A lot of people need to confront why they love the myths of a dying empire more than actual human beings.

See, the santa elves are humans that live under elven rule. They make them dress and labor like that for a grim kind of amusement.

I’ve just never understood the way that leftism leaves people’s bodies the moment the subject of guns come up. It’s so ahistorical.

As much as I adore "This Year," I move that this be The Mountain Goats New Year's song this time around. It is a mood right about now. youtu.be/4VxY0ZoR6SI?...

Yeah with a culture like this it's not hard to see how the vaunted halls of american journalism fell for Trumpian fascism hook, line and sinker.

When I worked for my local NBC affiliate, the antiwar protests would go right by the studio. One afternoon I asked about doing a live shot with them. "I'm not putting THOSE people on camera" the news director snapped back

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Yes, Weiss spiking the CECOT story is awful. Yes, her job is to be a fascist collaborator and it always has been. Yes, she knew that and so did the establishment media that made her career. Yes, this is where american journalism's servile deference to the powerful was always going to lead.

Tyrant seeks to build a grandiose, outdated "golden fleet" he loudly declares will be unstoppable. Somewhere, a greek chorus escalates its chanting. #lateempirebingo

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

????? This is why I won't let this go. These people are so fucking proud of themselves. A MILLION DOLLARS FOR A RACIST GRIFTER??

Yes, Weiss spiking the CECOT story is awful. Yes, her job is to be a fascist collaborator and it always has been. Yes, she knew that and so did the establishment media that made her career. Yes, this is where american journalism's servile deference to the powerful was always going to lead.

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

A lot of people need to confront why they love the myths of a dying empire more than actual human beings.

The most heart breaking part is this kind of "journalism" high up editor logic is NOT unique to Weiss. I wish you could've heard what I heard when my work was killed, silenced, suppressed and silenced (or at best, just criticized). It's eerily familiar. In some ways identical.

I remember similar questions about if the proto-technocracy's atrocities in Sorcerer's Crusade were exaggerated when the books literally include multiple lists of real-world anti-colonial texts they're drawing from.

Every so often I see classic Werewolf fans ask why Pentex does the evil shit it does and it's like, let me tell you about every real world major corporation ever

God forbid women have hobbies.

Oh but I thought they were just gonna come for us trannies. 😒

This. My queendom for a more accurate approach to the medieval era too. Grimdark sludge takes on it are just as off as the older pastel chivalric fantasies. It was wildly colorful AND violent. Beautiful, weird and full of catastrophe. That should be a playground for filmmakers. Yet here we are.

It's that time of year, so why not get some trans sapphic scifi to enjoy in the long evenings? My books are available in paperback and DRM-free ebook format! Grey Dawn: buff.ly/Dih2pzl Confluence: buff.ly/QEAEfNy DRM-free ebooks: buff.ly/wIsOTDm

This is superb. Enjoy y'all.

Sometimes I honestly mourn what piling stress and capitalism on this natural time of rest, connection and nourishment has done. I hope y'all still nurture and find some of that, during this time.

Our place in society is decided by struggle not language, you're playing word games and they're punching you in the face. Stop arguing about language and start fighting back Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

LMAO someone said dude is going to Fallhalla and I am DYING!

Direct action works! Also, peep game that one of the first things the US did a month or two ago was bump up security and having police at grocery stores.

Happy holidays everyone Winter sprite and Yule goat, gouache on paper

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As this Crimethinc article I keep coming back to says: crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/w...

Ecologists are sounding the alarm about the deleterious effects of AI and data centers on the climate and the health and economic conditions of local communities, while Big Tech giants are lobbying politicians like Trump to dictate the media narrative, state investments, and municipal zoning laws.

Watching a random history vid and it is somewhat amusng to hear the Brit narrator struggle to pronounce Ocracoke (he's saying it Och-racoke, not Oak-ra-coke).

The nyt’s anti-trans coverage has always been Sulzberger’s political project. He and his lieutenants saw trans ppl as easy prey, a way to show the right wing the nyt was not a “liberal rag” and pay no price for their bigotry But there is a price: the lives of trans ppl, especially young ppl.

These decisions came from the top. From its first stories on Cass to this day, the nyt falsely portrays its supposed authority and ignores the vast evidence that challenges its politicised assertions. The nyt ignores the far greater number of reports that align w real doctors and actual research

The nyt soon gave Cass herself an unusual news platform to dismiss her critics and, further, to say that US doctors were “out of date” on gender care. The story’s “conversation with” format, rarely used in nyt news coverage, allowed Cass to repeat her assertions uncritically and without context.

The nyt’s first story on the Cass report didn’t come out until the next day, when it portrayed the document, falsely, as part of a movement in Europe to restrict care. No such movement existed. France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria were taking positions in opposition to Cass and in line w doctors

Important thread from a former NYT staffer breaking down how the paper's genocidal anti-trans crusade is directed, top down, from the highest levels of the organization. Stop putting bullets in the gun that's killing us. Boycott the New York Times.

America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities. The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.

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My grey's really coming in, enhancing my "I do not find your excuses convincing" glare.

Corinne consisently has some of the sharpest, most non-nonsense analysis of the rules and legislation targeting trans communities.

Drop Fortnite

I've seen a wide array of experienced organizers, history and social science folks livid for awhile that Erika Chenoweth's highly dubious work's been regularly invoked as fact, fueling some very detrimental protest practices. Well, over at TNN we've got an in-depth debunking.

"Trans people have always been here and always will, so its okay if I dont do much to save the current batch"

Genocide as a policy takes time to construct and build the engines of mass harm. It's not actually sudden; it's generations of glowing red flags ignored because society supports the hierarchy that ends in atrocity. Fire left unchecked, burns all. bsky.app/profile/prop...

That's just called Lesbianism

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"3.5% rule" "60% of nonviolent protests succeed" You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source. In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest: