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A screenshot from Dark City of Inspector Bumstead and Detective Walenski in Walenski's spiral-covered room. "I've just been spending time on the subway, riding in circles, thinking in circles. There's no way out."

November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM

chaotic wastrel

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October 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM

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Harms Committed

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Harms Committed solely archives independent journalism; virtually all of its sources are worker-owned or nonprofit newsrooms.

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September 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM

chaotic wastrel

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how did I not know about Faetooth

September 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM

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Maybe It Will Happen Today

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Digital illustration. In the background we see Sesame Street’s Big Bird with a kiffiyeh scarf around his neck running to the left of frame holding a pole from which waves a black flag with a white antifascist symbol on it. In the foreground is a furry blue muppet with a bulbous pink nose who is otherwise unidentifiable because he has a black bandana around his mouth (it’s Grover) who is preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail. In the flames flowing from the rag in the neck of the bottle can be read the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

August 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM

chaotic wastrel

@chaoticwastrel.bsky.social

I've attributed various meanings to Tom Bombadil and his role in LotR at different times; at one point I thought he was an avatar for anarchism because he appeared to opt out of systems of control and coercion. But now I'm more inclined to say: what the fuck, Tom?

"Say rather that the Ring has no power over him. He is his own master. But he cannot alter the Ring itself, nor break its power over others. And now he is withdrawn into a little land, within bounds that he as set, though none can see them, waiting perhaps for a change of days, and he will not step beyond them."

July 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM

chaotic wastrel

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when you order Rigorous Institution merch

"Signal your morbid and despairing sense of modern fate to the drooling normies! Truly, they tremble before your dark persona, you are a unique and world-historical spirit of melancholy!"

"Biopolitical concerns of existence in industrial society require you to signal your rebellious and extremely dangerous identity!!! You are an uncontrollable antihero! Fight back against an all-encompassing social machine by buying this dirty cloth that smells faintly of drugs"

July 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM

chaotic wastrel

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This is a great thread.

Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · Jul 2

FWIW: after about 8 years on this beat, I’ve come to see cultic organizations as mundane and predictable concentrations of capitalist culture. The boundaries between self-sealing religions, MAGA, MLMs, and dominating corporate cultures (and the leaders in each) are blurry. /12

July 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM

chaotic wastrel

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this whole thread

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Jun 18

remember that these people oppose trans healthcare for children because giving children agency over their bodies makes it harder for them to get away with preying on them and they see themselves entitled to sexually abusing children

June 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM

chaotic wastrel

@chaoticwastrel.bsky.social

This and the rest of the "parents' rights" movement is full of people who want to control children. They think children are property to be used in whatever way they want. It's authoritarian, but it's also sexual control. Refusal to recognize others as autonomous humans always leads here.

Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · Jun 15

“Honored as [M4L] 2023 Legislator of the Year & a speaker at their 2022 summit, May’s arrest highlights a … familiar contradiction: an organization that accuses the queer community of “grooming” children has repeatedly been linked to … individuals directly involved in child-related sex offenses.”

Moms for Liberty Legislator of the Year Arrested for Massive Child Pornography Charges - The Space Coast Rocket

On June 12, 2025, South Carolina Republican state Representative RJ May III was arrested on nearly a dozen federal charges for distributing child sexual abuse material, recently honored by Moms […]

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June 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM

chaotic wastrel

@chaoticwastrel.bsky.social

what a suspicious coincidence that right-wing populist candidates are all pieces of shit

Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · Mar 31

Glenn once wrote a book about how it was bad that elites didn’t face consequences for their crimes

April 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM

chaotic wastrel

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"He is condemned to go on forever, knowing the truth and powerless to change anything. No longer will he seek to get off the wheel. His anger and frustration will grow without limit, and he will find himself, poor perverse bulb, enjoying it."

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