@ladyativan.bsky.social doing us all a solid! ❤️
AOC's IG live @aoc.bsky.social
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🚨 We're witnessing a strategy authoritarian regimes use called "flooding the zone"—chaotic events, rapid crises, and media distractions designed to overwhelm and paralyze us. Here's how to stay focused and resist.
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🚨 We're witnessing a strategy authoritarian regimes use called "flooding the zone"—chaotic events, rapid crises, and media distractions designed to overwhelm and paralyze us. Here's how to stay focused and resist.
February 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
@ladyativan.bsky.social doing us all a solid! ❤️
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If you’re looking for a way to cope with the rise of fascism in the West, consider reading @nolore.bsky.social’s The Social Safety Net. To understand how this happened, we first need to understand how our standard of living collapsed and who’s benefited from it. 🔥
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Excerpt: Nora Loreto's "The Social Safety Net" – The Rover
In her latest book, Nora Loreto asks us to consider that maybe the system was expressly built to hollow out the state and fatten the pockets of the elite, leaving the rest of us to claw at each other ...
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January 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you’re looking for a way to cope with the rise of fascism in the West, consider reading @nolore.bsky.social’s The Social Safety Net. To understand how this happened, we first need to understand how our standard of living collapsed and who’s benefited from it. 🔥
therover.ca/excerpt-nora...
All that you touch you change
All that you change changes you
The only lasting truth is change
God is change
All that you change changes you
The only lasting truth is change
God is change
“I didn’t make up the problems,” I pointed out. ‘All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.’"
- Octavia Butler (2000)
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- Octavia Butler (2000)
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A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well a…
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January 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
All that you touch you change
All that you change changes you
The only lasting truth is change
God is change
All that you change changes you
The only lasting truth is change
God is change
It’s my number one intrusive thought these days
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
It’s my number one intrusive thought these days
Clutching at totems in the time of apocalypse I’m reading the Frida Kahlo biography and listening to Cat Power’s cover of Bob Dylan’s 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert.
If we’re going down, I’m going to do it without feeding any more of my attention span to the endless dopamine/cortisol scroll.
If we’re going down, I’m going to do it without feeding any more of my attention span to the endless dopamine/cortisol scroll.
January 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Clutching at totems in the time of apocalypse I’m reading the Frida Kahlo biography and listening to Cat Power’s cover of Bob Dylan’s 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert.
If we’re going down, I’m going to do it without feeding any more of my attention span to the endless dopamine/cortisol scroll.
If we’re going down, I’m going to do it without feeding any more of my attention span to the endless dopamine/cortisol scroll.
An auspicious first read on this here platform
Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.
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Inventing the whiny, entitled Millennial
How avocado toast became a weapon of generational warfare that stripped Millennials of the autonomy and capacity to resist.
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January 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
An auspicious first read on this here platform