Notices by your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)

did y'all know about the more than 200 PUBLIC DOMAIN chronicles and history books NASA has produced and has available for free?

NASA History Series - NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/nasa-history-series/

am on one of my geekette tangents and just columbused this magnificent collection. i hope someone, somewhere, has it mirrored before the Silicon Valley swine try to get rid of them.

#NASA #history #aeronautics

❝ What are you without racism? ❞

Toni Morrison's powerful words on racism
https://youtu.be/15MMmgwl1V4

#HappyBirthday #BlackHistoryMonth

Happy Birthday (spiritual and inspirational) Tití Toni!

❝… that was it for me… and i was not a young writer… but once i had begun it, there was nothing more important to me, except to mother my children…❞

Toni Morrison interview on "Love" (2003)
https://youtu.be/cYV2RGI3RHQ

#BlackHistoryMonth

AND WE GOT HAMMER'ED!

thank you @Taweret and the whole ass mess of monsterdonians for choosing this awesome entry into the Monsterdon canon. i guess we can't go wrong if it's a movie with Peter Cushing or Christoper Lee.

had a blast!

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

so, this movie is supposed to take place in 1910? so that's the end of the Edwardian era, that post-Victorian intermezzo prior to the WW1.

i've been kinda obsessed with this period, right up to 1939. 1925 was fucking wild, by the way.

anyways, 1910 and the Edwardian era are, for all intents and purposes, the official end of Queen Victoria's reign of conservative terror; and marks the beginning of the end of the House of Hapsburg.

it's fascinating.

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

it's an honor to be bitch-slapped by Sir Christopher Lee

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

maybe she wants him to take her away so she can continue her reign of terror elsewhere

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

these exteriors are absolutely claustrophobic. well done, set designer, well done.

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

seriously, white people will go into creepy buildings filled with all types of monsters, and at all times of the day and night, but won't fight fascists.

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

“winter freeze” is the cause of this recession.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-retail-sales-fall-sharply-january-2025-02-14/

after these hellish 3 weeks in Washington DC, with millions tens of millions of Americans affected by the #techbro and #griftocracy smash and grab of Americans livelihoods, it’s the weather the reason why Americans are not spending money.

sure.

that thing when you can't find your glasses because you can't see and need your glasses to find your glasses… that 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 thing

🗣 FUCK YEAH & THANK YOU 🥳 🥳 🥳

@MastodonEngineering

PS: the dissertation i didn’t get to write on Latin American neobaroque aesthetics ―from colonial times to then, the 1990s post-juntas years―, was gonna be me flexing post-structural hermeneutics based on the works of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari but especially 1990s up and coming scholars like Chakravorty-Spivak and Kosofsky-Sedwig. and that means i actually read Nietzsche, upon which a lot of their work is found.

all this to say, #deconstruction is absofuckinglutely my lane.

1. stop parroting the faux intellectualism of fascists. #deconstruction is an antifascist form of academic analysis. what they mean is destruction.

2. #EpistemicViolence is censorship of all kinds. it’s meant to create a false narrative of agreement.

3. like “Gulf of America” #EpistemologicalViolence is meant to completely change reality by destroying all social contracts.

recognize these forms of violence. violence isn’t only by guns. it’s always by ideology first and foremost. / 🧵

the whole point of #fascism is to force a worldview in which violence reigns supreme and only The Chosen get to wield violence, unchallenged, upon The Others.

b. EPISTEMOLOGICAL VIOLENCE is what fascists want to unleash thru the government: a very intentional twisting of reality to fit their worldview.

that’s why they’re obsessed with the #CDC ―it is entrusted with public health. fascists want it for realizing their #eugenics dreams of mass death of The Others
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_441

so…

3. it is important that we name properly what is happening.

a. banning books and words is what Gayatri Chkravorty-Spivak described as #EpistemicViolence. it’s the “my way or the highway” way of speaking and thinking that is at the heart of all forms of colonialism; settler, technological or otherwise.

Interlude: Epistemic Violence | SpringerLink - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-05598-9_14

the Wikipedia page on “epistemic injustice” needs to be renamed
Epistemic injustice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice

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BTW some points about #DOGE and #Project2025

1. do not call it #deconstruction of the federal government. deconstruction is inherently antifascist, as it intends to break apart THRU EPISTEMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, the lies that sustain hegemonic ―and by default― authoritarian power.

2. what we are seeing is a build up of a fascist apparatus that the oligarchs can control directly. in other words, they’re cocooning the federal government with technologies for their technocratic dictatorship…

in thinking about the violence already happening, woke up thinking about archeologists; most specifically, Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense:

❝ It was created in 1986 at the initiative of various human rights organisations with the aim of developing forensic anthropology techniques to help locate and identify the Argentines who had disappeared during the "Dirty War" period of the 1976–1983 military dictatorship.❞

Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Forensic_Anthropology_Team

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am in a very somber mood today.

to add to what @StillRise1963@mastodon.world said here
https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963/113996757754245761

a criminal who uses their toddler child as a human-shield against assassination attempts; a bigot who is willing to attack their own daughter and feed her to the wolves because she is transgender, is a man willing to commit unspeakable atrocities.

and he has a whole political party behind him.

this coup will not end until Americans deal with these sociopaths by all means necessary.

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF - https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661

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