Al Raven
@alraven.bsky.social
🦝 Writer/researcher, dataviz and information designer
Anarchist, hater of capital, the state-racial-cispatriarchal matrix of domination, and all borders
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Otto Rühle: "Revolution is not a party affair"
Man Utd fan (against all reason!)
Anarchist, hater of capital, the state-racial-cispatriarchal matrix of domination, and all borders
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Otto Rühle: "Revolution is not a party affair"
Man Utd fan (against all reason!)
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Al Raven
@alraven.bsky.social
· Mar 19
We live in a world where all that is good and beautiful is getting destroyed, suppressed, distorted, and tortured, but we don't even have time to mourn any of it because the relentless rythm of capital chokes us every day. We can't even heal, we can't fucking breathe in front of all this horror...
So tired, and tired of being tired (see: narcolepsy), and tired of not finding work, and tired of having to work, and tired of being alone...
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
So tired, and tired of being tired (see: narcolepsy), and tired of not finding work, and tired of having to work, and tired of being alone...
Ngl these people should be beaten up, there I said it
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Ngl these people should be beaten up, there I said it
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Really concerned that multiple transfem adult creators on my TL are being suspended from income sources. Some are having trouble affording food.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Really concerned that multiple transfem adult creators on my TL are being suspended from income sources. Some are having trouble affording food.
Moi quand je vois LFI et Lordon se fâcher pour savoir qui est le plus grand gôchiste fronçais:
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Moi quand je vois LFI et Lordon se fâcher pour savoir qui est le plus grand gôchiste fronçais:
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"Abolish ICE"
"Immigrants Welcome"
San Diego SC fans (with the groups The Locals and Frontera SD) along with the Portland Timbers Army, opponents on the pitch yesterday in MLS but united by the common cause of anti-racism.
"Immigrants Welcome"
San Diego SC fans (with the groups The Locals and Frontera SD) along with the Portland Timbers Army, opponents on the pitch yesterday in MLS but united by the common cause of anti-racism.
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
"Abolish ICE"
"Immigrants Welcome"
San Diego SC fans (with the groups The Locals and Frontera SD) along with the Portland Timbers Army, opponents on the pitch yesterday in MLS but united by the common cause of anti-racism.
"Immigrants Welcome"
San Diego SC fans (with the groups The Locals and Frontera SD) along with the Portland Timbers Army, opponents on the pitch yesterday in MLS but united by the common cause of anti-racism.
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families of queer people, meanwhile: www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
families of queer people, meanwhile: www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
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If Masayoshi Son, the most credulous investor on planet Earth, is pulling out of an infinite money scam, you have truly lost the grifter's Mandate of Heaven
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
If Masayoshi Son, the most credulous investor on planet Earth, is pulling out of an infinite money scam, you have truly lost the grifter's Mandate of Heaven
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"Take the phone away" is the first item on the list of action recommended by anti-trans parents' orgs.
Do you not think it's bizarre to have strangers on the internet decide they know better than Brianna's own loved ones on what is or isn't insulting to her memory?
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"Take the phone away" is the first item on the list of action recommended by anti-trans parents' orgs.
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So the "Her own loved ones" line gets me there, because it precisely is the line that is used to get trans people and gay people in patterns of minimal acceptance that can cause a lot of self-harm. It's a pattern of abuse that is hard to identify because it's done under the guise of acceptance.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
So the "Her own loved ones" line gets me there, because it precisely is the line that is used to get trans people and gay people in patterns of minimal acceptance that can cause a lot of self-harm. It's a pattern of abuse that is hard to identify because it's done under the guise of acceptance.
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Good thread here and wanting to build on it:
There's a kind of parent who does not see their child as a person, but as an investment they have made for their future; as property.
And our society currently enables these parents in all sorts of ways, because family is a useful tool to the state.
There's a kind of parent who does not see their child as a person, but as an investment they have made for their future; as property.
And our society currently enables these parents in all sorts of ways, because family is a useful tool to the state.
There's a tendency in trans people's parents, when they are accepting, to still want an exaggerate amount of control on their kid's life. I'm not talking about the regular amount of oversight any young person requires, in fact most of the cases I am thinking about right now concern people over 20.
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Good thread here and wanting to build on it:
There's a kind of parent who does not see their child as a person, but as an investment they have made for their future; as property.
And our society currently enables these parents in all sorts of ways, because family is a useful tool to the state.
There's a kind of parent who does not see their child as a person, but as an investment they have made for their future; as property.
And our society currently enables these parents in all sorts of ways, because family is a useful tool to the state.
Just heard an ad for a podcast where they said "we're gonna talk about so many robber barons... and you know what? Not all of them are bad"
How pathetic/desperate do you have to be to lick the boots of long dead robber barons lmao?
How pathetic/desperate do you have to be to lick the boots of long dead robber barons lmao?
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Just heard an ad for a podcast where they said "we're gonna talk about so many robber barons... and you know what? Not all of them are bad"
How pathetic/desperate do you have to be to lick the boots of long dead robber barons lmao?
How pathetic/desperate do you have to be to lick the boots of long dead robber barons lmao?
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#OtD 11 Nov 1918 250k men and women began a general strike across Switzerland demanding women's suffrage, pensions and a 48-hour week. 95k troops were brought in to break the strike. Women only got the right to vote in 1971 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8342...
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
#OtD 11 Nov 1918 250k men and women began a general strike across Switzerland demanding women's suffrage, pensions and a 48-hour week. 95k troops were brought in to break the strike. Women only got the right to vote in 1971 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8342...
*takes deep breath and starts talking solemnly*
"I hereby renounce Manhood and am ready to commit gender seppuku in order to self-emasculate myself and join the Kingdom of Heaven where all the cool transes, enbies and lesbians are hanging out. Blessed be the Lord of Fags, Amen."
"I hereby renounce Manhood and am ready to commit gender seppuku in order to self-emasculate myself and join the Kingdom of Heaven where all the cool transes, enbies and lesbians are hanging out. Blessed be the Lord of Fags, Amen."
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
*takes deep breath and starts talking solemnly*
"I hereby renounce Manhood and am ready to commit gender seppuku in order to self-emasculate myself and join the Kingdom of Heaven where all the cool transes, enbies and lesbians are hanging out. Blessed be the Lord of Fags, Amen."
"I hereby renounce Manhood and am ready to commit gender seppuku in order to self-emasculate myself and join the Kingdom of Heaven where all the cool transes, enbies and lesbians are hanging out. Blessed be the Lord of Fags, Amen."
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It’s almost too late 😭😭😭
DUE TODAYYY!!!
I sold a plant so now I just need $56 left tonightttttt OR ELSE I PAY A LATE FEE AGAINN 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
C: $freakkybby22
I sold a plant so now I just need $56 left tonightttttt OR ELSE I PAY A LATE FEE AGAINN 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
C: $freakkybby22
Bills are coming up on the 10th & 14th!! I would appreciate some sales soooonnn 🥺🥺 🫂
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
It’s almost too late 😭😭😭
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It's so cool that sitting US senators can talk about how they want all Palestinians to be murdered and vote to do it and if you post about throwing a tomato at them the Feds show up at your door because that's apparently a threat but trying to do a genocide isn't
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
A reminder that according to Fetterman's own former staffers, Fetterman had a meeting with J-Street president Jeremy Ben Ami in which he told Ben Ami that he believes Arabs are like a "carton of sour milk" and that we should get back to killing.
"Kill them all" Fetterman is reported as having said.
"Kill them all" Fetterman is reported as having said.
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
It's so cool that sitting US senators can talk about how they want all Palestinians to be murdered and vote to do it and if you post about throwing a tomato at them the Feds show up at your door because that's apparently a threat but trying to do a genocide isn't
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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payment is due in two weeks
My car was declared a total loss and my top surgery date is in less than 2 months, so I'm just going to put this here again because if I explain the situation any further again I'm honestly going to have another mental breakdown
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November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Apparently some Chinese women are writing homoerotic smut about .... figures in Macron's regime? 🤣
Je reviens dessus parce que ça continue à me travailler.
Il y a des femmes, en Chine, qui risquent leur vie pour écrire des fictions pornographiques sur Gabriel Attal.
Il y a des femmes, en Chine, qui risquent leur vie pour écrire des fictions pornographiques sur Gabriel Attal.
Pourquoi. Juste, pourquoi.
Pourquoi il existe des TAS de fictions homoérotiques impliquant des personnalités politiques françaises macronistes en CHINOIS sur AO3 ???
POURQUOI ?????
Pourquoi il existe des TAS de fictions homoérotiques impliquant des personnalités politiques françaises macronistes en CHINOIS sur AO3 ???
POURQUOI ?????
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Apparently some Chinese women are writing homoerotic smut about .... figures in Macron's regime? 🤣
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More than once Reed has made some harmfully wrong assertions and more than once she’s blocked people trying to make sure her audience doesn’t get sucked into a doomcycle.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
More than once Reed has made some harmfully wrong assertions and more than once she’s blocked people trying to make sure her audience doesn’t get sucked into a doomcycle.
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anyway erin reed is a grifter and a money suck and you should be giving your money to other journalists covering trans rights
(who are not me, because i have no independent pub covering those issues)
(who are not me, because i have no independent pub covering those issues)
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
anyway erin reed is a grifter and a money suck and you should be giving your money to other journalists covering trans rights
(who are not me, because i have no independent pub covering those issues)
(who are not me, because i have no independent pub covering those issues)
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At some point it every independent trans journalist fights the urge to become doomer clickbait for revenue, and way too many of them fail.
That doomer clickbait endangers vulnerable people in our community.
Please stay skeptical of all your news sources, even other trans people.
That doomer clickbait endangers vulnerable people in our community.
Please stay skeptical of all your news sources, even other trans people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
At some point it every independent trans journalist fights the urge to become doomer clickbait for revenue, and way too many of them fail.
That doomer clickbait endangers vulnerable people in our community.
Please stay skeptical of all your news sources, even other trans people.
That doomer clickbait endangers vulnerable people in our community.
Please stay skeptical of all your news sources, even other trans people.
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I’m disabled
I’m unemployed
I rely on tips and sales
Idk what else to say besides that to get help
please share and donate if u care
I’m still at 0/100 for my daily tip goal. And yes I say daily cuz I need income. You guys are lucky I don’t increase it 🙃
$elijahskylerr
I’m unemployed
I rely on tips and sales
Idk what else to say besides that to get help
please share and donate if u care
I’m still at 0/100 for my daily tip goal. And yes I say daily cuz I need income. You guys are lucky I don’t increase it 🙃
$elijahskylerr
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I’m disabled
I’m unemployed
I rely on tips and sales
Idk what else to say besides that to get help
please share and donate if u care
I’m still at 0/100 for my daily tip goal. And yes I say daily cuz I need income. You guys are lucky I don’t increase it 🙃
$elijahskylerr
I’m unemployed
I rely on tips and sales
Idk what else to say besides that to get help
please share and donate if u care
I’m still at 0/100 for my daily tip goal. And yes I say daily cuz I need income. You guys are lucky I don’t increase it 🙃
$elijahskylerr
I mean putting aside this aspect/point which I don't have a problem with, it's funny/pathetic how boring and uninsipred criticisms of anarchism still are.
Oh I'm sorry you're angry anarchists are critical of electoralism and reformism? Get new material, we've been over this many times...
Oh I'm sorry you're angry anarchists are critical of electoralism and reformism? Get new material, we've been over this many times...
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I mean putting aside this aspect/point which I don't have a problem with, it's funny/pathetic how boring and uninsipred criticisms of anarchism still are.
Oh I'm sorry you're angry anarchists are critical of electoralism and reformism? Get new material, we've been over this many times...
Oh I'm sorry you're angry anarchists are critical of electoralism and reformism? Get new material, we've been over this many times...
It's kinda hard to put into words why I and others have so much visceral hatred for Will Stancil. There's something about a privileged guy who pretends to have a superior grasp of the world and to be center-left, saying that things are actually great and people are just deluded, that's unbearable!
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It's kinda hard to put into words why I and others have so much visceral hatred for Will Stancil. There's something about a privileged guy who pretends to have a superior grasp of the world and to be center-left, saying that things are actually great and people are just deluded, that's unbearable!
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there is no path to liberation through the state.
you don't have to cling to the fantasy that a dead-end road goes somewhere until you die from hitting the wall at its end.
you can, instead, learn from the many people who have been saying so, and working outside & against the state, for decades.
you don't have to cling to the fantasy that a dead-end road goes somewhere until you die from hitting the wall at its end.
you can, instead, learn from the many people who have been saying so, and working outside & against the state, for decades.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
there is no path to liberation through the state.
you don't have to cling to the fantasy that a dead-end road goes somewhere until you die from hitting the wall at its end.
you can, instead, learn from the many people who have been saying so, and working outside & against the state, for decades.
you don't have to cling to the fantasy that a dead-end road goes somewhere until you die from hitting the wall at its end.
you can, instead, learn from the many people who have been saying so, and working outside & against the state, for decades.