See my forthcoming, very cranky, work-in-progress poem / essay: "I Am [Not] a Zionist (and [so / neither] Are You)" Who benefits from these arguments? Fascists and crooks.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 7d ago

Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.

Sad fact about the justice system, in the US anyway: it's grounded in crimes against the (fundamentally patriarchal) social order: damage, theft, and rank violations. Guess where that puts rape, if there's no father or husband as plaintiff. Guess what the remedies are. 😒

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · last wk.

the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching

Always a good time for this - but some times are more always than others. Long overdue for a strategic alliance between humanism, humanitarianism, human rights work (embedded in ecology and humane ethics).

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 2w ago

Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.

Who would win in a contest between drag performers and marching band drummers for sheer irrepressible joy? Trick question: we win! We ALL win 💃🥁

We are in the "fugitive slave act" stage of the fight over Trans rights, which means defending Trans people and their rights is more important than ever.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

Pretty sure TOS answered the latter question definitively and almost immediately (by establishing there was no question about it).

Iain Clark But In The Fog@iainjclarkart.com · last mo.

#StarfleetAcademy explores the question of whether kids who have experienced generational trauma can heal and fulfil their potential, while #StrangeNewWorlds explores the equally important question "What if Spock was a disaster twink?" #StarTrek

Hahaha, well. At least I know it wasn't my novel. I abandoned it in 93 (though I didn't know it at the time), it was post-apocalyptic NOT dystopian (under-appreciated difference), I never submitted it to anyone, AND it wasn't stupid. (The back story was eerily prescient but whatever.)

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last mo.

I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.

I had some feelings to express about the "Woke 1" discourse.

Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious

Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.

organizingmythoughts.org

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Zeno of Elea: What if I told you that every cup is always half full AND half empty? 😎

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know

I don't know why this never gets stated clearly but there's no such thing as a "diversity hire" without the status quo "white supremacist hires".

No... I've come far enough in this life that I could live to 120 and never catch up even if I won the whole time. Let's find out!

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning

Me slowing to 1mph under the speed limit when tailgated:

Star Trek: Kira Nerys' Less Subtle Approach

Alt: Star Trek DS9, Kira Nerys in Ops, "All right," lifts and activates hand phaser, "Time for a less subtle approach," walks off.

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻@punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Me slowing to 1mph under the speed limit when tailgated:

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

awkword@awkword.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

The Jedi-Sith confrontation in Episode 6, mainly from the moment Skywalker Jr severs Sr's forearm to the moment Sr tosses the emperor into the abyss. I love watching each of them think to a conclusion, without dialogue or voiceover.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Name your fav scene from a Star Wars film.

M andate A gainst G iant A ssholes

In English, the foot is not part of the leg. In Hebrew, they are the same thing - although there are separate terms for thigh, shin and ankle (just not foot). Lending weight to the argument that the knee is hinge to the leg: in Hebrew, the knee and the elbow are the same thing (in different limbs).

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2mo ago

can't find premium content like this on threads i'll tell you that much

"the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity" Unmentioned in the article: the difference for farm workers between working in continuous sun vs moving shade.

Robb@robbj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Corrected link: energiesmedia.com/solar-panels...

We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis

A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.

theatlantic.com

A Note Regarding One Town "It was an okay day; it was a so-so day." "It is perhaps a better thing I do now than I have ever done, but not by much. It is perhaps a better rest I go to now than I have ever known, but if it were that good I literally couldn't say."

Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Downplay a book or movie: "Reasonable Expectations"

[uneasy] This is one clear exception to the "if everything, then nothing" rule. But if everything were (merely?) a social construct, that would seem to be insignificant.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

“If you find your imagination cannot stop itself from churning out the scripts of the Death Machines, pull its plug. Dismantle it. Reprogram it. Dream Daylight. Manufacture Daylight. We are the Magicians Make Magic.” - Krista Franklin

I haven't stopped! ...this time... Honest! ✋

ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs@killlthehype.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

I have no clue who needs to see this but start writing again.

Build a fence around the [sound] law.

Saul Aliasky (he/him/his)@saulvents.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Romance languages: "we will assimilate N to following I to produce Ñ/NH/GN" Gemara Aramaic: "Assimilate? Never!"

If I had to describe the heart and soul of Bluesky it would the following: a guy who didn’t actually read Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s Odyssey movie defending it against a guy who didn’t actually watch Nolan’s Odyssey movie

Principle over party; party over person.

This Is The Way Boba Fett Dancing

Alt: This is the way. (caption over an animated gif of a Boba Fett cosplayer, dancing solo in front of a mock-up of the entrance to the shield generator installation from Return of the Jedi)

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Become useless.

This short thread is a thing of beauty 🥹

Feh. This is an interesting thread, but this is a bad distillate. I'm not saying it doesn't work; I'm not even saying it isn't necessary. I'm saying that it can't be blessed. What was codified in this example, as writer acknowledges, was benefit for some at others' expense.

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In other words, social movements require accessing the levers of power, even if that means compromising on key principles, in order to codify change.

You have them; everyone does. We're just busy holding the universe together.

Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky)@ela-bambust.bsky.social · 3mo ago

like every normal adult, i check to make sure i don’t have force powers from time to time, just to make sure like imagine if i’d had them for the past 6 years but just hadn’t checked, you know? I’d feel so stupid