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largely unreformed degenerate, astrophysics nerd, artsy girl, nemesis to cars. she/her 📚✒️🎨🚎🏴 I just want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. amongst the ruins of empire Joined May 2011-
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My theory: As with inflated fears of car jacking & home invasion, most suburban paranoia scenarios are actually fantasies ("the bad other wants what I have"). Once stripped of defensive distortions, this fantasy looks to me like narcissism: "I am desired / we are desirable."
My theory: As with inflated fears of car jacking & home invasion, most suburban paranoia scenarios are actually fantasies ("the bad other wants what I have"). Once stripped of defensive distortions, this fantasy looks to me like narcissism: "I am desired / we are desirable."
The amount of misinformation out there on sex trafficking recently has reached a level that I’m not sure we can even come back from. People are truly, fully convinced that sex trafficking = random women and children getting kidnapped off the street at random.
It started a LONG time ago H. #WorldBollardAssociation
It started a LONG time ago H. #WorldBollardAssociation
The idea that sexual abuse of women and children comes primarily from strangers helps to conceal the horror and betrayal of the reality that it actually comes primarily from loved ones.
The idea that sexual abuse of women and children comes primarily from strangers helps to conceal the horror and betrayal of the reality that it actually comes primarily from loved ones.
I think a big part of the reason that people freak out so much about getting kidnapped in broad daylight because they saw a zip tie is that if you live in suburb the only ways you can possibly die are car crash and COVID, both of which we've been Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
we told you. we told you so many times. you didn’t listen. you were too busy entertaining “conversations” with monsters. your apathy will cost more than you realize you have to lose they will steal your heart and burn your name and you will be left wondering why it was allowed
@MoiraDonegan I think a lot about this passage from Simone Weil Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Reminder that framing a strike but not serial wage theft and exploitation as costly to the economy is pure employer propaganda.
Reminder that framing a strike but not serial wage theft and exploitation as costly to the economy is pure employer propaganda.
When people are murdered because they were targeted and preyed upon because they were sex workers, it is imperative for justice that we address that so people can better understand why sex workers call for decriminalization to keep them safer & *alive*. december17.swopusa.org
The ‘this is why we screen’ posts are kind of upsetting. We don’t know if the sex workers who were murdered screened him or didn’t and either way it doesn’t matter. It reads as victim blaming. Rest in Power to the sex workers who were murdered by the Long Island Serial Killer.
Hey @netflix please bring back Mindhunter.
This is miserable to read—it’s always been sex workers looking out for each other (even in retirement), and to the extent that people struggle to see us as “more” than that? That’s entirely on them. nytimes.com/2023/07/15/nyr…
But the truth is that, when they ask "how will anarchists do [x]?" and say that "the people who know how to do it will figure it out" is a handwave, their own position of "people in charge will take care of it" is just as much a handwave, if not moreso,
I genuinely believe that people think that the natural state of a city is to look mostly the same forever and that driving into these frozen cities from single-family suburbs is how things have always been. That these things are why housing is now expensive breaks people's minds.
how will anarchists build a dyson sphere
Cops letting the man who murdered sex workers continue to see sex workers so they can see if he did it again reminds me of when the cops called a bomb threat into the massage parlor they suspected of holding “sex slaves” then went on surveilling the place & visiting it undercover
Have been pretty offline recently + still seen -sympathy for his family rather than the victims' -praise of the same cops whose fault this is -arguments that mentioning their sex work is disrespectful despite it being *the reason* they were killed
Have been pretty offline recently + still seen -sympathy for his family rather than the victims' -praise of the same cops whose fault this is -arguments that mentioning their sex work is disrespectful despite it being *the reason* they were killed
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guy who doesnt know the star trek timeline: oh cool it's like star trek is predicting the future correctly! trek fans who know the star trek timeline: oh god oh fuck star trek is predicting the future correctly
guy who doesnt know the star trek timeline: oh cool it's like star trek is predicting the future correctly! trek fans who know the star trek timeline: oh god oh fuck star trek is predicting the future correctly
@aftabhmm i dont know and i hope to never find out (i blame monsanto if it ever comes to it though)
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People use drugs to alleviate their pain and misery. That need is what fuels the drug economy, not Honduran migrants. sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…
I cannot stress the importance of keeping a small cooler full of frozen water bottles in your car every day. Give one to anyone who needs it. Its hot out there for our unsheltered friends. You could save a life.
@IwriteOK It upsets me how accurate Transmetropolitan turned out to be
@spacecrone It’s not hard; it’s just slightly myopic. we all lost those years. there will always be ennui about being 27. what she is describing is being 27, as a person who was once 27. she and you will understand this when you’re slightly older. I promise
@spacecrone Consider this a compliment to your skincare then
also if you’re posting like that you probably would have spent most of your time from 23-26 online anyway lmao
everyone has a crisis from 27-29 about what they haven’t done yet. it comes after the crisis about being 24-26, which comes after the crisis about being 23. there will always be a thing that preempts what you thought “should” happen in your twenties. this time it was covid lol
full offense but this is the most mid to late twenties ass thing possible
full offense but this is the most mid to late twenties ass thing possible
@nrduford yes- these mostly white wealthy enclaves in which security is at a premium run on the fumes of the fantasy of the scary nonwhite other who wants to loot and rob and kill; the selling point is protection but for it to work you have to believe that some mob is coming for you
@mxwfx obvious Freudian point here, but: every powerful bond is the site of psychic ambivalence- from the infant at the breast upwards, the place of intense love and attachment and pleasure is always already also a site of aggression, anger, even hatred and fantasies of destruction.
@mxwfx some might say "this is too elaborate! parents love their children & want to protect them from people hurting them, it's not that deep" etc. I understand that the allegation that this is fundamentally narcissism might be a tough sell or too simple, so... let's talk about "love"
you to don't have to be Lee Edelman to see that the trump card in all this is the rhetorical figure of "the child" itself; once invoked, there's no limit to the extent of what can be justified (just think of every cliché schlocky film and TV narrative about a vigilante parent)
This political rhetoric is rigged to turn deep feelings of parental care & love into a kind of perverse pride in paranoia itself: "Look how much I love my children! I'm willing to do insane things to limit everyone else's life because maybe someone somewhere is a threat!"
Everyday life under capitalism = there's always someone wealthier than you. Everyday life online = there's always someone more desirable than you. So the value of the self is always under pressure. It costs/hurts to know one is always "below", so...
The supposedly threatening, horrible "worst case scenarios" in which a home is invaded, a car is jacked, or children are abducted- they're all ways of stabilizing the idea that "i have what others want". Above all, the current paranoia of our culture is rooted in basic insecurity