M. E. O'Brien

Yes I realize it’s a joke but also: they do not think that. They think trans people shouldn’t exist, or at least shouldn’t be allowed out in public.

i believe in the spirit of communist internationalism in the sense that the *starting point* for the struggle in a 21st century where supply chains, communications, and flows of people span the planet, is making the "people across the whole world" "your local community", not just geographic locals

Ten years ago i would enjoy going on social media because it was all jokes, memes and pretty girls, but now today the timeline is nothing but genocide and the collapse of civilization and it makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry.

Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

A girl can dream

@smilingnodding.bsky.social woke 2 is coming and its going to make mao look like jon stewart February 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM & Everybody can reply

Kansas stays winning. Love you Kansas

This summer much has been changing for me around romance. I’m reminded of something I’ve tried so hard to deny: how scary and vulnerable it is to desire things of other people.

We certainly should be following anyone who has special knowledge about the fate the world

Screenshot of text excerpt: “Community can rarely be adequate to our hopes under capitalism; it is simply not congruent with the actually existing web of human interdependency. This web, constituted by the domination of impersonal market forces, or instantiated directly within the dictatorship of the workplace, can never offer a community. This is not just because it is too cruel or too oppressive, it is also because it is always mystified, opaque, and alienated. All other collectivities, insofar as they do not overlap with actually existing practices of material survival, are readily torn apart as each participant must seek a means of self-reproduction. Because a core activity of collective human life is so absorbed into market relations, non-market relations become hollow, shallow, and fragile. You may love your friends, but you still have to pay rent. Your community may provide housing for some months or years—through a rental party, friends offering you their couch, an independent autonomous squat, a generous roommate—but in a capitalist society, eventually you will do”

I co-wrote an essay on how fleeting our experience of community is in a world based on commodity exchange. Our efforts to care for each other keep falling apart because our primary dependency is on our employers and landlords.

www.pinko.online/analyzing-th...

Screenshot of text excerpt: “Community can rarely be adequate to our hopes under capitalism; it is simply not congruent with the actually existing web of human interdependency. This web, constituted by the domination of impersonal market forces, or instantiated directly within the dictatorship of the workplace, can never offer a community. This is not just because it is too cruel or too oppressive, it is also because it is always mystified, opaque, and alienated. All other collectivities, insofar as they do not overlap with actually existing practices of material survival, are readily torn apart as each participant must seek a means of self-reproduction. Because a core activity of collective human life is so absorbed into market relations, non-market relations become hollow, shallow, and fragile. You may love your friends, but you still have to pay rent. Your community may provide housing for some months or years—through a rental party, friends offering you their couch, an independent autonomous squat, a generous roommate—but in a capitalist society, eventually you will do”

I co-wrote an essay on how fleeting our experience of community is in a world based on commodity exchange. Our efforts to care for each other keep falling apart because our primary dependency is on our employers and landlords.

www.pinko.online/analyzing-th...

We live in a horribly lonely, atomizing, isolating world where our primary actual relationships of interdependency with each other happen impersonally as commodity exchange. It’s a nightmare. And ofc the varying strands of men’s rights discourse is male supremacist fascism that make this worse

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

Bluetooth

xkcd.com/2055/

And that’s a block

Those who should be paying the taxes to fix all this, who are losing their minds over very modest proposed tax increases

Organized abandonment is what I keep thinking over and over as I look around

Think my original point is still valid though

Both the flooding and track fire were at the 7th Ave station in Brooklyn, but different stations sharing that name on different trains that meet up in Manhattan

Oh I misremembered. The BDFM was affected by the power outage, the F by flooding and the BQ tonight by track fire

I don't get it. Some of you accuse abolitionists of pipe dreams. The biggest pipe dreams are the ones that insist on prosecutions of the powerful. THIS IS NOT WHAT THE CURRENT CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT SYSTEM EXISTS TO DO. THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES.

Plants!

My subway home to Brooklyn has been completely shut down three times in the last two days, including a flood, a power outage and a track fire. We’ve starved our infrastructure to near collapse to keep profit rates up

Sadly the current season 2 of SNW

i can vouch for paxlovid big time

second time having to take it, tested positive, got prescribed, havnt even finished all pills and im testing negative. still finish all pills tho!

first time covid fucked me up even w paxlovid, but now my blood cells recognize it & paxlovid backs me up.

Paxlovid is very helpful! To get paxlovid you need to get a reliable test for COVID at an urgent care or doctor’s. Suspecting you have COVID is the first step.

Denial is such a powerful force!

I’m disturbed how many people think they have the flu in August and don’t realize it’s likely COVID. I made this mistake in 2020. I too have been a fool. Don’t make my mistake!

In this specific case I’d side with @jasonread.bsky.social but in general… bsky.app/profile/gend...

Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.