"This hostility to authority and the use of power is connected to why liberals—from the classical liberal right through ultraliberals—focus on 'consciousness raising,' slogans, right-thinking, and demonstrations of moral conviction.

spent yesterday afternoon giving @crabby-girl.bsky.social the first pass on the most ambitious tattoo i've attempted yet

Dream. I'm at a crit. elder critic unadorned, severe all in black grey shock of shoulder length hair, surrounded by groupies. To the artist: "What are you trying to achieve with this syncretism?"

a religious conspiracy to use state institutions and resources, but to build status rather than power

memorial service 1/2 complete, cry sacks shooting blanks frfr

malefail (dishonorable)

mfw the material recursion of rail, steel, coal

I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired

"is your day job in HR?" 💀💀💀

I do some of the largest scale mutual aid work on the planet. You absolutely cannot mutual aid your way out of state capacity. You can reduce some of the short-term harm via mutual aid. But that's a stop-gap measure, and here's why.🧵

people wonder why alphas don't actually like women, but then they're not ready to talk about cis aap meta-attraction

Imagining the forbidden MTA rites of passage that happen here

it's funny how the need to feel safe is often the most dangerous thing about us

for any strong claim of media determinism (eisenstein - printing press as agent of change) there's always a counter that cultural uptake of technology matters (johns - nature of the book) I can know this and still feel certain that meowmeowaiart and the kirkinator are ai video showing its true face

one of my fav psychology experiments from last few years is putting undergrads in a dark room and directing them to narrate their stream of consciousness for half an hour, transcribe everything and then code for topic

unexploded ordinance

apprenticing myself to relentlessness

TIL research on home hygiene in the developed world is largely funded by cleaning supply companies

Горячие зрелые существа в пяти парсеках от тебя!

I realize that all the "we are going to win" inspiration posting codes as aesthetically liberal (being left is being unimpressed) and invites the responses you'd guess from a certain genre of more radical than thou poster but still surprised at the particular condescension strategies people go for

how far down do costs for DIY crispr-cas9 have to come before we start to get haplogroup targeted bioweapons

It's like starting a fire in the rain.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Reading article draft on subway on way to workshop, it's good, very smart and nuanced shit about political violence, author casually drops they've lived in [a conflict zone] their whole life and have never held a recognized form of citizenship, realize I'm crying so hard people are staring

prob need some VCR head cleaner for this one

spotted another one in the wild

imagine scraping a particular abstruse fandom dot com community in 300 BCE

as this age draws to a close, it comes time to collect all the unanswered questions that lurk in the margins of our murky cosmology, uncertainties too tired to be carried forth into the harsh daylight ahead, and thus to preserve our cries of ignorance for the next world

we can still make #性别цели happen

you show up for the mysterious "whipping mentally ill women" event after calling 10/10 it was gonna be text banking, the only surprise is the one volunteer who busts out jello shots after it wraps this is the spiritual essence of 2025

Hey! Great to see you at the orgy Sunday, just wanted to reach out and make sure you're still a 5 (strong support) on don't ever kys. We all know this is a really important campaign. Daylight savings is crunch time. If you can move anyone else, even 4s to 5s, this is how we win. Solidarity, C.

mood

really powerful anthology of transformative justice inspired reflections on intimate partner violence in activist communities. if your first reaction is to think "I don't need that" - please take a second and ask yourself why.

the crack resin was left over from a wake. smoking it was the beginning of my short but successful career getting hippies to try smoking crack.

lots of death lately, so thinking abt growing older and seeing people advance through a series of social roles filled by other occupants before and after them. the ending of the wire (sorry)

Z's new trans rights propaganda clip introduces Sylvia Rivera for the uninitiated but backed by Sophie's coming out track.

100% Nirvana speedrun w/ Minecraft prayer wheel farm Infinite Merit glitch

is there a TVTropeslike for subtypes of body horror like "surrogacy / uterus transplant but there's a catch" ?

today was a shitshow but I got ffs letters in

they hate disseisor rights so much most of us have never even heard of them

wirkungsgeschichte isn't just about text ethnicity can be an echo of a state other than this one, racism can be an echo of laws other than these

I missed her

(discourse voice) if state violence is the most consequential kind of violence, doesn't that make anarchism a kind of pacifism?

phonological distinctive features are a great general model for theory in at least two ways: they pull apart what seem to be independent phenomena into a single matrix of relationships and make you want to think this is how everything works (when at best it's like 90% of one thing)

oh shit 2k posts, I guess I might be starting to develop a habit

here's the line I tried: curiosity is a space where people can change, and stewarding that space is a skill