Ashamed but not surprised

How do we meaningfully resist, but politely and without coming off like we would ever cause physical or emotional harm to our attackers?!

There’s a small but growing contingent of researchers/VPR offices pushing for academics to write a small “for the public” press release with their publications. I like this direction.

On god I have a co-worker named Riz though. Straight bussin’.

Back before game of thrones snd west world went sour I really wanted them to make GoT be a world inside of west world.

None of the people but all of the leaders unfortunately

Unless I have a friend who loves the band as much as I do I definitely prefer going to concerts alone

I forget the title but there’s a sci-fi story where there’s a galactic council between sentient creatures but they don’t invite newly discovered sentient species to the council until they survive the milestone where most sentient species nuke themselves out of existence

Love to see it

…it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers.

I can’t remember if it was Uber or Lyft but I got an email from one of them recently urging me to contact legislatures to oppose requiring a certain kind of insurance for gig drivers or something. Are there rules against businesses doing political advocacy?

My sister worked for the florida DOT doing environmental assessments and she said it was quite demoralizing because no matter what the assessment found (project would impact endangered species, waterways, etc) the dept would just write a justification and staple the report to it and do what they originally planned instead of re-routing, adjusting plans, etc.

That slider looks really satisfying

The eye always makes me think of Series of Unfortunate Events even though the Illuminati clearly has the most brand recognition attached to it

All about optics

I definitely agree we have an imagination problem, but I don’t think it’s limited to ‘the left.’ I actually think the issue lies squarely with (classical) liberalism and the values it instills. Any time someone with an optimistic vision starts to voice it people pile on with 500 reasons it’s impractical. People have a very “we can’t do better or we already would have” mindset. People also want there to be a general solution that works mechanically for everyone.

As mundane as it sounds I think the key really is fostering a sense of self-determination in our communities. Encouraging people to use their own resourcefulness to solve problems they see in their communities and in the world.

This isn’t limited to small or local problems, Instead of working for google tech bros could be building logistics programs to allow people to organize global food distribution through piecemeal contributions of food and transportation.

Things are the way they are because they were built that way under specific incentives and the people in power do not want to lose it. This is not inevitable or the best we can do. If we change our priorities and stop letting ‘the market’ act as a proxy for what we want to see, there is plenty of room for optimism about the future.

People are reasonable for not wanting to bring children into the world during a famine. Let’s plant some trees and pull eachother up and build communities people can imagine their kids thriving in first.

We need our young men back in the public houses so they realize their home town already has its own joe rogan but he prob shouldn’t be taken seriously

Another is waterislifegaza.org

I feel like I can see this in daily life too. People senselessly maintaining a facade of calm, rational, normalcy while the pot boils over.

I still remember the pneumonic for “pool” in Spanish that a high school classmate came up with: La Piscina — Piss in a pool.