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February: 2 books completed. Both started some time ago.

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I'm going to make a thread of all my cover to cover book reads for this year by month. Read and lot of articles and book sections for my masters in January but no cover-to-cover completions.

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I keep changing my mind of what graduate studies to pursue. Now comparative literature has peaked my interest.

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“poetry / isn’t revolution but a way of knowing / why it must come” – Adrienne Rich, Dreamwood

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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“The economic dictatorship of monopolies and the political dictatorship of the totalitarian state are the outgrowth of the same social objectives and the directors of both have the presumption to try to reduce all the countless expressions of social life to the mechanical tempo of the machine…”

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“The universe itself can be called a myth, since bodies and material objects are apparent in it, while souls and intellects are concealed.” (Sallustius, Περὶ θεῶν καὶ κόσμου, 3)

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I love churches, parks, and libraries. Places brimming with anarchy.

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Is there such thing as a writer’s high? Because I think I felt it wrapping up a chapter of my master’s thesis tonight!

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Under the Moonlight, Indonesian documentary film by Tonny Trimarsanto, earned Best Long Documentary at Festival Film Indonesia 2024. Recently, it won the Best LGBT Film at Stockholm City Film Festival 2025. It portrays the life of trans community at Al-Fatah Islamic Boarding School in Yogyakarta.

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Does anyone else find double-space formatting annoying and maybe kind of childish?

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Working with anarchist theorists is great because all and I mean ALL of their works have a free to access pdf online somewhere. Refreshing.

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Thank God, the horror stories I’ve already heard from the first moments of that order where bad enough. We must fight for our trans siblings, our incarcerated siblings.

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“All philosophers must surrender to the poet when they arrive at the end of their intellectual exploration. Only the universe that the poet intuits far above the common senses is the true metaphysical reality.” ~ Sakutaro Hagiwara

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Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

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I just wrote a concluding paragraph for my masters thesis (no it’s not done yet) and it’s a bit sappy so idk it’ll probably need to be edited but 10/10 one of the most fun things I’ve written.

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I feel like China hasn’t even rolled up its sleeves yet for economic warfare. As it seems that’s what Trump wants.

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Some working class activism from my little hometown that I didn’t know about. Pretty cool. www.ibew.org/media-center...

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Here is the whole sermon by Bishop Mariann Budde today, which is worth hearing in full. ⚓️ youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?...

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This is the way

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RIP

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I bet this has correlation with Xiaohongshu being the sorta “hub” for pop Chinese feminism. Healthy feminism is male liberation!

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“kenosis is a matter of humanity gained not divinity lost.” - Han-luen Kantzer Komline

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I learned growing up that “liberty” for much of the right is ability to impose their own petit fascisme in the private sphere.

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"The real scandal of the gospel is this: humanity's salvation is revealed in the cross of the condemned criminal Jesus, and humanity's salvation is available only through our solidarity with the crucified people in our midst." -James Cone

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You don’t have to like TikTok to see that banning it very bad for freedom of speech in this country. If legislators were interested in user’s information privacy they would increase regulation across the social media sector. That’s not what his is about.

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TikTok is being banned because it allows young Americans to spread ideas contrary to what’s allowed by gov and corp elites. And it infringes on an American corporate monopoly on selling and manipulating user’s personal data. Meta is lobbying hard for this ban. Capitalism hates competition.

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Kinda crazy how a social media i was reeeeeally excited to join before I turned thirteen is now the second biggest facism purveyor online

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