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#Astrophysics PhD student, solar science. Leftist, anti-fascist. #astrophotography #photography. He/him. Modern Luddite. Absolutely no genAI.
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I am absolutely proud to say without hesitation punch every Nazi you can. The violence of the oppressor is never equal to the violence of the oppressed. 2 good books to read on this are “Antifa” by Mark Bray and “Philosophy of Antifascism” by Devin Shaw. They make the arguments in detail.

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George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

CPAC is going to encourage some very real Nazis in your life to test drive some very real Nazi things coming up. Your friends at Pride Was A Riot, Sac want to remind you that if you witness someone giving a “Sig Heil”, the correct response should be direct, visceral and unrelenting. That is all.

The only ethical use case for chatgpt

Just saw that Musk announced all federal employees have received it will receive an email asking them to report on what they have done in the last week. Failure to respond will be seen as resignation. Two things 1) malicious compliance 2) chatgpt was born for this.

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

The USPS is a genuine world wonder, one of the most incredible things ever created by humans.

Im tied to a chair in some damp basement somewhere in the american midwest. The cop slides another Meta Neuroreader headset on me. I immediately fry it by visualizing Karl Franz's warhammer wiki page in a weaponized shotgun blast of autism, wasting $12,000. This is the third time I've done this.

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

The Star Wars prequels are turning out to be prescient in a lot of ways. Not just the whole fascist takeover from within… but the fact that the people who were supposed to be protecting the galaxy had become so rigid, insular and detached that they were easily overthrown.

How is this guy a billionaire?

I'm supposed to fly to California in week...

Union Square rally.

This is why there’s been so much silence as Black history and Black books are being purged, and integration efforts dismantled. Many Democrats think the purges are valid and necessary. “Candidly, the attack on over-the-top wokeism was a valid attack."

Oh.

Coup Day 28: Where we at? It isn't good. Most federal/executive agencies seem to be set on compliance. We've lost/are losing probationary employees - one assumes that's just a start. Confirmations of criminals & con men flew through congress. Folks working towards equity were targeted, wide net.

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

The least I expect of universities. And low confidence they will meet it.

The university that declares “We are not throwing trans kids under the bus, we are not ending diversity and inclusiveness efforts, and we are not opening our doors to ICE agents” would not only be uniquely heroic but would be doing some strong branding work on the cheap.

1. Yes, this is some weird shit. 2. He’s getting ready to do something really fucking illegal.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Everything is so chaotic right now because every single policy decision or debate that has occurred over the past 130 years is suddenly being relitigated--the entirety of settled US laws & procedures are threatened--all at once.

Devastating. 🤬 nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi...

Diversity Hurts No One

The thing about this stuff, much like what we saw with Luigi Mangione, is that this is what happens when more and more people begin to realize that consequences (like laws) are an arbitrarily applied social construct. If you don't give people anything else to work with, then this is what you get

1/ THIS IS ENRAGING MD National Guard don't march in Frederick Douglass parade b/c of (a cowardly interpretation of) Trump's re-segregation policies. My dad lived in this neck of the woods so lemme lay some facts on this situation.

The thing is, fascists endlessly called everyone slurs while promising to rape and murder us, and no one gave a shit, but anarchists propagated some sharp language to demand more moral responsibility from folks, and hundreds of millions promptly convulsed in outrage about "woke."

"They want you to resist so they can fire you" bro they are going to anyways, TAKE A FUCKING STAND.

You guys need to wise up, you’re not dealing with conservatives or libertarians trying to implement conservative or libertarian policies. You are dealing with fascists trying to destroy the idea of the truth and replace it with the exercise of power.

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

It is early days in this fascist regime, and I understand it is tempting to make these compromises. Don't. This is exactly the sort of thing that is worth losing all those jobs over. Every one of these is a test. What can they get away with. where will people fold. Don't fold.

I like it.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Great 🧵. It is clear now that our existing systems, and the people in them, are not up to the task of resisting anti-democratic, anti-people forces. They are artifacts of a different time. We need something completely new.