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Happy combination injection day and birthday 🥳

I feel like there's something to be said about how queerness is treated as though it was foreign to every group it emerges within. "That gay stuff must've come from somewhere else because that's just not how We do things" except that's never actually true

This one's gonna do crazy things to my brain I can feel it

I hope you know that I love you. You are one of my favorite people in the world

I wish I could

That sounds so cute. Excited to see it

Intrigued by what this even means tbh. Are you getting your fur dyed?

The deep moral clarity of repeatedly witnessing the private actions of the abuser and not just their self-serving public statements

Bsky corporate crisis management guidelines:
1) post through it

Four books in a stack: Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation (2nd ed.) — Lynette S. Danylchuk and Kevin J. Connors Performance Theory — Richard Schechner Whipping Girl — Julia Serano The Revolution of Everyday Life — Raoul Vaneigem

Essential reading list btw

The Situationists called this "survival sickness", the tendency for capitalist alienation to reduce living to surviving until survival itself becomes unbearable

make a lot of friends do drugs fuck a lot tell beautiful women you're in love with that you love them

Anyway I think it's a mistake to analyze this in terms of how possible it is because these people are operating on faith that if they do the things they're supposed to they'll reap the rewards they're supposed to. They'll only find out afterwards it didn't happen right, like every doomsday cult

Considering the obsession with Curing Mortality, they do really mean for this to be Forever. These people want to create a literal Heaven On Earth but specifically for the bourgeoisie. And their vision of it is made grotesque by their own moral bankruptcy and egotistic self-delusion

There's a sort of eschatology to dec/acc: be one of the Powerful People who causes The Collapse and you'll be rewarded in the Post-Collapse with your own company town the size of a small country and as many robot butlers and soldiers as you need to hold power and live in luxury Forever

Thinking about when I was learning about analog computing years ago and saw all the equations I'd been using to describe circuits instead treated as the programs for them to evaluate. Everything around us is information being manipulated, physics and computing are just two sides of the same coin

Not to really get into it but it'd be pretty much impossible for me to forget you

You're so cute 🫠

Underneath whatever repressive machinery civilization constructs to keep itself intact, a counterforce of great unifying, celebratory, sexual, and life-giving power continues to exert its overwhelming and joyful influence. At certain times in everyone's life and during certain periods of each society's history this counterforce is activated. It is perhaps improper to speak of it as a "counterforce" since it seems—when active—to be more authentic than the civilization—the specific social inhibitions—it opposes and frequently obliterates. Dionysus' presence can be beautiful or ugly or both. It seems quite clear that he is present in today's America—showing himself in the hippies, in the "carnival spirit" of black insurrectionists, on campuses; and even, in disguise, on the patios and in the living-rooms

of suburbia. There is a qualitative link between the Orokolo Fire Fight, the Greek chorus, and our own folk-rock discothèques. LSD is contemporary chemistry, but freaking-out is ancient. I take this special, ecstatic quality to be essentially theatrical. Freud called this special quality the Pleasure Principle and identified it with art—when it was translated and transmuted by organized fantasy. The difference between art as we know it in the West and theatre as it has traditionally shown itself world-wide is that Western art is individualized while traditional theatre is communal. In its communal forms, theatre is both socially constructive and personally "transcendent" or ecstatic. But our art has long lost this double—and contradictory—function, becoming instead a function of individualism: the Protestant-capitalist ethic. And it is inevitable that the individualization of art leads to its commercialization. Nothing formally distinguishes the labor of the artist from the labor of any other worker—and labor is bought and sold by the piece or by the hour. It is here that the future of art—particularly the theatre—is linked to the development of social systems that are neither individualizing nor commercialized. That does not necessarily mean that theatre does best in socialist societies—because socialism in this century has not become either manageably tribal or demonstrably uncommercial. At the same time, the success of the theatre in eastern Europe can be related to more than the simple availability of subsidies: And the failure of theatre in America is more than a question of poverty: We simply are not brought up to believe in groups; we are trained toward an individualistic ethic that makes us want to achieve things on our own, by ourselves. These values are inimical to theatre. Theoretically, at least, if their societies find a shape which matches their stated intentions, the theatre of eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China will be better artistically th…

Fucked up how our age gap is only going to get less and less problematic as you get older

Calling myself a street transvestite but it's because I'm a transfem butch

New TS/TV war but make the language incomprehensible. This can only be good for transfeminism I think

Same lol

*eyes glowing red, body lifting off the ground* The widespread destructive force of "irony poisoning" is a result of failure of adulthood to allow adequate forms of play which allow inhabiting the detestable in a momentary and harmless way

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Wish I could turn the presumptuousness knob in people's heads all the way down pretty often

Tightening oppressive social norms demand shamelessness in response