*winnie was here

I think it’s time for a bluesky break. I’ll be in NY recovering for most of March! DM if you want to visit <3

There's no answer to this but with SRS coming up in 1.5 weeks, I am pondering the over/under odds that I will experience some level of early menopause in my life due to involuntary confinement, access/supply chain issues, or both

i don't know if anyone is doing this yet but it seems obvious to me and so surprising i haven't seen anyone talking about it

I think the embodiment part could equally be simulated, maybe even trivially, it's more about having multiple "sensory" streams localized in a [virtual?] environment that can be explored & interacted with by an "i" —from there, maybe even adding language piecewise as happens for human development

one thing often missing here is the necessity of embodiment & sensory awareness (with continuity over time) as a pre-linguistic substrate, which anchors the development of an ego in reality; language being strictly secondary to self-awareness, LLMs simulate the epiphenomenon but not the thing itself

it's interesting that one of the most explicitly antifascist pieces of mass media in recent years endorses sabotage of military facilities as one of the only effective means of resistance while also recognizing that such acts equally function as signal flares in a long-term culture war

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

i literally just had to do this for my kitty and doubting my financial literacy when it says “deferred interest 12 months” does that not mean it’s interest free if you pay off within that time? or did i get scammed

we're going to win, we have love

also CSA is absolutely ubiquitous & endemic to western social reproduction, root and stem. we have not even begun to reckon with this fact much less the implication for what needs to be done. survivors intuit this but the taboo is so total that anyone who tries to talk about it sounds like a wingnut

it bears repeating that CSA is fundamentally about power, it is not some innate perversion but a conscious choice made by real people who willingly let themselves become monsters in pursuit of a fantasy of total domination

This is true on the level of ideology, but the other thing shown clearly in the emails is that powerful abusers IRL have an interest in preserving trans women as an underclass of permanently available sex slaves

Hence courting Ting

Apropos of nothing

genuinely a great thread, i think a lot about china's last emperor puyi and his post-revolution life

meaning making is a labor. labor is a meaning making. so-called use-value is at first a meaning. our meaning making has to be compatible with life. what is the meaning of this unforgivable tragedy and crisis? it is holy struggle. either we take back meaning or we fear rape kings and their rape gangs

I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out

it’s weird but finding out that the modern trans panic was fabricated by the machinations of a pedophile cabal has actually improved my mental health substantially. if I keep sitting around being depressed all day I’m letting Jeffrey Epstein win, and I will die before I do that

Just as fascism's hold on society is not total, its hold on any particular human is not total. Every defection is a win which means every heart is a battlefield. Yes this is a liberal coded take. But there's a difference between being pollyannish about this and ceding the ground entirely

We need a left whose critique of this tactic leaves room to recognize that it is not without some effect

SURPRISE my book is also partially about addiction oops

(it's actually really good though i'm hooked)

dark times ahead. but we are going to win

Persona by Aoife Josie Clements is a great book to read while depressed. You will certainly not regret reading Persona by Aoife Josie Clements while depressed

This is the kind of disposition I like.

I think that *cringe* is overused. I particularly think that it is overused by people who have a difficult time feeling and naming their feelings. That's a lot of people.

Instead of waiting, we need to build during peace time so that we can act during war time.

A lot of what is happening up in MN was a result of community coalition networks that were built after George Floyd died being activated.

I also think about this essay on MLK and dignity by the philosopher Derrick Darby and in it he talks about the precarity of our status as “dignified beings”—the thin line between showing courage in the face of brutality and allowing yourself to be a brutalized body and an object of abuse

I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different

The American people are braver and better than our monstrous leaders, and we will win.

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