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a molecular transaction which sparks and ignites so many grains of pure possibility that the narrative substrate of reality undergoes a qualitative change
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there's a phenomenon (i think mainly of juliana huxtable) where at a certain point, all caps begins to read less like shouting and more like something carved in stone, Romanesque, a bald utterance, a direct message to be received unambiguously... It has a different relationship with time, I think.
im putting this on my resume
it bears repeating that CSA is fundamentally about power, it is not some innate perversion but a conscious choice made by real people who willingly let themselves become monsters in pursuit of a fantasy of total domination
February 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
it bears repeating that CSA is fundamentally about power, it is not some innate perversion but a conscious choice made by real people who willingly let themselves become monsters in pursuit of a fantasy of total domination
This is true on the level of ideology, but the other thing shown clearly in the emails is that powerful abusers IRL have an interest in preserving trans women as an underclass of permanently available sex slaves
Hence courting Ting
Hence courting Ting
Trans women threaten patriarchy bc seeking to live as a woman voluntarily is anathema to the idea that men are superior.
Trans men threaten patriarchy bc if women were naturally inferior it would show - someone assigned female wouldn't be able to easily pass as male with a bit of testosterone.
Trans men threaten patriarchy bc if women were naturally inferior it would show - someone assigned female wouldn't be able to easily pass as male with a bit of testosterone.
February 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This is true on the level of ideology, but the other thing shown clearly in the emails is that powerful abusers IRL have an interest in preserving trans women as an underclass of permanently available sex slaves
Hence courting Ting
Hence courting Ting
Apropos of nothing
very effective protest chic all-weather base layer for my fellow reconizably-tattooed comrades
February 3, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Apropos of nothing
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genuinely a great thread, i think a lot about china's last emperor puyi and his post-revolution life
February 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
genuinely a great thread, i think a lot about china's last emperor puyi and his post-revolution life
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meaning making is a labor. labor is a meaning making. so-called use-value is at first a meaning. our meaning making has to be compatible with life. what is the meaning of this unforgivable tragedy and crisis? it is holy struggle. either we take back meaning or we fear rape kings and their rape gangs
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 AM
meaning making is a labor. labor is a meaning making. so-called use-value is at first a meaning. our meaning making has to be compatible with life. what is the meaning of this unforgivable tragedy and crisis? it is holy struggle. either we take back meaning or we fear rape kings and their rape gangs
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I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out
February 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out
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it’s weird but finding out that the modern trans panic was fabricated by the machinations of a pedophile cabal has actually improved my mental health substantially. if I keep sitting around being depressed all day I’m letting Jeffrey Epstein win, and I will die before I do that
February 2, 2026 at 7:14 AM
it’s weird but finding out that the modern trans panic was fabricated by the machinations of a pedophile cabal has actually improved my mental health substantially. if I keep sitting around being depressed all day I’m letting Jeffrey Epstein win, and I will die before I do that
We need a left whose critique of this tactic leaves room to recognize that it is not without some effect
In the #TwinCities #Minneapolis and #StPaul, protesters sing outside hotels that house ICE & Border Patrol:
"It's okay to change your mind. Show us your courage. Leave this behind. It's okay to change your mind. And you can join us, you can join us anytime."
"It's okay to change your mind. Show us your courage. Leave this behind. It's okay to change your mind. And you can join us, you can join us anytime."
February 2, 2026 at 8:36 PM
We need a left whose critique of this tactic leaves room to recognize that it is not without some effect
SURPRISE my book is also partially about addiction oops
February 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
SURPRISE my book is also partially about addiction oops
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dark times ahead. but we are going to win
Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
February 2, 2026 at 2:20 PM
dark times ahead. but we are going to win
Persona by Aoife Josie Clements is a great book to read while depressed. You will certainly not regret reading Persona by Aoife Josie Clements while depressed
February 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Persona by Aoife Josie Clements is a great book to read while depressed. You will certainly not regret reading Persona by Aoife Josie Clements while depressed
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This is the kind of disposition I like.
In a short story, Toni Cade Bambara wrote, “She views everything and everybody as potentially good, as a possible hastener of the moment, an usherer-in of the new day. Examines everybody in terms of their input to making revolution an irresistible certainty.”
January 30, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This is the kind of disposition I like.
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I think that *cringe* is overused. I particularly think that it is overused by people who have a difficult time feeling and naming their feelings. That's a lot of people.
January 29, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I think that *cringe* is overused. I particularly think that it is overused by people who have a difficult time feeling and naming their feelings. That's a lot of people.
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Instead of waiting, we need to build during peace time so that we can act during war time.
A lot of what is happening up in MN was a result of community coalition networks that were built after George Floyd died being activated.
A lot of what is happening up in MN was a result of community coalition networks that were built after George Floyd died being activated.
January 25, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Instead of waiting, we need to build during peace time so that we can act during war time.
A lot of what is happening up in MN was a result of community coalition networks that were built after George Floyd died being activated.
A lot of what is happening up in MN was a result of community coalition networks that were built after George Floyd died being activated.
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I also think about this essay on MLK and dignity by the philosopher Derrick Darby and in it he talks about the precarity of our status as “dignified beings”—the thin line between showing courage in the face of brutality and allowing yourself to be a brutalized body and an object of abuse
January 25, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I also think about this essay on MLK and dignity by the philosopher Derrick Darby and in it he talks about the precarity of our status as “dignified beings”—the thin line between showing courage in the face of brutality and allowing yourself to be a brutalized body and an object of abuse
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I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
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The American people are braver and better than our monstrous leaders, and we will win.
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
The American people are braver and better than our monstrous leaders, and we will win.
must read
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:17 PM
must read
would there be any substantive difference between vance and newsom? i guess it's different approaches to economics and foreign policy but in either case comes down to technoauthoritarian ecofascism?
January 21, 2026 at 7:23 PM
would there be any substantive difference between vance and newsom? i guess it's different approaches to economics and foreign policy but in either case comes down to technoauthoritarian ecofascism?
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you avoid the trap of "trans women are women because women is a meaningless term" which re-inscribes a centering of cisness by positioning "femaleness (sex)" as "more real" by talking about social structure + embodiment + desire + subjectivity in negotiating womanhood & manhood & heterosexualism
January 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
you avoid the trap of "trans women are women because women is a meaningless term" which re-inscribes a centering of cisness by positioning "femaleness (sex)" as "more real" by talking about social structure + embodiment + desire + subjectivity in negotiating womanhood & manhood & heterosexualism
this strikes me as one of the more important (read: possibly even effective) pieces of its kind in recent memory
“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“
Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.
Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:37 AM
this strikes me as one of the more important (read: possibly even effective) pieces of its kind in recent memory
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Andor was a textbook
January 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Andor was a textbook
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All the arguing of hope vs. doomerism is making me tap the sign
January 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM
All the arguing of hope vs. doomerism is making me tap the sign
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not the first time, but maybe the first time i've really been aware of it in my lifetime - it often feels like the uprising in 2020 convinced electeds all across the board that people caring for each other and organizing in care and solidarity is the scariest thing of all
It’s so fucking infantilizing to be told over and over about ignoring bait, like we’re all chomping at the bit for a fight or something
What I wouldn’t give for just a single elected to have our back instead of this shit that implies we are some unruly mob in need of constant checking
What I wouldn’t give for just a single elected to have our back instead of this shit that implies we are some unruly mob in need of constant checking
January 16, 2026 at 4:49 AM
not the first time, but maybe the first time i've really been aware of it in my lifetime - it often feels like the uprising in 2020 convinced electeds all across the board that people caring for each other and organizing in care and solidarity is the scariest thing of all
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The level of consistent, everyday organizing and resistance to the state, outside of and beyond any particular movement or flash point, distributed across the entirety of the social landscape, is by far the highest it's ever been in my lifetime
January 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM
The level of consistent, everyday organizing and resistance to the state, outside of and beyond any particular movement or flash point, distributed across the entirety of the social landscape, is by far the highest it's ever been in my lifetime