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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Feb 5

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 17h

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The Verge @theverge.com · 21h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

It shouldn’t be surprising, given this reality, that more trans people are now choosing to take back control and embrace lifestyles that deprioritize online visibility in favor of personal safety.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

This approach doesn’t have to be all or nothing. In a recent essay, trans author Margaret Killjoy coins the term “demiground” to describe what a post-internet hybrid activism might look like. The idea of this paradigm is to compartmentalize your online / offline life into multiple discrete boxes, all with varying degrees of visibility and measured risk. Your “A” life includes all your social media with your most “palatable” / non-spicy persona, providing cover for your “B” and “C” lives, which prioritize in-person communication and unfold with different levels of public obscurity (and sometimes legality).

The goal isn’t to retreat from online spaces and give fascists what they want, but to create a more disciplined level of control over your digital footprint. “In order to populate the demiground, we need to make it as inviting as possible,” Killjoy writes. “It needs to be clear that not only is there political value in being obscure to the state, but that it is also a better and more fulfilling way to live.”

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 8h

jeder deutcher politicker sieht aus mit eine fisch geschlagen

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 11h

anyone who has studied european history knows this won’t stop with ethnic cleansing. even if they could make the whole country into a norman rockwell painting (and they won’t) they’d just move on to obsessing over “blood purity” and skull shapes & shit. these people are deeply unwell

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15h

i love when my former employer who laid off their entire staff hires a bunch of talentless scabs whose job it is to send emails asking their former employees to do free labor

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 22h

It's extremely funny to email me from Vice Studios asking for help making a documentary out of my reporting from before Vice laid everyone off. Personally I would be embarrassed to do that but your mileage may vary lol

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15h

please anna, tell me you read them for filth

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 17h

creating economic conditions that alienate everyone from their labor and each other so that i can convince people it’s Normal to have sex with a computer that always agrees with you

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 17h

Degenerate Technology

The Verge @theverge.com · 21h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 20h

in medieval times, this would be the kind of thing that started rumors across the realm that the King has taken ill and not named a successor

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20h

Trump says a lot of weird and concerning stuff that people just kind of shrug at but right now I’m stuck on how he keeps insisting he’s going to hell

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 20h

i love this as a motif. conscience momentarily breaking through the veil of pure id

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21h

i think we need to stop listening to all these NGO-brained fslurs and tslurs who still think they can avoid the gas chambers by performatively ceding rhetorical ground to our oppressors.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21h

PERIOD

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21h

dedicating this to Thee Eternal Miss Major, who is STILL FUCKING HERE

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21h

also shoutout to @margaret.bsky.social whose writing was obviously a big inspo for this. please read and give her $!

Into the Demiground

or: notes on obscurity in the age of algorithmic surveillance

margaretkilljoy.substack.com

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

"If queer and trans folks are going to survive, we’ll need to once again embrace the underground, and learn when to be visible and when to shut the fuck up."

Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state.

it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

also “my years of service at the smith haven mall” i’m screaminggg

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

yeah the people most mad about this obviously didn’t grow up surrounded by italians lol

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the way the lyrics are all gobbledeguk but the tune is instantly memorable . taylor and charlie could never

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

a classic

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

i’m a jewish white woman and i assure you this is

- not antisemitic
- 100% accurate

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

if i had a dime for every rhonda lacenzo i knew in hebrew school

tweet from The Persian Jewess ~ @persianjewess
In a disgusting display, @nbcsn| creates an antisemitic caricature of a Jewish woman, and mocks concerns about Zohran Mamdani's pro-jihadist views.
Meanwhile, just today Zohran Mamdani's wife posted a tribute to a Hamas terrorist on her IG Stories.

it's screencap from an SNL sketch with a character named RHONDA LaCENZO

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

if “Cherry-coloured Funk” by Cocteau Twins comes on and i don’t whistle along to the chorus & bridge, i’ll literally die

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

“you better do what i want, otherwise i will move my Killing People & Making Things Worse business elsewhere!” 😤

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