Silver Smith
@silversmith83.bsky.social
Anarchist without adjectives. Where would you rather be than right here right now?
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
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The reason that "respectable" and "intellectual" conservative and centrist pundits have spent the last decade arguing that social pressure and public opinion are morally equivalent to state coercion is to lay the groundwork for justifying the latter.
Right wing thinking on this is that there’s no consequential difference between the President using tools to influence CBS into canceling the Late Show and all of the various cancelations that happened under “Wokeness.” No difference between Colbert and Roseanne, for example.
I think it’s bad that the President of the United States is gleefully seeking the scalps of late night comedy show hosts who say things he doesn’t like. I think that speaks to just how bad of a place we are in now.
July 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The reason that "respectable" and "intellectual" conservative and centrist pundits have spent the last decade arguing that social pressure and public opinion are morally equivalent to state coercion is to lay the groundwork for justifying the latter.
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Our health will always be something the State can threaten us with until we wrest control over it (resources, knowledge, infrastructure, etc.) back from the medical industrial complex.
July 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Our health will always be something the State can threaten us with until we wrest control over it (resources, knowledge, infrastructure, etc.) back from the medical industrial complex.
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i consider it a sign of the reactionary shift in the overton window that it is difficult to criticize one of the most hegemonic and powerful institutions on earth without getting piled on by "progressive" defenders, even if you add the caveat/hedge of "extremism"
Christian extremism is a cancer
June 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
i consider it a sign of the reactionary shift in the overton window that it is difficult to criticize one of the most hegemonic and powerful institutions on earth without getting piled on by "progressive" defenders, even if you add the caveat/hedge of "extremism"
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| IF KAMALA HAD |
| BEEN ELECTED, |
| IT WOULD STILL |
| BE FUCK ICE. |
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| IF KAMALA HAD |
| BEEN ELECTED, |
| IT WOULD STILL |
| BE FUCK ICE. |
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June 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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| IF KAMALA HAD |
| BEEN ELECTED, |
| IT WOULD STILL |
| BE FUCK ICE. |
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(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
| IF KAMALA HAD |
| BEEN ELECTED, |
| IT WOULD STILL |
| BE FUCK ICE. |
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The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
June 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up
June 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up
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Someone who says “Neo-Nazi’s are taking over the government, please listen to the police and form an orderly line” are either unserious, trying to sell you something, or are sheepherding you into danger.
May 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Someone who says “Neo-Nazi’s are taking over the government, please listen to the police and form an orderly line” are either unserious, trying to sell you something, or are sheepherding you into danger.
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I'm sorry, I don't buy this. David Graeber and David Wengrow effectively demonstrated the myriad ways societies could organise in early human history. The point about autocrats is not that we are hardwired to follow them but they employ systems of coercion. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Are we hardwired to fall for autocrats?
It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist them
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'm sorry, I don't buy this. David Graeber and David Wengrow effectively demonstrated the myriad ways societies could organise in early human history. The point about autocrats is not that we are hardwired to follow them but they employ systems of coercion. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
The NBA should be needlessly dramatic and announce the MVP like 30 minutes before game 7 of Nuggets-Thunder tips off
May 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The NBA should be needlessly dramatic and announce the MVP like 30 minutes before game 7 of Nuggets-Thunder tips off
This is great stuff. I support any decision that degrades the integrity of the Hall of Fame, because it's just dumb journo crap that no real sports fan should care about. In fact I think Cooperstown should build a monument to the heroes who rigged the World Series!
"In a historic, sweeping decision, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and other deceased players from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list."
Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe HOF-eligible as MLB lifts ban
The all-time hit king and Jackson -- both longtime baseball pariahs stained by gambling, seen by MLB as the game's mortal sin -- are now presumably eligible for election into the Baseball Hall of Fame...
www.espn.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This is great stuff. I support any decision that degrades the integrity of the Hall of Fame, because it's just dumb journo crap that no real sports fan should care about. In fact I think Cooperstown should build a monument to the heroes who rigged the World Series!
If anything its a badge of honor
Stop using "felon" as a pejorative.
I have known A LOT of people charged with or convicted of felonies who were good and decent people. When you have 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners in a racialized police state, "felon" isn't predictive of anything, character-wise.
I have known A LOT of people charged with or convicted of felonies who were good and decent people. When you have 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners in a racialized police state, "felon" isn't predictive of anything, character-wise.
May 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If anything its a badge of honor
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Keep in mind. Trump isn’t giving all these ICE Agents directions individually. They are choosing to do this. Stealing money. Making girls stand in the rain in their underwear. That’s their choice. Because people who chose to be ICE Agents chose it for pain it causes.
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Keep in mind. Trump isn’t giving all these ICE Agents directions individually. They are choosing to do this. Stealing money. Making girls stand in the rain in their underwear. That’s their choice. Because people who chose to be ICE Agents chose it for pain it causes.
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you often see partisan political cheerleading compared to sports, but most sports fans i've met usually have some opinions about the tactics of their favorite team, or are even willing to criticize the management when they make bad calls. political cheerleaders are less sophisticated than that
March 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
you often see partisan political cheerleading compared to sports, but most sports fans i've met usually have some opinions about the tactics of their favorite team, or are even willing to criticize the management when they make bad calls. political cheerleaders are less sophisticated than that
The more depravity they get away with, the more depraved they become
“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on.“
One had his hands tied behind his back, suggesting he survived the initial attack & was then executed.
“All of them discarded in shallow graves – a profound violation of human dignity.”
Story👉 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
One had his hands tied behind his back, suggesting he survived the initial attack & was then executed.
“All of them discarded in shallow graves – a profound violation of human dignity.”
Story👉 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The more depravity they get away with, the more depraved they become
This horse must have had a wild and crazy life, I want to know his story. Unless he's going to hell for not being baptized or some shit
im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell
March 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This horse must have had a wild and crazy life, I want to know his story. Unless he's going to hell for not being baptized or some shit
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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"Campus free speech" has only ever been a rhetorical shield for repression of student speech inconvenient to power.
Labour's idea of 'free speech' is freedom to make trans people feel unsafe on campus, but not the freedom to criticise Israel.
March 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"Campus free speech" has only ever been a rhetorical shield for repression of student speech inconvenient to power.
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I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
March 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.
I'm actually looking forward to Stefon Diggs being back in the AFC East, it's gonna be spicy. The Patriots made a lot of moves in the off season and I was worried the Bills were in danger of not taking them seriously. That won't happen now
March 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I'm actually looking forward to Stefon Diggs being back in the AFC East, it's gonna be spicy. The Patriots made a lot of moves in the off season and I was worried the Bills were in danger of not taking them seriously. That won't happen now