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no one of consequence. professional cybersecurity person and failed academic. queer feminist wittgensteinian artist who values privacy and is inspired by people.

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e (they/them)@certificates· 9d

i would say there are some key similarities to both reactions, and zooming in on them can illustrate some of the common motivations, power systems that animate both reactions, etc.

Pic of George Bush in his infamous "Mission Accomplished" flight suit.

e (they/them)@certificates· 13d

George Brett prepares to leave an indelible mark on history.

e (they/them)@certificates· May 25

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you have in your phone.

e (they/them)@certificates· May 9

[Text from the Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba (from Mariame Kaba's introduction)]
"I came of age in New York City in the 1980s. I was incredibly lucky to find some wonderful touchstones. These people were patient with me, sometimes hard on me, but most important, they listened to my ideas. They were role models who taught me about the limits and possibilities of lifelong activism and organizing. Yet, I must admit that I write these words with retrospective admiration. When I was fourteen and fifteen years old, I didn’t appreciate these people in the way I do now. As a teenager, I thought that they were too cautious and lacked revolutionary zeal.
The truth is that I was being seduced by another group of people—I’ll call them the butterflies. These were the people who always had a ready quote by Fanon, Malcolm, Che, or Marx. Only men, of course. They carried around tattered books that I had not yet read. This would send me scurrying to the library or to Liberation Bookstore to find those exact tomes. These were the people in my life who spent the most time talking about revolution. In retrospect, I know that the reason I was so enthralled was because it was exciting to imagine myself as a revolutionary. My untested ideas were always brilliant around them. They were fun to be around because they rarely participated in the actual hard work of building organization, and they had a lot of criticisms of those who did that work.
While others were going door to door in Harlem to talk with community members about affordable housing, the butterflies were lamenting the fact that “the people” were not being sufficiently engaged in “our” struggles. None of them ever went door to door. We talked a lot about “new” models of engagement, even"

e (they/them)@certificates· Feb 20

screenshot from reddit post:

OOP: No no no lol just keeping my margarine cool

(reply from other redditor) This shit again?

e (they/them)@certificates· Feb 6

this whole thread sent me to the hp wiki, where i had the delightful experience of looking up what i assumed was some side comment character, only to find an interminable entry about someone who was sorted into "pudwickie" (?????). inferred eventually this is fantastic beasts bullshit. cmon w this

screenshot of text from Harry Potter wiki entry for "Queenie Goldstein", reading " Queenie Goldstein[9] (b. 6 January 1903)[1] was an American half-blood[2] witch[10] and the younger sister of Tina Goldstein. She attended Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she was sorted into Pukwudgie house.

After graduating from Ilvermorny, Queenie acquired a desk job in the Wand Permit"

the screenshotter has annotated with red, circling "where she was sorted into Pukwudgie house" and writing "WTF?"

screenshot of text from Harry Potter wiki entry for "Queenie Goldstein", reading "Dumbledore and Kama himself claimed to have betrayed Dumbledore, Grindelwald ordered Queenie to use Legillimency on Kama to see if he was telling the truth. Queenie discovered that Yusuf was angry at Grindelwald for murdering his sister, Leta Lestrange. Queenie also witnessed how Grindelwald removed Kama's memory of Leta's murder so that Kama would forget the pain caused by her death."

screenshotter has drawn a red arrow labeled "scrollbar" pointing toward the browser's scrollbar indicating that this entry is approximately 10,000,000 words long. screenshotter annotates in black "how fucking long is this entry???"

screenshot of text from Harry Potter wiki entry for "Queenie Goldstein", reading
"J. K. Rowling revealed in a tweet that Anthony Goldstein, a Ravenclaw Hogwarts student first introduced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was distantly related to Tina and Queenie Goldstein.[32]"

screenshotter has annotated "amazing 😯" by "jk rowling revealed in a tweet". screenshotter is amazed at this stupid shit

e (they/them)@certificates· Feb 4

i wonder how much that had to do with his obvious eccentricity IRL (i say this from watching No Country for Old Men behind the scenes stuff). also, i will put my dad movie in this comment, b/c it's a bit too up its own film buff ass to be done in a quote post

DVD cover of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid for Criterion Collection. Black and white pic of a cop, Chaplin, the kid, and text THE KID A FILM BY CHARLIE CHAPLIN as if painted on a wall Chaplin and the kid are leaning on.

e (they/them)@certificates· Jan 30

Blair Witch man who earlier kicked that fucker (a map) into the creek because it wasn't doing us any god damn good anyways stands and stairs at a stone wall, creepily. Black and white. The man's back is to us.

e (they/them)@certificates· Dec 9

personally, i feel like jung and his influence are more interesting to study as objects or indicators of things about our culture(s) than is his thought (which feels inconsequential). i want to ramble on, but in lieu of doing so i will recommend all readers watch Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method.

Still from Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, depicting Aragorn dressed up like Sigmund Freud, chomping on a cigar and talking down to Carl Jung in his (Aragorn's) study.

e (they/them)@certificates· Oct 29

The album cover of Kate Bush's 1989 album, "The Sensual World". It's a black and white image of Kate Bush, looking at the camera, her face obscured by a rose.

e (they/them)@certificates· Oct 5

Bobby Bacala and Tony Soprano are sitting at a counter in a diner. Bobby is telling Tony about the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

e (they/them)@certificates· Sep 25

you click "translate" and a smug voice says "you know what this says about this guy. you know."

e (they/them)@certificates· Sep 17

lol "got it in 1"... if corporate algorithms guide all your choices and create all your entertainment, indeed, you are living a life bereft of human imagination or meaning. THANKFULLY......

e (they/them)@certificates· Jul 19

acab includes the acquaintance in the above scenario who ultimately decides not to tell your wife but is so fucking angry about losing those thirty minutes that they make this post on bsky to remind you.

Image from a videogame of a black hand print and the words 'We know,' ink on vellum.

e (they/them)@certificates· Jul 17

Image from the computer game Arctic Eggs. Shows a frying pan, in which cook a single egg and a lit cigarette.

e (they/them)@certificates· Jun 16

Still from a Powell & Pressburger film, whose writing/directing/producing film partnership was known as "The Archers." This is definitely not the correct answer to OP's question, but it ought to be.

e (they/them)@certificates· Jun 10

critics: "zaslav couldn't have fucked this up worse." zaslav:

John Locke from Lost playing the role of renowned failure, David Zaslav, saying "Don't tell me what I can't do!"

e (they/them)@certificates· May 29

google search asking "when will it be 2024?"

AI Overview response: It will be 2024 again on January 1st, 2024. The year 2024 was a leap year.

e (they/them)@certificates· Jan 16

Surge pricing discourse continues to weird me out... There's lots of places in lower Manhattan that rarely are congested, and others that are utter gridlock during the day.

Google maps Street View of 92 University place from 4 months ago showing little traffic and few people parked on the side of the road.

e (they/them)@certificates· Jan 15

earnest use of the word 'hysterical' is generally like, instant side-eye/skepticism, and puts the speaker on probation for like 5~15 years (forever, really).

Meme of Death Note's L watching Light's mouth very closely with the caption "Listening for misogyny in literally anything someone who has used the word 'hysterical' ever says from that point on."

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e (they/them)@certificates· Dec 10

dril tweet "my dimwit sons love it when i drop them off at the car dealership for 7 hours while i cruise around for bargain's" w/ inexplicably low like stats (1k~) included in screenshot

e (they/them)@certificates· Nov 22

e (they/them)@certificates· Oct 22

I don't want to punish my analogy too hard, but indeed: when one's question gets paradoxical ("why do we tolerate this public intolerable trash!"), probably something within the question is doing too much work ("the same reason we tolerate the private!"). they avoid guy on bus, but forgive someone;)

quote from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, which basically sums up his whole later approach to language: "195. "But I don't mean that what I do now (in grasping a sense) determines the future use causally and as a matter of experience, but that in a queer way, the use itself is in some sense present."—But of course it is, 'in some sense'! Really the only thing wrong with what you say is the expression "in a queer way". The rest is all right; and the sentence only seems queer when one imagines a different language-game for it from the one in which we actually use it. (Someone once told me that as a child he had been surprised that a tailor could 'sew a dress'—he thought this meant that a dress was produced by sewing alone, by sewing one thread on to another.)"

e (they/them)@certificates· Oct 6

huh.

Meme with 4 panels:
1. The Expanse character drummer tears up at
2. Space (Adj.) Billionaires (Noun)
3. Drummer raises her fist gloriously at
4. Space (Verb) Billionaires (Noun)

e (they/them)@certificates· Aug 1

die young or live long enough to see a world this stupid.

Image of very stupid Google top results including: "(HIGHLY CITED) The Bulwark: Trump Allies Believe Kellyanne Conway is Badmouthing JD Vance"; "Washington Examiner: Trump insiders blaming Kellyanne Conway for bad press around JD Vance"; "The New Republic: Trump Allies Say They Know the Petty Source of the J.D. Vance Leaks"; "Newsweek: Kellyanne Conway Forced to Deny Badmouthing JD Vance"; "Daily Kos: Is Kellyanne a traitor?"

e (they/them)@certificates· Jun 7