Just a reminder that last year South Korea's president announced martial law, then rescinded it within a day and immediately got impeached because the people said 'no, actually' I mention this for no reason in particular.

My kink continues to be seeing people earnestly discussing the 'decolonisation' of either Palestine or Israel in terms of ethnostates. My favourite, though, has to be 'Israel is the most successful example of decolonisation in the modern world' 🙄 Show me a single pre-colonial ethnostate. I'll wait

Also, does the phrase 'attacks by the far left' take into account the Overton window?

Seriously, it's like the Manson murders never happened. Remember Helter Skelter? Remember "Death to Pigs" written in Leno LaBianca’s blood? This isn't new, and it isn't clever. And yet we keep pretending that people committing acts of terror and violence always wear their hearts on their sleeve

Irony poisoning has only gotten worse in recent years, so I'm increasingly annoyed at our continued insistence on taking people literally I mean.... who tf can be arsed putting the effort into engraving shit on bullets in the year 2025 if not an edgelord troll

Not the left, and not MAGA, but hardly apolitical. The major thing his friends and acquaintances said was that he was deeply invested in 4chan. 4chan is not neutral. 4chan is the hangout of white supremacist extremists, self-avowed Nazis, and race war accelerationists.

Recognizing a Palestinian nation-state only serves to legitimize the nation-states of those doing so. It would be far more consequential to recognize people in Gaza and the West Bank as our fellow beings and ensure they can live and live well. National sovereignty does not equal decolonization.

Apparently wearing noise-cancelling headphones while doing sound editing work on my next video is not enough to drown out the sound of my tiny dwarf rabbits' squeaky snoring Genuinely not mad

I hate international time zones

white men

Aww, poor baby. I'm really sorry that all the women and AFAB people in your life keep suddenly going scorched earth and denouncing you in public because you treated them like disposable pieces of shit until you were ready to flush We're so crrrraaaaazy!

I've been reflecting lately on how the discourse surrounding Palestine has been racialised far beyond our apathy to the genocide of an non-white ethnic group. Even when we talk about resistance from other countries, we quickly forgot about South Africa initiating the ICC lawsuit to focus on Ireland

It's almost like Kirk didn't have anywhere near the influence & reach all the people bloviating about him post-mortem claimed he did. A new generation of white supremacist conspiracy theorists begins now that this shit-tier troll & Trump fanboy magically became a "close Trump ally" after his death

Looking at newspaper coverage continuing to take the Kirk murder's bullet engravings at face value & not bothering to research who actually uses those memes Oh to be an ironylord & never be held to account b/c no-one (including said ironylord) knows what irony is anymore thanks to Alanis Morissette

Seriously though, if you need any more indication the US needs to do some serious soul-searching about what it has become, the fact that the guy who murdered a shit-tier conspiracy theorist took the time to engrave Groyper memes onto his bullets should surely do something What a time to be alive

The Groyper Wars

Bumbly wants to be friends with her cousins so bad, but given the size difference it's a bit difficult for her to convey love in the way she's accustomed

"TIL in my PhD" fact of the day: The Eiffel Tower in Paris (you know, that place where everyone proposes) was constructed for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, where it overlooked a human zoo containing people from France's colonies Yyyyeah.... maybe don't propose at an atrocity site 😬 #KavPhD

This is also the stage where it is more important than ever to imagine what a better future looks like. Fighting against injustice is only half of it; you have to fight for something wonderful as well. And that must include decolonization and Land Back, or it's just another flavor of empire.

I genuinely thought that Australia's SBS broadcaster had more class. You could read through this whole article and not notice the one sentence at the bottom saying that the government's decision to mark this group as a "terrorist organisation" has been criticised by human rights groups

The three genders of calling out racism

Being nerdy is asking your PhD colleagues on the group chat for advice they'd give their pre-confirmation self. Being nerdier is compiling their advice into a Google Doc Being nerdiest is categorising the advice in the document by theme #KavPhD

Horrible little jellybeans having a horrible little tantrum after their bedding was changed 😤

I'm also mildly furious at how Australian politicians are talking down the 'March for Australia' as Nazis taking advantage of the 'goodwill' of normal people with 'legitimate issues'. Wanting a white Australia is not a 'legitimate issue'. And let's be very clear about this: this is what they want.

If 'ordinary Australians' have no issue with condemning the neo-Nazis who marched through our cities under the pretence of 'immigration concerns', surely we should also raise an eyebrow at the 'ordinary Australian' government which just paid off a small island nation to offload vulnerable refugees

Good news, Australians! Today is the first day of the year you can obnoxiously shout "SPRING BREEEEAK" for any reason and Americans can't be mad at you

New video just dropped! This one's for all the #KateBush and #StrangerThings fans out there. Please do consider sharing with people you know will enjoy it! youtu.be/eHktSsmNo5k

Australian fascists want so bad to feel connected to fascist groups across Europe and North America, despite the fact that 90% of their talking points make 0 sense when applied to the Australian context

For those of you not in Australia, I think it's worth informing you that the major cities in Australia are currently being marched on by a pod of adult babies crying about immigration in country surrounded by ocean, which also happens to have some of the strictest immigration laws in the world

Hello hello all! I do livestreams documenting my PhD research on occasion (museums studies x history x decolonial research), and I'm just starting one now. Please feel free to pop in and have a chat, including about your own research! www.twitch.tv/kav_p #PhDSky #KavPhD

The State of Israel's military aggression and genocide is not a "complicated" issue, it's "nuanced". A genocide IS happening. There's nothing to unravel there. Who is doing the genocide, why, & who is supporting them is where the nuances come in. Stop the genocide, THEN let's discuss the nuances.

Hey folks! I'm recording the howls, wails and screams for my "Running Up That Hill" cover today. If you would like to donate a howl, wail or scream to the mix, drop me a line! Specifically, I'm referring to the howls, wails and screams from this part in the amazing track: youtu.be/z0yJYMZXlEo?...

This is basically all that's left to record in my upcoming literal music video for Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill". Yep. Let me know if you have decent recording equipment and want to contribute some "wailing" and "screaming". Sneak preview in my stream now! www.twitch.tv/kav_p

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“To decolonise is not to diversify the canon or retrofit existing paradigms with more inclusive language. It is to rupture the architectures of domination that structure our field, intellectually, institutionally, & economically.” Decolonisation is not a vibe journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I hate that this is something that was necessary to say, but it absolutely bears repeating, with the addendum that it also isn't inherently feminist

lmao, oh no, Adobe just sent me a message saying that I can only use AI free of charge until September Good fucking riddance to the constant popups demanding that I use AI to read a 10-page PDF file

I just read the term "enshittification" in an academic context. Good. #KavPhD

I can't keep it to myself. I'm so excited about my upcoming Kate Bush cover, so I made a teaser! Dedicated to all those who enjoy running uphill #KateBush #StrangerThings www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fNV...

It's Wednesdsay Fwendsday today! Hopefully we'll finish SIMULACRA 2. And then, who knows? Maybe I'll indoctrinate Louis into my cult... www.twitch.tv/kav_p

Oh gross, I just saw a leftist person of colour with 1k+ followers trying to say all Jews in Israel should be deported "back to Europe" & their Hebrew names are "fake, anyway". The other day a Zionist claimed leftists were accusing Jewish Israelis of being "fake" & I doubted it was true. WELP

Plugging my return to YouTube video essays once more! It's an ambitious attempt to explain the #OnCinema universe, in under 17 minutes, to someone who has zero interest in watching a decade's worth of surreal content just to be able to understand the in-jokes www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Phm...

It's time for Cult of the Lamb with Twitch integration again! Fancy sacrificing yourself for a greater cause? Or maybe you just want to shit all over my garden Both equally possible outcomes in this game, as it turns out www.twitch.tv/kav_p

Ohoho, my return to making video essays begins with an attempt to distil over ten years worth of the #OnCinema franchise to under 20 minutes Why? Well, I love me an impossible challenge www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Phm...

Okie dokie, more Cult of the Lamb. This time with Twitch integration! What could possibly go wrong? www.twitch.tv/kav_p

Okay, for today's stream I'm going to check out that Cult of the Lamb game that I saw in a Monster Train 2 Easter egg, because like many of us, Monster Train 2 now dictates most of my life choices www.twitch.tv/kav_p

I am more or less 100% sure that I have never given YouTube any indication that I am interested in any of this whatsoever It's a veritable smörgåsbord of irrelevance