lucia hulsether

on october 3rd he asked me what day it was it is october 3rd ALT: on october 3rd he asked me what day it was it is october 3rd

shoutout to all the iconic gay men in my life who, because of their national holiday, are literally incapable of forgetting my birthday. y’all are gonna will be 90 years old w dementia and still texting me today and i love you for it.

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Okay so first of all I’m so honored that a/ you listen and b/ you want to read the book thing. It’s paywalled but I can send the forum. 💙💙

Also we gotta get you on the podcast @jonathanstegall.bsky.social

🧵*8/29/2025 thread of noncooperation*

A daily thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions.

A movement is just a bunch of people moving. Let's fucking go.

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Trump wants to roll in? Chicago has some thoughts about that 💪

New Mark of the Beast just dropped.
-Revelation 13:16, paraphrased, referring to Nike’s Caitlin Clark logo
#WNBA

Akhras, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, lost his home to an Israeli strike, in early 2024. He and his family have been displaced multiple times, living in tents where the canvas sweats from too many bodies pressed into too little space. He no longer sits in a white-walled office or wears a badge. But he continues to work, seeing some fifty patients a day, most of them children. One of his regular patients is a young girl, no older than fourteen, who survived a strike that killed her entire family. She woke up in an I.C.U., alone, unable to understand where everyone had gone. Now she sits in front of Akhras in silence, until she asks, again and again, if he can bring them back. He has no answer, only a pencil stub and a coloring book, which he hopes she can use to express and process her emotions.

Read this passage, please, about trying to provide therapy for trauma in Gaza, even though it should make you feel like you are stabbing needles into your eyes.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

Awareness Protests Won’t Threaten the Richest, Most Well-Armed People on Earth “Making durable changes isn’t always about the raw numbers,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.

Protests should not only express dissent but also serve as credible threats of sustained action, such as strikes, boycotts, or other forms of collective withholding to compel systemic change.

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in conversation with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

I'm not the boss of the internet, but I recommend that you make 1 more donation to a Gaza family or LA bail fund & log off for the evening (unless you're a reporter whose literal job requires you to be on here). Either settle your nervous system or go to a physical location & do a bold activity

I also find the use of "Radical" as this kinda general praise term *really* contemptible. But I think it annoys me out of whack to how bad it actually is. But ftr it's because to me sounds like people arguing about who is really Deep just with a leftist inflection; and I hate Deepitude argument too.

I find humanities debates re how to be Radical very quaint. Imo the reason us sitting around and arguing about metaphysics isn't actually leading to substantial increases in power or wellbeing for the working class has nothing to do with the particular way we sit around and argue about metaphysics.

Riot. Strike. Riot Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar...

In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.