Remain In Hell Without Despair
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What you're saying now is what you would be saying in 1933.
Accurate analysis is not despair.
A renaissance woman trying to start a renaissance www.daphnelawless.com
at the same username on mastodon.social
Accurate analysis is not despair.
A renaissance woman trying to start a renaissance www.daphnelawless.com
at the same username on mastodon.social
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A thread of some of my Greatest Hits in political writing.
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every city should do this. it's good policy and smokes out NIMBYs from the progressive tent
We should do a charter revision commission that creates a social housing developer unbound by zoning law.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
every city should do this. it's good policy and smokes out NIMBYs from the progressive tent
On the subject of AI: it took me a long time to find the correct Khmer original of "to keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no lost" and Google Gemini gave me at least three wrong answers
Ever have one of those days when you feel like the whole world is telling you ទុកក៏មិនចំណេញដកចេញក៏មិនខាត ?
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
On the subject of AI: it took me a long time to find the correct Khmer original of "to keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no lost" and Google Gemini gave me at least three wrong answers
The missus played this over and over again when 8 months pregnant the first time
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The missus played this over and over again when 8 months pregnant the first time
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Weird Al: delightful fun time songs for uplift the proles
Weird AI: it speaks with seven tongues and wears the face of your grandmother
Weird AI: it speaks with seven tongues and wears the face of your grandmother
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Weird Al: delightful fun time songs for uplift the proles
Weird AI: it speaks with seven tongues and wears the face of your grandmother
Weird AI: it speaks with seven tongues and wears the face of your grandmother
I remember when this kind of campism was being justified on a class basis. Like, they said that the USSR or the People's Republic of China were qualitatively different kinds of states than the US so they should be allowed all the occupations they wanted and all the nukes they could eat...
“Small countries must tiptoe around the sensibilities of big violent nuclear powers or else they’ll get what’s coming to them“ is a bizarre kind of brain worms that often passes itself off as anti-imperialism.
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
Now consider that if Ireland continues to more aggressively align themselves with western interests (which have a positively amazing record of respecting national sovreignty) what would an opposing power feel the need to do to that subordinate state?
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I remember when this kind of campism was being justified on a class basis. Like, they said that the USSR or the People's Republic of China were qualitatively different kinds of states than the US so they should be allowed all the occupations they wanted and all the nukes they could eat...
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“Small countries must tiptoe around the sensibilities of big violent nuclear powers or else they’ll get what’s coming to them“ is a bizarre kind of brain worms that often passes itself off as anti-imperialism.
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
Now consider that if Ireland continues to more aggressively align themselves with western interests (which have a positively amazing record of respecting national sovreignty) what would an opposing power feel the need to do to that subordinate state?
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Small countries must tiptoe around the sensibilities of big violent nuclear powers or else they’ll get what’s coming to them“ is a bizarre kind of brain worms that often passes itself off as anti-imperialism.
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!
On the subject: hate to say this, but independent contractors ARE small business owners. Source: I am one. This doesn't mean I'm not precarious and on the verge of poverty. but if you're selling a commodity you made yourself rather than your labour, by the Marxian definition, you are not a prole
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
On the subject: hate to say this, but independent contractors ARE small business owners. Source: I am one. This doesn't mean I'm not precarious and on the verge of poverty. but if you're selling a commodity you made yourself rather than your labour, by the Marxian definition, you are not a prole
Happy Ugly Pale Man Is Only Scared And Stupid Day to all my US American friends
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Happy Ugly Pale Man Is Only Scared And Stupid Day to all my US American friends
Take that'll get me like this:
In the conflict between small creative commodity producers and petty thieves, I'm strictly neutral
Theft is never innocent; but small commodity production in an environment where marginal cost of production is 0 is a social dead end
In the conflict between small creative commodity producers and petty thieves, I'm strictly neutral
Theft is never innocent; but small commodity production in an environment where marginal cost of production is 0 is a social dead end
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Take that'll get me like this:
In the conflict between small creative commodity producers and petty thieves, I'm strictly neutral
Theft is never innocent; but small commodity production in an environment where marginal cost of production is 0 is a social dead end
In the conflict between small creative commodity producers and petty thieves, I'm strictly neutral
Theft is never innocent; but small commodity production in an environment where marginal cost of production is 0 is a social dead end
"We can't denormalise the plagiarism machine because lots of ordinary people like it" yeah, the also like Nigel Farage, what's your point
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"We can't denormalise the plagiarism machine because lots of ordinary people like it" yeah, the also like Nigel Farage, what's your point
Such a pity that the two best Irish administrations had to be followed in office by an Orange man
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Such a pity that the two best Irish administrations had to be followed in office by an Orange man
When you see someone whose skin is this colour and they're that tired, you're usually talking about calling all their friends and family to come over and say goodby
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
When you see someone whose skin is this colour and they're that tired, you're usually talking about calling all their friends and family to come over and say goodby
ENDORSEMENT
We need more liberals who mean it.
We need more liberals who mean it.
Several new 'liberal' publications have launched in recent years, sometimes raising millions before writing a word, sometimes getting glossy profiles, then often devolving into weakness.
None of that's true about us. Maybe we should go raise at least a half million: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
None of that's true about us. Maybe we should go raise at least a half million: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
ENDORSEMENT
We need more liberals who mean it.
We need more liberals who mean it.
Chris Pine didn't land a major film role till he was 23, so bang goes that theory
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Chris Pine didn't land a major film role till he was 23, so bang goes that theory
This is about British Labour but the phenomenon of "government in severe trouble starts doing crazy stuff which will just lose them votes for the hell of it" seems to be happening in New Zealand as well
Do they really believe all the racist shit and removing juries will make them more popular? reminds me of the debate going on in the Dem party now, where some dem politicians don’t actually want their party’s current coalition or voters. The problem is these actions don’t even create a new coalition
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is about British Labour but the phenomenon of "government in severe trouble starts doing crazy stuff which will just lose them votes for the hell of it" seems to be happening in New Zealand as well
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SARS-CoV-2 is not “airborne HIV” and I will not permit this narrative on my feed.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SARS-CoV-2 is not “airborne HIV” and I will not permit this narrative on my feed.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
I think a more precise formulation of what is required is "Don't NOT listen to women" (or other oppressed group)
I feel like the "Listen to women" line became widespread during Me Too. In that context it makes sense: these women's testimony was evidence of abuses but getting written off or discredited. But the testimony here is... Stancil argued with people online?
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I think a more precise formulation of what is required is "Don't NOT listen to women" (or other oppressed group)
Ever have one of those days when you feel like the whole world is telling you ទុកក៏មិនចំណេញដកចេញក៏មិនខាត ?
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Ever have one of those days when you feel like the whole world is telling you ទុកក៏មិនចំណេញដកចេញក៏មិនខាត ?
Ha ha ha Luxon is fucked
Every global election being an anti-incumbent wave because social media refuses to allow good news is an underrated outcome.
boy there seems to be a bottomless appetite for dogmatic economic pessimism on video platforms. clicked on one of those during the morning Zwift and now my youtube feed is WE'RE DOOMED re the stock market, jobs, car market, inflation, AI on and on
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Ha ha ha Luxon is fucked
Economic pessimism is political optimism. In the popular imagination, everything crashing might be the only way to stop *gestures vaguely* all this. It's like Giant Meteor posting, and honestly I think a lot of us are sincere about that
boy there seems to be a bottomless appetite for dogmatic economic pessimism on video platforms. clicked on one of those during the morning Zwift and now my youtube feed is WE'RE DOOMED re the stock market, jobs, car market, inflation, AI on and on
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Economic pessimism is political optimism. In the popular imagination, everything crashing might be the only way to stop *gestures vaguely* all this. It's like Giant Meteor posting, and honestly I think a lot of us are sincere about that
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edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍
Why women’s soccer is so important to queer people | CNN
Someone dressed as Marge Simpson, complete with a gigantic blue wig and a lime green dress, belts out Hot to Go by lesbian pop icon Chappell Roan to a rapt audience gathered inside a marquee in the mi...
edition.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍
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part of what I like about Mamdani is his admission that housing affordability is a more complex problem than either building more housing or expanding rent control. You need to do both in order to protect the most vulnerable now and improve the problem long term.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
part of what I like about Mamdani is his admission that housing affordability is a more complex problem than either building more housing or expanding rent control. You need to do both in order to protect the most vulnerable now and improve the problem long term.
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In 2025, a crackhead commando unit was sent from prison by a military court for a crime they did commit. These men promptly escaped from a mediocre security truck to the Leningrad wilderness. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune...
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
In 2025, a crackhead commando unit was sent from prison by a military court for a crime they did commit. These men promptly escaped from a mediocre security truck to the Leningrad wilderness. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune...
Gavin Newsom is bad and you should feel bad about even considering him as a presidential candidate
"Straight men aren’t looking for Democrats to cosplay as their drinking buddies: They’re looking for leaders who can speak plainly about the pressures and problems men face today and offer solutions."
Why Are Democrats Teasing Homophobia in New Attacks on MAGA?
The strategy demeans an important constituency of the party without providing an obvious political gain.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Gavin Newsom is bad and you should feel bad about even considering him as a presidential candidate
I am reminded of how Rick Wakeman, infamously Tory prog-rock guy, got in shit with his US fanbase when he played Cuba and defended that country on the basis of national sovereignty/"Yanqui go home". But right-wing nationalists actually have more in common with Stalinists than neoliberals...
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I am reminded of how Rick Wakeman, infamously Tory prog-rock guy, got in shit with his US fanbase when he played Cuba and defended that country on the basis of national sovereignty/"Yanqui go home". But right-wing nationalists actually have more in common with Stalinists than neoliberals...