But until you can talk openly about this stuff as an issue - if you can't talk about sex and you can't evaluate this stuff as a normal part of the life of everyone on earth, we're completely shit out of luck because you will never address any of this and your only crackdown will be on art and sex.

It's racism and misogyny and that's like the core DNA of capitalism because capital demands free labor and free resources to function. The endpoint logic of capitalism is the naked colonial bigotry of the Trumps, Musks, and Millers.

Pretty much the entire American fascist program is rank fetishism and a complete inability to deal with their sexual insecurity. Fascism in America is what happens when we started taking the Nice Guys seriously and elevating their rhetoric because Elon can't get his dick wet.

I don't really like people who are aggressive with other people's boundaries and I don't always know where the boundaries of others are so I'm not really interested in fucking things up. But I'm genuinely fixated on completely unrelated stuff, I want to talk about other things. I'd rather be chill.

I'm just extremely sick of the conflation of sex as dehumanizing, as sexuality as harmful, of sex as something less than human - as something shameful to avoid, something we need to purge. The less we talk about it the worse all our problems get. Fascism is also inherently libidinal and made worse.

People who've known me might be surprised that I'm so ardently pro pervert because I spend an inordinate amount of my real time thinking about seemingly unrelated stuff and my in person presence is probably the antithesis of horny to the point that my friends assumed I didn't fuck at all.

Most arguments can easily be resolved by giving me, personally, the nuclear football. Nothing could possibly go wrong. I can be trusted with the nuclear football.

the increase of bounty being a tool they're leaning upon more and more, predating on the economic precarity of people as the world gets shittier and the rich get richer, is of a particular note that i'm picking up on every citizen, a little fascist surveillance drone

good morning

Gazi bolting awake and levitating off the bed, eyes glowing

I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago...

farmers just sacked the airport in crete, btw (which is in greece)

I work from the assumption that 97% of all major queer discourse online was basically cooked up in Langley, Virginia, and immediately disregard it therefore. Hasn't steered me wrong so far!

I don't think these people are meaningfully libertarian in any sense of the word. That said I think most projects like this are going to fail slowly through disinterest but who knows we could get "Fire Festival: The Society"

they should build it at the bottom of the sea, and give it a fun name like rapture.

Not to get all bioessentialist but I'm pretty sure poverty doesn't do great things to your testosterone levels

This may just be Queensland parochialism on my part but I'm pretty sure most Australians regard QPS the same way most US Americans regard the LAPD

This is one of the few times I think Australians stealing an American narrative instead of making our own is actually justified because "Those who died / are justified / for wearing the badge / they're the chosen whites" is a pretty decent summary of the history of the Queensland Police Service

I think the first time I knew things were changing was when I went to an expensive restaurant with my soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend in late 2019 and the guitarist, confident in the knowledge that no one was listening, was very stealthily playing "Killing In The Name"

...why is it in a whisky bottle?

writers artists 🤝 getting our best work 🤝 done at 2am 🤝 🤝 criminals santa claus

this is what i fucking love about team gilligan's stuff, they take obvious plot mysteries that would be streeeeeeetched and teased out into a season's worth of crap, address them in three episodes, and move the fuck on to more interesting beats that are far more unpredictable. fuck a puzzle box

I just don’t understand what it is about Vince Gilligan that drives nerds to madness but boy do I feel bad for him

How about you just watch the tv show like a normal person?

if we don't punish the creators of Lost for their crimes we can never begin to heal as a nation

a lot of people seem to think that television shows are full of secrets and that analyzing shows is about looking for clues to reveal those secrets

i've recently been on pluribus tiktok and that show has produced an enormous amount of analysis from people who don't seem to understand art at all

Competitive sport where people see who can have the most cats cuddle atop their laps

What a shock, another Monday 😒☕

Half-Life 3 looks fucking SICK

"Hatred itself is a virus of this kind." - The Perfect Crime

I can recall somebody once saying they would probably use AI to fill in the details of locations in a book (building interiors, how they're decorated, etc) and this struck me as anathema to the whole act of writing.

"The same holds true for that figure of anti-seduction par excellence, power." - Seduction

it's him.......

Australian misery cinema is a fine art.

Heads, you fail to confront the psychosexual realities of life in a colonised landscape; tails, a roving hoon gang force you off the road and eat you.

I'd recommend a nice Australian movie from the 1970s but that's not really how we do things here. It's all either towns with dark secrets and the façades of polite society breaking down.

You almost never see movies about the 70s being nice. Its the Australia of decades cinematically speaking.

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This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.

Closeup because i think this is the saddest expression i've ever drawn and i'm very proud of it

'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery

Reading this piece from Asad Haider (RIP) on "PMC Posturing" which is operating at a level of analysis I've *never* seen anyone from the current Icelandic left produce. asadhaider.substack.com/p/pmc-postur...

A serious and consequential scholar-activist, Asad Haider was also a genuinely great dude. Taught me as much about tiki drinks, death metal, pipe tobacco, and close hand magic as he did about Reich and Badiou, and had a remarkably humane presence. RIP to a good one, gone far too soon.

Just heard that Asad Haider died. Mistaken Identity is such a clear-eyed book. A great loss.

I was lucky to study with Asad Haider while we were doing our PhDs at UCSC. I also remember sitting down with him, debating as we inspected used tear gas canisters during Occupy Oakland. He was a brilliant and generous thinker, and the world is far poorer without him.

extremely sad news that Asad Haider has passed away. i didn't know him personally but it'd be impossible to overstate how important his writing and editing in Viewpoint was to my trajectory. as I said last night, we are losing too many comrades.

rip asad haider. incredibly lucid writer and thinker