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"What happens if social media's data-gathering and profiling engine is turned not to selling merch or promoting political rhetoric, but to profiling enemies? Just this week, Trump issued an executive order designating 'Antifa' as a domestic terrorist organization (despite the fact that antifa is not an organization at all)," Karpf writes.

Caligula stabbing the sea

"It's the privileged who talk like this! We need to burn down the system for the oppressed!"

What do you think will happen to your disabled allies in the starvation and rubble of a civil war fought with cruise missiles and drones? You think their meds will still be available?

there's nobody out there going half-mast for robert redford i'll tell you that

A YouTube video called "Just put an egg in a tomato and you will be amazed! Breakfast recipe #5" has been screenshot-ed and shared multiple times, each with the video's title repeated in the post text.

Just put an egg in an egg in an egg in a tomato in a tomato in a tomato and you will be amazed

I've certainly ✍️ had ✍️ a cocktail. ✍️

If you’re doing any writing or posting about the phrase “transgender ideology” it should be to say one of the following things:
— it’s a meaningless dog whistle
— trans people had nothing to do with this shooting
— there’s no evidence shooter was trying to show support for trans people/trans rights

Honest, independent, fearless my whole ass

If violence is never the answer and we should be trying to win over centrists by "exposing the callousness" of people like Kirk, that should start with refusing to lionize them.

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You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

"Given the crimes Epstein was convicted of, I steeled myself before scrolling. Somehow, my internet-addled imagination failed me. This book is a nightmare." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

And Muslim hatred is Muslim hatred no matter what word is used. I'm glad we agree.

You might want to read the Wikipedia entry a little closer. As a term, Judeophobia first appeared in the late 1800s, not 1800 years ago.

In any case, Judeophobia is *also* a word that was created. I'm gonna hold your hand when I tell you this...

So there's no such thing as antisemitism because that word was created too, right? to describe a phenomenon? And I guess all Jews are X because the Torah says Y? Just want to make sure I'm understanding your logic here.

For someone with a post history so against antisemitism, you sure are quick to be Islamophobic...
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Them: Tell me you've had your heart broken without telling me you've had your heart bro–

Me: WHAT WOULD **YOU** KNOW ABOUT THE CRANBERRIES

#writingcommunity

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From Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guattari: "If you free it with too violent an action, if you blow apart the strata without taking precautions, then instead of drawing the plane you will be killed, plunged into a black hole, or even dragged toward catastrophe. Staying stratified-organized, signified, subjected-is not the worst that can happen; the worst that can happen is if you throw the strata into demented or suicidal collapse, which brings them back down on us heavier than ever. This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times."

Yeah... Somehow it keeps bringing me back to Deleuze

There Is No Trolley Problem We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.

Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.

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Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

And may dogs inherit the earth 😭

You’ll never hear me dump on Education, but when post2ndaries are run like (taxpayer subsidized) businesses that offer micro-credentials and hyper-specialized programs with 0 transferable skills in a job market that changes every 5 yrs, then “education” is just job orientation you’re paying to do.

Nothing reminds me I'm in my 30s like a craving for liquorice allsorts.

Why I oughta mollywap you in the mackerel snapper 🫵

if a femur breaks in the woods...

meanwhile i continue to be astounded how fearlessly ignorant the essay's comments are. literally nothing he wrote should come as a surprise to anyone who's taken even a single intro psych course

If you don’t like this country, just leave!
If the turn signals in your car stop working, just abandon it!
If the toilets stop flushing, just move houses!

Never solve problems, always give up.

we can house our fellow Angelenos, or we can have housing that is used to store, accumulate, generate, and launder capital. But we can;t have both.

I understand why many leftists on this app are anonymous and also one of the consequences of doing your business on here as an anonymous person is that if you try to moralize and pressure people about something, no one knows why the fuck they should listen to you or what your social location is

I think anyone who’s against expanding AC access should voluntarily give up their own for a full year before they’re allowed to talk about it.

That means no AC at home, no AC in the car, no AC at work.

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