Notices by Bike Shed (bikeshed@503junk.house)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izRdYrEEnfY

BREAKING: In his final Presidential Act, Joe Biden declares America "Over."

When asked to explain he said "Listen here Jack, we're packing it up. It's done. This is a vast expanse of land that nobody is in control of. Do what you want, don't hurt anybody."

my room is quite dark and I want to get more sunlight into it. I feel this is possible by some sort of mirrored reflector hung outside the window. there's a company called Especial from France https://www.espaciel.com/en/reflectors/9-window-reflector.html that makes what I'm thinking of. has anybody seen something to make this at home? or is it as simple as "mount a mirror outside your window dummy"

the thing that appeals to and convinces these men who walk down the right wing masculinity pipeline is not some sort of generic "be tough and strong" message that can be replicated from the left, it is " women owe you sex and free labor"

Relb: Misogyny and patriarchy are constitutive forces of the global reaction and if a politics that purports to be liberationist doesn't integrate this understanding, it's useless or harmful

thinking particularly of all the hand-wringing from some leftists about the need for a leftist masculinity without understanding that the aspect of the right's masculinity that appeals to people is the power over women

every minute you slack at work is a raise you've given to yourself

wellness weirdoes will be like "soy is bad for you" and you ask them why and they go "it has too much gay in it"

copyright is the death of free culture

a little chumbawamba song to listen to as Assad falls :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifq7dTUjonc&t=38

the vast gulf between "Donald Trump is a fascist" and "in 2 years we'll whip him in the midterms" is appalling. the options that follow are that the center left never believed the first statement to be true, that they are delusional, or that they're strategic insights are completely worthless

"punish your reliable voters to win over others" is such obviously bad political advice that anyone peddling it should take a step and think about why someone might want them to think that.

Democrats are master political strategists. that's why voting for them at rates that seem like a one party system, as queer/trans people do, is rewarded by immediate capitulation to right wing, reactionary framing and demands on our struggles and issues.

Democrats in 1933: Wow! Voters sure are concerned about the purity of the Aryan race. We better move on this issue to capture Strasserist NSDAP votes :)

the thing is that I think things are going to be markedly worse this time. 1. liberalism appears increasingly exhausted 2. many of the institutions within the state that opposed trumpism have been weakened, captured, or removed. 3 trump has continued to significantly shift the Republican party into one with overt white nationalist and fascist members (of course ghouls like Stephen Miller are still there too). 4. patriarchal fascism has proven popular amongst young men as a whole

fascinating discussions of punk happening on tumblr.com by maoists

Cis women who don't conform wholesale to the regressive terfist/GC redefinition of womanhood are the collateral damage of terfs desire to eliminate trans women and trans people generally

relb: if Israel has lost Germany then it's really over for them

the Lavender AI, and AI military tech in general is the latest way to try to absolve the soldier of guilt or culpability for mass killing. "We were just following orders" becomes "we were just trusting the statistical model/algorithm/AI"

Vegan food culture is so funny because for decades you have this conception that vegan food isn't very good or can't replicate meat-based foods but it turns out that the actual problem was that too many of the vegan cooks were into health food