I contributed a (very) short sci-fi story to this project - it sits alongside other stories, critical discussion, and writing prompts in a beautiful book that is available to download or order free. I am not in any sense a fiction writer but it was a really eye-opening way to engage afresh with the politics of abolition and I'd recommend anyone interested in sci-fi and/or radical politics takes a look. https://abolitionscifi.org/project-resources/
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What do I have to do to make this experience enjoyable?
fuck the police
Feel dumb as hell clicking on a big blue button that says "TOOT!" and I don't know if that feeling will ever go away.
Non-Canon Homophobic Neopets NPCKanye, Shakespeare or dril is an excellent party game, you get given a quote and have to guess which of them said it, which is actually pretty hard given that "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.", "Everything in the world is exactly the same.", and "There's actually zero difference between good and bad things." are a quote from each
I am now also @mediocredave
Been off here for a few days and it seems some drama has gone down with instances and now a lot of the accounts I follow have been abandoned. Can someone fill me in?
I'm entirely sensitive to people's desire to select and control the media they see but I think we can enable that autonomy without unconsciously succumbing to the liberal, disempowering idea that 'politics' is a discrete sphere of life, and the corresponding implication that other things are apolitical.
tl;dr:
1) 'politics' is not sufficient to allow people to navigate
2) 'politics' as a tag has ideological implications for what we think 'the political' is and how it works.
The expropriation of land in South Africa, the bizarre spectacle of Trump's administration, the function of antisemitism in British society, the technical details of the Brexit negotiations are all very different subjects with different stakes. Your followers might not want to see any of them, that's cool, but tagging them specifically rather than generically seems like a much more positive way to facilitate that navigation of the TL.