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Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr

re: Leftism Meta (-) | Fedi Ment 

And guess what, this very same kind of cronyism was exactly what I used to do years ago back when I was toxic, and hung out with toxic people.

Don't make that mistake like I did. - Julayla

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Leftism Meta (-) | Fedi Ment 

This is why it's important to let go of the hero worshipping and idolization of leftist figures in social media, that is why it is so important to be an iconoclast, not just to figures of your enemies, but to your allies as well.

Because if you end up idolizing someone, it will be a lot harder to let go of them when they end up doing something absolutely vile. And your integrity, morals and principles vanish in a puff of smoke, leaving behind the stench of cronyism in its wake.

The strength of leftism doesn't lie in its unity, (In fact that is a tankie red flag.) it lies in our ability to keep each other honest. If we can't even do that, then we'd be no better than the AltRight. Because this kind of cronyism, the refusal to indict your own because "they contributed a lot to us" is exactly what fascists and other oppressive orgs are known to do.

This was what made the Elekk/Monads/Myass cronyism and self-gratifying circular self-affirmation so toxic; Anyone who tried to hold them accountable became a potential target for harassment, gaslighting and whisper campaigns. We can't let that happen if we're to make a difference in this broken world.

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Håkan Geijer

I want to fucking vomit every time liberals rediscover the Swedish military LGBT rainbow propaganda and say shit like “fascists get owned.”

Every national military is fascistic.

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packbat is a social construct

The blog post Adam Neely links, "Blues tonality" by Ethan Hein - ethanhein.com/wp/2014/blues-to - goes into a lot of detail on patterns in blues and blues-influenced music, specifically refuting a lot of ungrounded assertions that it's the same harmonic theory as the one taught for 18th century European classical music

- 🎒 🎼 🎸

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polarity 🇩🇪

With just a dry drumloop and a bunch of fx + modulations, you can create whole songs in @bitwig@twitter.com. Dont be shy to go to the extremes! 👍 #modular #daw #music

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fedi’s number one yinglet 🌈

re: LB: the stolen nft man blocked me seconds after I posted "welcome to the Finding Out phase of Fucking Around" looooool

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Sonic Fanart | Furry Art | EC 

In our headcanon, Nicole is a malakh who inhabits Sally's PDA by the same name. Because the FFs have no frame of reference for computing power, she was able to disguise herself as a sentient AI all the same.

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NFTs are a hypercapitalist dystopia waiting to happen.

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tiny cushion

nfts, crypto-bullshit 

if you ever wonder why even small artists' TOS's are so long, it's because of this dumb shit happening

every year people come up with a new way to misuse commissions for horrible purposes

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PVs- Artist Marcia X

For #IWD, Lambda Films released a short of a poem I wrote titled "The Body"
racism
sexism
& what we can consider colonial gender collide here in this work during the rise of #MeToo, but notice who gets publicity in these discussions and who does not

vimeo.com/520855782

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Asparagus [She/her]

GR, police brutality in a week 

These things happened this week (it's still Thursday):

-Sunday: Cops beating civilians without real reason in park (previous toots)(Athens)

-Monday: Cops attempting on midnight to evacuate the occupied Dean's offices in Aristotle University (the students had occupied them since 22/2 in protest of new special university police forces that the gonverment wants to establish), they fail (Thessaloniki)
(1/?)

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Midwestern Possum

Work, mh? 

My natural empathy response and my Adult Professional Mask keep colliding and I'm not actually sure what comes out.
It's like "yes, let's stay on this subject but in a small talk way"

I don't really like words when people say something heavy. Empathy is hard, sympathy is easy. I'm a hand squeezer, usually.
Especially at things where there's nothing to say. I, personally, hate "thank you for sharing this with me."

Adult Professional is kinda bitchy and cold.

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Jaycie

Remember to treat the successful artist who thinks NFTs will make them rich differently from the marginalized artist who hopes that NFTs will finally get them out of an abusive situation.

(General observation; not a subtoot.)

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Drífa Jónsdóttir :kitty_trans:

anti-Asian violence, podcast plug 

The "Worst Year Ever" podcast's 10 March 2021 episode is an interview with Christopher Wong about the rise in hate crimes against Asian folk. If you're not familiar with the history and present of anti-Asian violence in the USA, maybe give it a listen. iheart.com/podcast/1119-worst-

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Autistic Anthropologist

On identity politics 

Neurodivergents and the Disability Rights Movement: "Nothing About Us Without Us"

So-called professionals: "help! We're being attacked by their aggressive identity politics!!"

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Autistic Anthropologist

Ableist rhetoric 

Everything I find that claims to look "critically" at neurodiversity (all written by NTs of course) sounds like this:

"While it is understandable that some self-advocates feel offended by the pro-cure rhetoric of some parent and professional organizational, the latter are also justified in criticizing the aggressive identity politics advanced by the radical activists of the autistic movement, who appropriate the right to speak in the name of every person diagnosed with autism"

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Furry Art | EC 

Oops, my finger slipped.

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Steeb 🐺🏳️‍🌈

O'Reilly has a diversity and inclusion scholarship program offering one year free access to their online learning platform.

If you are a member of an underrepresented minority in tech and want to apply, the details are here.

oreilly.com/diversity/scholars

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Soup-Like Gender Homogenate ✅

outfit selfie, ec 

I haven’t worn this dress since it got cold, and it feels so nice to put it on again. Fits better, too!

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Turns out, playing in D minor is easy, you just gotta let go of the open strings.

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