Al Raven
@alraven.bsky.social
🦝 Writer/researcher, dataviz and information designer
Anarchist, hater of capital, the state-racial-cispatriarchal matrix of domination, and all borders
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Otto Rühle: "Revolution is not a party affair"
Man Utd fan (against all reason!)
Anarchist, hater of capital, the state-racial-cispatriarchal matrix of domination, and all borders
🏴 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🏴☠️ 🍉
Otto Rühle: "Revolution is not a party affair"
Man Utd fan (against all reason!)
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Al Raven
@alraven.bsky.social
· Mar 19
We live in a world where all that is good and beautiful is getting destroyed, suppressed, distorted, and tortured, but we don't even have time to mourn any of it because the relentless rythm of capital chokes us every day. We can't even heal, we can't fucking breathe in front of all this horror...
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La détestation (méritée) du bourgeois militariste et impérialiste Mélenchon en conduisent certains à défendre un fucking général va-t-en-guerre et il suffit d'invoquer le fascisme poutinien pour que magiquement les armées en face deviennent "antifascistes". On est tellement foutu. C'est terrifiant.
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
La détestation (méritée) du bourgeois militariste et impérialiste Mélenchon en conduisent certains à défendre un fucking général va-t-en-guerre et il suffit d'invoquer le fascisme poutinien pour que magiquement les armées en face deviennent "antifascistes". On est tellement foutu. C'est terrifiant.
Argggggggggggh the wait is a real pain, they said they'd let me know this week and it's friday now so you'd think they would do it before the weekend.
It's hard to not to be pessimistic, especially because of the past two years of countless disappointments
It's hard to not to be pessimistic, especially because of the past two years of countless disappointments
"We'll let you know quickly!", they said...
"We're short on time so we have to choose fast!", they said...
You bastards if you dare to tell me "sorry we picked someone else but don't take it the wrong way" I WILL FIND YOU!!!!
(I won't, I'll be suffering/weeping silently in my bed...)
"We're short on time so we have to choose fast!", they said...
You bastards if you dare to tell me "sorry we picked someone else but don't take it the wrong way" I WILL FIND YOU!!!!
(I won't, I'll be suffering/weeping silently in my bed...)
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻Still waiting for their decision
Please fuck I neeeeed this 😑😑😤😤
Please fuck I neeeeed this 😑😑😤😤
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Argggggggggggh the wait is a real pain, they said they'd let me know this week and it's friday now so you'd think they would do it before the weekend.
It's hard to not to be pessimistic, especially because of the past two years of countless disappointments
It's hard to not to be pessimistic, especially because of the past two years of countless disappointments
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Really, really good interview on the issues with restricting transition care, creating adversarial relationships between patients and providers and advocating for trans-hostile standards that harm trans people and detransitioners alike.
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Really, really good interview on the issues with restricting transition care, creating adversarial relationships between patients and providers and advocating for trans-hostile standards that harm trans people and detransitioners alike.
"We'll let you know quickly!", they said...
"We're short on time so we have to choose fast!", they said...
You bastards if you dare to tell me "sorry we picked someone else but don't take it the wrong way" I WILL FIND YOU!!!!
(I won't, I'll be suffering/weeping silently in my bed...)
"We're short on time so we have to choose fast!", they said...
You bastards if you dare to tell me "sorry we picked someone else but don't take it the wrong way" I WILL FIND YOU!!!!
(I won't, I'll be suffering/weeping silently in my bed...)
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻Still waiting for their decision
Please fuck I neeeeed this 😑😑😤😤
Please fuck I neeeeed this 😑😑😤😤
It feels like it went really well, please FFS let this be the time luck is on my side. It's been over two years of disappointments, I know it's not how it (the job market) works but I've fucking deserved this.
I've gotten used to disappointments, I need something to go right for once!
I've gotten used to disappointments, I need something to go right for once!
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"We'll let you know quickly!", they said...
"We're short on time so we have to choose fast!", they said...
You bastards if you dare to tell me "sorry we picked someone else but don't take it the wrong way" I WILL FIND YOU!!!!
(I won't, I'll be suffering/weeping silently in my bed...)
"We're short on time so we have to choose fast!", they said...
You bastards if you dare to tell me "sorry we picked someone else but don't take it the wrong way" I WILL FIND YOU!!!!
(I won't, I'll be suffering/weeping silently in my bed...)
Good opportunity to bring back this banger from Marcuse, probably one of my favorite critiques/quotes/remarks on the nature of liberalism
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Good opportunity to bring back this banger from Marcuse, probably one of my favorite critiques/quotes/remarks on the nature of liberalism
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Anyways for fellow Middle Earth/Tolkien nerds, there are free audiobooks of LOTR + The Hobbit + The Silmarillion narrated by Andy Serkis. The late Christopher Lee also did one for Children of Hurin
Links below⬇️
Links below⬇️
Fuck this (mobile) app lol, I wrote a full thing and just had to open a browser to copy a link, and I come back here and it reloads the whole app, losing my post
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Anyways for fellow Middle Earth/Tolkien nerds, there are free audiobooks of LOTR + The Hobbit + The Silmarillion narrated by Andy Serkis. The late Christopher Lee also did one for Children of Hurin
Links below⬇️
Links below⬇️
International law, kinda like the UN (or at least the positive aspects of each), is one of those things that are inherently self-contradictory and therefore largely powerless because it calls for things that are incompatible with the inherent logic of a world founded on violence and domination
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
International law, kinda like the UN (or at least the positive aspects of each), is one of those things that are inherently self-contradictory and therefore largely powerless because it calls for things that are incompatible with the inherent logic of a world founded on violence and domination
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Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue
Omg shut the fuck up lol
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Omg shut the fuck up lol
Frodo: "what are we holding on to, Sam?"
Sam: "That there is some good in this world... And it's worth fighting for!"
❤️❤️❤️🫶🫶🫶🫶😭😭😭😭
Sam: "That there is some good in this world... And it's worth fighting for!"
❤️❤️❤️🫶🫶🫶🫶😭😭😭😭
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Frodo: "what are we holding on to, Sam?"
Sam: "That there is some good in this world... And it's worth fighting for!"
❤️❤️❤️🫶🫶🫶🫶😭😭😭😭
Sam: "That there is some good in this world... And it's worth fighting for!"
❤️❤️❤️🫶🫶🫶🫶😭😭😭😭
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My dear friends, despite the war and harsh conditions, I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Economics - Accounting - with an excellent grade. Your support was my strength, and I need it to complete my journey.⬇️🫂💐
chuffed.org/project/157281
chuffed.org/project/157281
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My dear friends, despite the war and harsh conditions, I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Economics - Accounting - with an excellent grade. Your support was my strength, and I need it to complete my journey.⬇️🫂💐
chuffed.org/project/157281
chuffed.org/project/157281
"Palestonians" = Palestinians who live in Estonia??? 🤣
It's gonna be really fun for future historians to study the horrendous collaboration w Israel and the simultaneous highly-authoritarian repression of people in solidarity w Palestonians, as the tipping point in the West for when outright fascism came back...
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Palestonians" = Palestinians who live in Estonia??? 🤣
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Notre cagnotte pour le livre ICONOFASCISME arrive à sa fin.
Je remercie d’avance tou·tes cell-eux qui ont déjà participé 🫶
Je tiens à vous proposer un dernier fil pour vous convaincre de participer à ce projet et d’obtenir chez vous un livre unique en France.
🧵⏬⏬
fr.ulule.com/iconofascisme/
Je remercie d’avance tou·tes cell-eux qui ont déjà participé 🫶
Je tiens à vous proposer un dernier fil pour vous convaincre de participer à ce projet et d’obtenir chez vous un livre unique en France.
🧵⏬⏬
fr.ulule.com/iconofascisme/
ICONOFASCISME : La haine en 100 symboles
Un atlas critique pour comprendre, reconnaître et désarmer les symboles de l’extrême droite en France.
fr.ulule.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Notre cagnotte pour le livre ICONOFASCISME arrive à sa fin.
Je remercie d’avance tou·tes cell-eux qui ont déjà participé 🫶
Je tiens à vous proposer un dernier fil pour vous convaincre de participer à ce projet et d’obtenir chez vous un livre unique en France.
🧵⏬⏬
fr.ulule.com/iconofascisme/
Je remercie d’avance tou·tes cell-eux qui ont déjà participé 🫶
Je tiens à vous proposer un dernier fil pour vous convaincre de participer à ce projet et d’obtenir chez vous un livre unique en France.
🧵⏬⏬
fr.ulule.com/iconofascisme/
It's gonna be really fun for future historians to study the horrendous collaboration w Israel and the simultaneous highly-authoritarian repression of people in solidarity w Palestonians, as the tipping point in the West for when outright fascism came back...
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
It's gonna be really fun for future historians to study the horrendous collaboration w Israel and the simultaneous highly-authoritarian repression of people in solidarity w Palestonians, as the tipping point in the West for when outright fascism came back...
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A convincing critique of A.I., its promise to exceed human intelligence and why human cognition exists beyond language; whereas LLMs exist, by definition & production, within the realm of language.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A convincing critique of A.I., its promise to exceed human intelligence and why human cognition exists beyond language; whereas LLMs exist, by definition & production, within the realm of language.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Death to Israel
NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Death to Israel
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NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
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#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_633@29-12-2018_06-38-13.jpg
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_633@29-12-2018_06-38-13.jpg
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"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
Okay staffies and dachsunds are officially my two favorite types of dogs!
I can't get enough of them 😭😭❤️❤️❤️
I can't get enough of them 😭😭❤️❤️❤️
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Okay staffies and dachsunds are officially my two favorite types of dogs!
I can't get enough of them 😭😭❤️❤️❤️
I can't get enough of them 😭😭❤️❤️❤️
This whole thread is so, so good ❤️🔥
That part made me gasp!😇
That part made me gasp!😇
Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This whole thread is so, so good ❤️🔥
That part made me gasp!😇
That part made me gasp!😇
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I dont think everyone needs a gender transition but everyone needs to practice the radical self-knowledge, abolition and community building inherent in the practice and that part DOES threaten this world and Im so fucking proud of each and every one of us who shows the world that
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I dont think everyone needs a gender transition but everyone needs to practice the radical self-knowledge, abolition and community building inherent in the practice and that part DOES threaten this world and Im so fucking proud of each and every one of us who shows the world that
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Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge