Kassandra Jo Tomaras

This morning I needed Fugazi.

"You can't be what you were, so you'd better start being just what you are."

Can’t explain what it’s like to see, on live TV, the genocidal Israeli army’s tanks gathering at the border of my country

«Indeed, one cannot become an artist or a philosopher if one is not an anarchist at heart – in other words, if one does not believe in the possibility of a society in which everybody is an artist and a philosopher and lives according to their own project.»
Boris Groys: Alexandre Kojève, 2025

The reason for the season

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This issue of Anarchist Review of Books contains my review of Graeber and Wengrow's THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING, which could also have been called, "Why I can't call myself a Marxist anymore".

You haven't been pegged until you've been Winnipegged.

the special sauce of american politics is giving you people you can hate for several decades, something you ordinarily only get with family

Cuando la violencia machista y la crisis inmobiliaria se suman: “El alquiler te ata al maltratador” Valentina y Montse son dos madres solteras que, después tener que rehacer sus vidas tras separarse de sus parejas, están a las puertas de un desahucio

Cuando la violencia machista y la crisis inmobiliaria se suman: “El alquiler te ata al maltratador”

I read it in the original Spanish. If the translation is even half as good, then it's fantastic.

"Steve-O is trying to prevent my genocide." - a true sentence that 23-year-old me would find very confusing

4x as many people have engaged with this news on Instagram.

3x as many people have engaged with it on Facebook.

I want to convince people that this place has the juice, but y'all are making that difficult.

Do you know any good* anarchist books about internet architecture?

* no primitivists

I mean, for me it was teaching myself Yiddish and then starting to translate a 400-page book by the most hermetic author I could find, but close enough, right?

This gives me insight into why my Spanish friends underestimate how bad things have been for a while now here in the US. A "Departamento de Seguridad Nacional" sounds like something any European democracy might have. To convey how sinister DHS is, try "Departamento de Seguridad Patriótica".

Iran: velayat-e-fagih

USA: velayat-e-fucker

Almost cried in class because my students looked so fucking young for a moment and i cannot believe they will inherit this shitshow weve made

I am delighted to be able to announce that I am now represented by Rach Crawford of Wolf Literary Services.

Up the Wolves!

I spent most of September 2015 undergoing medically supervised starvation due to a case of gallstone pancreatitis.

When my mother saw me Thanksgiving of that year, she praised me for having lost weight.

I told her if I hadn't gone into that experience with fat reserves, I might have died.

Deliberately not including the Seljuks, since even though they were of Turkic background, they acculturated to Persian ways well before they completed their conquest.

Full list of foreign leaders who have successfully invaded Iran:
1. Alexander the Great
2. Caliph Uthman
3. Hulegu Khan

Trump is not Hulegu. He is not Uthman. He is definitely not Alexander.

TBH it was so much easier to find guys to fuck me when I was boymoding

Sometimes when I have a really bad day I remember how much more miserable I was pre-transition and it helps.

And I only started having good days at all due to transitioning and now they're pretty common.

This is (part of) the premise for the very strange novel I have started drafting.

Goal for my book: outsell this shit

June's ex, who is pro se, has essentially been boycotting discovery. June's attorney correctly has the same attitude as Cheryl does—can't proceed on the basis of whatever lies the opposing party makes up. Unfortunately, the court keeps granting costly delays.

www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Alento que Ayuso continue en sus defensas de Trump, para que ella destruya la reputación del Partido Popular en España y ojalá la izquierda gane las próximas elecciones en la Comunidad de Madrid.

Kid 1 is an effeminate gay boy. He very emphatically did not want to be a girl. That's why he's trans.

MS Word has uglified my manuscript in a way that is beyond my capacity to fix. Fortunately I was able to fix the issue in PDF versions for submissions, but when editing starts soon, I am dreading it.

Imagine the wildly incorrect social theories that wolves might have about humans

I had that happen. It's called "infiltrates". It took months of steroidal drops for my vision to improve. Good luck.