Notices by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (wednesday@ni.hil.ist), page 3

@efjbgc

i don't mean this in a critical way but just as a general question: do you think the entire concept of a ‘gun club’ reifies the attitude you're objecting to here? like... could we imagine a way to do what a gun club does without making it specifically about guns? are people already doing this?

“Though it seems paradoxical, in the end it is a common occurrence for a colonized people to imitate the colonizer even as they rebel against him, such that a movement for freedom from a specifically statist oppression becomes a reproduction of state authority.” (Gelderloos)

if a "death cult" means accepting that death is natural and necessary, perhaps i *am* part of a death cult.

didn't Edelman already teach us that the "death drive" is something to be embraced, not suppressed in the name of futurism?

@eris

maybe a different way to look at it: 'fedi' is not a unified or coherent thing which can 'have' anything (like a paedo problem or whatever). it's a collection of disparate people participating in a loosely affiliated network and naturally reflects society, so if society has a paedo problem, then fedi will have a paedo problem, but that's not an attribute of fedi specifically.

or to put it another way: does it make sense to say that 'email has a paedo problem' or 'postal mail has a paedo problem'?

(i'm not sure this analogy entirely works because fedi is much less used than email and has a particular bias in its demographics, but in principle...)

@eris

with all this heat and water around, imagine how many new economic opportunities will be created in the steam power industry

She is the Void, she is the All, she is - Ezra Buckley

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ezra-buckley-she-is-the-void-she-is-the-all-she-is

@eris

furthermore,

@exiliaex @eris

based drama

@madelainetaylor

the culmination of many years of effort by The Guardian to delegitimise trans people in public perception...

@Stoat @madelainetaylor

that doesn't surprise me, i never believed Lewis's protestations that she was an innocent journalist being harassed by trans activists for no reason

but the Guardian under its current editorship (Katharine Viner) has abandoned all pretence and gone all in with the anti-trans 'feminist' angle