this is literally 1984

Since Americans are losing more jets and weapons faster than they can rebuild that means it is more imperative now to disturb and destroy local factories producing such things, right? Workers of the West will do that to stop this carnage, yes?

Y'all in the middle states for the munitions and manufacturing. Us on the coasts for the tech and shipping.

This is why the British government went so hard against the Palestine Action protestors who broke in and disrupted a weapons factory in Scotland btw. Western governments know they cannot continue their imperial project without these factories and shipping facilities.

To be clear, I'm not saying this to discourage anyone from taking action. I'm saying this is evidence that weapons factories and shipping facilities are vital to continuing the western imperial project.

the enormous man who stands across the street from my apartment with the long bony fingers and bloodshot eyes and too wide smile seems like he's just phoning it in this month. his smile was almost normal width last saturday honestly. i taped a single lexapro to the lamppost and left it for him and it was gone in the morning. i hope it helps. you never know what someone else is going through #kind

check out my substack article on why some gay men find m/m pairings strangely alluring - and the psychological reasons behind this behaviour

when i wake up remind me to make a post about the lack of blood in utena and what it means to have a world where suffering can only be beautiful or hidden

oh i guess i should also add in contrast to the performative, beautiful violence of watching roses blow away on the breeze is the very real violence hidden at the center of the story: anthy, trapped by hundreds of swords piercing her, rendering her unable to move. violence against anthy is the mechanism that keeps the whole performance spinning, so that duels can be about flowers

I kind of hate how conversations about environmental and labor problems with things that fit into the broad category of "merch" never get into practical ethical alternatives.

like screenprinting on secondhand shirts for your band tees or whatever seems to be getting to be more common. what else can we do in this vein? What can we do locally? are there print shops and embroidery machine shops near us that can make shirts and patches that don't need the fuel expenditure of long distance shipping, whose workers are covered by the same labor laws we are? Maybe there's a union print shop near you. what can we do with our own hands? can we block print stickers or find a riso to print them on instead of using a print to order service? Can we do bottlecap buttons? Labor issues with plushies get discussed a lot; I don't think "soft toys are bourgeois decadence" necessarily has to be the one and only answer here - what can we do instead of send a plush pattern off to a sweatshop? Perhaps you could sell your fans a sewing/knitting/crochet pattern to make their own plush. Maybe you could sell a simple little two-piece cut-and-sew kit. perhaps that could also be screenprinted on secondhand fabric. Presently the prevailing opinion is that the less polished look of all this would be unprofessional; for the sake of our planet and our fellow workers, could we reject the idea that it's desirable to look professional?

KEEP PROTESTING AND KEEP MOBILIZING. IT WORKS. IT IS NOT HOPELESS AND IT WORKS.