William Gillis 🏴
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Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
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Hey, I wrote a book.
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
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"All Afghans who get visas are CIA" is a bullshit take. Plenty are Hazara trying not to get killed for being ethnic and religious minorities. Lumping all Afghan refugees together as CIA makes you no different in terms of discrimination than the MAGA types who think they are all terrorists.
Having intersectional minority identities in the West does not, unfortunately, confer enhanced appreciation of nuance in identities abroad. Non-Western experiences and identities are ignored or flattened. One even finds people weaponize their minority status in the West against minorities abroad.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"All Afghans who get visas are CIA" is a bullshit take. Plenty are Hazara trying not to get killed for being ethnic and religious minorities. Lumping all Afghan refugees together as CIA makes you no different in terms of discrimination than the MAGA types who think they are all terrorists.
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Here's what the Pilgrims at Plymouth were “thankful” about. They were grateful for plague and plunder. Dead bodies, those lost to disease, and those they killed became useful in devious ways. (link: logicmag.io/issue-21-med...)
November 28, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Here's what the Pilgrims at Plymouth were “thankful” about. They were grateful for plague and plunder. Dead bodies, those lost to disease, and those they killed became useful in devious ways. (link: logicmag.io/issue-21-med...)
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As we wind down the last hour of my birthday, I’d like to suggest something you can do as a gift.
Many of you know prisoner support is important to me. It would mean a lot to me if you donated to support political prisoner Casey Goonan or wrote them a letter.
freecaseynow.noblogs.org
Many of you know prisoner support is important to me. It would mean a lot to me if you donated to support political prisoner Casey Goonan or wrote them a letter.
freecaseynow.noblogs.org
Free Casey Now! | Free all prisoners!
freecaseynow.noblogs.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
As we wind down the last hour of my birthday, I’d like to suggest something you can do as a gift.
Many of you know prisoner support is important to me. It would mean a lot to me if you donated to support political prisoner Casey Goonan or wrote them a letter.
freecaseynow.noblogs.org
Many of you know prisoner support is important to me. It would mean a lot to me if you donated to support political prisoner Casey Goonan or wrote them a letter.
freecaseynow.noblogs.org
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"No one colonizes innocently, no one colonizes with impunity either; a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization and therefore force, is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased."
—Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
—Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Since the declaration of the supposed ceasefire, the Israeli military has violated it an average of ten or more times a day, murdering hundreds of Palestinians, including scores of small children.
There is no peace in Gaza, nor in the West Bank. As the genocide continues, so must our resistance.
There is no peace in Gaza, nor in the West Bank. As the genocide continues, so must our resistance.
Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My Love
An anarchist from occupied Palestine makes the case for an anti-colonial understanding of the situation and explores what it means to act in solidarity with Palestinians.
crimethinc.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"No one colonizes innocently, no one colonizes with impunity either; a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization and therefore force, is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased."
—Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
—Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
I have a hard time believing that nearly a billion people are using chatgpt. My every instinct is that the numbers are gamed. But...
1) Every student
2) Everyone dealing with bureaucracy (find me the email for..., explain box 5 on this form...)
3) Coldplay and Dave Matthews are wildly popular
1) Every student
2) Everyone dealing with bureaucracy (find me the email for..., explain box 5 on this form...)
3) Coldplay and Dave Matthews are wildly popular
this is a bluesky bubble opinion. 800M+ people use chatgpt every week. I hate Facebook and Instagram and I wish they didn’t exist, but 3B and 2B people use them every month, respectively. it’s very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I have a hard time believing that nearly a billion people are using chatgpt. My every instinct is that the numbers are gamed. But...
1) Every student
2) Everyone dealing with bureaucracy (find me the email for..., explain box 5 on this form...)
3) Coldplay and Dave Matthews are wildly popular
1) Every student
2) Everyone dealing with bureaucracy (find me the email for..., explain box 5 on this form...)
3) Coldplay and Dave Matthews are wildly popular
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Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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Ryan Grim breaks down new Drop Site reporting w/ Maz Hussain revealing Jeffrey Epstein personally helped Alan Dershowitz mount the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” — while the duo simultaneously worked to discredit a 16...
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ryan Grim breaks down new Drop Site reporting w/ Maz Hussain revealing Jeffrey Epstein personally helped Alan Dershowitz mount the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” — while the duo simultaneously worked to discredit a 16...
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HANDCUFFED PENSIONERS
Arrests ongoing outside the Royal Courts of Justice as they protests peacefully against the proscribing of direct action group Palestine Action.
This pensioner had his walking sticks removed and was handcuffed. Arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Arrests ongoing outside the Royal Courts of Justice as they protests peacefully against the proscribing of direct action group Palestine Action.
This pensioner had his walking sticks removed and was handcuffed. Arrested under the Terrorism Act.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
HANDCUFFED PENSIONERS
Arrests ongoing outside the Royal Courts of Justice as they protests peacefully against the proscribing of direct action group Palestine Action.
This pensioner had his walking sticks removed and was handcuffed. Arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Arrests ongoing outside the Royal Courts of Justice as they protests peacefully against the proscribing of direct action group Palestine Action.
This pensioner had his walking sticks removed and was handcuffed. Arrested under the Terrorism Act.
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FIJA is in dire need of support! If you want to keep the world's number one resource on #JuryNullification since 1989 alive, please subscribe to our Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/help-k...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
FIJA is in dire need of support! If you want to keep the world's number one resource on #JuryNullification since 1989 alive, please subscribe to our Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/help-k...
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Buy Gillis's book! It's a blatantly anarchist defense of science—not as an institution, but as a practice—and gossipy recounting of academic drama that has implications lasting to today. It covers grifters, medical woo-ry, ableism, transphobia, abuse, conspiracy theorists, and so much more.
![Did the Science Wars Take Place? The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism by William Gillis.
Today, one faction of reactionaries denounce leftists as enemies of science, while another faction of reactionaries happily embrace that same role, attacking science as totalitarian. Words like "postmodernism" and "relativism" get thrown about with fervor but little clarity, echoes of a conflict from decades ago.
Is there actually a physical world and can we know anything about it?
Did academics on the left influence "post-truth" politics on the right?
How could supposed defenders of "science" get lost in a mire of transphobia?
Available on [C4SS store link].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yked2zpb225cya5imxxjgcge/bafkreihysm3t5zyflk2gsvebiae7fgbxwfmiwywmudsahbdyf4yrqxzjim@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Buy Gillis's book! It's a blatantly anarchist defense of science—not as an institution, but as a practice—and gossipy recounting of academic drama that has implications lasting to today. It covers grifters, medical woo-ry, ableism, transphobia, abuse, conspiracy theorists, and so much more.
Okay, so news cycle finally seems (relatively) slow, so I'm going to finally do some promotion for my book.
I read many hundreds of books and articles in drafting Did The Science Wars Take Place? and a lot of delicious quotes or examples didn't make it in...
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
I read many hundreds of books and articles in drafting Did The Science Wars Take Place? and a lot of delicious quotes or examples didn't make it in...
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Okay, so news cycle finally seems (relatively) slow, so I'm going to finally do some promotion for my book.
I read many hundreds of books and articles in drafting Did The Science Wars Take Place? and a lot of delicious quotes or examples didn't make it in...
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
I read many hundreds of books and articles in drafting Did The Science Wars Take Place? and a lot of delicious quotes or examples didn't make it in...
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
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remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
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Here’s a link to a repost of a 2013 expose written by Nick Thayer about the pro-North Korean nazi cult JP Cupp tried to start with Temple ov Blood/O9A member (and FBI informant) Joshua Sutter
espressostalinist.com/2013/05/29/w...
espressostalinist.com/2013/05/29/w...
White Power and apocalyptic cults: Pro-DPRK Americans revealed
American homegrown terrorist groups are the chosen favorites of Pyongyang BY NATE THAYER , MAY 6, 2013 WASHINGTON D.C. – In September 2003, John Paul Cupp, the 22 year old son of a fundamentalist C…
espressostalinist.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Here’s a link to a repost of a 2013 expose written by Nick Thayer about the pro-North Korean nazi cult JP Cupp tried to start with Temple ov Blood/O9A member (and FBI informant) Joshua Sutter
espressostalinist.com/2013/05/29/w...
espressostalinist.com/2013/05/29/w...
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John Paul Cupp was arrested for allegedly making threats against agents at the ICE building in Portland. JP is a virulent anti-Semite and white nationalist who has been trying to insinuate himself back into left spaces in Portland (mostly around Palestine stuff).
www.koin.com/news/portlan...
www.koin.com/news/portlan...
Portland man threatened to kill ICE officers, sexually assault their wives, officials say
A Portland man made his first court appearance on Monday after allegedly making violent threats against federal authorities — including officers at the South Portland Immigration and Customs …
www.koin.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
John Paul Cupp was arrested for allegedly making threats against agents at the ICE building in Portland. JP is a virulent anti-Semite and white nationalist who has been trying to insinuate himself back into left spaces in Portland (mostly around Palestine stuff).
www.koin.com/news/portlan...
www.koin.com/news/portlan...
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🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
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St. Paul police are absolutely relishing the ability to brutalize their citizens without fearing repercussions.
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
St. Paul police are absolutely relishing the ability to brutalize their citizens without fearing repercussions.
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Entryism is a problem & I worry that the new crop of leftist activists haven't yet developed a proper filter for tankie bullshitters like Cupp, who are a danger to the left.
And now Andy is having a field day using this for his Islamophobic agitprop.
And now Andy is having a field day using this for his Islamophobic agitprop.
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Entryism is a problem & I worry that the new crop of leftist activists haven't yet developed a proper filter for tankie bullshitters like Cupp, who are a danger to the left.
And now Andy is having a field day using this for his Islamophobic agitprop.
And now Andy is having a field day using this for his Islamophobic agitprop.
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Cupp's been regularly protesting w the left at PDX ICE, even tho he makes open antisemitic common cause w the groyper streamers.
He is a Juche-Islamist Nazi who was in a threesome w the founders of the satanic neo-Nazi Temple ov Blood (Atomwaffen occult shit).
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
He is a Juche-Islamist Nazi who was in a threesome w the founders of the satanic neo-Nazi Temple ov Blood (Atomwaffen occult shit).
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Cupp's been regularly protesting w the left at PDX ICE, even tho he makes open antisemitic common cause w the groyper streamers.
He is a Juche-Islamist Nazi who was in a threesome w the founders of the satanic neo-Nazi Temple ov Blood (Atomwaffen occult shit).
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
He is a Juche-Islamist Nazi who was in a threesome w the founders of the satanic neo-Nazi Temple ov Blood (Atomwaffen occult shit).
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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Asserting reality is inevitably going to *seem* condescending
September 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Asserting reality is inevitably going to *seem* condescending
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When you use the word "liberal" what would be your quintessential exemplar?
I think for anarchists it's the 50-year-old white "pacifist" in the coalition meeting. He watches Democracy Now and wants to be the liaison with the police, "like MLK Jr would have wanted."
In other words, our ur-enemy.
I think for anarchists it's the 50-year-old white "pacifist" in the coalition meeting. He watches Democracy Now and wants to be the liaison with the police, "like MLK Jr would have wanted."
In other words, our ur-enemy.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
When you use the word "liberal" what would be your quintessential exemplar?
I think for anarchists it's the 50-year-old white "pacifist" in the coalition meeting. He watches Democracy Now and wants to be the liaison with the police, "like MLK Jr would have wanted."
In other words, our ur-enemy.
I think for anarchists it's the 50-year-old white "pacifist" in the coalition meeting. He watches Democracy Now and wants to be the liaison with the police, "like MLK Jr would have wanted."
In other words, our ur-enemy.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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The alliance between radfems & right-wingers isn't new though, the same radfems have been working with conservatives for decades now. Radfems being against surrogacy isn't new either, Janice Raymond was writing about it in the 80s! Really wish this info was more well known.
GAATW warns that some groups are now using anti-trafficking rhetoric to push bans on surrogacy and spread transphobic agendas.
(For example: The NGO who made the recent Epstein PSA is anti-surrogacy). www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
(For example: The NGO who made the recent Epstein PSA is anti-surrogacy). www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
A bizarre new alliance is coming after sexual freedoms
Radical feminists and religious groups teamed up against sex work. Now they’re going after broader reproductive freedoms
www.opendemocracy.net
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The alliance between radfems & right-wingers isn't new though, the same radfems have been working with conservatives for decades now. Radfems being against surrogacy isn't new either, Janice Raymond was writing about it in the 80s! Really wish this info was more well known.
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what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
what the fuck