e e ebbings
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Here to break up with X and drink (hopefully) upstream from the herd
Onshore, noun: The original fall back position
September 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Onshore, noun: The original fall back position
Tech bruhs developing machination to monetize our minds to bag big defence deals to send drones to kill us is the price of not paying attention?
September 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Tech bruhs developing machination to monetize our minds to bag big defence deals to send drones to kill us is the price of not paying attention?
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That’s what someone on ketamine would say
June 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
That’s what someone on ketamine would say
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One year ago today, Azerbaijani authorities wrongfully arrested Farid Mehralizada, a passionate journalist who works for the congressionally funded @rferl.org.web.brid.gy. He should be allowed to continue his important work providing audiences unbiased, independent information. He must be released.
May 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One year ago today, Azerbaijani authorities wrongfully arrested Farid Mehralizada, a passionate journalist who works for the congressionally funded @rferl.org.web.brid.gy. He should be allowed to continue his important work providing audiences unbiased, independent information. He must be released.
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Thousands of people protested in Paris in solidarity with Palestine, with demonstrators calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
May 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Thousands of people protested in Paris in solidarity with Palestine, with demonstrators calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
Is Monday the root word of mundane?
May 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Is Monday the root word of mundane?
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
– William Fitzjames Oldham
– William Fitzjames Oldham
April 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
– William Fitzjames Oldham
– William Fitzjames Oldham
I drink, therefore I am
(Mojito ergo sum)
(Mojito ergo sum)
April 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I drink, therefore I am
(Mojito ergo sum)
(Mojito ergo sum)
Conviction of Courage
March 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Conviction of Courage
All books are self help
March 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
All books are self help
Marriage is an institution. So is an asylum.
March 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Marriage is an institution. So is an asylum.
“Harassment is always a sexual demand, but it also carries a more sinister and pathetic injunction--You will think about me": Jacqueline Rose
March 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Harassment is always a sexual demand, but it also carries a more sinister and pathetic injunction--You will think about me": Jacqueline Rose
‘Woke’ is not meant to be a substantive idea, it is an ill-defined caricature of the left – originally stolen from the vernacular of Black antiracist activists in the United States. It is a phantasm, a vessel into which anything can be poured.
open.substack.com/pub/shonfaye...
open.substack.com/pub/shonfaye...
notes on woke
identity politics may be dead but identity itself is still inscribed upon many against their will
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
‘Woke’ is not meant to be a substantive idea, it is an ill-defined caricature of the left – originally stolen from the vernacular of Black antiracist activists in the United States. It is a phantasm, a vessel into which anything can be poured.
open.substack.com/pub/shonfaye...
open.substack.com/pub/shonfaye...
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I mean, wow. “Friendlier Nazi Germany.” That’s quite the statement.
February 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I mean, wow. “Friendlier Nazi Germany.” That’s quite the statement.
The Sesotho verb for singing (ho bina), as in many of the world’s languages, also means to dance; there is no distinction, since it is assumed that singing involves bodily movement.
February 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Sesotho verb for singing (ho bina), as in many of the world’s languages, also means to dance; there is no distinction, since it is assumed that singing involves bodily movement.
What value would it have, this independence that we have demanded for so long, if all it means is that tomorrow we will fall into the hands of other guardians?
~Patrice Lumumba
~Patrice Lumumba
December 15, 2024 at 10:20 PM
What value would it have, this independence that we have demanded for so long, if all it means is that tomorrow we will fall into the hands of other guardians?
~Patrice Lumumba
~Patrice Lumumba
You strangle them, you starve them, and then you have an election and everybody talks about how wonderful democracy is.
-Noam Chomsky
-Noam Chomsky
December 7, 2024 at 7:59 PM
You strangle them, you starve them, and then you have an election and everybody talks about how wonderful democracy is.
-Noam Chomsky
-Noam Chomsky
The United States has only one party—the property party. It’s the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.
- Gore Vidal
- Gore Vidal
December 3, 2024 at 6:23 PM
The United States has only one party—the property party. It’s the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.
- Gore Vidal
- Gore Vidal
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I'm gonna start a thread about Lebanese film and documentaries. Every day, I'll post a link to a film and provide a small description about it and why its important to understand the country, the history, and the current moment. First up 'Souha: Surviving Hell' (2001) youtu.be/5cK5uXrrRYo?...
Souha, Surviving Hell (2001) - Full Film
YouTube video by From the Periphery
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I'm gonna start a thread about Lebanese film and documentaries. Every day, I'll post a link to a film and provide a small description about it and why its important to understand the country, the history, and the current moment. First up 'Souha: Surviving Hell' (2001) youtu.be/5cK5uXrrRYo?...
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
HL Mencken
HL Mencken
December 1, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
HL Mencken
HL Mencken
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
~Adolf Hitler~
~Adolf Hitler~
November 30, 2024 at 7:46 AM
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
~Adolf Hitler~
~Adolf Hitler~