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2 flavors of blue fluffbutt + 1 burgundy bat lady | collecting identities small-minded people hate since 1992 | BLM | 🆓🇵🇸 | Нет Войне | Less Covid > More Covid | Armenian Genocide 1915-? | views are not representative of this mortal shell's employer.

Diagram depicting "The Leftist Triforce of Power": Subtitle: "Courtesy of a long-deactivated BLM activist on Twitter. circa 2016-2019. If you recognize this and want credit (or I've butchered it horribly), DM me!" (kaiveran.bsky.social) 1. INSIDE THE SYSTEM. Electoral reform, calling reps, voting (including in primaries), protesting, any action taken through "proper channels" in general. 2. OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM. Community/local action, mutual aid, venues for study and dialogue, theorizing and testing alternative systems of provision and power locally. 3. AGAINST THE SYSTEM. Direct resistance, culture and institution jamming, strikes, boycotts, blockades, efforts that (in whole or in part) disrupt or dismantle current power centers. Bottom bar: "NONE OF THESE ARE OPTIONAL! All three must be present for a healthy and sustainable movement, as each form of practice supports and lends legitimacy to the others."
"Padmé and Anakin" 4-panel meme. 1st Panel: Anakin states "Transhumanism will allow us to surpass all limits on our species!" 2nd Panel: Padmé asks "including the gendered ones, right?" 3rd Panel: Anakin gives Padmé the Blank Stare of Ideological Oblivion. 4th Panel: Large, bright-red, all- caps text with a neon blue glow is superimposed over Padmé's face, reading "FURIOUS BLOCK BUTTON POUNDING".
YT channel post: "Not a jittleyang, not a futuluhtoogan, but a subtledittledang third heavy gewt 🗣️"
Radio-button survey section with items "I will protect it" and "I want to see it grow up healthy", both marked "Strongly Agree"
[In reference to the decline of corporate contribution to the welfare of society, re: the Wanamaker building and it's historic pipe organ being shuttered] What changed is culture and constraints. Once upon a time, there was an expectation that a corporation needed to actually serve some useful purpose to be allowed to exist, and those who would have turned them into the hollow greed-animated golems of today were held in check by regulations and taxations from an actually functioning government. But decades of corporate personhood, "greed is good" propaganda, and unlimited dark-money corruption destroyed all that, and hasn't stopped wrecking house since.
A section of the Wikipedia article for the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ in Atlantic City, NJ, which reads: Both organs experienced severe damage during the 1999–2001 renovation of Boardwalk Hall, due to inadequate planning and oversight and the carelessness of workers. The organ curator position was furloughed, and Dennis McGurk's personal efforts to protect the instruments were no match for an army of construction contractors throughout the building. Pipes were removed, bent, and stepped on. (Most organ pipes are made from soft alloys based on lead, so it is very easy to dent or crush them.) The 32-foot Trombone stop was effectively entombed in the building's walls when an opening in the Left Upper chamber, which allowed the rank to speak through the grille in the ceiling, was sealed off. As parts of the building were demolished for reconstruction, windlines to various pipe chambers were cut, with no effort to identify or protect the lines, nor any plans to re-route or repair them. The elaborate electrical relay for the Left Stage chamber was cut out with no provision for its restoration, and various switching and control cables were severed. Cement dust disrupted thousands of minimally protected switching contacts, magnets, and organ pipes. The 5-manual console connection was cut. All this left the Auditorium Organ heavily damaged and the Right Stage chamber, which was 98% operational in 1998, completely disabled. The relay of the Ballroom Organ was also removed in a careless way and its control cables severed, rendering that organ unplayable as well.
Screenshot of the article linked in the quote, "The Third Sex" by Talia Bhatt. It reads: Even the widely-discredited Cass Review, a document that is being used to justify outlawing transition care despite its glaring methodological shortcomings, gallingly invokes the constructed opposition of transsexuality with “true” gender nonconformity on page fourteen. Secondly, medication is binary, but the fastest growing group identifying under the trans umbrella is non-binary, and we know even less about the outcomes for this group. Some of you will also become more fluid in your gender identity as you grow older. [Emphasis mine.] It is a testament to the utter depravity and cataclysmic negligence of solipsistic academic literature that deeply entrenched conservative attitudes towards bodily transition, attitudes that make life harder for marginalized transsexuals at the institutional level, have for so long been repackaged and propped up as some manner of far-sighted feminist ethos. In
Quote of @iseeuliars on Twitter: "I swear, every single time I talk about how revolution involves inner work not just changing worldly structures, the tweet gets hardly any response. Y'all really think this is going to happen without you looking deeply at your own investment in these systems and unwinding that?" To which I add: I know I got a spectacular one-two punch recently for prioritizing my own feelings and comfort without realizing it. The first I won't mention out of privacy, but the second was Aaron Bushnell. Sometimes you need to be knocked flat on your ass so that you can truly wake up. Remember that you've been marinating in capitalist/imperialist propaganda your entire life. Even the wokest among us will be caught lacking eventually. You can (be mad about / ignore it) all you want, but if its the truth, the only healthy path is to accept it and grow.