Is Spooky Scary AI Going To Jump Out From Under Your Bed And Eat You?
and other epic Betteridge’s Law moments
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Another study in Utopia: "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" by N K Jemisin
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin presents a utopia that is made real by hideous violence. This draws out questions about whether a utopia is still a utopia with one horrible exception, how we interact with the idea of “the better place”, and how
A heady mix of futures in fine details and broad strokes
Reviewing 'In Other Worlds' by Liam Young
After Starmer, After Burnham, After that...
In the 6 years between 2016 and 2022 Britain had 5 different Prime Ministers. Cameron bet big against Brexit and lost. May ran through fields of wheat as fast as she could away from having to debate Jeremy Corbyn. Boris Johnson “got brexit done”, got his pockets full and got
The Renters' Rights Act: Do renters get more rights now?
Successes and failures of a non-reformist reform
Bathtub Estrogen
doesn't exist and that's the point of the article
Run A 101!
May the revolution make teachers and students of us all
Thoughts on the anti-ICE resistance going on in Minneapolis right now? I find it very inspiring that so many people are openly defying ICE and the police state.
Response to a Tumblr ask
Trans Organising: The Assembly Model
How we can start building dual power today
Pluribus: On the ethics of picking an apple
I’ve written my thoughts on the new Vince Gilligan show Pluribus as a response to a tumblr ask that I got just after finishing the show, and have decided to share it here. Enjoy :) As a note, I got the ask and wrote the initial part straight after finishing
The Lolita Express and other, more metaphorical vehicles of abuse
On the aspects of power that are broadly going uninterrogated in the Epstein case
Frankenstein (The Creature) Does Not Exist
on alternate understandings of core cultural myths
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Organ Thought
Some collected writing and Q&As on understanding subjective collectivities and Deleuze & Guattari's rhizome thought
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Any thoughts on Bash Back (the UK trans group). Are they hitting the right targets? Will it work?
Sharing a tumblr ask I had the other day
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Who designs the doll?
In Ways of Seeing John Berger offers the distinction for masculinity and femininity in patriarchal culture that "men act and women apppear". I think many people balk or scoff at seemingly simplistic descriptions of what gender is or what it means, but of any "men are x
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How To Blow Up A Financial Sector
Just Stop Oil successor Shut The System sends a message
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Revolt of the surplus
Messy tumblr post that became way too long - there’s some stuff here that will come back up in more formal writing I’m working on that will be out soon. I’ve been reading Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton’s Health Communism and so I’ve been thinking
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Just Stop Oil's grand finale: What was it all for?
Situationist clowning or misdirected organising energy?
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Arm The Dolls! ... But what does it all mean?
A look at practicable community steps towards keeping trans women safe
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Looking up from brewing my own hormones to discover that the UK government no longer considers me legally a woman
I've always found libertarians tedious, ill-informed and ideologically misguided, and yet the reality of being in a marginalized class and needing healthcare has driven me to something akin to libertarianism. Molon Labe to my bitch-ass government. Last week Wesley Streeting our current national embarrassment and ideologue-
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The Forever Box
A brief outline of punitive logic
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Compassion as fast as you can: go time!
I think the main distinction I'd make at this point between people whose politics I find worthwhile or not is just pragmatism. It's not a leftist / liberal division - although progressive liberalism is completely impractical, there are individual progressive libs who are doing more than plenty of
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Orphan Culture
On the lack of elders in queer culture and its implications
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A Life worth Living
Reflections on the DBT skills Accumulating positive experiences and Building mastery