The future.

The coffee museum there is so odd and great. Just basically a bunch of stuff people had that they were like “*shrug* do y’all want to look at this?”

Some people need to understand the difference between being uncomfortable and being persecuted.

I think this is a reasonable perspective. I saw someone say yesterday that there is no way forwards without a new constitution, because this one has failed. The open question is what civil war actually looks like in this place and moment. Arguably we are already there.

Ah, the Supernatural (CW) effect.

I hate that the comment I saw comparing Curtis Yarvin to Marat is actually right.

The boring truth is that the Taliban are the ones granting the visas and they are extremely interested in promoting foreign tourism

Also, Mamdani, as a Twelver Shia, would be welcome in neither.

ANNIHILATION (2018)

His insistence on referring to every “Oriental” conflict dating to the 1940s as thousands of years old is going to make my head explode.

He turned against that too, but too late.

The K$H logo is killing me

I do know what I believe. I believe that Bad Bunny is hottt.

This but also Bartolomé de las Casas. Like, he also made huge mistakes and had protoracial prejudices. But he saw what was going on in the Caribbean and clearly recognized that it was morally wrong!

The State of Israel is incredibly entangled in a specifically orientalist/Islamophobic white supremacy.

I got asked to address Renee Fleming’s Christmas cards because my handwriting is so beautiful.

Dennis Reynolds

Inside Hotel Gastronomic No. 1 (Hotel Ritz, now the Palace), in 1936. The most luxurious hotel and restaurant in Barcelona was collectivised by the Ritz workers (CNT+UGT) and turned into this workers canteen still served by tuxedoed waiters.

TBH the class system in the U.S. does seem to significantly revolve around signifiers of educational eliteness. It’s incoherent, but that’s because class here simply doesn’t work the same way as it does in Europe.

This reminds me of securo-feminism… pointing out that feminism originally located threats to women’s wellbeing in the state & opposed state violence, but then began to identify the interests of (white/“universal”) women with the interests of the state.

I don’t understand why someone doesn’t ask him what he thinks Trump meant by saying that Sadiq Khan wants to implement sharia law if he did not mean “Muslim scary”

Mamdani has really laid bare the extent to which you can just do gutter bigotry against Muslims without making a blip

Literally explained this to a student of mine the other day in the context of right wing conspiracy theories. Like, what does globalist MEAN if not in the context of the lineage of “rootless cosmopolitans”?

Fair enough at least two of those things I actively want and I’m not even a Democrat

You have to understand that there is a screenshot going around of someone making the same argument in straight good faith (apparently)

logging on to AO3

Yeah, I feel like this explanation leaves out that when the Civil War ended, there was no longer an abundance of exploitable free labor in the American South, at least not to the same extent, whereas there was very exploitable labor in Asia and North Africa.

The entire nation of Afghanistan has been cut off from the world by internet blackout for the last day and a half. Not even phone calls go through. Flights have been canceled. I don’t know how to explain how insane and scary this is.

lol I feel like I can never tell these days

The same argument was used against musicians boycotting Israel, though.