Avalanche Penguin
@kirkagreenwood.bsky.social
• Neurodivergent (but not ASD)
• Cisheteromale queer cyborg
• Academic posthumanist
• Mostly, lamenting the degradation of the 'politische Öffentlichkeit der bürgerliche Gesellschaft' under late capitalism & quixotically championing its restoration
• Cisheteromale queer cyborg
• Academic posthumanist
• Mostly, lamenting the degradation of the 'politische Öffentlichkeit der bürgerliche Gesellschaft' under late capitalism & quixotically championing its restoration
Me too….We are living in liminal times when the political is personal in a way that seems to insist upon earnestly & faithfully reforming the collective morality in accordance w/ a realistic view of the natural complexity, of which the social totality is a part & in which it takes part.
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Me too….We are living in liminal times when the political is personal in a way that seems to insist upon earnestly & faithfully reforming the collective morality in accordance w/ a realistic view of the natural complexity, of which the social totality is a part & in which it takes part.
I heard all the fired & disparaged statist technocrats & woke-globalist academics are moving out to Galt’s Gulch to go ‘on strike,’ considering the know-it-all ideologues of nothing & their ‘lower middle’ ressentiment apparatchiks feel themselves quite capable of running things from here on out! 🇺🇸🔥🇨🇳
October 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I heard all the fired & disparaged statist technocrats & woke-globalist academics are moving out to Galt’s Gulch to go ‘on strike,’ considering the know-it-all ideologues of nothing & their ‘lower middle’ ressentiment apparatchiks feel themselves quite capable of running things from here on out! 🇺🇸🔥🇨🇳
me want to cite the counterrhetoric of an aggressively aggrieved Baldo from another era in direct & fearsome response….
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
me want to cite the counterrhetoric of an aggressively aggrieved Baldo from another era in direct & fearsome response….
One does wonder about the interview process downstream of the ‘summer surge’ in hiring for federal cop jobs…. What questions do they ask? How does a candidate prove their mettle, as it were?
Sometimes my LinkedIn feed features the POC version (at right), so there’s that whole issue….
Sometimes my LinkedIn feed features the POC version (at right), so there’s that whole issue….
October 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
One does wonder about the interview process downstream of the ‘summer surge’ in hiring for federal cop jobs…. What questions do they ask? How does a candidate prove their mettle, as it were?
Sometimes my LinkedIn feed features the POC version (at right), so there’s that whole issue….
Sometimes my LinkedIn feed features the POC version (at right), so there’s that whole issue….
#NotAGroyper (b/c obviously this little fellow pre-dates the groyper concept by several years…. unless, possibly acid rain… OR groyperism turns out to be, as I suspect it is, just a fairly [un]sophisticated & particularly impactful instance of CCP-backed, queer-theory-inflected performance art 🤷🏼🐸🐧)
October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#NotAGroyper (b/c obviously this little fellow pre-dates the groyper concept by several years…. unless, possibly acid rain… OR groyperism turns out to be, as I suspect it is, just a fairly [un]sophisticated & particularly impactful instance of CCP-backed, queer-theory-inflected performance art 🤷🏼🐸🐧)
Some friendly Bunnses.
October 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Some friendly Bunnses.
The ICE ‘surge hires’ are themselves
likely structurally oppressed persons. This kind of kind of thing — ‘kick down when [it has been otherwise decided that] you can’t kick up’ is pretty typical of historical fascist & contemporary authoritarian mobilizations (cf., www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/p...).
likely structurally oppressed persons. This kind of kind of thing — ‘kick down when [it has been otherwise decided that] you can’t kick up’ is pretty typical of historical fascist & contemporary authoritarian mobilizations (cf., www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/p...).
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The ICE ‘surge hires’ are themselves
likely structurally oppressed persons. This kind of kind of thing — ‘kick down when [it has been otherwise decided that] you can’t kick up’ is pretty typical of historical fascist & contemporary authoritarian mobilizations (cf., www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/p...).
likely structurally oppressed persons. This kind of kind of thing — ‘kick down when [it has been otherwise decided that] you can’t kick up’ is pretty typical of historical fascist & contemporary authoritarian mobilizations (cf., www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/p...).
What I hope will be received as a fairly ‘sporting’ attempt to take the Bsky shitposting ethos abroad, over at @nationalreview.bsky.social.
The effort will probably backfire. However, by the time that happens, I will probably have forgotten that I wrote this & so the backfiring won’t concern me.
The effort will probably backfire. However, by the time that happens, I will probably have forgotten that I wrote this & so the backfiring won’t concern me.
October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
What I hope will be received as a fairly ‘sporting’ attempt to take the Bsky shitposting ethos abroad, over at @nationalreview.bsky.social.
The effort will probably backfire. However, by the time that happens, I will probably have forgotten that I wrote this & so the backfiring won’t concern me.
The effort will probably backfire. However, by the time that happens, I will probably have forgotten that I wrote this & so the backfiring won’t concern me.
@jamellebouie.net wow, the early life history of philosopher John Rawls pretty much enacts what you told @micahloewinger.bsky.social is RFKJr.’s ‘eugenicist’ vision of the world. Pretty sure Rawls’ takeaway from knowledge of these events having happened was mostly contrary to RFKJr.’s.
October 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
@jamellebouie.net wow, the early life history of philosopher John Rawls pretty much enacts what you told @micahloewinger.bsky.social is RFKJr.’s ‘eugenicist’ vision of the world. Pretty sure Rawls’ takeaway from knowledge of these events having happened was mostly contrary to RFKJr.’s.
Oh, & for this guy…. dual appointment. 🇮🇪
October 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Oh, & for this guy…. dual appointment. 🇮🇪
Or, again, what would it mean for the nation to reawaken that part of itself that cares, & risks, as fervently for human flourishing as it does for human immiseration?
October 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Or, again, what would it mean for the nation to reawaken that part of itself that cares, & risks, as fervently for human flourishing as it does for human immiseration?
I guess what I’m really asking is what would it actually take to stand down this postural silliness & put it to bed once & for all, before it does get worse….
October 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I guess what I’m really asking is what would it actually take to stand down this postural silliness & put it to bed once & for all, before it does get worse….
I have to imagine that from the vantage point of populations w/ actual authoritarian political cultures or historical reckonings w/ past totalitarianism this charade must seem pretty unserious, tiresome, & pathetic — yet more cultural imperialization of the petite-bourgeois fantasy variety….
October 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I have to imagine that from the vantage point of populations w/ actual authoritarian political cultures or historical reckonings w/ past totalitarianism this charade must seem pretty unserious, tiresome, & pathetic — yet more cultural imperialization of the petite-bourgeois fantasy variety….
Hmm… you don’t say?! Things got pretty weird over there during the 2nd Empire, then?
October 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Hmm… you don’t say?! Things got pretty weird over there during the 2nd Empire, then?
Oops, I meant Ross Barkan, not Groyper!
October 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Oops, I meant Ross Barkan, not Groyper!
The below individual — who seems so self-absorbed that he doesn’t realize that he too embodies/enacts the behavioral repertoire of the ‘Trump-era self-aggrandizing huckster figure’ — has it all sewed up. Sorry / go away!
October 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The below individual — who seems so self-absorbed that he doesn’t realize that he too embodies/enacts the behavioral repertoire of the ‘Trump-era self-aggrandizing huckster figure’ — has it all sewed up. Sorry / go away!
& what does it have to do w/ enjoining this peculiar slice of the expert class that they’re ‘not allowed’ to backbite, denigrate, or gainsay to reverse-engineer its training & experience, accumulated through systematized excellence, to once again inhabit the viewpoint of the E3/O6 ‘lower middle.’
October 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
& what does it have to do w/ enjoining this peculiar slice of the expert class that they’re ‘not allowed’ to backbite, denigrate, or gainsay to reverse-engineer its training & experience, accumulated through systematized excellence, to once again inhabit the viewpoint of the E3/O6 ‘lower middle.’
The same type of tedious Völker that once eyed me skeptically on the basis of the uncomfortable-b/c-mildly-technical phrase ‘Constitutional crisis’ continue to do so w/r/t the now far more baroque & Hegelian utterances….
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The same type of tedious Völker that once eyed me skeptically on the basis of the uncomfortable-b/c-mildly-technical phrase ‘Constitutional crisis’ continue to do so w/r/t the now far more baroque & Hegelian utterances….
In the wake of the CK fête, phrases such as ‘dementia,’ ‘bull-in-a-chinashop-that-is-it’s-own-power-bloc,’ ‘functional police state,’ ‘inability,’ ‘25th Amendment,’ & — I think I may have even stated publicly somewhere — ‘incapacitation, removal, & “en-mausoleum-ment”’ have seeped into my discourse.
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In the wake of the CK fête, phrases such as ‘dementia,’ ‘bull-in-a-chinashop-that-is-it’s-own-power-bloc,’ ‘functional police state,’ ‘inability,’ ‘25th Amendment,’ & — I think I may have even stated publicly somewhere — ‘incapacitation, removal, & “en-mausoleum-ment”’ have seeped into my discourse.
This though-provoking film reminds me of Millet’s “L’Angélus” (c. 1859), a depiction of the contretemps that persists alongside (as if to problematize) industrial-capitalist modernity (cf., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ang...; cliffordthurlow.com/2023/03/26/t...; thedali.org/wp-content/u...).
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This though-provoking film reminds me of Millet’s “L’Angélus” (c. 1859), a depiction of the contretemps that persists alongside (as if to problematize) industrial-capitalist modernity (cf., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ang...; cliffordthurlow.com/2023/03/26/t...; thedali.org/wp-content/u...).
There are, I think, many ways to slice this observation.
I prefer to ruminate on it in terms of Bakhtinian polyvocality, Isaiah Berlin's 'hedgehog,' & what I think at the present time it is best to refer to simply as the Whitmanesque.
In other words the opposite of below....
I prefer to ruminate on it in terms of Bakhtinian polyvocality, Isaiah Berlin's 'hedgehog,' & what I think at the present time it is best to refer to simply as the Whitmanesque.
In other words the opposite of below....
September 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
There are, I think, many ways to slice this observation.
I prefer to ruminate on it in terms of Bakhtinian polyvocality, Isaiah Berlin's 'hedgehog,' & what I think at the present time it is best to refer to simply as the Whitmanesque.
In other words the opposite of below....
I prefer to ruminate on it in terms of Bakhtinian polyvocality, Isaiah Berlin's 'hedgehog,' & what I think at the present time it is best to refer to simply as the Whitmanesque.
In other words the opposite of below....