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Decolonial secular humanist & analyst. Autistic & ADHD, white, Mad. I got hit by a car end of 2020 and my hand doesn't work properly now. There is no absolute objective frame of reference. UK based she/her. DMs open. COVID kills. Wear a mask N95+

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · Aug 12

Fascism isn't a disease. Fascism isn't a disability. Fascism isn't a lack of education. Fascism isn't foreign.

Fascism is a defence of established power and privilege through the dehumanisation of anyone that challenges it.

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 38m

im talking about a concept that can be described in multiple different ways

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

you've not actually identified any mistakes or errors here

you've just been really insulting for some reason

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

it can and did happen in multiple different contexts for multiple different reasons

your family isn't the only family

your narrative isn't the only narrative

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

yes they did

whatever they wrote down would be the person's officially recorded name

they didn't need to have explicit written orders to change people's names in order for that to have happened

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

a state that exists above politics is a state that has decided that it knows better than the people and that they should no longer get a say

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h

very few people actually want to isolate themselves from humanity and disappear into a bubble of digital solipsism

this is really creepy and really gross

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

that's not a Celtic custom

they punished people by making them give compensation to those that had been wronged

it most likely originated in medieval Christianity

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

the older traditional models still dominate institutions despite the level of evidence proving how harmful they are

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

there are two different models of education and academia at play here

the older traditional model sees the purpose as to own and control what may be known in general and to train people to comply with that

the newer model sees the purpose as developing knowledge in order to build a better world

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 23h

there are multiple different standards for what is acceptable behaviour in the present day as well as historically

there is a standard that denies this and insists that there is only one standard where only the winners get a say

but there are others

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3h

does fit somewhat with the id as the emotional/irrational beast within that must be tamed in order to become valid

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 7h

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

photo of blue hardback book with orangish, goldish illustrations of a mermaid with a leopard on the front. the book sits on a desk with an assortment of stuff on it, lime an orange notebook, a blue sharpie, and a bottle of black.

photo was taken at about 3am. why isnt the poster asleep?!?

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 6h

that's what establishment liberals are calling it

it's up to you if you agree

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 6h

No

It's racism

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 13d

it's a classical liberal argument where racism is just part of the inherently sinful nature of human beings and they're the only ones who know how to 'civilise' it away

they see the far right as being further along in this process because they agree it's inherent at least

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 5d

I had a mental health breakdown nearly twenty years ago and I got sent to a work coach months before I had any kind of talking therapy.

And they still try and act like it's a fresh new idea 😫

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8d

neurotypicality is a myth as in an ideal concept that cannot exist in material reality

but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality

because nothing is just one thing

everything is lots of things

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 9d

some people think that's how brains work

it's a relic of the natural philosophy of Newton's era that still dominates some areas of academia

the ideal rational actor has access to the instruction manual and therefore never makes mistakes

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 6h

people usually claim it as being normal and/or rational

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 6h

that's my terminology not theirs

they would call it irrationality

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8d

it's had a massive impact on material reality precisely because it does not fit it

because the contradiction must be resolved by altering material reality to fit the ideal image

and it doesn't

it never can

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 20d

the concept of an ideal rational 'typical' mind to be measured against and divergent from doesn't have to exist though

it is possible to understand humans as naturally divergent beings without turning that into a problem to be solved

because we are and we always will be

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 21d

my ancestors were autistic

they were not categorised as such

they were labelled hysteric and neurotic and institutionalised

but they were autistic

divergent minds have always existed and will always exist

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20h

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

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.

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 22h

it couldn't possibly be that they are people who just want to be human and aren't trying to become elite

because you can't matter if you're not elite

that is a fixed prior assumption