I require poetry at this time Andrea Gibson - Come Become Beside Me youtube.com/shorts/hTR9X...

Instead of spending all that time & energy explaining basic humanity to people who don't want to listen, consider finding someone who is already fighting the good fight & giving them a hug or a sandwich or help or something Maybe people who value humanity are just a better investment

I need folks to understand that some people look at ChatGPT's role here & think "Who cares? That's a negligible loss of users." Some folks truly have mentally reduced every other human to numbers & transactions Do not focus on convincing those folks to be less awful. Spend that energy elsewhere.

If some fool ever seriously asks me to run a social science experiment using LLMs in place of human participants, they will have 5 seconds to decide whether we duel barehanded or with blades

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So many artists, writers, and designers I know have learned this lesson the tedious way, so let me co-sign this and say not only is it a huge waste of time and labor to listen to the "I'd buy that" crowd online, you will also lose money. Make what *you* want to make, everything else is noise

Conservatives have claimed for 70 years that they are somehow different from the “overt” racists and antisemites with whom they have maintained near constant collaboration. Maybe we can stop pretending there is a distinction here?

Pessimist: The roof of the house is on fire Optimist: The ground floor of the house is not on fire Professional far-right extremism understander: A rising tide of heat-related events has sown division within this house & some experts fear that its structural integrity may be under increased threat

6-7 again for the sociological win 🧪 “The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.” *culture* [Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]

Ideological promiscuity, so-called "NVE", "salad-bar extremism", and a bazillion related new terms. If you're in or near the University of St. Andrews later this month, I'll be there to talk about all this stuff and what it means. Come say hi. events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/prof-...

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What if, and stay with me, the barbaric and imperious way the United States responded to 9/11 is an enormous part of how we got here

My pets are making a very strong case for abolishing daylight savings

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

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Andrea Gibson - When Death Came to Visit youtu.be/tnq4DVkTWb8?...

You ever think you're finally fine with something & then you remember a bunch of other stuff that was buried even deeper than the stuff you just processed? Brains are extraordinary machines

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Wearing Nazi regalia is throwing a punch at everyone who sees you. It is obvious & intentional provocation. No benefit of the doubt or sympathy is warranted if someone responds to it.

Extremely wealthy, powerful people adopting the most wide-eyed rube posting style when it comes to technology that is obviously not doing what they say it is does have a reality-warping effect after a while

Pretty unhappy with recent glut of WW2 documentaries on Youtube which make no mention of antisemitism & play sad music over SS letters from the front That's how you propagandize for Nazis without saying a single thing in favor of them. That's how you bypass bigotry filters. So obvious & yet 🤦

I observed a great deal of rotting plant matter this morning ☕

Them frantically googling “what happened to Ernst Rohm”

When you see a smart person thoroughly invested in repeatedly misunderstanding something important, understand that it’s not so much about their capacity to comprehend. Their ignorance is a tool to discipline & control the thoughts and actions YOU are allowed to have.

Perfect day for an early morning walk in the bog

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How many documentaries about Stalingrad is too many? I don't even like them that much but I can't seem to stop

Molly Jong-Fast & Joyce Vance discuss ways people & institutions can step up when the government goes off the rails youtu.be/zt6XoRw7P2o?...

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It turns out that if you give fascist men a platform and listen to them (as some liberals say we need to do), they'll reveal themselves to be exactly who we already knew they were.

Time yourself when your practice your talk. Aim for a few minutes under your allotted time. I find the extra time allows for little errors & pauses during the event so it's less terrifying. It also encourages me to keep the information on my slides tight & relevant

"Modern authoritarian propaganda, of the kind we are about to receive from the Pentagon and perhaps other government agencies, isn’t designed to produce true believers or mass movements. It’s designed to produce apathy."

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Next week, on October 30th at 6:00 pm EDT, join @carleton.ca in welcoming @milleridriss.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, Man Up, and the explosive rise of misogyny driving mass and far-right violence. This event is free and open to the public. Learn more here: hubs.ly/Q03PYNM40

destroying the legitimacy of the regime is a real and valuable strategic outcome

"The invocation of antifa as a bogeyman serves the same purpose now as it did when Nazis were creating concentration camps in the 1930s and justifying their construction with lies about socialist and Jewish threats."

Can't stress enough that believing their own fantasies of racial superiority is a huge weakness in fascist governance. No one has ever taken state violence, subordination, & immiseration passively, even against the overwhelming odds of the Jim Crow state. A deeply unstable, impossible ideology.

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

If you're able, please consider donating to local food banks and pantries.

Important reporting on this ICE attack in Lakeview, Chicago at blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/l...

Extremely important point: "...there’s a visual language that has developed online among the far-right. And while DHS can insist they didn’t intend for it to be interpreted as Nazi propaganda, there are plenty of literal Nazis online who believe otherwise."

Head Up by Andrea Gibson youtu.be/gxG-fQwOj-8?...

@machete.gay has a working theory that political violence is likely to become more specific and targeted based on the personal grievances and pet conspiracy theories of the shooters and while the “Paranoid Style” is associated with the Right, typical ideological categories often fails here.

Andrea Gibson’s writing centered around gender, queerness, mortality, and social justice. Their talent as a writer and spoken word poet was just one part of their activism.