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Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· 29d

worried about consensus reality? I am once again asking you to create printed materials and post them around your neighborhood AND, if you want to go the extra mile, create a neighborhood newsletter and put it in your neighborhood.

the meme of bernie standing in a winter jacket that reads: “I am once again asking you to share printed materials in your community"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jul 13

also dead calm is a banger. recommend. three-person movie with nicole kidman, sam neill, and billy zane.

movie poster for Dead Calm. we see half of Nicole Kidman’s face rising out of a red sea, in front of a red sky.

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jul 13

this is us at all times now so… tracks

Sam Neill, at the end of “In the Mouth of Madness.” He’s wearing scrubs covered in crosses, and sits in an empty, but working movie theater with a full bucket of popcorn. He’s sweating and staring at the screen. He smiles a little bit and seems on the verge of hysterical laughter.

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jul 9

here’s a stone cold classic

Seth, a beagle chihuahua mutt, sitting on a stoop. He looks dashing in a neon yellow harness.

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jul 7

me, reading Male Fantasies Volumes 1 & 2 and having to live in this reality

John Oliver, on General Hospital, staring in what Josephine Riesman accurately termed “angered disbelief"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jul 6

youtube just showed me this loser shit and now you need to see it too

a youtube video entitled “The Conversation The Internet Doesn’t Think Can Happen” from some channel called “United by Nature” where Brett Cooper (former Daily Wire Gen Z person) and Pattie Gonia (drag queen being sued by Patagonia) discuss whatever the fuck around a fire

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jul 6

saw this last week and want you to see it too

parking meter with a sticker on it. the sticker is of a waymo engulfed in flames.

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 26

re: Ross Douthat’s op-ed (from “Caliban and the Witch” by Silvia Federici)

"However, by the end of the 15th century, a counter-revolution was already under way at every level of social and political life. First, efforts were made by the political authorities to co-opt the youngest and most rebellious male workers, by means of a vicious sexual politics that gave them access to free sex, and turned class antagonism into an antagonism against proletarian women. As Jacques Rossiaud has shown in Medieval Prostitution (1988), in France, the municipal authorities practically decriminalized rape, provided the victims were women of the lower class. In 14th-century Venice, the rape of an unmarried proletarian woman rarely called for more than a slap on the wrist, even in the frequent case in which it involved a group assault (Ruggiero 1989: 91–108). The same was true in most French cities. Here, the gang-rape of proletarian women became a common practice which the perpetrators would carry out openly and loudly at night, in groups of two to fifteen, breaking into their victims’ homes, or dragging their victims through the streets, without any attempt to hide or disguise themselves. Those who engaged in these “sports” were young journeymen or domestic servants, and the penniless sons of well-to-do families, while the women targeted were poor girls, working as maids or washerwomen, of whom it was rumored that they were “kept” by their masters (Rossiaud 1988: 22). On average, half of the town male youth, at some point, engaged in these assaults…"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 25

no one liked this when it happened the first time and I don’t need to see it again

image from the 2010 Stephen Colbert/Jon Stewart event “Rally to Restore Santiy and/or Fear.” A man in an American flag sweater stands on a stage, speaking into a microphone. The stage banner reads “Restore Sanity and/or Fear.” The stage is covered in American flag motifs.

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 24

my sister got me this cookbook last year for christmas and it is one of the best cookbooks ever written. big ups to nisha vora.

cover of Big Vegan Flavor: Techniques and 150 Recipes to Master Vegan Cooking by Nisha Vora, creator of Rainbow Plant Life

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 17

move over all the french philosophers I’ve befriended in my mind over the years. there’s a new guy in town and he’s german

the “Friendship ended” meme. It reads: “Friendship ended with CAMUS. Now THEWELEIT is my best friend"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 17

my favorite May read is a tie!

cover of Patricia Lockwood’s book “Will There Ever Be Another You"

cover of Susan Zieger’s “Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 17

mutual aids have better opsec than this

Screenshot of Wired article "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society” by Dell Cameron. text reads: "The discipline imposed by the group did not extend to its website. The directory was embedded in the code of dialog.org, a near-empty page, and was served to any visitor who viewed the page's source."

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 12

cannot stop thinking about the idea of “common sense” as it is constantly used by rightwingers today in relation to how Sylvia Wynter describes the concept used historically

highlighted text from Sylvia Wynter’s 2003 essay "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.” The highlighted text reads: " It was therefore within the terms of this new 'common
sense'—and in the context of his defense of the settlers’ rights to the lands and enserfed labor of the indigenous peoples, as well as of the Crown’s right to wage just war against the latter if they resisted its sovereignty"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 11

IT’S ABOUT TO GET FUCKING NUTS IN MY HOUSE

A list of my current in-transit holds at the library:
- Neither man nor beast: feminism and the defense of animals by Carol J. Adams
- Caliban and the witch by Silvia Federici
- Absolute Superman, Vol. 1, Last dust of Krypton by Jason Aaron
- The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences by Michel Foucault

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 8

recently learned: if you send men who attempt a coup to prison, they WILL form a choir and the arts will NOT make them better but it will give them a chance to recruit

Excerpt from “Male Fantasies, Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies History” by Klaus Theweleit: "By means of brief prison interludes, Rossbach found his way to the arts. He formed a singing troupe with whose help he sought to preserve awareness of true German culture at a time of reduced interest in political discussion. Their travels brought him notable success—playing for foreign visitors."

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 7

my dog, vaguely surprised that I am speaking to him. he sits on top of a blanket on a bright yellow chair.

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· Jun 4

it’s good to know people have always been annoying to vegetarians

Excerpt from The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams (but the anecdote is taken from The Life of Sir Walter Scott published 1837: “Well knowing Ritson’s holy horror of all animal food, Leyden
complained that the joint on the table was overdone. “Indeed,
for that matter,” cried he, “meat can never be too little done,
and raw is best of all.” He sent to the kitchen accordingly
for a plate of literally raw beef, and manfully ate it up, with
no sauce but the exquisite ruefulness of the Pythagorean’s
glances.” (Carol J. Adams puts in brackets after this: [Notice the manfully])

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 30

look at this beaut

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 28

headline of a New York post article (from 2019 lmaooo) that reads: “Why ‘lazy,’ ‘entitled’ millennials can’t last 90 days at work"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 27

why is everyone always scared about the economy, even when they are employed with a job?

picture of Jack Welch with his arms folded. he’s smiling at the camera and sitting in a red chair.

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 25

explicit deal

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 25

a meme for the occasion of a new papal encylical

"Friendship ended with X, now Y is my new best friend" meme template with Rerum Novarum (the 1891 encyclical by Pope Leo XIII as X, and the 2025 encylical Magnificas Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV as Y)

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 21

so much of my time online is encapsulated in this meme

a series of DMS from cyberpunk Keanu (also known as the "I Ain't Reading All That” meme). the first dm reads: “I ain’t reading all that” and the second one reads “i’m happy for u tho” and the third one reads “or sorry that happened"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 20

in February and much of March I read a singular book which rocked

the penguin classics cover of Moby-Dick Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 20

now that is is May I will announce my top reads from January of this year. it is a tie!

cover of Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy by Madeline Lane-McKinley

the cover for A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 20

a lot of people are wondering when the penultimate episode of this season of Lizzie Beth Fluke’s Redeemed, Not Refined will drop and the answer is Thursday!!

picture of me, Katie, wearing a blue top. handwriting font reads: “Redeemed, Not Refined with Lizzie Beth Fluke”

A serif font in a text box decorated with vines reads: “A God-honoring comedy podcast"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 19

the reason to use search is to type things like this and not get anything useful back just because you wanted to type something. AI will try to answer this impossible query that doesn’t require a response.

image of a search bar with the words: “dog doesn’t fart but has fart energy"

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 14

it is my personal belief that seth simons deserves a pulitzer www.humorism.xyz/a-brief-hist...

Listen I'm Scary OK@katiemcvay· May 14

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