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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 9h

looks like the discover feed found this 🙄 yes i know the japanese communist party is the largest out of power communist party in the world. yes i know the swirly glasses girls on rizon are revisionist trotskyites who would rather sell papers than join revolutionary organizations. it's called a JOKE

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 1d

kirino kousaka is in the dsa now after going to an offline meet with a swirly-glasses socialist girl she met on rizon irc

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 1d

i'm always thinking about the socialist odd lots audience (and matt levine, and interfluidity, etc)

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 1d

i wrote like ~12000 words about ff16 on cohost (rip) and this is basically where i ended up. it is a middling game, not because it's average but because there are so many high and low points that cancel each other out on net

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shioomf @shiokaze1409.bsky.social · 2d

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 2d

really really good anthropological exploration of akihabara's history. i had a general sense of "it used to be the computer zone, it became the anime zone, then corpos moved in and ruined it" and that's not wrong exactly but there is so, so much detail and competing pressures i had no idea about

Akihabara: Death and Rebirth - YouTube

Most of the footage (90-ish%) is taken on my own, so if there's any hiccups, my apologies! I'm still learning!This video is a discussion of Patrick Galbraith...

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 3d

from

Ur-Fascism | The Anarchist Library

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

theanarchistlibrary.org

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 3d

everyone quotes the part of ur-fascism about saying your enemy is both strong and weak, but i read it recently and found this part striking. especially now, as the american people are out at these massive protests while, simultaneously, the regime says they are doing what "The American People" want

Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view — one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 3d

i have a vivid memory of reading sankara's wikipedia article and going "wow all this stuff sounds amazing" and then getting to the part where the cia helped a coup that killed him and realizing "oh this is going to be at the bottom of every article of this kind of guy i ever read"

The Spectre of Potatoism 👻 @kootenaymarxist.bsky.social · 6d

One of Africa’s greatest sons Thomas Sankara

Here’s a summary of Thomas Sankara’s achievements in his short 4 years in power in Burkina Faso before being overthrown in a French & CIA-backed coup:

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 4d

looks like the show is called "Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath" and this is the full interview

Is New York ready to elect a 33-year-old Muslim immigrant & socialist as Mayor? - Zohran Mamdani - YouTube

#zohranmamdani #aajshahzebkhanzadakaysaath #geonews #donaltrump #telaviv #ayatullahkhamenei #iranresponse #israeliranconflict #ayatullahkhamenei #modi #zohra...

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 5d

he replied to a daily beast article headlined "White People Aren’t as Racist or Stupid as Trump Thinks" with "Living in white rural America, I’m afraid to tell you they actually are." which seems to be pretty misrepresented by the headline here

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

A Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising Democratic Senate candidate once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts seen by CNN. https://cnn.it/47sXon6

‘I got older and became a communist': Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful's raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

www.cnn.com

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 5d

shoutouts to chiramune for the good taste shelf

a shelf from 9:00 in episode 2 of Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka showing figures on a shelf of (left to right) Yukino Yukinoshita and Yui Yuigahama from Oregiaru and Anna Yanami from Makeine

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白菜ねこ茶🚕🎨イラストレーター @shirosainekocha.bsky.social · 5d

こんにちはー🌞💨🙌✨

歴史イラストはラフチェック中なので
今日はVgenキャラの色塗りします！😠

最近、絵柄を変えつつあるけど
歴史イラストの求められる絵柄は別だから…
結局、色んな絵柄を描く絵師。。。になりそう😅

本日も皆様にとって
素晴らしい一日でありますように！🥱💖

#イラスト

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 6d

I feel genuinely delighted that some people have decided they want to speedrun [checks notes] probability

v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 6d

how to speedrun random chance graham.build/s/a-blog/028...

Unfair Flips World Record Strategy

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin to get 10 Heads flips in a row.

graham.build

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𝙆𝙐𝙍𝙐𝙍𝙄 @kururirura.bsky.social · 10d

🌳🐟🌲🕊️🥦🐟🍀

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 9d

yeah it's a whole real thing now! and mostly one guy doing a ton of the work which really would take ages. they talk so fast that it feels like a lot of the constraint is reducing the runtime and thus the amount of (detailed, evocative) animation required

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 9d

it's such a cheat code for compelling dialogue i'm amazed it's not in everything!

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Mar 19

New teaser for "Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express" anime series by @yostarhey.bsky.social (based on his indie short film).
Coming in July (TV & streaming).
milkygalacticuniverse.com

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 9d

yall have to hop on milky subway. it's 3.5 min eps, ~45 minutes total, and has better character writing and comedy than most full series. jp audio en subs is really fast paced but worth it imo

Episode 01 "All Aboard!" │MILKY☆SUBWAY THE GALACTIC LIMITED EXPRESS - YouTube

Episode1 "All Aboard!"Freshly arrested, Chiharu and Makina are sentenced to scrub the Milky☆Subway.It was supposed to be simple.Spoiler: it’s not.-----------...

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 10d

thank you for watching peak

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 12d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 12d

i think calculators are cool because you can make a thing that does simple 1-digit addition on a little breadboard and know exactly how and why it all works. and you can put in 01 and 01 and see 10 come out the other side and pog about how you personally tricked rocks into thinking

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 12d

imagining a world where Bourgeoisie is treated like it's a group with leaders, card-carrying members, and shadowy funding. we arrested the girlfriend of the founder of Bourgeoisie and we're tracking planned austerity attacks on our cities

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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xeph @xepheraux.bsky.social · 13d

reconstruction assassin's creed would have been so cool

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 13d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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