or even the hundredth transgender Trent Reznor clone, but I will without a doubt be the most inept.

A better world isn’t possible is literally the motto of the people who are benefitting the most from the status quo.

One of the great and most exploitable weaknesses of fascism is that it genuinely comes to believe in the hype of its own claims to superiority, rendering caricature reality, and in doing so severely underestimating the resolve of groups it is targeting

Fascinating that the dominant logic even amongst the left seems to be that the logic of capital will save us from fascism and boy do I have bad news for y’all on that front.

For over two decades, as anarchists have been sacrificed on the altar of these hilariously unconstitutional domestic "terrorism" charges, liberals have basically shrugged or at best furrowed their brows. Nothing was done to get the laws off the books. So yeah, Trump has legal means.

ICE has reportedly just taken two North Portland residents, one who was on his way to work and another who was with their 13-year-old child outside of a school. The kidnapping of our neighbors is horrific and unacceptable.

Are you local to PDX and have any extra PLA or other 3D printer filament sitting around gathering dust? I’m part of a mutual aid collective that prints functional things for houseless folks and we could use all the filament we can get.

Cowardice is not an option.

realizing how many people think only a sniper could make a 200 yard shot has been a real eye-opener for me this week

The golden retriever-ification of American politics.

Even more than their virulent adherence to a toothless liberalism, Americans have no substantive means of engaging with the politics of death. They fundamentally do not understand it and their willful ignorance is both palpable and dangerous in moments like these.