Hey folks! In case you're interested in seeing how the "MIDSOMMAR: All the Bells and Dogwhistles" video is coming along (spoiler: it is), I made a behind-the-scenes video chatting about the script, storyboard and other nonsense. Go awwn, give it a watch - I recorded it on my birthday!

Hey folks! In case you're interested in seeing how the "MIDSOMMAR: All the Bells and Dogwhistles" video is coming along (spoiler: it is), I made a behind-the-scenes video chatting about the script, storyboard and other nonsense. Go awwn, give it a watch - I recorded it on my birthday!

Wait, let me get this straight. The entity suing a drag performer for "trademark infringement" is not Patagonia, the region in South America with a rich cultural and historical legacy, but a brand which appropriated the name of this region to sell clothes? This is some Disney Hakuna Matata level BS

I bet you have

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The youth of Gaza have gone without skills development, work, education, and community-building for 3 years, but will have to carry Palestinian society through whatever comes. Spark is enabling them to do just that. Read more + keep the lights on! 192/770 by Sunday. chuffed.org/project/spar...

She sees you

After years of learning artistic anatomy, I realised that there aren’t that many differences between men and women as you’d think. Lifestyle and familial genes play a much bigger role in body type so don’t feel limited by gender in your drawings 🫡

Today I learned that companies are using the term "AI-native" to mean "we use AI well", and there are plenty of things to be said about that but as a recovering linguist my outrage comes at the fact that there is no definition of the word "native" which comes anywhere near to meaning that

In nation-states, the class of people always denied fundamental rights are “migrants.” The way we change this is to eliminate the legal (and social) distinction between “citizens” and “migrants,” ie abolish citizenship

@grenzfurthner.bsky.social Johannes, I just watched SOLVENT last night and wanted to say, INCREDIBLE. I research the far-right, esp. with regards to colonialism, & the nuances you managed to capture of the Post-Holocaust legacy, the performative activism, the metaphors of the elements... Thank you!!

@davidfutrelle.bsky.social Hey David! I'm trying to find the name of a particular wanker in your archives for an upcoming video but there's so much gold in there to wade through. Do you reckon I might be able to DM you? I think maybe you have your settings configured so that mutuals can't message 😅

Launch of the latest in the MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Do join us if interested in imperial Britain’s response to Indian disasters?

I have to say, as much as I hope this will impact Kenyon's success in the by-election, I don't think this is the slam dunk against his voter base that it really should be. Lots of people genuinely *want* people like this to represent them. There needs to be a better way to hit them where it hurts

Taiwan is still here bra

aka colonialism vs. reparations You don't get to make a profit off of theft and then ask the people you robbed "but what's in it for *us*?" when they ask for it back

And a shift that will hopefully further reduce traffic to Google too 😘

None of this discourse is feeding anyone. A coffee will. As the occupation escalates every aspect of this genocide, pay attention and take new action for tomorrow. Help 21 families eat, make it recurring (a five is best!), then act: chuffed.org/project/hope...

At this point in my budding academic career in deconstructing white nonsense, I have seen so many instances of 19th-century white dudes salivating over perceived cannibalism in non-white places that I can only assume that as a society they have an unfulfilled vore fetish #KavPhD

"Alexa, burn my ears off"

You could just read scholarship before you cite it and only coauthor pieces with other people who do the same.

Surely if you're citing someone in your work it's because you have, I dunno, read the source yourself and feel that it relates to what you're saying?? What is this white nonsense

horrified that people are making AI videos of Mullivaikkal. Extraordinary Tamil photographers witnessed & documented the mass atrocities committed by the state & the immense suffering of those who were being bombarded in the NFZs. Honour their work. See: itjpsl.com/reports/war-...

Since I wrote this some years ago, I have added a postscript to distinguish between misuse of 'BAME' [and other related terms] and its inadequacy as an umbrella term as 2 separate problems. However, racism remains [by far] the much bigger and underaddressed problem. folukeafrica.com/the-only-acc...

I appreciate people sending me the new CDPR Senior writer posting. However, I actually applied, interviewed but didn’t make the cut last time they had the same role open a while back. I’ve just accepted I’m not good enough for the industry or have a place anymore.

Recently I saw a documentary on Shudder on women in horror, & it moved me to tears because of just how many female directors and writers were there, sharing their wisdom. Visible for fucking once. I didn't know what Mary Harron looked like until that documentary, & that fact alone destroyed me

Very bored of seeing talented women/AFAB ppl (especially BIPoC) being chronicly overlooked for relevant opportunities in every industry they excel in I'm seeing titans of industry with years of experience working harder than their peers, struggling to be employed again after a project finishes

I don't normally post text walls, but this message I wrote is so damn important to me. Please read if you have a moment, and if you have never heard of this history before today, please consider giving the gift of knowledge to others as well ❤️

So the script for my "MIDSOMMAR: All the Bells and Dogwhistles" video essay is currently looking to be two hours long. Why is MIDSOMMAR so nuanced and fun to talk about I need to edit the shit out of this before it destroys my long-video-despising ass

There is something truly upsetting about the fact that there have been survivors we could talk to this whole time, but due to a combination of cultural shame, censorship, media/political spin and our lack of awareness in general, this hasn't happened to the degree it maybe should have

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

The Decolonial Discussion Group I manage has one member who posts entirely on Ukraine (which is fine) & one who has it in mind that anyone posting about Ukraine is ignoring previous Soviet efforts in decolonisation, & now it's become a dueling banjos match of Soviet vs. Ukraine propaganda Send help

I smell the triumphant rise of bootleg hardware and Internet piracy

I am going to assume this will follow the formula - Pick other thing with larger impact - Use that comparison to downplay need to act on AI / data centres - Pack in a bunch of caveats and mutely ignore how the post gets picked up boosters and hype-men further than what its conclusions allow

Look at this low-effort cat

Yes, yes, the WaPo "Make it Make Sense" show is gleefully cringeworthy. Good also to keep in the forefront how a show by a person of colour has already been well established under the same name. Either the WaPo did shit-all research, or they did and have no qualms about this and the implications

Wait, what? All the data centres for Melbourne are being installed in historically working class, low socioeconomic status areas? And there are potential health risks? You don't say 🤯

The nakba never ended.

Think about it, though: makes up problematic shit and presents it as if it's self-evident as the truth, then tells you to kill yourself

ChatGPT is the new 4Chan send post

Finally some good news

Doing some research & came across this fantastic passage about a Men's Rights March which I can't keep to myself: "Later, the marchers heard from veteran men’s rights activist Robert Brockway, who complained about the cruelty of terms like “mansplaining”, “manspreading”, “manflu” and “man babies”."

Revamping my satirical dating advice show lampooning the manosphere, conspiracy theorists and tech bros is also a great way to enshrine the most traumatic parts of my past relationships on a throne made of dirty laundry, only this time *I'm* the one with the emotional intelligence of a slug 🥰

Plodding off to start my creative work day at 4:30pm, as one does. The best ideas need to percolate, I assure you

This has nothing to do with the post, but look at those two tiny men in the back! They're tiny! Can I keep them?

I genuinely forgot how fun giving shitty dating advice is mond.how/topics/09tx5...

So many good things happening in my brain lately. Here's an update on all my bizarre creations-in-progress: www.patreon.com/posts/update...

Greetings boyseekers everywhere! I'm currently accepting a new round of questions on life, love & boys, to be answered in the most paranoid, predatory manner possible, for the now rebranded "Rizzmaxxing for Women"! You can ask questions anonymously. So. You know what to do mond.how/topics/3g7zi...

My favourite thing about the Google AI results that get farted on top of my search queries is that the vast majority of "sources" that it uses are consistently from places like Facebook and Reddit. You know, those fountains of verified knowledge Google literally owns Google Scholar ffs

keeping the replies empty cause she has no thoughts