“people in the cult were much nicer to me than regular people” is best answered by “that’s called lovebombing and it’s a recruitment technique” not “false, everyone knows that the cult is evil”
1. You probably dont suck at your craft as much as you think you do, I bet a lot of people are amazed at what you can make, and
2. If you actually are the Literal Worst In The Whole Wide World at your craft… who the fuck cares? What are they gonna do, call the police on you? Keep making your shitty little things, youre the boss of you, fuck the haters.
Somewhat on the vibe of “your glorious revolution doesn’t exist,” I want to talk to you all, especially the young folks, about effective anarchism.
Spoiler alert, it’s not blowing stuff up or arson.
I am considered the most anarchical person of all among my friends. Granted, most of my experience has been wreaking anarchy against the systems present in my high school and college, but the principles are the same.
Practical anarchy is not the big, flashy, romanticizable thing people online make it out to be. It’s more about the long haul - digging in your teeth and just being a menace that no one can really get rid of.
Everyone’s “Why vote when you can firebomb a Walmart” posts (that they don’t follow through on) are just not pratical because this is a surveillance society. With CCTV and DNA testing and cell phone cameras and GPS tracking, if you do something big like that, you are GOING to be caught; then that is the end of your anarchical career. And, keep in mind that you might get caught while you’re setting up this big event - it’s a crime to blow up a Walmart and also a crime to conspire to blow up a Walmart, so your career in anarchy might end before it begins, and then you are permanently out of the game. No matter what causes you were working for that inspired you to do something big and violent that you thought would get someone’s attention, you now can’t help at all ever again in your entire life. What you did will be a passing headline on the news, and then everything will go back to exactly what it was because big, acute actions can’t compare in effectiveness to small, constant actions (just being a thorn in the side of the system, poking and poking, but unable to be dislodged).
This is just the practical side of it too: think about the risk of hurting innocents if you really advocate for doing things like that. You think blowing up a Walmart would really make a dent in that big of a corporation? But if you intentionally or unintentionally kill a bunch of Walmart shoppers, that’s going to devastate families that had nothing to do with whatever your cause is.
So all that big talk about violence and destruction: not practical, not effective, not ethical.
The only way I’ve started to change oppressive systems around me is by justing chipping away from within the confines of the rules of these systems, and/or only stepping just outside them (never breaking rules in a big way that could have allowed said system to easily and “justifiably” get rid of me).
So if you’re going to be an anarchist, you need to consider:
Having the longest career in anarchism possible (i.e. being careful enough and judicious with your actions so that you don’t get expelled from the system you wish to fight).
And then for any given anarchical plan:
2. Potential consequences.
3. Insurance.
I’ll give you an example. I had serious beef with the culture of my college’s science department. Students were constantly overworked, and if they expressed their misery outloud or reached out to any of their professors about their struggles, they got apathetic responses if not direct insults to their abilities or dedication. I had too many similar disparaging interactions with professors in one week, and I realized a lot of the responses I was getting were just the result of professors not really knowing how they sounded when they said certain things to students (ex: If someone says they’re struggling with a course, don’t IMMEDIATELY respond with “change your major,” - you can give that as an option, but if you make it your first suggestion, the implication to the student is that if they’re having any trouble with the course, they’re not good enough for the program).
So I wrote up a flier of examples of good and bad ways to respond to students having anxiety with explanations and distributed it to every professor in the department. Everyone who knew about this perceived it as a great personal risk - that I would get in some kind of unspecified trouble or piss off an important professor, so before embarking on this project, I considered…
Potential consequences: I couldn’t really think of any specific college or department rules I could be violating. People postered and handed out fliers in the department all the time. What I was doing fell pretty clearly under freedom of speech. I just shoved the fliers under professors’ doors, so I didn’t trespass in anyone’s office. Worst I could think is that individual professors would get mad at me and make my life difficult, or I’d simply be told to stop fliering in the department.
Insurance: Just in case there were any consequences that I didn’t think of and to insure me against the ones I had thought of, I didn’t put my name on the flier. It was typed in Word, something everyone had access to. I came in to do it after professors had all left for the day but before I needed to use my ID to get into the building (no electronic record of me being there). I took the elevator to the first floor offices because the stairs require ID swipe after 5pm, but the elevators do not. I found out the building had no cameras by asking about it on the grounds that something of mine had been stolen a few weeks prior. I shoved the flier under the doors of dark offices and left it outside offices with lights on (so that no one would come out and spot me). And here’s one of the most important pieces of insurance: I put up a few of the fliers on public bulletin boards in the building. This was important so that if I slipped up and said something that conveyed that I had knowledge of the content of the flier, I would have an excuse for that, i.e., I read it on the bulletin board before class this morning.
And then I did the thing. And surprisingly, it was incredibly well-received by professors. A few who knew that the flier must have been mine (because of previous, similar anarchical actions rumored to be associated with me) told me that everyone was RELIEVED that they finally had an instruction manual from the student perspective on what the hell they’re supposed to say when one of their students is panicking. It sparked a real change in the vibe of the department and student experience. Had it instead pissed people off, I would have simply said I could not claim authorship of the flier but had read it and thought it contained good ideas then gone on creating more anarchy while angry people grasped at the zero straws I had left them to pin the action on me.
That’s an example of a single action I took that was part of a much longer (~3 years) campaign of mine to change the culture of my department. Everytime I did something in that campaign, I made that consequences vs. insurance calculation to make sure they couldn’t expell me from the program, the department, or the school before I succeeded.
Like any other socially conscious woman, I am a firm believer in gender equality. Ending workplace discrimination, making reproductive health care affordable—I’ve championed these goals my whole life. They’re important to me, and that’s why the feminist movement frustrates me so much. I’m sorry, but I simply cannot and will not support feminism if it means murdering all men.
I understand why some people might believe the only way to advance women’s rights is to slaughter every man on the planet, but that sort of radical, explicitly homicidal position, which for all I know is a fundamental aspect of feminism, is exactly what makes me hesitate to call myself a feminist.
Do I agree with closing the pay gap, ensuring universal access to birth control, and ending the objectification of women? Absolutely, and if that’s all feminism were about, I would get on board without any hesitation. Assuming feminists start advocating that we hunt down all the world’s men and boys, load them onto trains bound for death camps, and systematically massacre them solely on the basis of their sex, then that’s where I draw the line.
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
feel like i want to talk a little on the message of a recent post because i think it is an important point. when i say that you do not need to QUALIFY OR DEFEND your love of tinglers or my work in general, i am pointing out an interesting social anomaly that happens with my art and with queer art.
as an autistic buckaroo i notice patterns, and on social media i see them a lot. little phrases that come up again and again with my art. ‘yes THAT chuck tingle’ ‘its ACTUALLY good’ ’my favorite author i have never read’ ‘so bad its good’. these are always added after a POSITIVE comment about me
they also all have something in common. they are trying to distance the posters SINCERE JOY and give them an out socially. it is very very very subtle, but they are all saying ‘yes i like this but here is a sliver of acknowledgment that it is also weird or bad or ironic. in not REALLY fully in’
essentially these are added because it means the poster can escape their very real joy if needed. try applying these phrases to any other popular author. its much more subtle with the first two: ‘i liked all fours by miranda july, yes THAT miranda july. its ACTUALLY good’. what does this imply?
the other examples are a little more blatant but lets try them with other authors anyway. imagine saying ‘youre my favorite author i have never read’ to stephen king. would you EVER say that to someone? what does that imply? how about ‘i love your books theyre so bad theyre good’. horrifyingly rude
lets dive into saying 'CHUCK TINGLE is my favorite author i have never read’ sounds unusual when substituting other authors because theyre usually not queer or autistic or making outsider art. to be blunt, why CHUCK gets it all the time is because it really means 'i like chuck tingle but im not gay’
while we have mostly culturally evolved past the idea that saying ‘no homo’ is some kind of joke, that FEELING is still around. it has just burrowed a little deeper. honestly it might never go away, or at least take centuries. remember these people GENUINELY LIKE MY BOOKS but feel they MUST qualify
should also be pointed out that LEFT and LIBERAL people are the ones who say this stuff to chuck. they do not MEAN to harm, and if you ask them directly how they feel about queer or neurodivergent people they would not express the same opinion as their subliminal comments might imply
the final elephant trotting by is while some of this is homophobia and fear of a neurodivergent other, it is also just plain old IRONY POISONING. its conditioning from being raised on an internet where sincerity was ‘cringe’ and loving something was a weakness or joke. these problems work in tandem
so whats the point? what can we do? first of all, just recognizing these patterns is a start. i didnt HAVE to write all of this today but i think its important to be aware and to look inward and think about the gears and cogs that churn behind the things we say. NEXT step is trying to push past it
if you have done these things in the past, i want you to know i am NOT AT ALL UPSET. i am not mad or hurt and i do not think any less of you. you can trot by my side any day and you are trying your best to prove love. we are ALL just tryin our best, just consider this a friendly chat between buds
proving love can happen in BIG WAYS and it can happen in SMALL WAYS that we barely see. just take a moment and think ‘WHY am i saying this? WHY am i in this pattern to distance myself from outsider or queer art?’ a little moment of consideration goes a LONG way buckaroos. LOVE IS REAL
🚨KOSA is back and being pushed heavily in congress right now
I really hate to do this, but KOSA, the bill that is a mass censorship and surveillance bill that will specifically censor all LGBT content online to “protect kids”, is back.
KOSA advocates have brought in support from Elon Musk (I wish I was making this up) and are trying to get him to get Donald Trump to speak out in support of it. (And they lie and tell us it’s not an anti-queer bill 🙄). The reason so is because the holdouts that are stopping this from passing are…republicans. It’s GOP House leaders Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson. If they succeed and put this in an end of year spending bill, it will be near impossible to get it out and it will most likely be passed. Pro-KOSA advocates were on the hill today pushing hard to pass it. They have a lot of support behind them. There is only two weeks left in congress, so if they don’t succeed, it’s over.
The ONLY way this bill has stalled so much so far is because of calls driven to congress. It has worked and can still work. Please, spread this as much as you can and call House leadership and spread the word! You don’t have to be from their district. You can pretend to be GOP. It doesn’t matter, just call and voice your opposition. Trump and Musk clearly have a lot of sway over these people and I’m really scared they will succeed at the last minute!!
Here are their numbers: Scalise: 202-225-3015 Johnson: 202-225-2777
If you don’t know what to say, use either call script! It takes less than a minute, I swear.
I also want to let people know that we have a discord server dedicated to fight against this, we provide scripts and lists of people to call ,everything you need to organize against it and other bad bills !
Honestly obsessed with the “Humans are the cats of space” corner of the whole trope.
We may be seen as objectively adorable. We’re tiny predators, vicious and mighty with teeth and nails, but also easy to pick up and hold and swing around while saying “Babyyyy”
We’re quiet and sneaky in the wild, hard to catch and contain, very effective hunters and climbers. But when domesticated who wouldn’t just lounge around if we’re given free food, unlimited sleep, and constant enrichment?
And same with cats, there’s a variety of how humans act and feel about these huge creatures taking care of us. Some of us might be very chatty, very affectionate, some probably clingy if we trust our Alien enough. While others don’t screw with their personal space, would scratch and bite if you do something they don’t like. The affection is at their pace cause otherwise you’ll come out with a few scars.
As small as we are, the more wild independent humans have the strength and means to take down predators so much bigger than us when the situation becomes dire enough. There’s been cats who’ve gotten dogs, wolves, and bears singlehandedly.
A human that’s been in an alien family long enough would probably chase off a huge threatening space creature to protect the alien young, just as cats have done for human children.
Imagine after a few years of integration with aliens, some humans don’t get by well with taking care of their children so they find an alien that looks responsible and careful enough and they leave their young on their doorstep so they can grow up with all the food and shelter they could ever need.
Maybe they have a human distribution system where a person who’s just tired of the human world picks a ship to stay on, and the aliens on board just accept it because that’s how humans are. Maybe they help provide pest control for those space creatures small enough to hide in hard-to-reach areas of the ship.
And even amongst all this agility and predatory instinct, humans can still be pretty dumb and airhead and ridiculous. Imagine how hilarious aliens would find it when we get jumpscared or sneeze or feel the random need to stim and run around. Alien puts a long sticky parchment on that crevice of our backs that’s hard to reach and watches as we struggle to reach and take it off cause it’s annoying, same way we might put tape on a cat’s head. Maybe they find the funky way a human mom tries to carry her too-big baby funny the same way a mom cat dragging her too-big baby by the scruff is funny.
Maybe there’s a language barrier, but Aliens notice our odd human sounds and mimic them to get our attention, but they struggle with the different sound and pronunciation we just hear random gargled calls of “Molasses!” “Tree!” “税金!” when they’re just trying to greet us. And you learn to recognize the pattern of noises that mean whatever name they gave you in their language.
there is no soul of an artist that distinguishes them from some ‘non-artist’ category of person that could simply never comprehend what it is like. anyone can make art. you should know this by now. from ratatouille
WTF do you mean jailbreaking my “smart” TV to install Linux in order to run adblock on my TV would be “Felony Contempt of Buisiness Model” That sounds like a crime made up by The Board in Outer Worlds.
One of my favourite ludicrous discourses on here, now way past its heyday: “Gay men and lesbian women have monosexual privilege” vs. “Bi people have straight-passing privilege”. People tore each other to shreds over this.
If you read carefully what each side was screaming, they were actually both saying the same: “I am literally oppressed for my sexuality, stop calling my sexuality a privilege.” Which is fair! But people were (still are tbh) so enraptured by privilege theory that the only way they could express this totally fair demand was by not granting the same grace they were expecting for themselves to their opponents. Recognising that privilege as a framework was insufficient or sometimes even counterproductive was entirely out of the question.
The construction workers within the community will keep up on maintenance. You see that? This is solidarity and mutual aid in the face of capitalist oppression.
The median rent in Houston(assuming this is Texas) is $1,853 a month. This person is likely being handed $59,296 a month. Even if they have to pay utilities or maintenance that’s still a comfortable six figure yearly salary. How the FUCK do they not have ANYTHING left over. Like how do you blow through nearly $60k a month. I could spend $60k in a month once, not EVERY month. That is a fucking embarrassment of riches, like I want to see this person’s bank statements, what in GOD’S name are you doing every month that costs $60k. At that point it is actually your fault if you don’t have a savings to deal with something like this, truly I cannot even fathom spending that much money every month. If I was making that kind of money I’d have like two savings accounts and a retirement fund and I’d have gold or some other easily liquidated asset to sell if something exactly like this happened, and I’m a dirt poor dipshit who’s never even seen that kind of money in person. The FUCK is this person’s excuse??
Sorry rent in Houston is $1,800 a month??? How the fuck are Americans alive???
The construction workers within the community will keep up on maintenance. You see that? This is solidarity and mutual aid in the face of capitalist oppression.
The median rent in Houston(assuming this is Texas) is $1,853 a month. This person is likely being handed $59,296 a month. Even if they have to pay utilities or maintenance that’s still a comfortable six figure yearly salary. How the FUCK do they not have ANYTHING left over. Like how do you blow through nearly $60k a month. I could spend $60k in a month once, not EVERY month. That is a fucking embarrassment of riches, like I want to see this person’s bank statements, what in GOD’S name are you doing every month that costs $60k. At that point it is actually your fault if you don’t have a savings to deal with something like this, truly I cannot even fathom spending that much money every month. If I was making that kind of money I’d have like two savings accounts and a retirement fund and I’d have gold or some other easily liquidated asset to sell if something exactly like this happened, and I’m a dirt poor dipshit who’s never even seen that kind of money in person. The FUCK is this person’s excuse??
Sorry rent in Houston is $1,800 a month??? How the fuck are Americans alive???
and was marie antoinette effectively utilizing coquette dollette hyper feminine toxic femininity lana del rey old money ceramic baby fawn sad girl girlhood girlblogger girlboss power when she secretly conspired with foreign countries to kill scores of her own citizens in an attempt to restore the absolute monarchy and the regime that had rendered millions starving poor oppressed colonized enslaved and murdered
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
Hi again lukadjo
It’s me??? On my dashboard??? Sorcery is undoubtedly at play
I wonder how many people learned this was a thing they could do by seeing the sign
Well I for one just learned that. Thanks for the tip!
When I was landscaping I referred to this as “pirating a plant” since the original is still there but now I have a clone growing in my house and if that clone is successful I can prop it out to other people, like “seeding” but you know, no seeds just clones.
This is your sign to start pirating plants
Official let´s let people know about this sign
Remember, theft from corporations is based
REMEMBER, AS SOMEONE TRAINED HOW TO CORRECTLY REPORT ON THEFT, NO COURT IN THE LAND WILL CHARGE YOU FOR PICKING LEAVES UP OFF THE GROUND
And ON TOP OF THAT, fallen succulent leaves are a slip and fall hazard that can cost a corporation tens of thousands of dollars
piracy but even better because it’s planting trees and unchargable
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
pet peeve of mine whenever I talk about being bisexual online and people want to make it about them
I love being bisexual but the second I talking about liking dudes I get people in my mentions going “ew dudes I’m only into women” and it’s like. Hm. Well I’d like to do this to you
pet peeve of mine whenever I talk about being bisexual online and people want to make it about them
I love being bisexual but the second I talking about liking dudes I get people in my mentions going “ew dudes I’m only into women” and it’s like. Hm. Well I’d like to do this to you
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
I have seen this post probably at least 20 times courtesy of @lukadjo, each time passing over it thoughtlessly and only now do I process the bizarreness of it
