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Painful poem
got a bunch of more or less explicitly antifascist poems up at Strange Matters, including one on Webern and this short piece below.
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July 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Painful poem
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Not much of an 'explainer' on the tech behind crypto & blockchain, but I like this article that highlights some of the VC ideologies behind Web3 and "blockchain socialism" strangematters.coop/how-venture-...
Owner’s Remorse - Strange Matters
Some socialists saw cryptocurrency as a tool for liberation. This is the story of their rude awakening.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Not much of an 'explainer' on the tech behind crypto & blockchain, but I like this article that highlights some of the VC ideologies behind Web3 and "blockchain socialism" strangematters.coop/how-venture-...
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Related: This remains the greatest thing I've read on Wes Yang and his trajectory
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November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Related: This remains the greatest thing I've read on Wes Yang and his trajectory
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MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
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I just really like the vibes of this whole summer eternal thing.
I guess this is not really fan art, more like "vibe art". heh.
Already pre-ordered the anthology book. Really excited about project Red Rooster. #summereternal #discoelysium
I guess this is not really fan art, more like "vibe art". heh.
Already pre-ordered the anthology book. Really excited about project Red Rooster. #summereternal #discoelysium
October 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I just really like the vibes of this whole summer eternal thing.
I guess this is not really fan art, more like "vibe art". heh.
Already pre-ordered the anthology book. Really excited about project Red Rooster. #summereternal #discoelysium
I guess this is not really fan art, more like "vibe art". heh.
Already pre-ordered the anthology book. Really excited about project Red Rooster. #summereternal #discoelysium
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April 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone
Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
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@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
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No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone
Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
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@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
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No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
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@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
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Issue Five is in production and will be coming soon to our website and the doorsteps of our subscribers!
IMPORTANT: Are you an SM subscriber who's moved since the last number came out? Make sure to log on to our website and *change your address* so the issue arrives where it ought to!
IMPORTANT: Are you an SM subscriber who's moved since the last number came out? Make sure to log on to our website and *change your address* so the issue arrives where it ought to!
September 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Issue Five is in production and will be coming soon to our website and the doorsteps of our subscribers!
IMPORTANT: Are you an SM subscriber who's moved since the last number came out? Make sure to log on to our website and *change your address* so the issue arrives where it ought to!
IMPORTANT: Are you an SM subscriber who's moved since the last number came out? Make sure to log on to our website and *change your address* so the issue arrives where it ought to!
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one of the reasons i cover such a broad scope of topics - e.g. gaming, politics, protest/movement journo, genocide, sports, technology, just to name a few - is because these issues aren't independent of each other, at all
every issue is interconnected. here's why that should give you hope. 🧵
every issue is interconnected. here's why that should give you hope. 🧵
September 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
one of the reasons i cover such a broad scope of topics - e.g. gaming, politics, protest/movement journo, genocide, sports, technology, just to name a few - is because these issues aren't independent of each other, at all
every issue is interconnected. here's why that should give you hope. 🧵
every issue is interconnected. here's why that should give you hope. 🧵
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this manifests in me taking it to it logical conclusions in anarchism & the theory that informs it. i know many MLs may roll their eyes at that (i implore you to read anarchist theory, especially anarchist economic theory - see @strangemattersmag.bsky.social), but its the truth of my views.
September 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
this manifests in me taking it to it logical conclusions in anarchism & the theory that informs it. i know many MLs may roll their eyes at that (i implore you to read anarchist theory, especially anarchist economic theory - see @strangemattersmag.bsky.social), but its the truth of my views.
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I do feel a bit bitter at people who were like, "oh it's not fascism if you can say it's fascism."
Now you can't. yay?
Now you can't. yay?
September 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I do feel a bit bitter at people who were like, "oh it's not fascism if you can say it's fascism."
Now you can't. yay?
Now you can't. yay?
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Walk into any bookstore and the #book #titles aren’t just bad, they’re outrageously bad; and they’re not just outrageously bad, but outrageously bad in very much the same way.
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Pulitzer Bait - Strange Matters
The decline in book titles: a taxonomy of Pulitzer Bait, in most of its common variations.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Walk into any bookstore and the #book #titles aren’t just bad, they’re outrageously bad; and they’re not just outrageously bad, but outrageously bad in very much the same way.
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Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
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Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest
The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.
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September 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
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Labor day 2021 was a breaking point for me, I am still working on building myself back up to a fully functional human being 😅
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Socks - Strange Matters
I had been working at this private hospital for about nine months when I broke.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Labor day 2021 was a breaking point for me, I am still working on building myself back up to a fully functional human being 😅
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I liked this profile by Mary Steffenhagen in @strangemattersmag.bsky.social of @iwriteok.bsky.social
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Buy Boltcutters! - Strange Matters
Robert Evans has become a fixture of not only the Portland antifascist scene but the press corps too.
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September 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I liked this profile by Mary Steffenhagen in @strangemattersmag.bsky.social of @iwriteok.bsky.social
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appreciate yall so much <3 - i have an even bigger project im part of with @transnews.network that yall may be interested in checking out ;)
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August 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
appreciate yall so much <3 - i have an even bigger project im part of with @transnews.network that yall may be interested in checking out ;)
go support Gazan oomfs www.gofundme.com/f/providing-...
go support Gazan oomfs www.gofundme.com/f/providing-...
So exciting to see one of our writers launch a new and urgent publication. Congrats @thefreeradical.org!
You can read Mira's account of trying to unionize a McDonalds with the IWW in Issue 2:
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You can read Mira's account of trying to unionize a McDonalds with the IWW in Issue 2:
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August 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
So exciting to see one of our writers launch a new and urgent publication. Congrats @thefreeradical.org!
You can read Mira's account of trying to unionize a McDonalds with the IWW in Issue 2:
strangematters.coop/mcdonalds-un...
You can read Mira's account of trying to unionize a McDonalds with the IWW in Issue 2:
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Everything you think you know about money is wrong strangematters.coop/history-of...
What Should Money Be Made From? - Strange Matters
History of Chartalism Pt. 1 Debates over money are really debates about power, the political order, and economic planning.
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July 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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you read this article yet? strangematters.coop/frederic-s-l... it’s one of my favorite talking points now
Wobbly Economics – Part I - Strange Matters
Fred Lee's war against the neoclassical economists.
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July 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
you read this article yet? strangematters.coop/frederic-s-l... it’s one of my favorite talking points now
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Great discussion, looking forward to digging into @htwvmag.bsky.social and placing it on my shelf next to @strangemattersmag.bsky.social and Long Haul (longhaulmag dot com)
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is a better magazine for a worse world, asking how we imagine the communist project under conditions of climate chaos
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read along at heatwavemag.info
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August 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Great discussion, looking forward to digging into @htwvmag.bsky.social and placing it on my shelf next to @strangemattersmag.bsky.social and Long Haul (longhaulmag dot com)
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One thing about the post-Covid crash in legitimately popular (if niche) small businesses & third places:
it's an easy guess they went out of business because of external pressures rooted in the blank-brained, greedy demands of the rentier class & possibly also unhelpful regulations & tax schemes.
it's an easy guess they went out of business because of external pressures rooted in the blank-brained, greedy demands of the rentier class & possibly also unhelpful regulations & tax schemes.
More people need to read Quinn Soutar's essay "The Socio-Material Lens" in Strange Matters @strangemattersmag.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
One thing about the post-Covid crash in legitimately popular (if niche) small businesses & third places:
it's an easy guess they went out of business because of external pressures rooted in the blank-brained, greedy demands of the rentier class & possibly also unhelpful regulations & tax schemes.
it's an easy guess they went out of business because of external pressures rooted in the blank-brained, greedy demands of the rentier class & possibly also unhelpful regulations & tax schemes.
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More people need to read Quinn Soutar's essay "The Socio-Material Lens" in Strange Matters @strangemattersmag.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
More people need to read Quinn Soutar's essay "The Socio-Material Lens" in Strange Matters @strangemattersmag.bsky.social
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got a bunch of more or less explicitly antifascist poems up at Strange Matters, including one on Webern and this short piece below.
strangematters.coop/noah-berlats...
strangematters.coop/noah-berlats...
July 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
got a bunch of more or less explicitly antifascist poems up at Strange Matters, including one on Webern and this short piece below.
strangematters.coop/noah-berlats...
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