Mackenzie (he/his/him)

remember when that cronenberg movie 'existenz' came out and it seemed like a fun and silly conceit for there to be freedom fighters taking on corporate conglomerates in an attempt to protect consensus reality from an ocean of digital hallucination

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Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind.

It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.

Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.

Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

From For Whom the Doorbell Tolls: Cowboy Blues Goofy sitting in an arm chair, turning on his TV. Goofy: Welp... time ta transform muhself.

There's something heady about being in a library. Like, I can just take one of these books home for free and then read it and I don't have to find space in my bookshelves to keep it?

Lovecraft doesn't get money to forward xenophobic views when you buy his books, I'm just saying.

"Death of the artist" is the old term / academic view for separation of artist and art. You can do it figuratively in terms of analysis, but you often need to wait for it to happen literally (and sometimes longer) in terms of, you know, money.

UFO50 physical edition from @fangamer.com is simply fantastic.
One of the best games ever made, now with a guide that pays homage to the videogame guides from the 80s/90s.

Of *course* I had to pitch the BitD sexual revolution and call it Blades '69

Evil Hat knows I have a reputation to uphold

drink combo: purple ketchup with a glass of water

Autistic stimming is functional, and can be soothing and natural. Although sometimes the function of stimming is to to indicate distress—which means the distress needs to be investigated, NOT that the stim needs to be eliminated.

Last year, Live Nation donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund.

One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

*Raises hand* I wrote an article about this very thing happening in the 1920s.

Antonovich, Jacqueline. “White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 94, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 439-469.

I'm sure it's fine that my university's VP for civil rights compliance is leaving and the President isn't planning to hire a replacement

❗On Friday evening, the CAJ learned that journalist Rachel Gilmore had recently been approached in public by individuals linked to, or implicated in, an investigation she had written, and was published by The Tyee that focused on white nationalists.
https://loom.ly/z22FRzg

Really appreciate this from CAJ:

This can all feel really scary and overwhelming.

Because it is.

But the important questions are:

1. What can we do to keep ourselves and our communities safe?

2. What actions can we take RIGHT NOW to reduce harm & interrupt Trump's ability to use the US surveillance state to consolidate power

The US has surveilled protesters, journalists, religious leaders & others under Bush, Obama, Biden..

But the Trump admin 2.0 has inherited unquestionably the most sophisticated mass surveillance apparatus in human history.

They're expanding it.

And they dgaf about "laws" or "rules" or "norms"

Brand new episode of The Panalysts dropped yesterday. Have you watched yet? Cause you should. You'll laugh. We promise.

Statistics are here: www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11...

Less than 16% of librarians are nonwhite, and that is for all gender identities. So maybe an acknowledgment of the homogeneity of our industry would be nice on International Women’s Day

Dominated by *white* women, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social.

How Participatory Funding is Transforming Open Access Collective library investment aligns open access publishing with the core values of librarianship. Models like MIT’s Direct to Open and JSTOR’s Path to Open point the way toward a more inclusive and resilient future for scholarly communication.

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At the end of WWII both Germany & Japan were demilitarized by the Allied powers. I'm not sure how but something similar needs to happen to the USA, Israel, & Russia in the coming decade. These three nations are the source of so much violence across the globe.

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

If an AI can go to school for you what’s the point of going to school? For Advait Paliwal, Brown dropout and co-creator of Einstein, it's just like horses. “They used to pull carriages, but when cars came around, I'd argue horses became a lot more free."
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Trans flag overlayed with the text, "your fate will be the same as ours."

The trans community does not exist to die for you. You can fight with us, or you can make a decision to abandon us and fight without us.

Fascism is coming for you even if you throw us under the bus. There's entire poem about this even! And the reality is, you learn solidarity or you die alone.

Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.