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He/him Anarchist and freelance writer kevinacarson.org patreon.com/kevincarson independent.academia.edu/KevinCarson c4ss.org/content/author/kevin-carson Latest book: https://www.amazon.com/State-Theory-Praxis-Kevin-Carson/dp/B0BKHPZTS8

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · Mar 20

Patreon is my main source of income, and it's the only reason I'm able to regularly put out studies like this and write shorter commentary pieces as well. If you appreciate this kind of writing, please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/kevincarson

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · Mar 20

I did a great deal of research putting this together, and I think it's highly relevant to current news on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate: With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper –...

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 15h

prospect.org/politics/202...

Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 15h

I'm about halfway through. That scene between Richard and Eleanor a third of the way in was AMAZING.

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D̷e̷a̷d̷ ̷D̷a̷n̷s̷ ̷T̷e̷l̷l̷ ̷n̷o̷ ̷T̷a̷l̷e̷s̷ @danfenlon.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very happy to say I have the same religion as Popeye

Popeye Otaku @popeyeotaku.bsky.social · Jul 18

Interviewer, clearly modeled after Popeye creator Segar: Mr. Popeye, what would you suggest to bring back prosperity?

POPEYE: PEOPLE'S GOT TO SPEND LOTSA MONEY -- EVER CENT HAS GOT TO GET SPENT -- BUY EVER'THIN' YA SEES -- THA'S WHAT'LL MAKE PERNAMENT PROSPERITY -- AN' SUMPIN' ELSE TOO EVER'BODY'S GOT TO ECOMONIZE ON ACCOUNT OF A RAINY DAY

Interviewer: What do you think about prohibition?

POPEYE: I DON'T LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT

Interviewer: Do you ever think deeply? Have you ever given any thought to the mystery of life?

POPEYE: LIFE AIN'T NO MYSKERY -- WE JUS' GET'S BORND AN' THA'S ALL THEY IS TO IT

Interviewer: What is your religion?

POPEYE: TREAT EVER'BODY RIGHT AN' IF THEY STEPS ON YA, SOCK'EM!

Interviewer: Which are the best, California or Florida oranges?

POPEYE: I GOT READERS IN BOTH STATES

Interviewer: Do you drink?

POPEYE: I REFUSES TO ANSWER ON ACCOUNT OF IT MIGHT INCRINIMATE ME

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is not you, if you hit a big opportunity. He’s a spoiled, racist rich kid who had enough money to be able to handily make more by being an aggressive sonovabitch who could hire PR to tell the rest of us he was a genius. He is your enemy. Always. Even if you’re a true believer in capitalism.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I’m a dirty anarchocommie fringe weirdo, but even I think it would be healthier for most regular Americans who aren’t and will never be to at least realize the difference between “worked hard and was prosperous enough to be free from want” to “has enough money we have to hear from him always.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 1d

Any of y’all kind souls wanna treat a humble Canadian to some turkey?

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 19h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 17h

People knew how to write headlines, once upon a time.

Tell children today that, they won't believe you.

Newspaper website headline: "Blind bisexual goose named Thomas who spent six years in a love triangle with two swans and helped raise 68 babies dies at the ripe old age of 40."

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we may be in agreement but I don’t like the way in which you agreed with me and you are now my sworn enemy.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Impressionable Teen Falls In With Wrong Socioeconomic Class https://theonion.com/impressionable-teen-falls-in-with-wrong-socioeconomic-class/

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

When I say that the Atlantic is the official magazine of the donor class this is what I’m talking about.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 16h

Or a Mark David Chapman situation.
"Stephen King" chatbot: I'm more popular than Jesus
Me *screams*

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 16h

Or a Mark David Chapman situation.
"Stephen King" chatbot: I'm more popular than Jesus
Me *screams*

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder when the first chatgpt-induced case of a Misery situation will happen.

Someone pulling a Geordi with a chatbot copying a real person, and then stalking/kidnapping them.

Someone, right now, chatting for hours a day with a chatbot wearing Stephen King's face

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 16h

Jackie Kennedy should have worn a giant sombrero

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged millinery opinion, as a treat

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

It's weird that the guy who made the spyware app that Mike Johnson uses to spy on his son's porn-watching, and vice versa, was found to have a stash of CSAM and that just blipped right out of the news.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Back in 2013 Matt Stoller got in the news because he had somehow superglued himself to his neighbor's car. The story is murky but apparently he was trying to prove some kind of argument.

Paramedics arrived, dissolved the superglue, neighbor didn't press charges.

He did it again in 2018.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 22h

Now I’m not saying regicide is the solution, but it’s clear that so far the reign of King Charles has been an absolute disaster

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19h

The Mutant Registration Act is a good idea.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 18h

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Financial Advisors Recommend Throwing Away Unopened Bills https://theonion.com/financial-advisors-recommend-throwing-away-unopened-bills/

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Marc Deschamps @marcdachamp.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, they’re notoriously thin-skinned.

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