Trans*, queer, feminist, decolonial initiatives, progressive media festivals still using Telegram channels and Discord servers in 2026 to disseminate their content, "building communities". Mutual aid groups reluctantly sticking with WhatsApp. Still those who do know better, should know better, keep recommending BlueSky, keeping their X accounts.  Oh, c'mon!

Not to mention Instagram, where the above waste time in posting selfies for beating the algorithm, obfuscating trigger words to avoid their content being shaded, policed, accounts getting suspended.

Oi gurl!   It's the encompassing capitalist realism, there's no alternative, hardly anyone uses Fedi platforms …

Feckin' tired of addressing these issues every time I bump into a new group, being that trans* political activist troublemaker making an ass out of herself   

#trans #queer #feminism #capitalistrealism #platformcapitalism #politicalactivism

"#Culturalstudies — even music and arts journalism more broadly — had an unfortunate tendency to treat cultural artefacts like the capitalist elite, perhaps not consciously but certainly as a result of their pervasive influence. In this sense, #ChildrenOfMen becomes a hyperbolic rendering of the present, and so #Fisher puts it back to work on us, presenting "#capitalistrealism" — the belief that the end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of capitalism — immediately as a #symptomatology of the late capitalist condition, excavated from its own cultural offerings."

https://thequietus.com/culture/books/matt-colquhoun-egress-mark-fisher-hauntology-essay/

"Shifty is Curtis at his most atmospheric, even surrealist. Getting lost in his late-capitalist video collages can feel like a shot to the heart, which is one way of saying his work often resembles the wild detours of Guy Debord and his Dada forebears. While the occasional titles describe what is happening, they feel more like bookends than breadcrumbs.
(...)
His new five-part documentary is a kind of fairy-tale fever dream of capitalist realism, whose broad contours will be familiar to readers of Mark Fisher and Jacobin. The story begins with the earthquake of Thatcherism. We watch as the Iron Lady attempts to conjure national cohesion from a make-believe version of Britain’s imperial past, even as she elevates self-interest and private ambition to the level of civic virtue. What follows is a slow-motion fragmentation: scandals metastasize into generalized social paranoia, sensationalist media narratives erode institutional trust, and liberal elites, feeling betrayed by the newly Tory-voting working classes, retreat into the cultural capital of biennales, book prizes, and conceptual art. Industrial infrastructure is sold off for pennies on the pound as the government hands the reins of interest rates to unelected bankers. Unemployment, skinheads, check-cashing stores, and Netto discount supermarkets sprout like wild thyme across the English heather. Politicians end up believing the worst about themselves and begin abdicating responsibility. A cash-strapped Gordon Brown attempts early versions of public-private partnerships, indebting the government to private finance for the very services it had only just recently provided. In the background are the twin engines of finance and technology: unaccountable, placeless, and entirely prepared to occupy the vacuum left by political withdrawal."

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/adam-curtis-y2k-blair-mcqueen

#UK #Neoliberalism #Thatcher #Blair #Y2K #LateStageCapitalism #Austerity #CapitalistRealism