Elroy G. Biv 🍏
@elroygbiv.bsky.social
Artist / Writer / Musician Can you see the fnords? ⬟ ⬟ ⬟ ⬟ ⬟ Art on IG: @elroygbiv23 Music (w/ To Threes): https://tothrees.bandcamp.com/
Zionism is genocidal and opposition to Zionism isn't "discrimination," what total absurdity. Establishment liberal mouthpieces like Monbiot continue to hold far too much influence over people who should know better.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d ago“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.
Freedom includes the autonomy to make bad decisions and be stupid. State prohibition on anything, whether it be guns, drugs, smoking, "misinformation," abortion, etc. is petty authoritarianism & only a fool would trust the government to make decisions for them.
Don't ask an LLM how to vote. Ask me instead (and I'll tell you not to).
Disco Gnostic@mazov.bsky.social · 6d agoBabe, wake up. Fresh horrors just dropped.
The systematic erasure of smoking through bans, taxes, etc. is symptomatic of a larger spiritual sickness infecting modernity, namely the sterilization and mechanization of every part of life. I'm maybe like 15% joking.
Netanyahu is a vile, blood-soaked monster. But he is a symptom. The illness is Israel itself: inherently a genocidally violent, racist, settler-colonial project based on ethnic cleansing, imperialism, & white supremacy. Don't let Netanyahu be an alibi for Israel or Zionism.
Imagine if you could hear trees loudly slurping up water through their roots. Walks in the forest would not be as peaceful
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New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
its actively harmful to the culture at large to insist that one should bonsai their preferences to within moral parameters. art is what makes us human, fucked up art is as much of that humanity as anything else. uniqueness of vision is what makes great art great, that cannot ever be substituted.
i actually think its fine to enjoy the art of someone you find repulsive, if (big if) you are actively engaging critically with the art, which you ought to be doing anyway. mishima could not have written mishima without being mishima. bad people make great art, it's important to acknowledge that.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last mo.You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.
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by making an assumption you make an ass out of u and mption
I guarantee you that the apparatus of government and law enforcement does more damage than whatever you want regulated or outlawed.
The systematic erasure of smoking through bans, taxes, etc. is symptomatic of a larger spiritual sickness infecting modernity, namely the sterilization and mechanization of every part of life. I'm maybe like 15% joking.
democratic socialism is when you defend police shootings
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last mo.
Incidentally, this idea of matter as ontologically primary to consciousness has taken on the character of a religious dogma in the modern world, due to principles that arise during the Scientific Revolution as useful tools running completely amok beyond all rationality & trying to devour philosophy.
Elroy G. Biv 🍏@elroygbiv.bsky.social · last mo.Perception is the source of all knowledge. Existence has never been known without perception. The "hard problem of consciousness" only exists because of the assumption that matter, only ever appearing as an element of conscious experience, is ontologically primary and dualistically "produces" mind.
Perception is the source of all knowledge. Existence has never been known without perception. The "hard problem of consciousness" only exists because of the assumption that matter, only ever appearing as an element of conscious experience, is ontologically primary and dualistically "produces" mind.
Every so-called mechanistic explanation of behavior & evolutionary biology relies implicitly on the existence of free will "Pain exists as an unpleasant sensation to disincentivize actions that are damaging to the organism" presumes the organism can choose to avoid or not avoid certain actions.
This is every politician (local politicians just play this game on a smaller scale).
C.V. Danes@cv-danes.com · 7mo agoChuck's job is not to be a revolutionary hero. Chuck's job is to keep the machine going so his rich donors can keep making bank and attend their social galas where they can dress up and pretend to care about the social ills they feed off of. And that's a job he knows very well.
I’ve always hated Google Maps. I like MapQuest and use it most of the time even before this. It reminds me of the times when I used to have to print out directions for trips. I think we should rename the lake this btw…
This is absolutely no different than the logic of “someone is going to win the presidency anyway so you should vote for the ‘lesser evil’” lol
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · last mo.The rationale behind the move is that since new illegal settlements will likely be built in the West Bank, it’s apparently preferable to populate them with leftists rather than right-wing settlers
