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jerry buchko ·☽︎.˙
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jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... ah, i thought i recognized that smell

looks like we're still in that 'battle for the soul of america' biden declared where the character & virtues of 'americanism' are debated by team 🟦 & 🟥, but for the people who actually matter, things remain fundamentally the same,, 🤌🏼👀
"· As Anti-Communism: During the Cold War, "Americanism" was explicitly contrasted with "Communism." To be a good American was to be anti-Communist. This is when the term "Un-American" became particularly potent, most famously with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)." "There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." ~ Gore Vidal
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
... gives new meaning to consumption in this consumer culture

sometimes you consume
- & sometimes,
well,
the consumption consumes you,,

#CovidIsNotOver #WearARespirator 😷
the dude & the stranger share a moment at the bowling alley bar. the big lebowski (1998).
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 yes ... so why might we be constantly feeling like we're not in balance, jeff karp? 🤌🏼👀
"We hear these things from others, [like] trust in the process [and] balance is so important, we need more balance, it's the ultimate goal," Karp said. "It ends up being very frustrating and can lead to anxiety, because we're constantly feeling like we're not in balance. There's a state we should be in [and] we're never in that state."
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... revolution is something we embody, not something we wait around for

it can start by doing what we can to protect ourselves from becoming debilitated or killed for the sake of their profits,, #CovidIsNotOver #WearARespirator 😷
trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😶 ... 🤌🏼👀
Tiberius @ecomarxi If my posts appear increasingly unhinged, I just want to take the time to apologise to absolutely fucking nobody because this is how any sane person should be reacting to the state of this death circus we're forced to inhabit
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😶 ... once again, this has been a fundamental problem for quite some time now & esp apparent during the previous administration, which we were promised would "follow the science"

we need to insist upon more than replacing figureheads;
we need things to fundamentally change,,

#CovidIsNotOver
screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed graph of cumulative confirmed covid-19 deaths from Our World in Data (data source WHO COVID-19 Dashboard) biden/harris administration enters office jan. 20, 2021,, the population of the U.S. is only ~4% of the world's population & has far outpaced any other country in covid-19 deaths they understood from the start what they could do to prevent our harm & deaths & they're choosing not to do them so their economy can "get back to normal", providing their & their donors' profits & political power off our harm,, trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 all consistent with the 'politics of the possible' attitude of 'democratic socialists' who came before him, like aoc & bernie

... & of the 3rd way dems as well, like barry,, 🤷🏼🤌🏼👀
screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed winter coat bernie meme: i am once again asking you to suspend your disbelief.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 ... cdc has been a symptom of a more fundamental problem for some time now,, #CovidIsNotOver
screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... the state of american 'social democracy' / 'democratic socialism' in the u.s.,,

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
is this a butterfly meme: americans basic human rights is this communism?
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 ... this has me thinking about how much more establishment figures have come out performing as 'socialists' but/& offering only a return to a more 'benign' subjugation under the status quo where nothing has fundamentally changed,,

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 i think it's unreasonable to expect our society & institutions will uphold principles & rights which we ourselves are unwilling to uphold & assert;

our communities, society, & institutions do not exist apart from our embodiment of them,, 🤌🏼👀

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver #LiberationLit
screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😶 ... there's a common underlying conflict over fundamental principles of equality & the value of human life present in our society's response to this ongoing #Covid19 pandemic,,

"And so the indignant pragmatist repeats bromides like “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good...”"
screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths graph of cumulative confirmed covid-19 deaths from Our World in Data (data source WHO COVID-19 Dashboard) biden/harris administration enters office jan. 20, 2021,, the population of the U.S. is only ~4% of the world's population & has far outpaced any other country in covid-19 deaths they understood from the start what they could do to prevent our harm & deaths & they're choosing not to do them so their economy can "get back to normal", providing their & their donors' profits & political power off our harm,,
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... opening scene,
s.3:ep.1, atlanta,,

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 the shame is on those who dehumanize & deny care to maintain this state of degradation not just for others they consider 'lessors', but also for themselves relative to their 'betters',, 🤌🏼👀

#TheCivilityOfNormal #LiberationLit
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... uh, wow

classic example of responding but not actually answering the question

hint: the declaration of a public health emergency ≠ the pandemic

the pandemic is still ongoing - the virus continues to mutate, infect, cause disease, & kill

(⬇️ a question returned/related to a google search)
Is COVID a pandemic anymore? The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed it as having become a pandemic on 11 March. The WHO declared the public health emergency caused by COVID-19 had ended in May 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... abandoning us to this ongoing pandemic while they feed their wealth & power on our harm tells me what i need to know about the social material priorities & attitude of 'reform' embodied by social democrats & 'democratic socialists' here in the u.s.;

'nothing will fundamentally change',,
screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths graph of cumulative confirmed covid-19 deaths from Our World in Data (data source WHO COVID-19 Dashboard) biden/harris administration enters office jan. 20, 2021,, the population of the U.S. is only ~4% of the world's population & has far outpaced any other country in covid-19 deaths they understood from the start what they could do to prevent our harm & deaths & they're choosing not to do them so their economy can "get back to normal", providing their & their donors' profits & political power off our harm,,
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... seems like,
because is? 🤷🏼

requiring the wearing of respirators 😷 at meetings & campaign events during an ongoing pandemic of a debilitating & potentially fatal sickness is a pretty low fucking bar for embodying mutual care & solidarity, fam,, 🤌🏼👀

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍺😏 ... sigh,,
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... a passage from a piece about trauma informed movement work i read recently has me thinking about our shared experience here in this particular space around behavior like reposting & how reposting can be experienced as a form of intrusive thought

as a self-identifying cassandra, i repost
"And instead, because whatever happened is either so overwhelming to our nervous system that we can’t make sense of it or often we have no context for it, what happens is so foreign, so disturbing that we can’t fit it within our story of ourselves, our story of our lives, our story of the world. And so we literally, like, our body can’t file that data. And so it’s just constantly unprocessed. And one of the weird aspects of how our body deals with that is our bodies actually want us to relive the trauma until we get it right, which kind of seems ridiculous. Why would our body do that? And you can kind of think of it as if there is a bear stalking your community and you know need to fight it, it’s actually kind of a genius way for your body to want to keep fighting the bear until the bear is gone, and then either you chase the bear off or you kill it and then your body can release it and then file all those memories away. I think that’s one way to think about evolutionary why we have trauma in this way. But trauma is so prevalent that sometimes, as Resmaa Menakem says, that it can look like a culture. And I think in movement spaces, our sense of urgency, the way that sometimes we don’t create space for people to be vulnerable and say, “I’m really afraid about this action. I have these concerns,” and we kind of tell people to suck it up, a lot of that is just a culture of trauma within movements. And when we have these time-traveling emotions, we tend to narrow our focus and focus only on our safety and how we can get over this very specific obstacle. And often we can think about zero-sum games or binary thinking that actually makes us less choiceful about how we could collectively overcome the situation, or in the individual, how we could get to a place of safety." close up crop of Cassandra by Evelyn De Morgan (1898, London); Cassandra in front of the burning city of Troy, depicted with disheveled hair denoting the insanity ascribed to her by the Trojans. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
November 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😏 ... certainly didn't expect to wake up to such a rich vein of discourse, but i'll take it,, 🤌🏼👀🐒
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😶 ... #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver #MetaGame #LiberationLit
"Symbolic or epistemological warfare draws on theoretical advancements of the human sciences, particularly the disciplines and fields that have advanced some form of communication theory. As the text at hand illustrates, “Education, journalism, advertising, public opinion measurement, human relations, labor relations, military morale studies, and community studies have all served as laboratories for developing a body of theory about communication” that serves counterinsurgency (p. 9). Political science, psychology, anthropology, and sociology, as the points out, are one of the most salient disciplines in regards to empirically examining and theorizing communication as integral to social existence. Studies focused on the symbols of communication, mass media’s impact on collective behavior, how recipients of a discourse make meaning of and decisions from the communication available to them, how communities choose or abandon leaders, and, how and why social unrest emerges to threaten the status quo, not to mention the creation of a culture of fear within a (perceived or real) hostile environment."
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
👀😷 ... still wearing a respirator whenever i'm out & about in public

& glad i got my updated novavax shot bc it's still not looking so good out there,, #CovidIsNotOver #WearARespie
"One in five (20%) adults now say they have received the new, updated COVID-19 vaccine that became available in September. An additional one in four adults say they will "definitely get" (13%) or "probably get" (15%) the updated shot. Consistent with demographic differences across other COVID-related behaviors, uptake is highest among those ages 65 and older (34%) and Democrats (32%). This is in comparison to smaller shares of younger adults ages 18-29 (18%), Republicans (12%) and independents (16%) who report getting the latest vaccine"
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 i can imagine what people might expect from clinging to people who are basically using them, but i've never seen it work out positively for anyone i've known who went down this path

& collectively, it's clearly been a disaster for many of us who thought assimilation would be our salvation,, 💍😇🤌🏼
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 it doesn't have to be this way;
none of us has to keep normalizing & perpetuating this arrangement

we can choose to embody & assert ourselves on behalf of something better

we shouldn't have to beg 'our betters'
for what we need to live our lives & to thrive, fam,,
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
... well, wait until i tell you about the three seashells! 🧋😏
associate bob (glenn shadix) wearing a futuristic kimono would like a word with you about the three seashells. demolition man (1993).
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM