JA WestenbergYou can tell a guy has never actually read 1984 because he will not shut the fuck up about 1984.
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Open Culture (Official)Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line
Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. Thus spake designer Paul Rand, a man who knew something about making an impression, having created iconic logos for such immediately recognizable brands as ABC, IBM, and UPS.
some people never recover from being the smartest person in their high school and you can clock them immediately
Micro SF/F by O. WestinBefore the entrance to the superhero academy, the boys compared powers.
"What do you do?"
"Er..."
"C'mon, spill!"
"I can add pockets."
"Like, interdimensional?"
"No, just normal, usable pockets. To any garment, matching any material."
"What use is that?"
"If I can help anyone I'd be happy."
Elodie chaos 🐉🐝🏳️⚧️From the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook;
“The targeting of trans people - and specifically trans youth and trans women in sports - is not a policy agenda. It is a strategic operation. Understanding it as policy produces the wrong response. Understanding it as strategy produces the right one.
Jason Stanley, in How Fascism Works, identifies the targeting of vulnerable minorities as a core mechanism of authoritarian consolidation. The function is not primarily to harm the targeted group, though that harm is real and intentional. The primary function is to test the solidarity of potential opposition coalitions, to find and exploit the fracture lines, and to establish a precedent: that some members of the coalition can be sacrificed when the political cost of defending them is judged too high.
Every successful authoritarian project has done this. The question it is always asking of the opposition is: is there anyone in your coalition you will abandon to protect the rest? Because if the answer is yes, we know exactly how to proceed. We find that person. We make defending them as costly as possible. And we watch the rest of the coalition either hold together or fracture. If they fracture, we learn where the next fracture line is, and we push there.
The targeting of trans people is not the end of this strategy. It is the test. And what the test is measuring, in real time, is whether LGBTQ organizations, progressive coalitions, and pro-democracy movements will sacrifice their most vulnerable members when the pressure is sufficient.
Ruth MottramRE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116403496936316605
I credit the Private Eye subscription gifted to my father with single handedly unwinding the damage done by a spectatot subscription in previous years...