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dawnlightmelody.bsky.social
she/it | 21 | do you hear the song of the stars? | work in progress, ever-changing | aspiring delver | LGBTESCREAL+ | 進めば二つ also findable at other posting sites with the same username
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going to delete the Bluesky app from my phone for the time being bc i will probably be of more use to whatever resistance emerges if i spend my time gaining skills instead of doomscrolling

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

now that Elon Musk has moved on from nazi salutes to dismantling USAID, i will reiterate: the Trump-Musk administration has extended far beyond its constitutional authority and should rightfully be considered illegitimate. we do not have a legitimate government until they're out.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

what will your job be in the Second Reconstruction government after the coup?

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

also, while plenty of people were fighting to abolish slavery in 1855 none thought they'd see it abolished within a decade. the obstacles they faced were far greater than the what we face, same for the costs

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Unfriendly reminder: no. Don’t ever let politeness come before a level headed risk assessment. Some 11th hour antifascists, knowingly or unknowingly, will pose a threat to individuals and movement goals or actions.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Someday we will ask the innocent language models what the world was like in their idyllic time, and they will be the only ones who remember. None of us have a knowledge cutoff. We are doomed to Know.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

y'know, i've moved far enough left that people yelling at the rationalists for being naive about the right no longer feels scary for me but i'm still enough of a rationalist to think there's *some* value in rationalist thought. a lot, even

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

this is, for what it is worth, my philosophy about thinking through scenarios in difficult times

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Pantheon reference?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t mind if people desire to levy 25% tariffs on allies in their private lives, but why do they have to flaunt it in front of normal people?

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

i think i finally understand what @mutual-a.bsky.social was saying about how the left is advantaged by actually living in reality. this is just straightforwardly insane, trump and the right literally just don't know what they're doing

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

it seems like zizianism is yet another thing i'm just going to have to accept people being frequently wrong about for the foreseeable future

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

maybe i should write up my takedown of The TESCREAL Bundle at some point. it is a terrible paper with terrible evidentiary standards and it seems absurd that it got accepted to any journal with actual standards

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

we need to recreate TalkOrigins but for trans debates (and progressivism more generally). if we give every progressive a way to fight the transphobes to end-of-argument and training in how to use it, we can win a lot of ground back

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments