this is it. this is the way forward.

Back in 1986 you could already find an example of a man telling a woman to kill herself over a game review, confidently using his full name. And the magazine would print it with a cute little comment suggesting it was all a good laugh. spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?iss...

remember that if you're talking about King David and it's "he was a flawed guy" but not "he was a rapist" you gotta go back and reread

The fact that the whole establishment is behind this should tell us all we need to know. This is a desperate attempt by a failing political elite to seize control of the internet to make it so the next generation doesn't learn about anything that aging upper/middle class columnists don't like.

in this sense "class consciousness" is only actionable when it incorporates the gendered and racialized labour dimensions (and self-construction), and the dynamics of fractal core-peripheries, capital flows, and imperial & colonial exploitation. resolutely it this needs to look "beyond" nation

i think the moment when class consciousness stirs is not when someone is self-aware and conscious of their identity as a worker on the level of the individual but rather being able to conceptualize the collective space and time of workers across global value chains & the points of inflection

Back to this, again?

So OpenAI wants to license chatGPT generated content under what sounds an awful lot like copyright while their entire product and business model is predicated on using other people's content for free? Are those people listening to themselves?

Author of the Deverry books! Mortgaged her house to ease her husband's last years as he died of cancer! Needs donations via PayPal to [email protected] ! (I'm case you can't follow the fb link)

This is a definition that has literally nothing to do with working or class.

*squints* So if you pay to use their product, the reward you get is that you then have to pay them to use your own products????? That’s the plan????????

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Pretty clear to me that if Vance is coming to prance in front of the ICE church, savvy folks should organize a news conference of all the faith leaders whose houses of worship have been surveilled & parishioners too scared to attend. At least the ICE church folks could worship where they wanted.

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I’ve seen very few politicians denounce this blatant Islamophobia, which is a sign of just how normalized it is.

per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”

Breaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

When you cut your humanities and buy you a championship.

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Hmmm, you don't say ... so as virtually any tariff-oriented politician, policy work, or citizen with knowledge at the heyday of tariffs, say in 1890 with the McKinley Tariff, or Smoot-Hawley in 1931 ... knew well ...: TARIFFS ARE A TAX ON CONSUMERS🗃️

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this

Solidarity is not surrounding yourself with the desirable aesthetics of diversity. It is treating trans and queer people of color equitably and honoring your obligations even when — especially when — you are struggling.

The Legacy Museum, which is “perhaps the closest thing America has to a national slavery museum,” is free from government control and displays the “history that the Trump administration aims to de-emphasize—if not outright erase,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social argues.

this is because Dolly Parton is the equal or better of most strung- instrument players you can name, a fact often obscured by the vocabulary of iconography sometimes used to discuss her work. thanks for coming to my presentation this’ll take about half a hour

Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

petition to stop calling things cozy just based on the premise that some people mean "it has an ending which isn't 100% fully tragic" whereas other people mean "nothing of any substance happens in it whatsoever" and I just never know which one it is

Dear Brother/Oniisama e was ridiculously ahead of its time for including not just one but two Sickly Frail Butches

Katherine Kerr is in danger of losing her home after fighting the us healthcare system Please help if you can? (Sorry fb link, I have no other source) www.facebook.com/share/p/1Kbi...

Remember this when you see Newsom yucking it up w Ben Shapiro, nodding and shrugging while Shapiro slings anti-trans bigotry. The radical right isn’t kidding and they know Newsom is a weakling who’ll throw any and all Democratic groups under the bus

But when you have good people like Dr. King inspiring people you have one model of what religion is and can be. And when xenophobic transphobic fascist Christian theocracy is the model, well, yeah. (Ditto across every tradition, just Christianity is still 90+% of the people in the US).

it's all power, and power can be used for good or evil and is often used for evil--all forms of power. this included. For every Crusade, Inquisition, theological justification for colonialism or genocide or terror (across every tradition) there are prophets and mystics and great lights showing+

and obviously as we celebrate REVEREND Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day There is a lot in religion that offers the path towards light, and interconnectedness, and justice and truth and goodness and moral thinking and behavior and non-literalist engagement with these texts, ahem +

Begging wrestling podcasters to stop doing that thing where they treat all women's wrestling (especially in the west) as inherently lesser than men's wrestling after reviewing a bad women's match.

That definition is both false and the justification for constant pandering to white conservatism while ignoring the huge swathe of BIPOC people who are by income and type of employment a whole lot of the working class if not the hardhat lunch bucket industrial worker of a certain kind of fantasy.

Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!

Modern iterations of the Black Panther Party, particularly in Philadelphia, have engaged in training and mobilization for armed community defense against ICE. Funfetti Fact: Governor Ronald Reagan signed California's first gun control law into effect after the BPP started open carrying rifles.

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And actually, before all that: if you possess some kind of trusted relationship with the artists who have been harmed, ask them, "What do you need?" I've gone on record multiple times, saying how so many people, especially white folks and Americans (yes, marginalized Americans included)...

In any incident where your faith in an artist is broken and you are looking to support another, particularly victims of the harm said artist had perpetuated: consider buying their work, sending them money. A simple follow on their social media isn't going to cut it. And don't forget them either.

This is why the “just show your ID” message is insanity.

The federal government is contesting who has a *legal* right to the category of “American” in a manner that recalls the Dred Scott case of 1857, when enslaved spouses Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom and did everything the law said they should, and still lost!

In many different ways, ethnic and sexual identity groups of people are being marked for possible denaturalization, with the most vulnerable members of the most vulnerable minority populations being targeted first But we know from history that they will not be the last

another thing that gets left out was that not only was genovese lesbian, the tenement where she lived was largely populated by all the flavors of ppl who'd run the gamut of "acceptable target" for routine police harassment. call the cops on someone there, the cops might just kill them for it, easy!

Hello Magic Community! I’m reaching out to see if there are any remote part time to full time work out there! I have experience in writing, editing, and proofreading. Dm me with any opportunities! I had to quit my job because of disability and remote work is the only work I can do.

We have already seen a case where a woman (Chicana) who was born in the US was held for a long while even after her birth certificate from an American hospital was presented. They simply insisted that the birth certificate wasn’t real. These boundary shifts are intentional, and they have precedent.