me, three times today "im not gonna do the book engagement bait thing" me now "fuck ok"
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Vicky ACAB
@vickyacab.bsky.social
Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/ Read The Extended Universe! https://bookshop.org/a/5522/9798888903667 Referred to as "our own cunty Gramsci" and "Disney's worst fan" shitposting through the years of lead paint
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago
the point of contrived moral dilemmas like the trolley problem is to trick people into entertaining the thought of committing atrocities everything about these scenarios is imaginary and improbable and designed to make you accept bureaucratic murder as a banal inevitability
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 24h agoOne reason I don’t like the trolley problem is because are we supposing people can’t get out of the way
Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
One important aspect of this analysis of Backrooms is that @vickyacab.bsky.social recognizes the “colorblind” story that the movie set out to tell *as well as* the fevered nightmare of white consciousness that spins out alongside that story.
Anti-Blackrooms
In a white supremacist society, whiteness is unmarked, the default category of the human. To be white is to be a subject, a citizen, a member of society; to be non-white is to need to constantly prove...
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Welp, I had to write it myself
Anti-Blackrooms
Backrooms is a total representation of white anxiety, a fully formed nightmare about the very existence of visual incongruity, a demonstration that for many Americans disruption of the normal, visual ...
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Vicky ACAB@vickyacab.bsky.social · 5d agoHas... has anyone talked about how horrifically antiblack Backrooms is?
While it certainly wasn't the only factor, collective covid measures followed by a summer of major uprisings are a reminder of how terrified the gentry are of people realizing they can act and work together. They're pushing hard to erase the memory of that entire time period for a reason.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
A confirmed ICE vehicle that has been seen at at least 3 abductions was left parked on the street in Williamsburg for a few days. It received an NYC makeover: its side windows and windshield smashed, two tires flattened, and the message “ICE OUT” scrawled on the side. Pic sent in anon:
They want you to forget that you took care of yourselves and others im 2020 because they want you to be helpless and frightened in the face of the violence and robbery theyre doing
Im a more or less professional discourser! I love to discourse! But the first rule of doing cool shit club is you don't talk about doing cool shit, especially online. If you find this hard just do what I do: tell yourself you're saving it for the memoir lmao
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · 2d agoShould be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse
Should be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse
Astrid@astridsramblings.bsky.social · 2d agoOne final take: The people doing the hard yards of effective work, whether grassroots activism, legal work or lobbying, do not talk much on here about it. Because it’s difficult, exhausting interpretations are too bad faith, and the other side can see your posts. Bluesky is not the real world.
Shimaa is injured, starving, and homeless with her baby amid rubble, under bombardment and killer IDF drones. She's terrified for her little daughter, who's very sick & in hospital. They have no one else, please share & give to help them:
Help Shymaa and Sila
Hello friends, I am Shaima Al-Masry. Throughout my life, I have never asked for help from anyone, but the war on Gaza and on my city changed all of our lives. I used to work as an Arabic language teac...
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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 4d agoShaimaa and her little girl are breathing their last breath. They survived the bombing but lost everything. Suffering from hunger, they sleep on the streets and are in desperate need of a tent for shelter. Your support is their lifeline—the hope that keeps them alive. 💔 chuffed.org/project/1730...
A functioning link to preorder @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and my new edited book. Revolutionary science fiction stories!
profiterole-reads@profiterole-reads.bsky.social · 4d agoIt doesn't work for me, but this one does: bookshop.org/p/books/when...
Day 3, tree sit is still up ❤️🔥
Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 7d agoBREAKING: Tree sit goes up to stop border wall construction in Arizona. The action is reportedly the first tree sit in the U.S. aimed at stopping construction of a border barrier. Land defenders on the ground are asking people to show up and support.
British ppl have extremely fucked up ethnic takes about one another's accents but for my money Northern accents are the greatest and Yorkshire is tops
Paul Bronks@slendersherbet.bsky.social · 4d agoIn celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.
Govt has gotten so bad at anything other than punishment and political imaging that they've completely forgotten how to even coopt stuff to their advantage
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Has... has anyone talked about how horrifically antiblack Backrooms is?
Prepare to marvel: @vickyacab.bsky.social & @daniellamazzio.bsky.social are gonna be talking about Disney, market power, and copyright at Socialism. socialism2026.sched.com/event/2RijZ/...
Socialism 2026: The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed...
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"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
The Mouse is out of the bag: Extremely delighted to share that I'll be at this year's @socialismconference.org to talk w/ @vickyacab.bsky.social about her brilliant book, "The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World." Register! socialism2026.sched.com/event/2RijZ/...
Socialism Conference@socialismconference.org · 6d ago📣 Socialism 2026 Schedule is now live! 📣 Don’t miss this year’s Socialism Conference, Sept. 4 - 7 in Chicago: four days of panels, workshops, debates, activities, and entertainment with thousands of socialists, abolitionists, and organizers! Schedule here: socialismconference.org/2026-schedule/
Burning books in order to better burn the environment, total civilizational death drive
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7d agoDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
We’re back! In our latest, we speak with Vicky Osterweil @vickyacab.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s declaration of a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fatal cancer to civilization,” and a threat to “normal, healthy, ordered living.” www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...
Trump’s New Red Scare w/ Vicky Osterweil (07/27/26) | The Death Panel
Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as
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As long as you identify yourself directly and personally with the cultural objects you like you will find critique intolerable, regardless of the quality of the critique or the object
the solution to anthropic ripping up millions of books isnt more copyright by the way, theyre doing this Because of copyright
Unironically I’d just start blasting copyrighted music when they start yapping so they can’t monetize their content
Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
i think it's important for people to remember that puberty blockers *were* the "moderate, compromise" position.
This is grift final jeopardy, the singularity is theoretically the end of history and/ or the human world, this is a suitcase full of cash and a one way plane ticket type discourse
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.