the wood wide web

social media is an experiment by the US government to make the population hate art by having operatives calling themselves artists be the most annoying people in recorded human history

in the early 21st-century, the “small business” was a sort of small temple run by a local warlord. Patrons could purchase small trinkets and be granted absolution for the sins of their empire. This was called “ethical consumption.”

reminder that diy hrt is not only objectively safe, but in a deeply transphobic world, is imperative to the safety and longevity of trans people.

what world do people imagine their fursonae exist inside of. I love how undefined it is. some people are like "this is my sona Hryàxe, a hybrid dragon with ice powers who has been alive through three astral ages and toppled many kingdoms of men" and someone else is like "this is my sona he's an arctic fox named blurt and hes a barista in Toronto who loves to play mahjong." And then blurt and hryàxe are lovingly having sex on a tropical beach somewhere. and I'm like how'd they get to the beach

can we kill Charlie kirk again that would just really cheer me up

computing technology has led to a marked increase in the efficiency of productive labour performed by many workers—under socialized control of the means of production this could significantly improve the quality of life of the masses, but under capitalism it only allows the bourgeoisie to appropriate an amazing digital surplus

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

genuinely the most bizarre anticommunist argument is when they start examining the moral character or qualities of MARX. like what’s the logic here, what…

do they think marxism is when you really like marx on a personal level