Laura Hilliger @epilepticrabbit.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

I wish there was a reporting mechanism for when you land on an entire website of AI slop.

07.12.2025 07:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Rewilding in urban spaces, Rewilding My Street https://www.rewildmystreet.org/ attn @epilepticrabbit

05.12.2025 20:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Whoosit? It's a privacy first piece of software but I can't try it out without giving up some of my data?

04.12.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brain leaking from ears.

02.12.2025 16:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahhh nothing sounds pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IqDDvxPH1k

29.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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I accidentally read (ok, I started skimming after he insinuated that we can just give dementia patients robots and that's good nuff) the 2026 tech predictions from the Amazon CTO. On a Saturday like a moron.

Thankfully, this afternoon is our yearly neighborhood seasonal singing event. It's in […]

29.11.2025 09:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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It is an absolute shame that so many cool Antifa makers are only on Instagram. I can't click the "more" button to see your contact deets without joining. And I refuse to join what I consider to be a downright harmful platform owned by a monopolistic Mega-Corp which is predominantly owned by a […]

27.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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[Politics, warfare rhetoric]

Used translator tools to understand Russian rhetoric and am a curious person. I am an animal, yes, but not a dumb one.

I do not understand the drive for power, the powerful, the hateful, shapeshifter men who are so keen to dominate. These people who think they […]

27.11.2025 08:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inspired by the content of this internet curriculum post that @dajb pointed me toward and then deflated by the fact that its author seems to exist only within Substack.

https://offlinecrush.substack.com/p/how-to-use-the-internet-again-a-curriculum

25.11.2025 09:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It appears that I out-didnt-givafok LinkedIn and now they're just offering me this verification thing without my money? In fact if I don't do anything it will automatically be added to my profile? Do I do the opposite of what they think I should do and click No just for spite?

25.11.2025 08:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everything has an ending, only the sausage has two. https://youtu.be/a4JSE32fuOc?si=jidRJYEOFT7a-4Mu

24.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wish it was part of GDPR that businesses were not allowed to add you to their newsletters when you order things from the internet.

20.11.2025 09:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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"Some men (and I do mean mostly men) would rather spend trillions of dollars on an idea that is financially, technologically, morally, and environmentally unsustainable, they’d rather destroy democracy and destroy education and destroy the planet than just get therapy." @audreywatters gave a […]

14.11.2025 08:42 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Idk if people who follow me are still writing on substack but if you are, a default privacy setting is set to let AI scrape your writing so you might want to check that. One of the first FOSS projects I did was called Open Attribute, and attribution doesn't matter an iota to these fuckers.

14.11.2025 08:18 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

should i let maybezombies.com expire? What about digitalriot.de? I am not using my cool domain names very well :/

13.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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We have a FREE email course called "What we talk about when we talk about Open" and it would be GREAT if everyone shared it with people who don't work openly so that it trickles back to folks i have to work with who don't work openly but with whom I can't share because it would be too passive […]

13.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

@dajb guess who is the first person I see leaving Strava on the same day I'm leaving Strava.

13.11.2025 08:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The thing is, Strava, I don't agree. But I can't delete my account without selecting Agree?

13.11.2025 08:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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[Trump, Epstein]

Wut? Are we still doing this? We all knew Trump and Epstein were sleazin all the seasons. Together, separately, for like 50 fucking years. The issue is that, apparently, it doesn't matter no matter how gross, terrible or well documented. So what exactly is the point of […]

12.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Let it be known that I shall go to a physical copy shop and print, in colour, my LinkedIn profile. I shall take said print outs and use them to start the New Year's 🔥. If we all do this together, as an offering to the gods, everyone will realise the hellscape they have subjected us to, one by […]

12.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My website is a junk drawer My website is a junk drawer full of weird and random things. A wild mind has been living there for a good long while. I used to blog a lot, but when I started doing a newsletter 10 years ago, I slowly, slowly adjusted myself to writing personally about once a week. I continued to blog about projects and work stuff. Blogs written all over the web. I make sure that no matter where something is posted first, if I wrote it, or collaborated on it, it ends up on my website. And so my website is a mishmash of wild and wonderful things. I’m going to write a blog post about this junk drawer and the things I find inside of it. Perhaps I will pull out some happiness, some silliness, some sadness and a little bit of incredulity. I will write about blogging as an extension of self, a way to see what you’ve learned, who you were and who you have become. Link to the blog: https://www.laurahilliger.com/blog/ **Link to the full post:https://www.laurahilliger.com/writing/my-website-is-a-junk-drawer/** # Blog-A-Thon Reclaim Open starts with a day-long Blog-A-Thon. Read this short intro to find out how to take part and what it’s all about: ## So what’s the Blog-A-Thon? The first day of the event, November 4, is the day of the Blog-A-Thon. Check the full schedule of what’s on the agenda. Starting at 9am EST we will publish a post on the hour every hour for the whole day, for you to read, respond and connect. You’ll be able to find and navigate between the posts via the conference site, and post your comments there, too. We’re also planning for some good old-fashioned radio coming to you live with bloggers chatting about blogging and playing the soundtrack to their stories. Learn more. ## Session Author(s): hello This piece is sort of inspired by an ongoing email conversation I’ve been having about rewilding with Alan Levine. We both are rewilding some land, across the world from one another, but rewilding nonetheless. We are farmers and ecologists. I’m sure that every good farm has a junk drawer with string and rubber bands and post it notes and sticky tack and other requirements for all manner of natural living tasks. One thing led to another and all these thoughts led me back to my website, where many of the digital bits of me are stored. ## Session Resources: > Posts | Trackback ## Post navigation Previous: Things change (or, Montaigne and the Open Web) Latest message: 7 minutes ago pete rorabaugh : @alan!!!!2025-11-04 06:42:37 taylorjadin : True. search makes all the difference Imagine if I could search for things in my house like I can on my blog, that would be amazing I put a lot more wait on time as metadata and the search feature, than I do categories/tags, personally. I've never been good at tagging things.2025-11-04 06:38:56 CogDog : I relish in the messiness. More often than not I find things I forgot. I forget more than I remember. My blog does not.2025-11-04 06:38:51 CogDog : Likewise, my ~20 years of posting on flickr gives me a means to find all the times I was in Fredericksburg or what I was doing on any given date2025-11-04 06:36:36 CogDog : or April 2019 «link»2025-11-04 06:35:57 CogDog : In WordPress I can easily find through the URL structure what I was doing in 2019 «link» or in July of 2019 or April of 2019 «link»2025-11-04 06:35:49 CogDog : A practice of blogging I find incredibly valuable, even with a messy set of categories and tags, is that it becomes what I call a "Timelined Self" «link»2025-11-04 06:34:34 CogDog : But again, my kitchen junk drawer does not have a search feature, or metadata for each pencil and screwdriver that indicates when it was tossed into the drawer.2025-11-04 06:33:25 taylorjadin : everything else you need to keep organized. You just hope your junk drawer doesn't become a junk room, or junk house!2025-11-04 06:31:26 taylorjadin : That works for me, because I really feel like having a concept of organized and unorganized spaces is important in general. I think most folks NEED a junk drawer as a "pressure release valve" from2025-11-04 06:31:08 taylorjadin : Yeah this is a delightful little post. I very much embrace the junk drawer approach to my web presence, but I've been over the years making sure it centralizes on to my blog that way I can control it.2025-11-04 06:30:22 pete rorabaugh : in the spirit of seeing the junk drawer w new eyes, i started blogging when i started going thru a divorce in 2007 .. the reflections on that wp.com space (diff from my current space) are profound now2025-11-04 06:30:03 Pilot : This is a lovely post and shares a mindset that I struggle with a lot -- I definitely feel a pressure to keep my web presence very carefully curated, no junk drawer allowed. Thank you!2025-11-04 06:28:52 Alexis Block : Maybe in a future blog I can find some way to bring old projects back to the surface :)2025-11-04 06:28:31 Alexis Block : But finding so many fun projects I completely forgot about!2025-11-04 06:26:49 Alexis Block : @LMC seconding that, and in the spirit of resurfacing junk, I am linking my name to an old static portfolio created for a web dev class at CU. Links are broken, info is old, maiden name is used...2025-11-04 06:26:30 Todd : @pete. I think plants are important. Someday I'll get rich with this one :) 2025-11-04 06:25:31 maren : 100% relate to that, @LMC - I always find unexpected things on my blog years later2025-11-04 06:24:40 pete rorabaugh : @todd .. that was fun, thank you for sharing.2025-11-04 06:23:38 pete rorabaugh : @todd watching .. all the pothos plants make me real happy.2025-11-04 06:21:12 Andy Rush : My cats love laser pointers!2025-11-04 06:20:29 LMC : One of the best things about junk drawers, and junk blogs, is that you often find useful or interesting things that you'd forgotten you'd put in there.2025-11-04 06:19:43 Jim Groom : What a great little post Laura weaved with that metaphor, I not only relate, but I also think I have a promotional laser pointer somewhere in my blog.2025-11-04 06:19:07 Todd : @pete Wow. Very cool. This was my attempt at an office tour that was inspired by the one he did. «link»2025-11-04 06:17:37 Andy Rush : POSSE all the things. Even junk drawers.2025-11-04 06:17:15 Jim Groom : Laura literally iventories the junk drawer in my foyer2025-11-04 06:15:40 pete rorabaugh : @todd i think about howard and what i learned from working with him briefly and his books, at least once a week2025-11-04 06:15:18 Todd : I recall Howard Rheingold's little tour of his office. Can't find that one, but these are so insightful to people «link»2025-11-04 06:12:05 pete rorabaugh : .. i think the extension of that is, because i avoid mess sometimes, it keeps me from writing/posting/accumulating things in my blog in the way that laura describes .. id like to challenge that in me.2025-11-04 06:11:23 pete rorabaugh : these discussions of the junk drawer and the sock drawer are giving me a lot of reflection .. i have banished the idea of a junk drawer from my house (too much chaos) .. but ..2025-11-04 06:10:38 Mark : "The Tao of the junk drawer." A new religion is born!2025-11-04 06:09:45 Todd : @pete Loved those nights.2025-11-04 06:09:06 Todd : Here is sock drawer rant «link»2025-11-04 06:08:35 Todd : I am compared lots of university courses to sock drawers which can have a similar vibe. I will remember to add that within the mess of stuff is a buried gem, somewhere :)2025-11-04 06:08:17 pete rorabaugh : @todd i DEF remember watching the "bass-o-matic" skit over and over on my snl VHS tapes in high school.2025-11-04 06:07:36 Sarah : This is gonna make a great TDC - show us yer junk drawer!2025-11-04 06:06:30 HibbittsDesign : Digging this embedded chat next to a blog post...2025-11-04 06:05:42 Todd : "And it’s wonderful to rummage through other people’s junk drawers" Laura, here is my drawer: «link» I just posted about fish in a blender :)2025-11-04 06:05:25 pete rorabaugh : @laura thanks for introducing me to "POSSE. It means Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere"2025-11-04 06:04:59 Todd : Yay for "some happiness, some silliness, some sadness and a little bit of incredulity."2025-11-04 06:03:36 pete rorabaugh : would love to alternate tag this with one of my fav children's book lines: "let the wild rumpus START"2025-11-04 06:03:34 Todd : "I slowly, slowly adjusted myself to writing personally about once a week." Yes, I am slowly, slowly getting exactly one post a month out.2025-11-04 06:03:17 Todd : "And so my website is a mishmash of wild and wonderful things" Yay for mishmashes of wild and wonderful things!2025-11-04 06:02:21 Andy Rush : Yay, more cat GIFs!2025-11-04 06:02:16 maren : Here is also the direct link to Laura's post «link»2025-11-04 06:01:47 maren : And we're into the next hour of the blog-a-thon!2025-11-04 06:01:19 reclaimhosting : Welcome to the Chat2025-11-04 06:00:51 Name URL Message ## Conference key dates Submissions: closed September, 15 Registration: open now Conference: November 4-6, 2025 ## Conference Registration Registration will remain open up until and throughout the event. As in previous years, we work hard to keep the conference fees as affordable as possible. Register now Search **Howdy.** We're Reclaim Hosting, founded in 2013, we provide educators and institutions with an easy way to offer their students domains and web hosting that they own and control. 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Just discovered the #reclaimopen blogathon had a little chat window where a lovely conversation was taking place about my post on my junk drawer of a website: https://reclaimopen.com/session/my-website-is-a-junk-drawer/

12.11.2025 09:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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[Politics]

Nothing, just thinking about my 5th grade poster board about where in the kitchen bread gets moldier faster and how annoyed my mom was to be finding moldy bread weeks after the science fair […]

12.11.2025 08:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m just flying back from Barcelona and I’ve got another 20 minutes to practice my thumb gymnastics, so here’s a brief post about the 15th Mozilla Festival. Actually, it’s not about Mozfest at all. Because this years Mozfest didn’t really feel like a Mozfest to me. Maybe in other parts of the venue there were people building the future and making the technology that will someday become ubiquitous? Talk is talk and that’s fine, but I didn’t even SEE people with laptops let alone hacking away at things together. I heard, at this Mozfest, about legacies dismissed or forgotten. “Mozfest” stickers were being _sold_ (!?) This post is about my community. My people. The internet OGs and radically open technologists who, despite _waves around at everything_ still fight the good fight. These people are sitting inside of global NGOs, local governments, fortune 500s, think tanks and so on. Like me, they take the values of open, participatory, community driven, tech for good with them wherever they go. _Have I arrived yet?_ Luckily for me, Mozilla supported a coincidental meetup for some of the Mozilla Alum spread out across the world. For those of us who could make it to Barcelona, Mozilla sponsored accommodations and a one day alumni event. As always, it wasn’t the organised togetherness that made the event valuable to me (although we did do a Paella Cooking class together that was pretty cool.) It was the moment that a former Mozilla engineer I had never met before and I realised that very obscure 90s references don’t always fall flat. It was the snapshot in the elevator of a former intern laughing about a wild elevator ride from the night before. It was the deep talks with a friend I didn’t manage to keep up with. It was a canoe in the bylaws. The inside jokes, the promises to have each other’s backs. The offers of help. We said, the Mozilla alumni who were in a circle together all day on Friday, we said that finding the Mozilla community back in the day was when we found belonging. That is still the case, but nowadays it doesn’t have much to do with Mozilla or does it? We, the Open Web community of ye olde past, are still here. The Old Guard at a societal level. People who believe, still, that the web we want is open, decentralised. People who know how much we’ve won, even if everyone says we lost. We know about the real impact of our lives and careers. We’re still doing the work, with or without Mozilla’s help. We have been and we will continue to do so. Even if Mozfest felt…off… seeing that the Mozilla leadership values and understands the power and influence they helped incubate was a nice way to spend a weekend in Barcelona.

Oompf I don't even feel like sharing stuff, I'm so tired. But also, here's my #mozfest post: https://www.laurahilliger.com/techie/obligatory-mozfest-post/

11.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October _Originally from notes written Tuesday, October 21 2025_ What I need you to understand is that it was relentless. Sightings miles apart at the same time, reports, misreports, they were at a Home Depot, a mall, the post office, six different intersections. Car makes and models rapid-fire. A Kia, a Ford, a Silverado, an Audi (an Audi??), a dizzying number of license plates. Too much to keep straight, so you look at every car and you wonder. There's noise, so much noise, but there's also signal and the signal was that they were _here_ that they were _everywhere_. Smash and grab jobs happening across the city nearly simultaneously. But the things being stolen aren't jewels, they're lives. Off streets, from yards. One roofer plucked off a ladder. A landscaper thrown to the ground, tackled by a half-dozen men in camo with weapons. Sixteen people on this day. Sixteen people disappeared, from just the northern side of the city and suburbs. More across the entire city. What I need you to understand is that nobody is letting them go quietly. The Feds' every movement is announced by a chorus of whistles, by a parade of cars honking in their wake, neighbors rushing outside to yell to film to witness these kidnappings that are unfolding in front of us. Neighbors running _towards_ trouble. What I need you to know is we are organized. What I need you to know is that you need to get organized. What I need you to know is they are coming. What I need you to know is you can stop them. They come not for the "worst of the worst," as they so repeatedly claim, because that would mean they would be coming for themselves. They are coming for people just trying to get by. Landscapers, roofers, tamale women, Lyft drivers waiting in a lot at Ohare, the people standing outside a Home Depot hoping that today might be better than yesterday. A report rang out that a child was hiding, and people converged. Whistles around necks, a half-dozen in moments. One heard whistles when dropping her own child off at school. Another rode up on a bike. Everyone unsure of what to do except to do what any parent would do: ensure a child is safe. The child was safe. This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried. For some, living far away from Chicago, this may sound overwrought. I need you to understand that it's not. This is every day here. Every day, in any part of the city. As I write this, the onslaught is happening across Lincoln Park, one of the richest parts of Chicago, while yesterday it was in Little Village a working class Mexican neighborhood on the West Side. You never know when it's going to happen. You only know that it is going to happen. Life is lived on the edge now. I need you to understand that we'll still be here when it's over. I need you to understand that, eventually, it will be over. It will be over because we are here. I need you to understand they can't take us all. * * * ## A couple places to give your time and your money ## ICIRR Pretty much everything involving witnessing ICE and alerting neighborhoods is running through the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) Family Support Network and Hotline. * If you spot ICE (in and around Chicago) you can call the ICIRR FSN hotline at 855-435-7693. If you're in the greater Chicago area, put that number in your phone. * You can get alerts from the ICIRR's Eyes on Ice text network by signing up here. (note: this is Chicago-area specific) * ICIRR also runs Know Your Rights trainings regularly, which are open to anyone. If this seems like a very long list of things, it is. And I am positive they could use your donation ## Whistles/Pilsen Arts & Community House A huge amount of organizing is going on around the distribution of whistle kits, the amazingly effective on-the-ground street-level alert system for neighborhoods. * While the actual instructions for what to do with a whistle are very simple (short bursts if you see ICE, long blows if they're actively detaining someone), the Pilsen Arts & Community House has created a little zine that has become the iconic symbol of the rapid response effort. * There are "Whistlemania" and whistle assembly events happening across the Chicago area pretty much all the time. * If you are in a city that Trump has been threatening, the best time to start buying whistles was yesterday and the next best time is right now. They're getting harder to come by because so many people are ordering them. * People are also 3d-printing whistles, if that's your thing. As with ICIRR, the Pilsen Arts & Community House could very much use your money.

A post from @dansinker on neighbors standing up for neighbors in Chicago: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-10-24-understand/

11.11.2025 09:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Filed a gdpr req a couple months ago and just received a very concerned email from the DPO of the company. So yeah, standing up for your rights does actually matter even if some people try to say we're powerless.

10.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For #reclaimopen @dajb wrote this excellent post that made me smile, tear up and feel simply grateful for our over a decade long friendship and intellectual partnership. Really good, Dr Doug: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2025/11/04/things-change-or-montaigne-and-the-open-web/

05.11.2025 09:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My website is a junk drawer - Open Visual Thinkery This week I'm tuning into Reclaim Open to try and make some visual sense of it. I really resonate with the metaphor used by Laura Hilliger...

Aww I'm so honoured that @bryanmmathers did a drawing for my #reclaimopen post!! Thanks Bryan 😘 💕 https://bryanmmathers.com/my-website-is-a-junk-drawer/

04.11.2025 21:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We all have a drawer somewhere in our house or our flat, behind the counter in the office or, not as a drawer but a shoebox, a container, let’s just call it a drawer – we all have the junk drawer. It’s the place you put stray rubber bands and the promotional laser pointer from the accountant down the street. Maybe there are ribbons or address stickers, glasses cleaner, a single cough drop, highlighters, an old USB drive or spare headphone ear cover thingies in there. There’s a good chance that there is something highly useful, like a roll of tape or new post-it notes in the junk drawer, but we still call it “the junk drawer” because useful or not, it is still a lot of junk. It is the place in our home where we put all the superfluous items. It is exactly the right place for these items to live because you know that if you are looking for something that is rarely necessary, it lives in the junk drawer. My website is a junk drawer. It is the place I put all the random digital things. Unlike a physical junk drawer, I put all the useful things in there too. A multiple decade long storage facility that holds mainly texts, but also decks and images, audio and videos. When I think about archival in the real world, I don’t think about the junk drawer. But in the digital world, the junk drawer, my website, is where it all goes. Years ago, and still today on the indie web, people used the acronym POSSE. It means Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I was never great at keeping the junk drawer that is my website organised, and I certainly haven’t published everything to my own site first. But who on Earth has an organised junk drawer? About once every five years I try to organise my drawer, but within weeks whatever scheme I’ve organised with is faded into disorder. It is simple the Tao of the junk drawer. Isn’t the wild organisation in our homes, brains and personal online portals what make life interesting? It’s wonderful to find the unexpected in my junk drawer. Fascinating to find things that I placed there long ago and forgot about. And it’s wonderful to rummage through other people’s junk drawers (the digital ones, it’d be weird if I showed up at your house and started rummaging around in your drawers). The web has these places still. The wild and free and full of random exists on the Web still. It’s nice to have a community of people who care about these places. #ReclaimOpen because you all surely have weird, wonderful and inspiring stuff in your junk drawers and that is the most interesting drawer in the house.

I wrote a post for the #reclaimopen blogathon about my website as a junk drawer. Iz here: https://www.laurahilliger.com/writing/my-website-is-a-junk-drawer/

04.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Fun game I'm now playing: Do I think this because I'm OLD or an EXPERT? Today's edition involves leading.

04.11.2025 13:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Always in awe with @Esqueer articles and think this piece is fantastic. I would also argue that the redefinition of truth and the attempts of elites to define reality and ontologies is just historical fact. The ability to think around this is what makes education so important […]

03.11.2025 09:46 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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