Jake

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he/they despondent communist wellington nz

Another piece which has sat on the backburner for some time (though this one more like 2-3 years than nearly a decade), I've wanted to finish this for awhile and with some prodding from comrades I finally got around to it. Towards or against national pessimism? How about both!

Condition, Terminal? Notes Toward and Against a Concept of National Pessimism

I have intended for some time to write this piece, to formalize ideas which have swirled in the æther since I started my first clumsy attempts at writing for a public audience. Some have been aband…

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when i was last in wellington, i took my father to the city to sea bridge. i asked him how they even made such a monument. he looked at me, with tears in his eyes, and said “we don’t know how to anymore.”

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She's only on screen in a few scenes, but the lady with the big glasses that kisses Robocop at the holiday party is one of the hottest women in the history of film

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I really should be going to the library more often man. They got all the weird shit I want in the research section and all for zero dollars 🧑‍🏫

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Marx's greatest strength and weakness as a writer is that when he has to pick between a banger and clarity he picks the banger. The unfortunate result is over a century of people arguing about what his bangers truly mean.

in my middle teens i lived in santiago de chile. it was the time of incipient fascism, goose stepping soldiers, the chicago boys, tin pot protests, policia w/machine guns trained at your waist as you walked past, slums on fire, and whispers of friends older siblings disappeared.

walter (🫴🏼🌞)@cucumber.bsky.social · 3y ago

a beautiful memory of a warm evening in buenos aires, upstairs in a large hall, dimly lit, wooden floors well worn, old and young people dancing, dressed to the nines, some even to the elevens, fun love & lust swirling, red wine and a demon on the bandoneon

Can the next labour government or whatever pls give the national library a billion dollars to digitize all its shit. I cannot afford to fly to wellington to read some shitty CPNZ membership list. Fucking KeyWiki should not be the most convenient online resource for researching left wing geezers