rhetoric hashira

@tumblesweed.bsky.social

probably baking bread. i've been online since dial up. still cc. ex-academic rhetoric and writing phd. mixed white-privileged yoeme diaspora "pretendian." child of the watch. stone and sky.

"it has a very dark history. During World War II, when the Axis Powers occupied Greece, the Nazis used the narrative that Germans are the purest living relatives of ancient Dorian Greeks and that modern Greeks are degenerate" whoa

so that an organizer won up against a machine and a shitton of money... that means something has shifted here too. Abdul didn't lose Detroit, per se, rather he went up against a community that rightly so doesn't trust easily and are focused on harm reduction. the work starts all over again, now.

I will say Detroit is really a "two things can be true" kinda town and that's what excites me and infuriates me. you will hear from national (and not local) folks analyzing what happened here but a local can tell you that this is 50+ years of inter-racial relations a play here.

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Selfie of Amir holding a phone with a shattered screen. He looks very saddened by the situation.Amir's mother sleeping on a hospital bed. She's wearing a patch on her right eye. An IV drip is hanging above her head and is connected to her right wrist.

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Elias on his father's knees at the doctor's for an eye examination

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You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

kind of wild that none of the people who othered abdul's supporters as foaming at the mouth DSAers who've never talked to a black person, etc, will ever reevaluate just how large a portion of the primary electorate they were smearing

You should be very concerned with an establishment candidate blowing 50 million dollars of pac money on a campaign only to bungle it by 15 points. Like we talk about why and how Kamala or Hillary lost and… motherfucker that’s how. These people fucking SUCK at their jobs

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

Dr. Manhattan on mars meme