Notices by Masonic Cowgirl (julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social), page 3

How are people to dumb enough to think that Keir Starmer actually cares about trans people, if I was Brianna's mom I would've spat in his fucking face

@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm not a Leninist either but the thing about Trotsky is that he was a great writer who's worth reading even if you don't agree with him on everything

@hakan_geijer it really is the perfect post. we can shut down the internet now

@Adam_Cadmon1 I think he's responsible and not at the same time, the actual accident itself is just genuinely an accident, but as producer he was ultimately responsible for workplace safety

@Adam_Cadmon1 I think it's more like the teenager who got killed at that poultry slaughterhouse, maybe the CEO isn't responsible, because they're far removed, but the factory supervisor definitely is

In the aftermath of World War I, many prominent intellectuals abandoned their commitment to universal values in favor of partisan interests. The French philosopher Julien Benda called this desertion “the treason of the clerks” (La trahision des intellectuels), with “clerks” here referring to the medieval definition of a scribe or a member of the intelligentsia. They had become ideologues, he argued, abandoning their role as independent thinkers and defenders of higher universal values. What we are witnessing today is another betrayal: this time by what could be called medical clerks, whose commitment should be first and foremost to the “art of healing.” In these times of crisis, medical doctors must refuse to be blinded by ideology and partisanship. Those who have remained silent in the face of the destruction of human life in Gaza would do well to remember the basic Hippocratic principle: “to use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment.”

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-war-on-hospitals/

@larsfrommars

@inthehands how would asimov have written the story of two girls stranded on a water planet in psychohistorical terms? as something completely unimportant. they die and the universe never notices

@inthehands it's beautifully done and it betrays the whole message of the books - I'm fine with them making changes and doing a somewhat loose adaptation (and I liked some of the changes! like the genetic dynasty) but trying to make individual destinies important again in a story that should be about greater historical forces is just wrong

During the first season of Foundation I couldn't decide whether I loved or hated it but now that I'm getting caught up on the second I think I'm leaning towards hate

Queen

@inthehands @Adam_Cadmon1 yeah, there had been radicalism for a while, you're right, I should've phrased it differently - but in the early nineties they were pushing all this Free Willy Captain Planet shit and in the late nineties the ELF was burning down ski resorts, and all the Free Willy Captain Planet stuff magically went away as quickly as it came

@Adam_Cadmon1 I kind of feel like there was this big push to get kids to care about the environment in the nineties because it was a "safe" issue to care about, that it wasn't as sensitive as like talking about racism or sexism or capitalism, and then the powers that be quickly backtracked once the environmental movement started getting more radical

@hakan_geijer Thomas Disch, On Wings of Song

@inthehands yeah, its best parts were very good and its worst parts were very bad. I never saw the full series for that reason

@inthehands idk I don't remember the show that well

Straight women who pretend to go gay for me out of self-interest are the only real allies. This is how we fight against comphet

https://www.insider.com/lgbtq-friends-called-me-out-pretending-gay-lgbtq-ally-2023-2

Also you know that *both* of these women were only pretending to be gay because they actually understood that the other one was flirting with that. That doesn't happen in real life

How big of a loser do you have to be to say "the trannies took away my professional darts trophy" with a straight face

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