timothyhucks.bsky.social
Facts are dead. Trying to bring 'em back. They call me The Danger. he/him
I don't care about any of you — I just want to make a better world for my cat. ✊🏿🌈
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We *all* will.
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You'll have all nuance broken down. You'll have silence. You'll have peace. You'll no longer be burdened by complication.
You'll have a world you can digest, one you find acceptable, with its rough edges hewn straight, & you will suffer for the lack of truth you live inside of.
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You will instead know a fraud taking information they did NOT gain through dedication, effort, travel, & a preservation of the past that's emotionally relevant to people living & dead or to their very culture, erasing that name from books, articles, & history to use as their own.
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It's a solipsistic presentation masquerading as the community-based endeavor research actually is. Many historians, for example, have lived through the periods of time they explore (though not always), & their insights are more valuable because of that, but you won't know them.
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Because they don't know the work, understand it, & can't confidently explain the conclusions, but because all that matters is the result, they don't value the very process of finding information yourself, sharing it with others, & refining what you don't know with what others do.
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People know you're supposed to put a neat little note to tell people where you got something from, but don't imagine it as an articulated chain of research encouraging scrutiny into what you have created by giving others access to the same information, and they're self-conscious.
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of course :D I'm waiting till the tone in here gets more saucy lol
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I remember that! it's like they had it then took it away
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hell yeah! Hi :D also, are DM's like, not a thing here?
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Melding your consciousness with people you know is tricky — attempting to do it with someone you don't is suicide.
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Hey! I guess I'm still kicking, but the vibe here is ... interesting
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That's why the answer wasn't to get rid of all of it ever, the answer was to "stay woke" — and people who would prefer to be sleeping aren't big fans of that.
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No.
When you use the bodies of other people as payment, you inextricably intertwine the social and the economic.
American capitalism is neutral(ish) but not really, as the fact that it was founded on these principles leads to their constant manifestation of themselves tending towards exploitation.
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Boo hoo, white boys — my entire life has been economically anxious lol
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I feel fucking EMPATHY for any outsider trying to navigate power in this country to fight for progress. Laughing off/ignoring jokes, casual harassment, eating shit, etc are the price of admission because the people who could stop it DON'T, bc it might make their cocktail parties awkward.
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Welcome! :)
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Reject the order. Build the ladder. Fight the Monster.
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It posits that experiences outside the margin, as defined by self, simply do not exist.
Because if it can't have cleanliness, it can't have order. And if it can't have order, it can't have peace. And if it can't have peace, it's gonna have to fucking kill what's disturbing it.
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It instead favors a hierarchical view of the world — one of neat, distinct categories that does *not* represent the world we live in.
In which ableism is not a structural ill, but momentary lapses of judgment or an errant word — not an attitude towards disability. Like racism.
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It's this I'd argue is the white supremacist shift: bad faith actors w/ no belief in the impact of words corrupt them, naive people of upper classes, willingly & not, believe that representation, while both agree the mentally marginalized can't be trusted to define themselves.
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There is no doubt it is the accurate posture to say that words have an impact & there is always work to be done in order to ensure we are according the most care with our language, but not to the point it regularly stigmatizes those with these conditions.
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Imagine how maddening it must be, not only to suffer various mental conditions, but to then have placed upon you the responsibility for representing them in a way most palatable to your audience, because lord knows that's how they manifest 😑
The sheer entitlement to even ask.
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Boxes of ableism so I know who the bad people are, even though many of the people using a word like, "crazy" are, in a very real sense, describing their *own* mental experiences with language available to them, & sometimes in language clearer than they were pathologized with.
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It is a mission to erase difference, & it's got many foot soldiers.
So you can't have ADHD or autism — "everybody feels like that!" You can't describe your trans experience in a way slightly deviant from others I've heard.
Even if I learn a new world, the new world NEEDS BOXES.
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Pursuing any irrational legislative act, any nonsensical form of rhetoric, co-opting any movement, diluting any word, appropriating any hair style/culture, killing any proposition to the benefit of others because of an ironclad commitment to a simple maxim: Protect the Monster.
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People who live on the favor of the world, slowly advancing w/ or w/o merit, online and off, and along the way, co-opting or corrupting the very language & structure lower rungs are meticulously piecing back together for what they think's God for a Monster Uppers know's a tyrant.
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Victimization often comes in the form of decrying "extra" privileges on account of disability.
Or in "care," as in, "We're doing this to 'care' for you," & to the credulous, offers a fig leaf of plausible deniability, though perceived neurotypical people don't receive such care.
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Now I know space is limited, I'm going to have to fight for it. And from there comes the victimhood.
Because the fact space is tight is not a mystery to those born w/o it, but with it. Which is why a majority of the victimization comes from those competing for the first time.
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Instead of a tower towards the light of God, each rung began only advocating for themselves in a new world that began w/ limitless potential & dazzling opportunities only to reveal itself for the resource-poor sham it was, & began brutalizing each other over an economy of space.
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After the internet came the activism. The groups people formed based on common experience, language, country, or interest — from K-Pop bands & animes, to arts & sciences, to racial & political solidarity — these coalesced into loose factions & at first sight of trouble, hardened.