“They are beneath analysis.” Kiese Laymon.

“And in this respect, I’m coming to understand the AI hype machine as part and parcel of the fascistic project. That’s not an analogy. I’m not saying AI is similar to fascism, or parallel to it. I’m saying AI is fascism.”

Whatever happens, this is more proof that if you want the world to be better you just have to make it so. Take a risk and put yourself in the situation you want to improve. Whether or not this flotilla reaches Gaza, there will need to be another even larger. I hope to God I can join it

He did not fall

david lynch understood this

12 hours to go, and one of the people on board the flotilla is saying they think the israelis lack the capacity to stop all of the ships based on their behavior so far

what's wild about the waffles thing is they're pretending people are mad about them "wanting to make social media a nicer place" while what we're actually upset about the way they protect people and organizations who are hostile toward and dangerous to trans people by ignoring their TOS violations

As this all happens on erev Yom Kippur, I’m reminded of this passage from Isaiah. May we all dedicate ourselves to smashing every yoke and seeing that all go free and fed

Rage Against The Machine (Taylor’s Version) Tom Morello would absolutely play on this

fascism is make-believe at gunpoint. AI is not supplying the guns, but is supporting the make-believe. it is part of the project, and the project is fascism

we should probably raze it after this; the executive shouldn't have a mansion, they should have to live in a van down by the river

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Breaking: The Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italy's largest union with over 5 million members, is calling for a general strike in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Italian government vessels, along with Spanish ones, have abandoned the GSF www.instagram.com/p/DPRv1o6iDq7/

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A call to action from David Adler, a volunteer aboard the flotilla

So, they're not closing the roads into Yellowstone, but there won't be any rangers in the visitor centers etc. This is essentially throwing the doors WIDE OPEN to poachers in hunting season. It is going to be very bad for wildlife.

Because conservative freakouts since 2017 have completely warped the media landscape, I want to compile a thread of some contemporary instances of fascist violence against antifascists that were hugely influential on everyone I know 🧵

Works for government shutdowns too. If it does less harm shut down than it does active, perhaps it should be replaced

ojibwe gets it *sips morning medecine*

I did not have "marx would have loved ai though" on my bingo card

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the speaker of the house is gloating with maniacal glee that "now we get to fire everybody! dreams do come true!" while the vice president says "we don't want to fire anybody" I mean come on

National parks left open during a government shutdown under the last Trump administration experienced permanent damage - vandalized petroglyphs, chopped down Joshua trees - but they plan to keep them open once again.

I guess the government also shut down while I was deep in a "defying gravity" rabbit hole trying to remember who was in the cast the one time I saw wicked (eden espinosa, from anaheim it turns out! amazing)

not even close to the most interesting customer interaction I've had but a lady was in disbelief I had no opinion on the nicole kidman thing because "she's such a classy lady and he's a bum I mean come on!" I said well I mean she is classy I'm sure you're right

I thought I was hearing a noisy group of people down a random quiet side street but it was honking geese

Shots fucking FIRED. 😭😭💥

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I'm aiming for reading five of them and two are taken (Canisia and Kess), it's good to have so much!

a reminder, that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to memorials of poets who have recently died ; we can't expect standard media to do this, after all,

excuse me distracting myself with more delightful things but the vocals in Wicked (films) are live?(!) they probably sang those songs as many times as they would have on tour no wonder it's so good

Monterey Bay reflecting pink sky. #CAwx

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

he's got that hollow sunken nazi face now

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lots of bad things today I am here for hurricanes getting sexy as antidote

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People who have never been interested in representing your interests or fighting for them because the values of their job have actually never involved either of these things should have neither your trust, nor your labor, nor the benefit of a safe, insulated, irreproachable existence.

They found 38 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at Immaculate Conception Mission in South Dakota and it didn't make the news outside of Indian Country.

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

a less cowardly democratic party would take a note from lady gaga and say "who the fuck cares if we want transgender for everybody, that sounds amazing"

the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma

if the government has ceased to be something that does any good, and is only misinformation in collusion with violence in pursuit of political vengeance, it SHOULD be shut down

the US right has considered itself to be in a war with a left it desires to eliminate with violence for as long as the comfortable left has been in denial about that basic fact

This is such an essential phrase: “The only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.”