hauntology

trade out "fairness" with "equity" and suddenly you're having to take actual material conditions into account; income, education, housing, crime, you have to cite studies and do math and, worst of all, have a coherent ideology. much easier to be "fair," whatever the hell that means.

i just think it's interesting that "fairness" as an institutional value only matters when the people we need to be fair to are a loud, bigoted minority of rich con artists and their impoverished thralls. they like "fairness" because it's impossible to define and inherently emotional.

"i don't agree with [x] but i believe in free speech and fair coverage" is just another way of saying "i agree with [x] but prefer to maintain plausible deniability." fairness itself always seems to drift ever rightward, growing in importance only when conservative views are on their way out.

fun fact: this has been true of every modern conservative hate movement in the usa from the tea party to gamergate to the alt-right and beyond. they only left the impression they did because a bipartisan bourgeois groupchat elevated them to create the illusion of consensus for their unpopular views

the loudest intro on tv

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screw it discount code: feedmecurrency mollynoise.bandcamp.com yes, this works on my discography :)

you never hear anything about cat burglars these days

The lesson of the "First they came for" poem is not arguing over who was literally first, but that oppression of anyone becomes oppression of everyone in time, and we have to shut it down as soon as we see it, everytime.

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too. Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

of course.. www.ontheditch.com/us-military-...

ICE was very active in Minneapolis today, they kidnapped multiple people. ICE didn't leave, the media has moved on but we are still under federal occupation.

was listening to a description of how selective breeding has transformed corn into an industrial crop and got emotional, like legit weepy, cause the idea of humanity fighting the eternal scourge of famine through an ingenuity that can unlock the potential of the natural world is so beautiful

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Militant Mary — Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, 1914

evergreen

Olympia, WA just codified protections for polyamorous and non-monogamous families. Now renters can move all their partners in without claiming "room mate" or "friend" to avoid discrimination. theolympian.com/news/local/a...

The United States is the world's biggest enemy

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another war another reminder the Irish govt gives the US free reign of Shannon airport, let the war pigs transport their weapons one way and run abductions the other Everyone fucking knows and still we permit this to go on and on no hell is hot enough

here's Twain, over a century ago, on those who would petition their god for victory in war warprayer.org

A real strength of Polanski over other left wing politicians is his willingness to go 'yeah, what of it?' to the right-wing press and this is an example. 'The genocidal state of Israel condemn us? Good.'

i put linux on my old laptop a month ago as a test case. i've been using computers for decades but i don't know code or command line shit or anything. and while there were some initial hiccups in getting things set up right, i've found the "linux isn't user-friendly" line to be vastly overstated.

seeing people actually installing linux this week after getting sick of big tech's perversion of the computer is unironically giving me hope. we can live in harmony with the computer when we don't let parasites in big tech put their evil sludge in it

Why does Android Automotive have OpenTTD as an available app?

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

POV: you are a mouse attempting to traverse a short grass prairie in the Arkansas Valley

What took generations of women to build is being dismantled by handful of billionaires rapists over the past decade. There’s no permanent equality unless we make sure no one can become billionaires and hoard power like this

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

universal healthcare would be unfathomably transformative. the entire job market and the relationship between employers and workers relies on the leverage of private healthcare, exchanging low wages and bad conditions for (the illusion of) good healthcare. we are being held hostage by capital!

KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Today's story how an AI bot operated by OpenClaw automatically wrote a goddamn callout post against a Matplotlib maintainer who refused its vibe coded PR tilted me enough i had to write my personal feelings about it (along with a quick recap): aria.dog/barks/ai-bot...

nothing you like will ever be safe until unionized workers have democratic control over the firms that employ them

i think it's cool that the soviets unambiguously won the space race