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diakena.bsky.social
Podcaster, writer, nurse (in training). Kierkegaardian-Trotskyist, MNUFC loon, Madison mingo. https://diakena.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
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Thanks to @diakena.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for having this conversation with August and I about our book comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in real-time! newbooksnetwork.com/the-communis...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I think a really important way to counter what's coming is IRL organizing. Being offline over the holidays and coming back, it is really jarring how much of social media is rage-baiting or resistance dooming. You can't build in these environments.

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

2024 reading in review open.substack.com/pub/diakena/...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

2024 in reading

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

despite living under enormous pressure whales very rarely give up hope

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I wrote about Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism and what it might tell us about the next four years in the US. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/11/whe-...

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

This is a great deal, although if you get the ebook you can't write 'So true bestie' next to all the passages that resonate with you

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

No cat and the book is old news but I do do author-interviews at the New Books Network, so maybe it's time to start linking new episodes here. Full interview list in the link below diakena.substack.com/p/nbn-podcas...

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Ty Atlanta United for doing the funniest thing imaginable

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

it's been a while, so i'll rate some more sums of money $38,820: a lot of money $100: nice and neat $0: uhhh ... is this thing on? $388: feels like more than it is when you say it out loud $0.09: you gotta be kidding me $7,402.61: now THAT is quite a chunk of change $5,000,020: sensational!

submitted 268 days ago • 41 comments

i can't wait until brands start their own accounts here. i want to interact with brands

submitted 288 days ago • 65 comments