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Alex ☭

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The Subway

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January 30, 2026 at 9:52 AM

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

January 28, 2026 at 12:54 AM

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Wizardslut

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Hannah Arendt

But perhaps the most striking and frightening aspect of the German flight from reality is the habit of treating facts as though they were mere opinions. For example, the question of who started the last war, by no means a hotly debated issue, is answered by a surprising variety of opinions. An otherwise quite normally intelligent woman in Southern Germany told me that the Russians had begun the war with an attack on Danzig; this is only the crudest of many examples. Nor is this transformation of facts into opinions restricted to the war question; in all fields there is a kind of gentlemen's agreement by which everyone has a right to his ignorance under the pretext that everyone has a right to his opinion—and behind this is the tacit assumption that opinions really do not matter. This is a very serious thing, not only because it often makes discussion so hopeless (one does not ordinarily carry a reference library along everywhere), but primarily because the average German

honestly believes this free-for-all, this nihilistic relativity about facts, to be the essence of democracy. In fact, of course, it is a legacy of the Nazi regime.
The lies of totalitarian propaganda are distinguished from the normal lying of non-totalitarian regimes in times of emergency by their consistent denial of the importance of facts in general: all facts can be changed and all lies can be made true. The Nazi impress on the German mind consists primarily in a conditioning whereby reality has ceased to be the sum total of hard inescapable facts and has become a conglomeration of ever-changing events and slogans in which a thing can be true today and false tomorrow. This conditioning may be precisely one of the reasons for the surprisingly few traces of any lasting Nazi indoctrination, as well as for an equally surprising lack of interest in the refuting of Nazi doctrines.
What one is up against is not indoctrination but the incapacity or unwillingness to distinguish altogether between fact and opinion. A discussion about the events of the Spanish Civil War will be conducted on the same level as a discussion of the theoretical merits and shortcomings of democracy.

January 26, 2026 at 2:15 PM

Alex ☭

@sleepyalx.bsky.social

Yk I’m so sad that Michael Parenti passed 💔

January 25, 2026 at 2:17 PM

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Frog and Toad Bot

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After a long time, Frog said “Toad, it is getting dark. We should be going to sleep now.”

January 23, 2026 at 12:38 AM

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WEFAIL

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January 7, 2026 at 11:09 PM

Alex ☭

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Rosa

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January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM

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Shivani
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Why am I scrolling. What am I searching for
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January 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM

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Jason Hickel

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Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM

Alex ☭

@sleepyalx.bsky.social

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

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January 2, 2026 at 10:32 PM

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CHOAM Nomsky

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My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.

December 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM