Big scary shark
@mrgoldfish161.bsky.social
Anarchist, emo hardcore enjoyer, paradox gamer.
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Say it with me, kids:
"The law is the arbiter of morality."
"The law is the arbiter of morality."
February 17, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Say it with me, kids:
"The law is the arbiter of morality."
"The law is the arbiter of morality."
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Although apologists for the state claim that strong, centralized government is necessary to prevent “chaos” and ethnic violence, in Syria, we see the opposite occurring: those who aim to centralize state power in their hands are using ethnic violence as a means to do so.
crimethinc.com/Rojavaperil
crimethinc.com/Rojavaperil
The Rojava Revolution in Peril, the Struggle for Free Life Continues
A statement from American, Chinese, and Russian anarchists about what the Syrian government's offensive on Rojava means.
crimethinc.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Although apologists for the state claim that strong, centralized government is necessary to prevent “chaos” and ethnic violence, in Syria, we see the opposite occurring: those who aim to centralize state power in their hands are using ethnic violence as a means to do so.
crimethinc.com/Rojavaperil
crimethinc.com/Rojavaperil
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Redundant RAS Acronym Syndrome
February 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Redundant RAS Acronym Syndrome
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Fun fact: when I run DEI workshops about trans stuff (it happens occasionally) one of my strategies is to start by getting people to talk about cyclists and their experiences. This usually works to build empathy, but occasionally it turns out that people actually hate cyclists more than trans people
you'd think the worst thing about cycling would be all the people trying to kill you, but it's actually all the insufferable men who insist on telling you that if you don't ride the way they think you should ride then you're no better than a car driver who hits pedestrians
February 16, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Fun fact: when I run DEI workshops about trans stuff (it happens occasionally) one of my strategies is to start by getting people to talk about cyclists and their experiences. This usually works to build empathy, but occasionally it turns out that people actually hate cyclists more than trans people
I just caught myself fantasising about making a salad. Is this what adulthood feels like?
February 16, 2026 at 11:28 AM
I just caught myself fantasising about making a salad. Is this what adulthood feels like?
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I mean does it though or does it make you weep for how many generations have tried to make this inherently white supremacist settler state include them only to be buried in the soil of a nation that hated them?
Moreover, ICE must be derstroyed
Moreover, ICE must be derstroyed
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I mean does it though or does it make you weep for how many generations have tried to make this inherently white supremacist settler state include them only to be buried in the soil of a nation that hated them?
Moreover, ICE must be derstroyed
Moreover, ICE must be derstroyed
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Do you have a slumlord? Together, we can confront them and win.
#auspol #housing #housingmarket #costofliving #union
#auspol #housing #housingmarket #costofliving #union
February 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Do you have a slumlord? Together, we can confront them and win.
#auspol #housing #housingmarket #costofliving #union
#auspol #housing #housingmarket #costofliving #union
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Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
ZineLibrary
zinelibrary.org
February 14, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
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- So instead of asking whether an action is violent, we might do better to ask simply: does it counteract power disparities, or reinforce them?
This is the fundamental anarchist question. We can ask it in every situation; every further question about values, tactics, and strategy proceeds from it.
This is the fundamental anarchist question. We can ask it in every situation; every further question about values, tactics, and strategy proceeds from it.
What is violence?
Is it tossing a tear gas canister back to the mercenaries who shot it at you?
Is it blowing a whistle at bounty hunters who are trying to abduct someone?
Perhaps, rather than asking whether an action is "violent," we should ask—
Does it perpetrate oppression? Or interrupt it?
Is it tossing a tear gas canister back to the mercenaries who shot it at you?
Is it blowing a whistle at bounty hunters who are trying to abduct someone?
Perhaps, rather than asking whether an action is "violent," we should ask—
Does it perpetrate oppression? Or interrupt it?
The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy
What is violence? Who gets to define it? Does it have a place in the pursuit of liberation? This discussion never takes place on a level playing field.
crimethinc.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:42 AM
- So instead of asking whether an action is violent, we might do better to ask simply: does it counteract power disparities, or reinforce them?
This is the fundamental anarchist question. We can ask it in every situation; every further question about values, tactics, and strategy proceeds from it.
This is the fundamental anarchist question. We can ask it in every situation; every further question about values, tactics, and strategy proceeds from it.
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#auspol when powerful people lie blatantly it isn’t because they are stupid, it’s because they think you are stupid.
Just discovered $3 billion in extra nuclear sub spending between May and December $15.4B → $18.6B
Where's the $3 billion going? Defence: "Take it on notice"
That's enough money to build 10,000s public homes but for Defence it's pocket change they lost down back of the couch.
Where's the $3 billion going? Defence: "Take it on notice"
That's enough money to build 10,000s public homes but for Defence it's pocket change they lost down back of the couch.
February 11, 2026 at 10:10 AM
#auspol when powerful people lie blatantly it isn’t because they are stupid, it’s because they think you are stupid.
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Capitalists: you are poor bc you eat out too much
Also capitalists: those frugal bastards who pack their lunches are crashing the economy 😤😩🥺😣
Also capitalists: those frugal bastards who pack their lunches are crashing the economy 😤😩🥺😣
February 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Capitalists: you are poor bc you eat out too much
Also capitalists: those frugal bastards who pack their lunches are crashing the economy 😤😩🥺😣
Also capitalists: those frugal bastards who pack their lunches are crashing the economy 😤😩🥺😣
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Gonna need everyone who is not an Anarchist to stop talking authoritatively about Anarchism. You do not understand it. Your attempts at criticism are based on things that are not Anarchism. In speaking as if you understand it, you are not only wrong, you are annoying as shit. Please stop.
February 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Gonna need everyone who is not an Anarchist to stop talking authoritatively about Anarchism. You do not understand it. Your attempts at criticism are based on things that are not Anarchism. In speaking as if you understand it, you are not only wrong, you are annoying as shit. Please stop.
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the question “who will clean the sewers under communism/anarchy?” has always had a confused framing. Might as well ask, “who will clean my room under anarchy/communism? Who will wash my dishes if I live alone?”
February 10, 2026 at 10:34 PM
the question “who will clean the sewers under communism/anarchy?” has always had a confused framing. Might as well ask, “who will clean my room under anarchy/communism? Who will wash my dishes if I live alone?”
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They cannot dedicate themselves to actual class analysis so to explain it the anti communist liberals will become Nazis
Many such cases
Many such cases
I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
February 11, 2026 at 4:06 AM
They cannot dedicate themselves to actual class analysis so to explain it the anti communist liberals will become Nazis
Many such cases
Many such cases
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They're calling HRT a "sex-rejecting procedure" now. I guess that means my wife gives me HRT every night!
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 PM
They're calling HRT a "sex-rejecting procedure" now. I guess that means my wife gives me HRT every night!
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Now, always and forever linking to this piece: truthout.org/articles/why...
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Now, always and forever linking to this piece: truthout.org/articles/why...
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Click into this thread to choose your displayed pronouns
February 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
/srs
women need an army
February 9, 2026 at 11:34 PM
/srs
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women need an army
January 8, 2026 at 4:46 AM
women need an army
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#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
February 5, 2026 at 7:55 PM
#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Also, it sucks how the UK became the driving force of stripping the last vesitages of privacy, security & anonymity from the internet using transparent BS about "protecting children" and it was Labor who carried this authoritarian scheme past the finish line.
Here's a login free link to this article, which is important for tje vast nimber of people who use discord for things besides gaming - like political organizing -and are being subject to this scheme to strip privacy leveraging age based censorship.
archive.ph/jOSqc
archive.ph/jOSqc
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Also, it sucks how the UK became the driving force of stripping the last vesitages of privacy, security & anonymity from the internet using transparent BS about "protecting children" and it was Labor who carried this authoritarian scheme past the finish line.
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as far as app genres go, chat apps are easily the most commoditized. like does discord think they have the "program where people type at each other" market *that* on lock? cancel your nitro subscription and let's find out together
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
as far as app genres go, chat apps are easily the most commoditized. like does discord think they have the "program where people type at each other" market *that* on lock? cancel your nitro subscription and let's find out together
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Proud to be a signatory.
This open letter is in SMH and Age.
This open letter is in SMH and Age.
February 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Proud to be a signatory.
This open letter is in SMH and Age.
This open letter is in SMH and Age.
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So, spurred on by Minns, the cops are cracking down on the Sydney demo against #Herzog. The question that needs to be asked is: *why*?
It's not for public safety reasons; #Palestine demos have been entirely peaceful all along. It's *political*, wanting to suppress the movement for Palestine.
It's not for public safety reasons; #Palestine demos have been entirely peaceful all along. It's *political*, wanting to suppress the movement for Palestine.
'Sydney is bracing for the start of Israeli President Isaac ['Social Cohesion'] Herzog’s Australian [Social Cohesion] tour today, with NSW Premier Chris Minns flagging a “massive” police crackdown on a planned protest outside Sydney Town Hall.'
www.deepcutnews.com/p/malaysian-...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/malaysian-...
Minns vows "massive" police response to Sydney Herzog protest
Malaysian government urged to seek Israeli President's extradition as Herzog lands in Australia
www.deepcutnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:47 AM
So, spurred on by Minns, the cops are cracking down on the Sydney demo against #Herzog. The question that needs to be asked is: *why*?
It's not for public safety reasons; #Palestine demos have been entirely peaceful all along. It's *political*, wanting to suppress the movement for Palestine.
It's not for public safety reasons; #Palestine demos have been entirely peaceful all along. It's *political*, wanting to suppress the movement for Palestine.