posting whatever is keeping me regulated in this fresh hell. art is my day job, barely literate in any kind of code but learning. I have giant dogs and little finches.
#baltimore #plantedtanks #smallweb
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https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/anonymity-gender-and-facebook-group-hell/ Dog group internet drama and why it's nice to not have to *do* gender on the internet
Reuters put an absolutely bonkers amount of production and design effort into this story explaining what cozy games are.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/VIDEO-GAMES/MENTAL-HEALTH/akpeewkqgpr/
Wrote my first blog post in 20 years. I'm rusty.
"I think sobriety-only spaces do still serve a purpose, but I find myself needing the support of people who understand how shitty it is to have an addicted brain that cannot just let life be on its own terms in a time of peace, much less the hell we are in now. Nothing will be the same. Now what?"
https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/sobriety-outside-issues-and-hell/
I want to get healthier as our healthcare infrastructure gets worse and worse (my immunodeficiency requires lifestyle changes to help my system as much as possible).
I want to help my friends and neighbors with extra childcare support. I want to help you help your dog friend be less scared. I want to grow & share food.
I want my nervous system to move out of this freeze state so I can do things that better the world. I want to hear from other people committed to TRYING when dooming is easier.
And: I am pretty committed to doing the most I can in #collapse (the boring, non-apocalyptic kind of slowly eroding democracy) to help myself and others. I think we have to actually live the lives we are fighting for.
I want to hear about agency - that's how I stumbled into the #indieweb. I am really well-informed about what I can't control. I am interested in learning more about what I can, and what you are doing.
Ok I'm making a new intro post to try to find more of "my" people out here.
I like the #indieweb, #aquarium keeping, #printmaking and other #art, I'm in #arteducation in various capacities (higher ed, hospitals, schools), force-free #dogtraining and #americanhistory (esp the #civilwar).
I am moving to #baltimore in two weeks after years of planning and trying to make friends :) Social and outdoorsy. #sober and a little #woo after #longcovid recovery.
𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞
Boosts appreciated greatly!
Calling any and all fedi folks who live in #Ohio or know someone who does! Our lawmakers here are trying to take away our #publiclibrary funding, and amidst so much cultural and scientific loss, I just can't handle this happening, too. Please help spread the word. Details and how to contact your reps:
https://www.moonbeammultimedia.com/posts/urgent-call-to-action-protect-ohios-public-library-fund/
"I think that my assumption was a triumphalism and a sense of victory after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the fact that the week of the Berlin Wall falling, they were already talking about new enemies —enemies that had gone underground in certain ways or transformed in ways that were elusive — was the beginning of the rabbit hole. Because once you accept the idea that Marxism and socialism have survived and yet have changed their face, then anything can be Marxism and socialism.
I think this is how we can understand the fixation of the right wing on things like what they call “cultural Marxism” or “gender ideology” as essentially the new enemy of humanity. Because the adversary continuously changes shape, it makes them open to endless reinterpretation. There is a paranoid quality to the term. And the paranoia doesn’t really have any bounds, as I show in the book.
So I think the narrative arc comes from a feeling on the part of the libertarians, and often the racist libertarians, that they can contain their enemy in new ways by pinning it down on hierarchies of intelligence or deploying the latest findings from genetics. But by the end of the book, with a chapter on “gold bugs” and the far-right obsession with gold, there’s almost a sense of desperation or surrender to the inevitable, a failure to contain their enemies and the idea of an impending collapse and inevitable apocalypse.
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What I recognize is a sort of desperation and a kind of ungoverned willingness to reach for radical remedies in a time of great peril. And as I described in the last chapter, often the rhetorical technique of the gold bug is to predict a coming apocalypse and then immediately sell you the only means there is to protect you from the worst.
I think there’s that accelerationism visible right now on the far right, certainly in the United States."
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/race-science-neoliberalism-hayek-slobodian/
#Neoliberalism #Hayek #PseudoScience #Accelerationism #Libertarianism #RaceScience #PseudoScience #Ideology
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