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upsetting the setup since 1977
toxic individualism will be the collective death of us.
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
toxic individualism will be the collective death of us.
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
~ Hannah Arendt
~ Hannah Arendt
November 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
~ Hannah Arendt
~ Hannah Arendt
"Costume idea: instead of wearing something racist, transphobic, sexist, homophobic, culturally appropriative, etc., on Halloween just cut a few holes in a giant trash bag, wear that as your costume and then go throw yourself in the nearest dumpster so no-one has to deal with your fucked up ass."
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"Costume idea: instead of wearing something racist, transphobic, sexist, homophobic, culturally appropriative, etc., on Halloween just cut a few holes in a giant trash bag, wear that as your costume and then go throw yourself in the nearest dumpster so no-one has to deal with your fucked up ass."
"Capitalism is religion. Banks are churches. Bankers are priests. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. Money is God."
-Miguel D Lewis
-Miguel D Lewis
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"Capitalism is religion. Banks are churches. Bankers are priests. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. Money is God."
-Miguel D Lewis
-Miguel D Lewis
the anti-blackness + anti-indigeneity in folks’ indifference to congo, sudan, west papua, haiti, and other black nations facing genocide is beyond unsettling!
October 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
the anti-blackness + anti-indigeneity in folks’ indifference to congo, sudan, west papua, haiti, and other black nations facing genocide is beyond unsettling!
"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
-James Baldwin
-James Baldwin
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
-James Baldwin
-James Baldwin
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.”―Frances Beale
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.”―Frances Beale
"The Rape of Recy Taylor" documentary is available on Tubi: www.imdb.com/title/tt6116...
The Rape of Recy Taylor (2017) ⭐ 6.7 | Documentary, History
1h 31m | Not Rated
www.imdb.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"The Rape of Recy Taylor" documentary is available on Tubi: www.imdb.com/title/tt6116...
“We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”
— Ricardo Flores Magon
— Ricardo Flores Magon
October 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
“We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”
— Ricardo Flores Magon
— Ricardo Flores Magon
if you are not actively protecting yourselves from covid by wearing a high quality mask in public you need to acknowledge right here and right now that your present practices are entirely at odds with your future selves.
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
if you are not actively protecting yourselves from covid by wearing a high quality mask in public you need to acknowledge right here and right now that your present practices are entirely at odds with your future selves.
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mid-way through my master’s degree program in women and gender studies at sfsu!
the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!
but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup
the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!
but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup
October 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM
mid-way through my master’s degree program in women and gender studies at sfsu!
the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!
but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup
the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!
but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup
"we are not savage, we verbalize in a different language, our lands ravished, us in poverty, them living lavish, why does it continue? indigenous people considered below average."
-dr. faustus of algorithm
-dr. faustus of algorithm
October 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"we are not savage, we verbalize in a different language, our lands ravished, us in poverty, them living lavish, why does it continue? indigenous people considered below average."
-dr. faustus of algorithm
-dr. faustus of algorithm
"As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome."
-Noam Chomsky
-Noam Chomsky
October 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
"As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome."
-Noam Chomsky
-Noam Chomsky
“Why can’t I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It’s hard enough just to do that in this world.”
-Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
-Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
October 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“Why can’t I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It’s hard enough just to do that in this world.”
-Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
-Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
"The most difficult thing to get people to do is accept the obvious." -Dick Gregory
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
"The most difficult thing to get people to do is accept the obvious." -Dick Gregory
mid-way through my master’s degree program in women and gender studies at sfsu!
the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!
but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup
the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!
but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup
October 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM
mid-way through my master’s degree program in women and gender studies at sfsu!
the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!
but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup
the va has decided yet again to cut funding via my veteran disability benefits. and yet again i’m fighting it!
but rent is due! assist if you can.
venmo/cash app $UpsetTheSetup
paypal: @upsettingthesetup
"Each problem that we face is just a part of this movement,
It seems helpless, but if we stick together we'll get through it,
And return to the essence from which we've been uprooted,
And wake humanity from these illusions."
-Oliver Hart aka #Eyedea
It seems helpless, but if we stick together we'll get through it,
And return to the essence from which we've been uprooted,
And wake humanity from these illusions."
-Oliver Hart aka #Eyedea
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
"Each problem that we face is just a part of this movement,
It seems helpless, but if we stick together we'll get through it,
And return to the essence from which we've been uprooted,
And wake humanity from these illusions."
-Oliver Hart aka #Eyedea
It seems helpless, but if we stick together we'll get through it,
And return to the essence from which we've been uprooted,
And wake humanity from these illusions."
-Oliver Hart aka #Eyedea
“I am Black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the Earth.”
-Frantz Fanon
-Frantz Fanon
October 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“I am Black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the Earth.”
-Frantz Fanon
-Frantz Fanon
"water, water, water to drink,
what do you call the stuff coming out of my kitchen sink?
competition in the sky,
first man on the moon,
artificial ingredients he keeps putting in my food..."
-sons of the kingdom #modernization (1978)
what do you call the stuff coming out of my kitchen sink?
competition in the sky,
first man on the moon,
artificial ingredients he keeps putting in my food..."
-sons of the kingdom #modernization (1978)
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"water, water, water to drink,
what do you call the stuff coming out of my kitchen sink?
competition in the sky,
first man on the moon,
artificial ingredients he keeps putting in my food..."
-sons of the kingdom #modernization (1978)
what do you call the stuff coming out of my kitchen sink?
competition in the sky,
first man on the moon,
artificial ingredients he keeps putting in my food..."
-sons of the kingdom #modernization (1978)
“The fight against racism and fascism is completely bound up with the fight to overthrow capitalism, the system that breeds both."
-Olive Morris (1952 - 1979)
-Olive Morris (1952 - 1979)
September 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“The fight against racism and fascism is completely bound up with the fight to overthrow capitalism, the system that breeds both."
-Olive Morris (1952 - 1979)
-Olive Morris (1952 - 1979)
"Trying to explain white privilege to white people is sometimes like trying to explain water to fish. Fish says, ‘there is no water, I've never seen any, water never did nothing for me’ meanwhile its the thing that sustains the fish's very life..."
-Cory Kilcoyne
-Cory Kilcoyne
September 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"Trying to explain white privilege to white people is sometimes like trying to explain water to fish. Fish says, ‘there is no water, I've never seen any, water never did nothing for me’ meanwhile its the thing that sustains the fish's very life..."
-Cory Kilcoyne
-Cory Kilcoyne
in memory and celebration of assata shakur i’m riding my bike around berkeley/oakland listening to my “assata taught me” playlist.
*what are your favorite songs that acknowledge the ancestor assata?
*what are your favorite songs that acknowledge the ancestor assata?
September 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
in memory and celebration of assata shakur i’m riding my bike around berkeley/oakland listening to my “assata taught me” playlist.
*what are your favorite songs that acknowledge the ancestor assata?
*what are your favorite songs that acknowledge the ancestor assata?
“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing.”
-Michel Foucault
-Michel Foucault
September 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing.”
-Michel Foucault
-Michel Foucault
“I believe that this earth was meant for tenderness and not terror.” — Assata Shakur (2007)
September 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“I believe that this earth was meant for tenderness and not terror.” — Assata Shakur (2007)