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As for the kids, we sang all sorts of communist propaganda but I was too young for the mandatory reading groups :)

In my mom's case you wouldn't want to disagree lol but you had to be seen being engaged in discussion so as not to be suspected of opposing the government.

Reminds me of my mom's story that when the communist military dictatorship took over, they had mandatary readings every Friday, at their work, of Lenin and such, with a government official in the class overseeing the discussion, and that she had a migraine leading up to it every week.

Who cares whether he would have been in support of it or not? Is that the way people make decisions about what to support?

then they got into a back and forth about correct interpretation of what he said, which got me thinking, tankie or not, why do you need to do this?

I'm in a similar boat as you. This one was someone responding to a tankie explaining that Lenin was right in something something "anti imperialism" & the person quoting Lenin saying that he would have been in favor of supporting the Iranian people, not their government, the US or Israel,...

When your political belief resembles religious dogma, there's a problem. Its one thing to learn from various thinkers, take the good and leave the bad, its another to argue about who has the "right" interpretation of white men from a hundred years ago like they're your unquestioned infallible gods 🙄

So many of our people got massacred, and are still getting massacred, by "Marxist Leninist" regimes, and I see people on these apps arguing about interpretations of passages from their books like they're doing a bible reading, canonizing these dudes.

Do not let pro-Putin voices exploit current events to launder their own agenda.

You can be against American intervention without dismissing years of documented war crimes committed by the Russian state. (1)

There is a region in a country that these people don't care about, where Iranian and Israeli drones fly side by side, killing people they don't care about. Their binary thinking only makes them see whoever is being killed by the wrong group, the one that's not in their camp, as a victim.

‘Claude’s constitution is an unfortunate development in AI governance that minimises human values, rules, and rights’, Jarovsky says.

But knowing what we know about Effective Altruism, perhaps that isn’t a defect, but the main feature of the product."

The cult that wants to give human rights to robots Anthropic’s ‘Claude Constitution’ reflects the misanthropic, ultra-utilitarian Effective Altruism agenda.

"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded.

www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/t...

«If I hated OpenAI more than Google, I hate Anthropic more than OpenAI» ✊🔥

People should stop claiming Anthropic is «good and ethical» They are just playing their game, with the same masks as always and people who believe them, are been used as tools to wash their image. Don’t be part of that.

is probably the most evil tech company in the world, which, among other things, powers the ICE abductions of members of our communities. I can go on and on. I have zero good things to say about them. If I hated OpenAI more than Google, I hate Anthropic more than OpenAI.

I have nothing good to say about Anthropic just like I have nothing good to say about Muskrat during his spat with the orange man, or any of the orange man's associates when he turns on them. Anthropic knowingly partnered with the pentagon. Their other partner, Palantir,...

How can we dream up a better world if we outsource all of our critical thinking to AI?

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Anyway, if you're looking for work as a full stack web dev, my team's hiring 👀

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The anti-imperialist left has its own problems with racism that has been routinely ignored for years, as they’ve engaged in the same type of infantilizing white saviorism with Cubans, Uyghurs, Venezuelans, Syrian, and Hong Kongers (the list goes on and is very long.) (4)

I treat her like I treat the nazis on the right. No difference. Blocked her a long time ago.

A picture of beaming Dylan, a white transmasculine person with dark hair, sitting behind a table at the Olympia zine fest. They are wearing a grey patterned button-down, a nametag reading "DYLAN!", and pronoun pins that read "he/him" and "they/them". In front of them are a bucket of multicolored laser-cut pronoun pins, a pile of pink mini-zines, a stack of white zines with a black-and-white collage in the center, and a pile of art books with a laser-cut cover with leaves printed on it, reading "one I never thought to ask."

this zine fair reminded me that tboys really do love to go through our first year of T and make a twee little zine about it huh, there were so many 😭💕

(pictured: me in 2018 at the Olympia Zine Fest, tabling with *my* twee little transition zines)

Anyways, zines delight me, analog media delights me, queer and trans people delight me, and I just thought I'd share.

Now, for the Dylan lore...

A small black-and-white art book. The cover is entirely black, except the title which reads "MULCH" in white, with the outline of dirt around it.

A top-down view of the book, showing that it has only 4 pages.

The final page of the book. On it are two drawings of cupped hands. The first hands are holding mulch, and there is text above it reading "when he came back the next day". The second hands show a dashed outline where the mulch was in the preceding picture. The text below it reads "we told him he was a ghost".

4. Mulch, by Eliza Harris (elizaharris.com)

I like its simplicity. It's small— 4.5"x5.5"— and only 4 pages long. It tells one poignant childhood story with just 53 words and small diagrams of mulch; a boy eats a flower, gets sick, goes home, and the other kids hold a fake funeral.

Another, partially-unfolded view of the book, this time from the front. You can see poetry on the first visible page (which comes from the middle of the book), and some black-and-white images on the subsequent pages. The text on the first page reads: "Limestone is known commonly for its commercial importance as a building material for flooring, building facades, monuments, landscaping, something ubiquitous its high fossil content has long fascinating researchers. When heated to temperatures of 1,700-1,800 degrees C its component parts are forcefully teased apart in a process called dissociation the stone is suddenly no longer a geology but an industry dissociation occurs largely to extract calcium carbonate which has the ability to neutralize or reduce acids to prevent corrosion, decay a vital ingredient in the production of concrete, plant fertilizer, glass archival paper, official documentation the ingredients to build an empire and write its history"

The back of the unfolded book. It is all blue cyanotype prints, with the shapes of netting, stones, string printed in white on the vibrant blue background.

The materiality of this book is so thoughtful— it feels like such a fitting medium for a dense and layered rock-poem, from its speckled off-white paper to its cyanotype backing bearing the imprint of rocks, string, netting.

A beautiful piece from start to finish.

A small, square art book. It has a blue cyanotype cover, which looks like a blue background with white outlined prints of different objects (in this case, some string, some netting, and some hard-to-identify shapes). Around the book is a bright orange paper strip that reads "A GEOLOGY BREAKS IN HALF TO GROW/ willa goettling".

The unfolded book, viewed from above. It folds out like an accordion, with a front and back cover and 3 accordion folds in between. In front of the book is the removed orange paper strip that had been holding the book closed.

3. A GEOLOGY BREAKS IN HALF TO GROW by willa goettling (www.willagoettling.com)

Another non-traditional book format, a concertina/accordion book. It is unbound; you unhook the outer paper fastener and the book, like the poem, unfolds.

"what quantifies limestone is its/ high quantity of calcium"

The cover of a black-and-white, photocopied mini-zine with handwritten text. It reads "How to make a homemade canvas board with these materials: old t-shirt, powder milk, ruler, hardcover book, paint acrylic matte, peanut butter lid from jar, pencil, state spoon, 2 sheets of cardstock. By: Incarcerated Artist: J.C.H. [instagram logo] jch_convictedart". There are small drawings of each material next to its name.

A cropped image of one page inside the zine. There is a drawing of a spoon stirring liquid in a peanut butter jar lid on one side. On the other, you can see some instructions, which read "A) using your index finger scoop up some paste (if it sticks to your finger it's good consistency if not then its too watery) and spread it evenly on one side of the cardboard. B) Place the cardboard (paste side down) onto the cloth right on the outline. Press down. C) Turn board over and add paste to edges wrapping cloth over." Below this text is a small hand-drawn diagram depicting these instructions.

1. How To Make a Homemade Canvas Board, by Incarcerated Artist J.C.H. (instagram: jch_convictedart)

This, to me, embodies the core of zine-making. A black-and-white, pen-and-ink, to-the-point, photocopied microzine. It's thorough, it's practical, and it's deeply poetic.

A stand containing a wide variety of zines. In the background you can see the room is crowded, but can't see any faces.

A scrolling break of artistic delight:

I went to a trans art show/zine fair and got some new gems for my zine collection! Wanted to share a few of my favorites 🧵

(and stay for some Dylan lore at the end)