Frankestein's monster 🧟 (averysoftno)
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graduate student focusing on epistemic justice • anti-capitalist retail manager • equal parts October and whimsy • high intelligence, max charisma, negative wisdom • rolls dexterity with disadvantage • she/they • 🇨🇦🫐🇳🇱🏳️🌈 • St. John's, Ktaqmkuk
Anyway, once again I pitch my idea for a national customer service job corps. Everyone needs to do one of the jobs that comprises most of our consumer based economy before they’re allowed to have any other job. Sliding scale of privilege. The wealthier you are the longer your tour of duty.
I'm going to be on The Signal with Adam Walsh tomorrow to talk about the climate project I've been working on the past year. Tune in and check out www.climac.ca to see what we've been working on and how to contribute to the project.
If no one's in my corner, since everyone left, I better make it worth it.
I just want to sell out my funeral. I just want to be enough for everyone. (Know I fought until the lights were gone.)
He is inches away from endorsing trigger warnings for white men reading job listings
So when my vocal chords rip, when my knees give in, when I bury all of this, who's gonna give a shit if I'm breathing?
I have an ex-boyfriend who’s so mad right now, and that makes this so much better for me personally
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals." buff.ly/oR5kV77
Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?
“You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practi...
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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
my brain when I’m trying to sleep or go somewhere important:
The Princess Bride (1987)@princessbride1987.bsky.social · last wk.What hideous sin have you committed lately?
billionaires bought the news and this is what we get.
Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · last wk.Oh it's a *discourse* discourse
We need a genuinely minuscule fee for corporate internet usage that will fund the folks doing this, because the PHP vulnerability crisis is throwing the XKCD comic into sharp relief. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
I wonder how you solve the problem of scholarship on topics like feminism, queer liberation, racial justice etc. being stripped of all their context and meaning, and repurposed as buzzwords to hurl at each other in online arguments designed to determine whose media consumption is the most virtuous.
Kaban!@kaban.bsky.social · last wk.A forgotten classic
Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.
Apparently I’m making a thread of why letting rich people decide priorities instead of taxing them so our electeds get to make society’s choice is Real Bad bsky.app/profile/jenl...
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · last wk.Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
did you just flash your stupidly bright headlights at me, or was there a bump that your stupidly tall car can barely handle?
Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · last wk.playing my favorite game: are your headlights brighter, is your car stupid tall, or both?
Dating over 30 should go something like„hey I like you and if that‘s mutual we should have dinner and sex in whatever order and eventually figure out how we fit into each other‘s impossibly full adult lives“ and instead we came up with 12 different dating apps and whatever a „situationship“ is
it's understandable to think of constructive debate as an ideal and then to figure that *any* debate is therefore a step towards political values and virtues. but I think most debates, particularly in the social media age, make conversations and outlooks worse than where they started
Alex Says Stuff@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · last wk.The fetishisation of "debate" as some sort of grand public good that everyone should do is so thoughtless and jarring to me because the more you actually do it the more it becomes apparent that genuinely constructive debate is actually a pretty niche thing.
I'm feeling worn, feeling threadbare, like the sleeves of my sweater, and I watch the light grow thinner and disappear.
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
You can skip the gender metaphysics debate entirely if you say, "I don't care about that. I care about the material consequences trans people experience for living the way they want to," and then hammer the point home that no amount of gender metaphysics can ever justify transfemicide.
YOU - “What is this feeling?” SHIVERS - THERE IS A HOLE IN MY HEART.
This is a good reminder that after all of the separatism mania hopefully dies down when the vote fails ... these people will turn their attention back to other crazy bigotry. And yes, that include Danielle Smith's government too. Expect the anti-trans book bans etc. to kick back into high gear.
The Watchdog@thewatchdog.ca · 2w agoOn eve of Alberta referendum vote, separatist leader alleges ‘cover up’ in deadly CFB Wainwright tragedy Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath makes unsubstantiated claims that ‘DEI programs’ and ‘gender fluid’ soldiers may be to blame in CFB Wainwright tragedy
I really hope someone will study the Alberta separatist movement as an example of entirely fabricated & manipulated public opinion now that it went 75-25 against even asking the question.
there's a lot to this even in many FT/TT jobs (now vanishing) your real intellectual community are people you see once a year at a conference; perhaps your employer pays for you to attend and perhaps not your job itself is a constant effort to prove to your "institution" that your job should exist
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w agoThe other thing that is missing here is that the turn to online platforms among millennial humanities academics isn’t all about declining opportunities in the academy; it’s also about the rupturing of the possibilities for intellectual camaraderie within the neoliberal university.
