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I went to a Black LGBTQ+ community space in Detroit two weeks ago, my I relaxed my shoulders when this 6 foot 5 300 pound jacked Black man introduced me to the game rooms, he had a Zangief shirt on. The vibe in the room was healing, my spider sense for white people weren’t tingling. It was peace.
It wasn’t that it was white people that I always have vigilance of, but also straight men.
Rituals and community. These places are a place of gossip and pedagogy and forces that long period, like being outside with a cig and ran into your cafe mate
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Majority of men/incels, not worth it
Majority of women, so cute
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Majority of women, so cute, bare minimum.
Women literally gave men cheat codes on how to win their hearts lmao and men are like naw.
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Who’s joining the cult. 👏🏼
Required reading:
- algorithms of oppression
- cultish
- automating inequality
- attention is all you need
- understanding deep learning, Simon J.D
- atlas of aI
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I’m going to frame it from a structural standpoint.
Stress kills the libido, major change has occurred. Became a new unit with new obligations and unmet communications to calm the nerves. There are new power structures being imposed — insurance, job, taxes, traditional long term planning like kids, being added. Nothing against the couple obvi, but change is stressful and sometimes, for some couples, until their divorce.
The rate of views and interaction shows how f up our society is, how much we put one form of love to another form, what matters, and what isn’t.
Our society wants us to create insular nuclear families, forms of community that is anti communal. The nuclear family is one of the core destructions that causes our current state of lonely being.
Love the neighbor, love your friends, love your partner, love the world. One isn’t better than the other, and we are suffocating our “the one partners.
And of course it’s mull solitary bs. Not his isn’t how that shit works,
Invention is a process of collaboration in a community, where we have stories to interrogate, and exchange. Not the myth of the sigma male archetype, not the myth of bootstrapping, not the myth of Gregory House and Sherlock. These types of isolation and myth making is what got us here in the first place, the structural creation of mavericks that seems to be outside of power of oppression. F off with this propaganda
Love as a radical act of subject formation, and not neoliberal trademark, cause we have to always be cautious of traditional values.
Fuck that noise, let’s party in hell yall.
In summary of the current all, from Green Book (1930s) → Panther programs (1960s) → Black Twitter (2000s). Every generation builds the survival network. Every generation watches the state try to burn it down. Power comes from the people up into the studies, producing constant balance of possibilities, and creation, where there is power there is resistance. The technology changes but the pattern holds: we create, they destroy, we create again.
Progress.
Cc: @haright
She also critique the inherent sternness that came with the Black Panthers, where their rigid rule sets produce conservative values rather than the liberation she sought out. Ultimately how the BLA wasn’t an organization but “a concept, a people’s movement, an idea.”
Distributed Blackness before Brock theorized it. “Many different people have said and done many different things in the name of the Black Liberation Army.”
No central node to destroy.
Viva Revolution.
Assata not only rejected a white name but also, a name that was traditional to, they tried to make us choose respectability over struggle. She said f that. “I wanted a name that had something to do with struggle, something to do with the liberation of our people.” The personal naming choice as political act. Identity as infrastructure.
Here Assata also resonates to the tradition of Trans people where the naming, and deconstruction, became a process of self determination and transformation.
More than just physical infrastructure. Names have power and Assata realized her whole name was infrastructure too, a “massa’s infrastructure”.
For example, JoAnne “had nothing to do with me.” Chesimard was just whatever slavemaster owned her ex-husband’s ancestors in Martinique. She’d lie awake thinking about how many Black people Chesimard had been responsible for killing.
This also taught me the tradition of how many Black Americans have unique names that are anthesis to white traditions
But liberation ain’t free, and it sure ain’t legitimate in the eyes of the public. This parallels with different technology, same function: destroy the spaces where Black folks can organize outside state/capital control. Where they sent the FBI to manually did what Silicon Valley now does algorithmically, a fracturing of community, extract value, leave nothing but isolation and surveillance.
With a lot of hatred for traditional schooling since it was, white and conservative af, Assata talkz about those Saturday schools where she’d take vocab from books and write stories the kids actually cared about. Similar to how when kids have fun, they gave more expressions of care. Everyone became teacher for a while. This made peer accountability > top-down control. Where communal relations are priority.
But this wasn’t the first time Black folks built distributed infrastructure only to watch it systematically destroyed. We’ve been doing this. From Assata’s memoir, The Panthers had liberation schools where everyone got to rotate being teacher, free clinics, breakfast programs, these were communal third spaces doing what barbershops did, but explicitly revolutionary.
Welcome to the multi thread.
Check out this path @haright @docd_re @smiling__sisyphus @its.shaynicole @erin._.yes @yapicurus_ @jwynia @joanwestenberg @midas.goldera
Even within the book distributed Blackness the way Brock writes has that form of play, on top of the deep theoretical sht. Enmeshed not only in professional academic speech but also, shows he is also playing with the dynamics of language.
Ex:
“Momentous yet momentary marvel”
“Evading white racial surveillance in plain sight”
“Crashed and burned—Path, Dodgeball, and so onl
He’s using rhythm, vernacular touches, personal voice, choices while never sacrificing theoretical acumen. Bro can be clear
Wendys can be stufpid and funny and fight Burger King. It challenged the white academic model where legitimacy requires performing singular expertise at all times.
On Black Twitter, the same person could drop a thread on algorithmic oppression in the morning and post thirst traps by afternoon, similar to the barbershop had always worked this way, this deep conversation about politics flowing into jokes about someone’s hairline, because at the end of the day, the private is the political. · Thus screw the respectability politics, this insistence on full humanity, full multi dimensional humanity that is both, serious AND silly, political AND playful, that was Black Twitter’s most radical intervention. Which also heavily influence the digital social landscape because it became a libidinal affective economics. Where authenticity ultimately turned into production of attention economy. Wendy’s marketing team for example, that sh didn’t exist for a long time.
This was one of the fundamental anthesis to the Twitter community idea where a person, or brand, or group can only produce legitimate knowledge, where it’s the posts went from can/cannot — a scholar can only post about Foucault, or Critical theory, and instead — like humans, be multi faceted beings that can post about shitposting, AND cat pics AND Foucault analysis.
You mean, I don’t have to be a nerd all the time, and I can just relax?
There was laughter, there was joy, there was TwitterAfterDark, all these became the perfect example where a digital third space that was both distributed AND relational, connected by the singular act, of being Black, and the recursive nature of subject formation of Blackness in the digital space. It was simultaneously "a megaphone for people who are on the margins" and a space where Black people could simply be themselves while creating anti Police resistance and Mac and Cheese recipes.
Today’s Black digital networks do the same work. Not just adapting to platforms designed by white masculinity for white masculinity, but hacking them, using them against their intended purpose, creating counterpublics where the algorithm thought there would be isolated consumers. For example from the Hulu Series Black Twitter, Hashtags were used to create community discussions like #BlackGirlMagic, live-tweeting Scandal together, creating memes that moved culture.
This precursor for survival emerged from the conditions Afro-Pessimism describes:
Blackness as permanent social death due to slavery’s afterlife and neoliberal extraction, for some reason it always reminds me of Capitlaist Realism of Mark Fisher. But there’s an optimistic reversal: Afro-Optimism.
In optimistic turn, Black digital practice doesn’t just survive within this matrix, it transforms it through Black joy and the creation of joy under the duress of whiteness.
One possibility that Andre Brock (@docd_re) argues for in distributed Blackness, using the Negro Blackness Green book as a baseline for the radical act of community integration underneath the hegemony of whiteness to creating networks of safety, community. The Green Book, Brock argued was infrastructure for Black survival when institutions excluded you, and a precursor to the modern internet network style interaction before the creation o the internet that was used for war strategy meetings.
so much of this analysis and exploration was lived experience. My uncles restaurant had a Black barbershop next door, it had a college bookstore next doors even a papa John’s where baby Wei, when he was bored of restaurant can just go hangout in. The Blackbarber shop taught me that therapeutic space where unofficial means of meaning production was establish, but it was more official than any TED talk. The papa John and bookshop allowed me to just wonder around and talk to the workers there lol.
We destroyed the social infrastructure that minority communities built to survive, replaced it with platforms that extracted value while providing none of the actual functions those spaces served and then we act surprised that people are isolated, that communities are fractured, that no one knows their neighbors, and they say we have a loneliness epidemic. Whether for men or for women, all for the sake of extractive capitalism dictated by the a/b testing of Silicon Valley.
Progress.
Now your barbershop that’s been in the community for 30 years is competing with chains that have marketing budgets and can game the algorithm, great clips can buy more yelp ad space. One bad review from someone who doesn’t understand the culture? your rating drops, which spirals into your visibility drops. new customers, students, transfers can’t find you.
Creating a death spiral where the rent keeps going up, gentrification is pricing out the community that kept you alive.
And it’s being destroyed algorithmstically. Noble’s algorithms of oppressions showed us how search algorithms aren’t neutral, that they’re amplification or minimization systems where capital is required to distribute to new locations. Thus amplify existing inequalities, for example my parents Chinese restaurants kept getting calls for yelp, so when youre a new Black student on a campus, search for Black-owned businesses, for barbershops in your neighborhood, the algorithm decides what’s visible.
the barbershop isn’t just a place to get a haircut, for a lot of minority communities it’s also it’s therapy. it’s news. it’s networking. it’s where you process what’s happening in your life with people who know you, see you regularly, have stake in the community. You’ll have a generational connection to the community where the barber would see the growth, of you and your family. It’s also where dissemination of ancestral knowledge, trends, memes, being produced.
We tried to create these spaces through various neoliberal technologies of attention extraction. The creation of sociality is produced under the gaze of an insular topic, via discord, Reddit, and even threads. So intellectual randomness, multi disciplinary approaches to thinking, that integrates your everyday events with dialogue, and myth making can even occur. It’s so easy to just, be with the leftist group, the sigma alpha gooning group, the hyperrealvisuals of instagram, for market forces.
cigarette gav me an excuse to be outside where the encounter of a neighbor was even possible. But it can’t give me the social script that makes the encounter normal, the syncronicity and chance enounter script got lost somewhere between the porch culture that a lot of redline complexes like in Black and Latino neighborhoods, where this suburban isolation of the $350k condo produces.
And now I’m back to the falling leaves, the wind, the cold, Claude, and the closed garage door.
we’ve removed cigarettes for good public health reasons, but we never replaced the social functions that they served. Like there aren’t acceptable equivalent that. What else forced you outside regularly so that you can create or we can create a predictable gathering spot. Which also provides a legitimate excuse for idleness that takes a specific amount of time. Where across class lines between the janitor and the exactive. And visually gave you something to do with your hands.
Chatbots are the ultimate the anti-third space: where there are no friction, no genuine otherness, no stakes in your wellbeing, infinite availability to validate whatever you bring. The perfect tool for someone to get lost in their own head while feeling like they’re having a dialogue.
This one is a tricky scenario, but it would work. For some people holding hands is more intimate than getting fuc in the booty. Not everyone has the same preferences and desires for emotional or romantic or sexual or physical interactions. We are all dynamic in our ways and consent is the first interaction to clarify and establishing the boundaries so we can work around it.
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In my pre 29th, my thought was if i could just be smart enough, understanding enough, valuable enough, then people would have to keep me. And that was the deportation threat logic extending into my community and relations, and to prove I’m valuable enough that they can’t let you go.
Still working through that, but growth.
The sentence that broke me
Our foundation raised another 4k last night. At around 8k now. :))))) so many immigrant families will have a lil bit more money to survive the winter.
If you wish to donate, that will go to a family in need. None of which goes to us.
Well no, I would disagree. Theyre already on a dating app, the presumption is that it’s romantic or situatuonship. If it was in a public space like work or job or cafe or library or friends of a friend, then it may not be clear.
A flat you cute as a first message is below minimum to someone who already knows they’re attractive. A flat thank you as a response is not dismissive, it’s impressive they even give a reply at all to say “thank you” as a rejection.
On top of all that, the libidinal vampirism also comes from our social - political - financial - cultural situations too. When stress completely puts a break on the libido, when a totalitarian regime is hustling and bustling, when they can’t f due to worrying about abortion rights, deportation, lack of healthcare, your body goes into fright mode. And since we don’t have this education between the social and the libido, couple would misdirect their anger, rage, insecurities.
Such bs too, I post about one dating thread, and now my entire wall is just dating stuff. Like bro this is fun and drama and cutesy and misogynistic flags, but come on. I cannot imagine what yall have to algo into since it’s the other side of the taboo bell curve with so many date based words lol.
See how all those statements build toward the last one? That the small things that seem like they “don’t matter as much” all turn into the things that “matter”like voting. But actually and unfortunately, those parts are the cake, and voting is just the cherry on top of something that’s been baking all along.
Micro interactions are the foundations of our community, and this is why people explode when they interact with a small thing, it’s been baking for a hot second
Yup it is bare minimum.
Things that are bare minimum:
- having a tiara on for your son or daughter
- remembering your partner’s friends names
- having tampon or pads at your house
- scheduling appointments for the child, or partner
- remembering their favorite music, types of books
- playing princess tea party for their sons or daughters
- making an appointment for a date night reservation
- taking the kids to the doctors
- knowing where tampons are in the car without calling the wife
Cause it is bare minimum.
Things that are bare minimum:
- having a tiara on for your son or daughter
- remembering your partner’s friends names
- having tampon or pads at your house
- scheduling appointments for the child, or partner
- remembering their favorite music, types of books
- playing princess tea party for their sons or daughters
- making an appointment for a date night reservation
- taking the kids to the doctors
- knowing where tampons are in the car without calling the wife
Prep time for our fundraiser event today in 2 hours! All the funds we raise will go directly to an immigrant family in need, none of the money goes to the beaucrates. Since we are a nonprofit Zion Lutheran, is donating their space for us to support the ones in need. This is our direct action type of protest, and not performative for some grand plan that won’t happen. If you want to donate the link is in the comments.
If a white lady, who is also a cook, who also publishes a cook book, was gifted a bouquet of saffron, no one would bat an eye. Even though that would cost more than a BMW 5 Series. Lmao
This was why she was so happy for those vanilla beans. SHES A FUCKING COOK. Jesus Christ cr*kers are insane.
Melomatalo is so right, Olive should be giving much more than just vanilla beans
Neurodivergent, especially those who are close to power (aka whites), have the problem of being too close to power, like white women being seen as safe to Black and POC communities. Whether it’s nd whites, or gay whites, it’s OFTEN TIMES, thinks that having one “othering” attribute means they are immunized from perpetuating atrocities. That’s the hubris, the thought that I’ve struggled, therefore I am pure. Is fascisit tendencies
Power, has a fascist tendency to corrupt.
Yeah, all the money are going DIRECTLY to the undocumented community or communities that has a large undocumented population. None of it are going to beaucratsz
Your most important people (it could be your family/kids/parentals, bff, partner, whatever).
What’s the gender, and racial composition of those people and how many of you have?
Being cute · Our gathering of whites today was scheduled from 9:30am to 12pm, cause we got a football game at 12:30pm. It was cute (disrespect side eye)
The sh*tty thing is, so many people sees him as the voice of reason cause he’s in the tech sphere and he white lmao.
Like not all white men, but always assume on the presupposition that all white men are doo doo until proven otherwise.
All men are doodoo until proven otherwise,
And within that caste, all white men are doodoo until proven otherwise.
I’m pissed off because I research this type of shit, I should have already seen it. But I didn’t learn about it until today, when my close thriend brought it up.
Ugh fuck this country and history
I’m just learning the dynamic between Black gay man and white gay man partnership and how there are traumas of domination in that regard, where consensuality doesn’t exist, due to the predispositions of racism that a LOT of white gay communities have. Due to their segregated upbringing, while the lack of racial teachings and learnings even though they’re also a group of scapegoats that society attacks.
Makes complete sense, but I didn’t see it, I’m furious at that blind spot, @ myself
I got my friend who was gay and Black a portable f machine for his house warming present. I think you need someone to get you that as a house warming present, where the house is your body
Dis one? · Dude this drink is SOO good. As a newbie I was surprised by the prism of flavor like a billion things happening in your mouth!
Thank you, I’m at the somm bar right now, this place is really dope and the somm are very cool.
I have so much respect for this dude, and the person they matched with. Instead of assumptions they give the benefit of the doubt, that we are busy people, and that we have our own lil things going on. We whether they work or not, Jay will be a great partner.
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8. Final point, to address your post that made me giggle, “get rid of that” thing that is making her feel this way, and that’s whiteness and colonialism.
If you really give a shit about her, follow her and read what she posts.
5. If you read the comments that she enjoyed, and made her laugh, it’s the ones that are hilariously dark.
6. Donations to her means that she doesn’t have to worry for a tiny period of time, and she can just chill and have a glass of wine. She gives way too much and that’s the amount of love she has for the world.
7. Don’t take things personally when the critique is systemic rather than individual. I didn’t say we should get rid of you, just the whites. But in like a cynical way.
I’m not going to make her do work cause she has had a day.
1. You don’t follow her, if you did you’ll know that she posts things like this a lot. She is stressed, anxious, tired.
2. One of the stressors is this culture of whiteness, imperialism, colonialism, and now fascist tendencies.
3. When we murked charl*e ki*k he got sanctified by the whites instead of justified
4. Empathy and support means understanding what they’re going through, not blanket statement.
Hm I’m sad, let’s pin point why
Water, check
Coffee, check
Meds, check
Human hug, check
Social irl, check
Orgasmed, check
Pooped, check
Satiated, check
Reading, check
Meaningful irl conversations, check
Community support, check
Urge to cry, check
Weed, not yet
Out of bed, no
Out of gravity blanket, no
Action: leave bed, smoke weed, play with cats.
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Assumptions are safe too, so your assumption on me was completely valid. Cause who the fuk knows, I could be crazy like these mofos in the comments. And that’s the level of assumptions that men have done to women since oh you know for ever lmao
Capability and labor aren’t the same thing. Yes, women can send texts, they text their friends, bff, best friends, cause those people actually have a historical connection with them. The issue is what women have to audit before they do anything for for safety, how it’ll be interpreted, whether engagement signals something we don’t intend. Calling that “infantilizing” just dismisses the actual conditions women are goin through.
90 percent of the men in there is mansplaining on how easy it is
So much of these responses says that writing a simple sentence is easy, when in truths, for so many mature women, it really isn’t. There are multiple layers of safety, consideration, and filters has to go through even before considering to be a message to be sent.
What looks like “just text back” is a whole lot of internal communication, dialogue, and audit of risk and interpretation.
Especially when dating has been commoditized where men pays for tinder plus and use that as an expectation.
This entire thread is why I am pro Misandry, cause women ain’t your therapist or emotional support dog.
God forbid she has a conference, and that later in their careers they’ll have a conference AND the emotional labour of taking care of kids, and also a man child.
Jesus fucking Christ this entire wall is forcing the woman to do ALL the emotional fuckign labour. ADULTS HAVE LIVES. And it’s only 14 hours doing A CONFERENCE.
Trauma from college, if you’re a therapist dealing with someone with abandonment trauma please don’t peace out without telling us due to the university letting you go.
Just a thought
This is hilarious cause I tried telling someone this, that since they’re not quite fulfilled currently and want to improve their number from a mid to a better number (their words not mine) that they should read fiction, fantasy, and also smut. They dismissed my recommended, responded who said I needed help.
Like go off king. You do you. I’m just sayin.
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I know it’s easy like damn son but you know. · Our society would have a much better integration with solo parenting if we had classical non atomic nuclear family structures. My father left for the US when I was 4, my mom raised me as a single mother, in technicality. But I was also raised by the extended family that was my uncles, my grand mother, my aunts, and their kids.
Single motherhood isn’t a sin, a moral inquisition, a negativity, single motherhood is a reflection of our lackluster communal culture.
You 18? GTFO of my house
I met my new bff on here and I couldn’t be happier 😭😭😭😭 · Unless you’re in my set of 4 bffs, your information has been gossiped to those four if I find it neat.
My cat is named Wilson. · - A family member of mine called me to ask if there were ice raids in Chicago, and that I should call one of my families to not go to the casino cause it’s bad out there. Thankfully they live in tiny lil towns where it’s not as bad yet.
- during the fundraiser meeting las tonight one of the colleagues passed around “what to do if ICE is around”, talking about how we should have these to pass around. My fear and abandonment trauma response came and say hi.
- another person is reading this too
Exactly, it’s not the act, it’s the attempt to profit from the trend that is performative. As it always has been. Bushes and unhinge isn’t antithesis to current trends, the current trend is the act of authanticness, and that’s one of the most difficult things to profit from.
Unless you’re rich.
How low is the bar? I didn’t know I had a tendency to not cross examine my adhd induced hyperfixation, that was seen as mansplaining until half a decade ago when I met my ex.
Me?! Mansplaining?! Who would da thought. (/self deprecation if my text didn’t show that)
Without looking up this post, guess what was done that was so divine and so praised.
Dad was able to get her pads…. Cause the child has period. Bro wtf is the bar.
One of the best, hottest, nicest, things someone can do for you, is setting boundaries. That’s when comfort is seen, and rules are set, so you can play this game of chess. And I’m not talking about games of deception, but games of life and partnership, whether in romance, or more importantly, in life.
Ableism, sexism, racism, are often the butt of every joke. Including this. Using sex diff anatomy is “too inappropriate” to discuss seriously (pregnancy, periods, health) and then, it’s “appropriate enough” to use as mockery/insult against men when the meaning becomes: female bodies are shameful/degrading by definition.
Ah okay. Yeah I can see the issue. Read some fiction, fantasy, even smut. It’ll have something for you to talk about that’s not pseudo self improvement based
People always talk about men settling down for love instead of chasing, but women suffer the biological essentialism of their bodies (most of the research is misogynistic and underfunded) that reduces women’s bodies to nothing more than incubators. So what? So men get to go out there and be at peace with the world while women do months of unpaid labor in these imbalanced partnerships?
Economic collapse + national humiliation + government failure created conditions for fascism, sound familiar? The 1923 Ruhr murder shows how vigilante violence against “outsiders” became normalized much like the murder of trans by either self death or group adult, even heroic to some. Bormann and Höss, future architects of Auschwitz, weren’t born monsters, tabula Rosa, crises made “Them and Us” thinking acceptable. Real suffering was redirected toward scapegoats, not solutions.
The only radicalization difference between Gen Z and Gen Y. 9/11. The radicalization (in opposite directions) flows directly from that formative difference.
One of the common misconception developed by the neoliberal class in concert with government lobbyists is that the rural poor are enemies of reason, or that their votes caused our current crisis. This couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s often the upper-middle class and above who shape cultural taboos around legitimacy and acceptability.
And why I hate when those who claimed to be empathetic, and free thinking still wish for the defunding, and mockery of the rural class.
The question was always: “why?”
Laurence Rees, a history of the Holocaust, digs into the nazification of the state. A steady process where the frog boils, Holocaust survivors couldn’t comprehend targeting children, destroying families. Today, ICE detainees echo that sentiment.
Ward Sakeik: “I was criminalized for being stateless, something I have no control over.”
Mahmoud Khalil on missing his son’s birth: “hundreds of fathers…there is absolutely no reason why they cannot hold their children
High IQ minds share one trait: intellectual hoarding disorder. They practice mental polygamy without the communication skills.
Can misquote Marx and misunderstand Nietzsche in the same afternoon, namedrop scripture and quantum physics in the same sentence without grasping either.
True intelligence isn’t commitment-phobic. It just never learned object permanence for ideas. Low IQ minds aren’t stupid, they’re just able to finish a book before starting three more.
/im14andthisisdeep
This dual control model from the “book come as you are” explains why secure relationships unlock this feralness: it’s not about MORE accelerator, but it’s about “less” brake. When your nervous system stops scanning for threats (judgment, rejection, performance anxiety, ecological destruction, imminent takeover of fascistic regime), arousal becomes effortless. Safety becomes the permission to go feral
There was a post about how being in a healthy relationship makes both parties go feral. It’s as though knowing that your body will be safe and secure can somehow accelerate the turn-on process. Who would’ve thought
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My dad couldn’t visit his mom or his dad’s funeral, I couldn’t visit my grandmother or grandfather for their funeral in the 2010s.
The price of so many immigrants
I had this thought while watching po*n then I released wait….. I’m surprised the pictures of mother Mary aren’t full of pubic aura.
Anyways. Good morning.
Boundaries create more freedom, cause now you know. If you know you can only serve vegetarian food, now you can look for meat substitutes for ingredients. If you know you can only select one dictator, now you know it’s time to revolt. If you know you can’t do an*l, now you know you can be more creative with your k*nks. If you know Gaza and Israel is at peace, now you know they be lying.
Consent produces freedom and new possibilities.
Vampirism - and lose have of my day? No think.
Wish - risky if wording was bad.
Dietic thingy - nothing is free.
Lichdom - immortal knowledge dude with no emotions? Perfect. There’s continual goal
So now the question becomes, what about other modern cultures? How do they deal with cats and how does that impact their familial relations.
Let’s take Turkey for example, a country that has been heavily owned by the roaming street cats. Since Islam has a much respectful tradition of the veneration of cats, their version of masculinity also includes stewardship, the taking care of the community rather than just the nuclear family. Thus much different than the west Protestant-Christian ethics.
Dogs are loyal,
Cats are independent
You can’t train a cat
You can easily train a dog
When you treat a dog with food it’s instant love
When you treat a cat with food it’s the bare minimum for affection, when a cat refuses, then they’re seem antroed into “friendzone”, not receiving the proper affection for the work required, when the work is the bare minimum.
Other more modern direct examples are like:
1. Cats don’t submit.
2. Cats are assholes, cause they have boundaries.
3. Dogs are loyal lmao. Acab includes these for that reason.
4. Consent requirement
5. They are independent and without the need of your approval.
I’m not kidding lol. It’s not specism, it’s the western lineage of how a cat have been associated with feminine freedom, and thus has to be contained. Medieval witch hunts specifically targeted women AND cats. E.x cats were “familiars,” women who had cats were suspect. Like there were mass cat killings in Europe that were tied to misogyny and fear of female independence. Thus this association stuck: independent women = cat women = witches = dangerous
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I know what I’m getting one day woah
Yeah this shit is wild. Survaillencr mass tech combine with anti confessional aparatus since it’s talking to a wall, and also mental health inducing tech.
He may definitely have something to say about this shit
Lotsa people have hearing impairments, like 20% lmao. And UK has up to 8 percent people with audio processing disorders, those who gets sounds and words mixed up while the input volume is good.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/technology/personaltech/apples-new-maps-app-is-upgraded-but-full-of-snags-review.html
Apple map got lost so ai can get lost 🤝.
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevenadler/p/practical-tips-for-reducing-chatbot?r=398g18&utm_medium=ios
Imma read up on this while u do yo thang and report back
So I was asking Claude if I should like get the memorized annual membership or some shit. And I was like wait I live next to Dearborn. And then Claude just shame the shit out of me. For even consider paying for a pro membership when you live next to the biggest gathering of Middle Eastern people outside of the Middle East.
Minimum effort pro tip: ask for their birthday when you meet a new friend, and add it to your contact for that person. It’ll come up on your calendar when it’s their birthday.
Bare minimum
Some dude was like you can plan the first date cause the date he plans always gets rejected and she was like you’re the one who should plan and he replied with okay let’s go to the park and throw some balls around lmao.
Since I’m primarily an audio input reader instead of eye visual reading information gets converted like this
Sound(words and ideas) → information saved
So now I’m trying to do eye visual reading, unfortunately since I’m not used to it and also slight dyslexia it’s a process. This is the pathway, where I have to convert the words I read with my eyes to concept skipping over sound.
Visual → sound → information saved.
And I’m trying to get to
Visual → information saved.
Chinese, here is where morphemes and character gets interesting:
爱 (ài) - General love (romantic, familial, universal)
爱情 (àiqíng) - Romantic love specifically
恋爱 (liàn’ài) - Being in love, romantic relationship
喜欢 (xǐhuan) - To like/be fond of (lighter than ài)
情 (qíng) - Feeling, emotion, affection - often used in compounds
仁爱 (rén’ài) - Benevolent love, compassion (Confucian concept)
慈爱 (cí’ài) - Tender parental love
热爱 (rè’ài) - Passionate love (for country, ideals, etc.)
Greek
Eros (ἔρως) - Passionate, romantic, sexual love
Philia (φιλία) - Friendship, affectionate bond between equals. Love of wisdom (philosophy). The thought partner kind.
Storge (στοργή) - Familial love, natural parent-child affection
Agape (ἀγάπη) - Unconditional, selfless, universal love. Compassion
Philautia (φιλαυτία) - Self-love (healthy or narcissistic)
Pragma (πράγμα) - Mature, enduring love built over time
Ludus - Playful, flirtatious love
Mania (μανία) -, possessive
Farsi
“Eshgh” (عشق) - This is passionate, romantic, all-consuming love. The kind poets write about. Deep, intense, often with spiritual dimensions.
“Mehr” (مهر) - Affection, kindness, love that’s gentle and enduring. Also means sun/sunshine. This is the warmth you feel toward family, friends, humanity.
“Mohabbat” (محبت) - Love that’s tender, caring, devoted. Often used for familial love or deep friendship.
“Asheghi” (عاشقی) - in love, the state of being a lover (from the same root as eshgh)
In our hyper individualistic society this is so important, our cultural media wants us to be isolated so that we rely on the nuclear family for all forms of love, respect, communication, desires, goals, aspirations. When this occurs, it suppresses our ability to be collaborative, communal, and social.
The westernize self then becomes easily manipulated when there are no longer strings that are bounded to others in different tribes families communities.
Love, the singular word, is too simple.
Setting boundaries is one of the hottest things people can do, it reduces complexity, anxiety, and literally an instruction manual where the parties don’t have to assume.
Use them words
And lastly the particularly insidious nature (no pun intended) is how bioessentialism can make people “love power, desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.” People invest in biological explanations of their own subordination, finding comfort in the idea that social hierarchies reflect natural realities rather than changeable arrangements.
Cc: @calamari_moon
There’s often an anxious policing of category boundaries in bioessentialist thinking like who “really” belongs, who is “authentic,” who is transgressing these natural “God” or natural (which connects to the structures that defines them) limits. This mirrors fascism’s obsession with purity and its panic about mixing, crossing, or blurring of categories.
When we insist identities are biologically determined and immutable, bioessentialism does something deeply individualistic while pretending to describe collectives, thus traps people in predetermined categories and prevents the kind of “proliferation and connection”. Like you can’t build coalition or community across difference if difference is seen as biological destiny rather than social relation.
Bioessentialism is exactly like what “how to live an antifascist life” argues against, it makes biology into a kind of law or limit that cannot be transgressed. “This is just natural” becomes an unchallengeable authority, shutting down experimentation and thus, change. Fascism historically relied heavily on appeals to “natural order”, this natural hierarchies, natural gender roles, natural racial categories.
When Assata Shakur made her pronouncement to the jury, she was critical when the top 1 percent had more money than 70 percent of the people.
70. Percent. In 1970s
French philosophers like Barthes, Saussure, Peirce talks about his, this is graduate semiotics. But these kids need it at five because their lives depend on understanding that language isn’t transparent, that signs are arbitrary and socially constructed, and that meaning is relational and contextual.
They can’t afford to wait until they’re PhD students to learn that the relationship between signifier and signified is unstable and manipulable.
Kids are so brilliant, and we disrespect them so.
In other news/loose, as credits bureaus get worse and worse these more private direct sources becomes more problematic but also profitable for the company.
The consumers will be screwed as per usual
It’s similar to when white liberals want to get rid of the southern state cause they voted for the fascist, not realizing how many poor Black folks are there too.
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We don’t have to agree together that every variant of Chinese food is the best of all possible foods, as long as we have the optic to also try each others food and then diss each other.
Oh sht. The possibilities are going to be so bad for so many kids.
So this is what Claude and Amazon is doing, speeding up the process of impending psychosis.
Actually, let me look up the SDK (is that what they still call it?) for making a meta display app lmao.
https://www.theverge.com/news/780943/meta-smart-glasses-developer-toolkit-ray-ban-display
since this will be the first popular mass media video embeded display, ill wager we will get a first reporting of porn and driving induced crashes within the year before 2026. especially in the winter time
How Foucauldian of them.
This absurdity of a passage shows the relationship between power, knowledge, and the production of criminality. The prosecution doesn’t need the “expert” to be right lmao, but instead, they need him to perform expertise. The white coat, the charts, the microscope, the technical language: these are the rituals that transform state violence into “criminal justice.” · Driving session initiated · Phone connected to power
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Or that all he does is only one thing and that is to pose in front of the mirror in one style. Lol.
Hi, I’m Wei. One thing I talk about a lot is s*x and specifically how it shapes our social fabric, how it intersects with power and taboo, and how it functions as a controlling force in our lives. It’s literally in my screen name and I believe it’s one of the most important subjects we can study, since it touches everything.
The bodies are the centers, and s*x are the levers.
I hate how so many of socially critical posts have a suggestion on the button askin if we are “interested this post” or not. Like dawg this is why I follow this brilliance.
By creating an environment where your body feels secure enough to be vulnerable. True intimacy happens when you move from “There’s a lion! Run!” to “I’m safe.” So managing stress, and in this case, safety, isn’t just good for your health but a vital essence for connection. This is one of the main reasons that living in current times messes with our libidos, stress is a constant break on your senses of safety. · Come as we are, by Emily Nagoski.
Your nervous system treats stress either it’s an incompetent boss or a getting a text from your new friend as same way it treats a lion: as a survival threat. When your brain is in fight-flight-freeze mode, sex becomes a low priority. Why? Because stress signals danger, and intimacy requires safety.
Sexual pleasure isn’t just about attraction or how your tongue works. It’s about completing the stress cycle and creating safety.
Soooooo one of my BFFs knows how crazy some stories I tell her gets, so whenever she’s in the company of people she’ll always be like Wei you’re on speaker phone, got my lil bro in the car. lol.
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Send those to the true revolutionaries.
I’m just a reader.
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