it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse

I need a win

just finished "manhunt" by gretchen felker-martin. very good read! apparently this book made some people very mad? that's funny

i was too poor to do anything right after the election but now that my paycheck has come in i feel like i should do something special for myself for getting on the NLC SC. a "treat" perhaps is in order.

@scumbelievable.bsky.social just finished "black flame" and i loved it. have you seen john carpenter's "cigarette burns"? it's one of my absolute favs and your book reminded me of it

this is what being a socialist in the labor movement feels like

got the last touch ups on my transgender hamlet tattoo

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

"At some point in the thick of the pandemic, I became briefly obsessed with a silly-seeming online controversy over what is known as the double-beat theory." defector.com/are-we-playi...

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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

listening to music and yelling "i win" at the end of every song

if these are the wages of fear, I need a raise! 🤣

This is incredible

just finished my first full essay ever on a marxist topic :3

every generation thinks they invented irony

me

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

Hulk Hogan is dead: defector.com/hulk-hogan-i...

Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.

ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

This is also partially cuz of class becoming so much more a barrier in the last few decade, you used to get big American filmmakers who actually had blue collar jobs pre making it big, you used to get more people with actual experience in the world

You cannot meaningfully respond to the current world truly when you can’t even say anything beyond bland vagueness abt a genocide

One of the problems with American film making rn is that most of the indie filmmakers that we all tend to love don’t really believe in anything

i started out on social media by finding posts where people would share something they really liked and reply that i didn't like it. "this dunk isn't that great," "this other movie was better," "i don't like that song." i really impressed people that way. that and bots are how i built my following

Australia's decision to require age/identity verification, including facial scans, in order to do a Google search is dystopian. We're watching the death of an open, anonymous internet, and the gradual takeover of information online by the state — under the guise of protecting children.

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

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I’ve seen enough. we need a new pronoun for LLMs and non-conscious subjects generally

Now that the DSA convention compendium is out and the Fighting Socialist Program is on it, we would love to present Amanda Levi's amazing art and beseech you: read, rank, and vote for the R&R/MUG program!

US Dep of State has revised the Foreign Affairs Manual to now bar immigrant visas to ideological supporters or members of any communist or socialist parties wolfsdorf.com/ten-things-t...

white transfem morpheus

Who up thinking about secular stained glass from the USSR

We need a Zohran in every city, but what made Zohran possible in NYC? Organized tenants, solidarity with Palestine, and unprecedented volunteer mobilization backed by mass socialist organization. Hear our NPC candidate Sid’s reflections on the campaign in Bed-Stuy:

democracy is not voting democracy is human instrumentality

mark your calendars because at the 2027 convention we’re redesigning dsa’s atrocious logo

why didn’t anyone tell me how good barbarella was

Trump birthday parade sponsored by coinbase

there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*

it’s honestly baffling how the pervasive overestimation of iran’s military capacity by marxist types has carried through like the past half dozen failures of iran to even retaliate. the best argument against it was always iran’s obvious unease with a broader conflict!

good time to remind everyone that israel is a US vassal state and never acts without permission and material support from the imperial core