Sophie Mavzalevskaya

It reminds me of my first labor organizing job when my trainer said "The thing that's different about labor is that you just have to organize who's here" and to some extent, the older I get, the more I realize that's true everywhere.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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Neurodiversity is Anti-Capitalist I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of “strengths”, and the way we define them, in relation to neurodiversity.

"A focus on earning power reinforces existing prejudices...The pursuit of capitalist-defined strengths risks excluding people with a learning disability from the neurodiversity narrative.

And researchers are driven to use economic arguments to demonstrate the value of their work."

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Whenever we make ourselves smaller for them, they just shrink our box again.

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Intersectional, multi-front coalitions mean trusting that even if other the people in the coalition aren't working on Your Segment of the problems, they're still on your side. In fact, they kind of require it. And that goes for friendships and other more intimate interpersonal relationships, too.
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Nightsky | hctr.dev See live conversations from all over Bluesky as a dynamic night sky

I made a thing!

I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev

It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃

Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

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Another world is possible if we fight for it

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Yes, a day off work absolutely helps! Yet another argument for a 4-day workweek (for starters) and for UBI — the amount of material / emotional / cognitive resources needed for active and sustainable work of care is simply unavailable to so many folx, unfortunately.

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“The rich want a society based on punishment because a society based on care would render them obsolete.”

Lord I think about this a lot.

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

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Saw a different post of yours in my feed, wasn’t following then. Went to check out your page to see if you are (most likely) the same folx I’ve been following on The Bad Place, saw •this• post, and will hit that Follow button in a sec.

Sadly, the “child-free propaganda” law has been adopted today in its 3rd reading. Disappointed But Not Surprised™️ It really does cover things like having a private conversation about postpartum depression or discussing contraception / abortion “in a positive or neutral manner”.

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Me: We have to take care of ourselves and each other because opposing authoritarianism is a long fight and you will burn out.

Also me: I cannot remember to eat on a regular basis.

I understand that this is a wicked problem, at a macro level, but isn’t it solvable at local micro levels? We have tools of critical pedagogy, we have inspirational insights about what futures are possible from folks like the late David Graeber, we have a whole scientific field of neuropolitics.

Thousands of folks with brooms coming to help their neighbors, I have never seen such a response to a climate catastrophe before, but somehow it looked so perfectly ✨normal✨? As in, I imagine we’d see so much of this compassion all around us if not for atomization and learned helplessness.

I’ve been reflecting on a motto from Valencia flood coverage, originating in Machado’s letter to Vygodski — solo el pueblo salva al pueblo, only the people save the people. The past few years have left me disillusioned with so many institutions, yet I feel like I’ve never believed in people more.