anyway my thesis is on how shakespeare is positioned as 'timeless' and 'universal' and therefore deployed for social conservatism. the perceived 'timelessness' of shakespeare is used to position transness as a new, niche cause that is fundamentally unserious
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“Wolf tells WSJ that the smartest pigs build their houses from straw or sticks”
People love saying “you’re gonna need the police when you get robbed” and like I don’t know a single person who had a police officer stop them from getting robbed. I know a lot of people who got robbed and told the police who then took notes and drove away and did nothing.
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Today is the anniversary of the Nazi book burnings, when the entire research library at Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexology was publicly burned. Almost all scientific research into trans lives went kaput. People who think we appeared yesterday: there’s a reason you think that.
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Consumer habits have shifted because there hasn’t been need to dress according to trends—we’ve all been in loungewear.Essentially everyone has chosen an aesthetic outside of society’s gaze and so the trend of “cheugy” is an attempt to get people back in stores.
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there is actually no ethical way to participate in cryptocurrency, and it’s not the same as other unethical industries like meat or fast fashion because those are things where the sustainable alternatives are unattainable to certain classes of people
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Really excited (aka, not remotely excited) to see the Wall Street Journal doing PR work for the edtech surveillance industry.Journalists should do more than act as stenographers.
At the rate crypto-capitalist exploitation is progressing, we won't be able to produce anything that requires a data processor or flash bit storage by the end of the year.And well...that's pretty much everything.
We're rapidly sprinting towards the neo dark ages.
Every piece of public infrastructure relies on a processor, from the city bus, to the machinery that builds roads, to the medical devices that treat everyday people.Without even getting into long term environmental damage, crypto-capital is antithetical to society in the short.
anyways yet another illustration of the degree to which even the defenders of the oldest, most orthodox hierarchies feel these days a deep need to cast themselves as nonconformists and rebels
the way trans medicine is discussed, you’d be forgiven for thinking it really is a distinct, unique medical matter to be debated. in reality, everyone’s sex and gender are bound up in medicalization and the real distinctions are *social* (thread):
Cryptocurrency is the purest expression of late techno capitalism: use the most freely available tool – computer code – to create artificially scarce assets whose appreciation relies entirely on public hype, while negating all of Earth's States' efforts to curb carbon emissions.
This attitude is why poverty costs us more than abolishing poverty does. We’d spend $100 and let 100 people go hungry to prevent $1 or a single meal to go to someone we’ve deemed undeserving.Our self-righteous cruelty is wasteful. Indulging it is a luxury we can’t afford.
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The federal government partnering with knockoff taxi apps to provide free transport to vaccination locations is a good thing.
It's also a reminder that accessible public transit benefits everyone. It should always be this easy for people to get where they need to go.
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There is a small percentage of people who do not want to go back to “normal” ever. You have comrades here.
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Not many people know that some neurotransmitters are released through your tear ducts as tears. The emotional relief you feel after crying isn’t a placebo, it’s the effect of your brain literally releasing the chemical signals of emotion to reduce intensity.
Crying is healthy.
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@sleepisocialist @islandgoth Graeber made this point about pointless jobs but it would also apply here, that managers don't really want to get rid of jobs because managing people is how they justify their own salary. Plus robots are built by people that don't know how to do the jobs the robots are made for
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Its funny that businesses are begging for workers instead of just getting those robots we're told will so easily replace us if we raise the minimum wage
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One of the foundational lies is "life must be earned" and we're not getting out of this cyclical mess until we stop believing it.https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1391814495564144640
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This tweet is six months old and there has since been a violent attempted coup for which none of the major organizers were punished. A failed coup is a dress rehearsal. Both parties know it, and neither will act to avoid a repeat. Beware: complacency is complicity.https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1331601847459729411
Capitalism continues to invent new forms of artificial scarcity to bleed for profit, with zero concern for externalities.
wow! it's even worse than we thought!
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I think the thing about Gritty is that I've never looked at him and thought "that's a costume with a human inside"I don't know WHAT'S in there
but it's not just a human in a costume
The GOP are not afraid of or in thrall to Trump, the individual. They are afraid of and/or willing partners with the extensive criminal apparatus behind Trump which employs threats and blackmail to keep people in line — and offers elite criminal impunity as an incentive.
i appreciate all what non-palestinians are doing to spread awareness especially when they add content from palestinains on the issue. THIS WEBSITE is a gem! it debunks the myths, answers FAQs, explains the history of palestine and its made by palestinians!
Any system that requires humans to not make mistakes is broken.
Countless corporations and business owners including members of Congress "gamed the system" by siphoning PPP from the Small Business Association but they're worried about the poors refusing to work in covid hotspots mkayhttps://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1391814495564144640
I don’t know... when 560,000 people died???
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my favorite erroneous data/outlier story:uncle was running a study on fish and had students helping note down behavioral data. everyone's collecting data, it all looks pretty consistent, all good.
@AlexArrelia The message of Dada is "fascism is so ridiculous the only possible response is nonsense shitposting," a lesson we should all carry in our hearts.
This is all despite the fact that SpaceX's debris fell over populated American cities, one piece almost hit someone's home. China's ended up in the Indian ocean, I don't think there's been confirmation that any pieces hit land.
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Today NASA put out this statement about how irresponsible China is being, I'm fairly sure they said nothing last month about SpaceX.
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during the Ferguson uprising, Palestinians on twitter recognized the brand of tear gas being used on us was the same exact canisters that israel uses on them, and they were tweeting advice to the folks on the ground
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Now is a good time to remind everyone that rich ppl literally pay to have ppl write articles like this
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“If they raise the minimum wage, things will cost more.” 🤡🤡🤡🤡
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There is no such thing as “forced diversity”. The world is LITERALLY diverse. If your staff or influencers are all cis white people, you need to reevaluate your workspaces.Having spaces that are all white is NOT NORMAL. It’s tactically built to be exclusive & keep others out.
Further proof that "cancel culture" is, by and large, code for "having to face consequences for my actions".
Bob Baffert blamed "cancel culture" after his horse, Medina Spirit, who won the Kentucky Derby, failed its post-race drug test."We live in a different world now. This America's different."
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This morning I'm thinking about how 99.9% of the U.S. still doesn't know that, after they killed Breonna Taylor, Louisville cops managed to get the City to increase their budget by $750,000 and to cut the public library budget by $775,000.
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