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postbrechtian.bsky.social
Shouting Thomas
@postbrechtian.bsky.social
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Playwright, organizer, seminarian, study group enthusiast, worm compost evangelist, weird angel creature, they/them, AuDHD

I post about left politics, spirituality, music, and very occasionally, theatre

Views expressed are my own so don't tag my boss
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Aspirational vision of masculinity thread!
Clarence Clemons, a Black man in a black tank top and white chinos, dips and kisses Bruce Springsteen, a white man wearing jeans and vest, while holding his saxophone aloft Zohran Mamdani, a smiling brown man in his mid 30's stands on a streetcorner Brennan Lee Mulligan, a white man in his 30's sitting a game of dungeons and dragons Learn Burton, a Black man in his 60's, with a white goatee and a silver earing wearing a black outfit at a movie premiere
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
postbrechtian.bsky.social
Of the streets lately
A matted and tangled dirty blonde wig hangs on a traffic bollard in an urban landscape with buildings and trees. Cars drive past A red sticker showing a black figure wearing a red bandana with white text reading "@runningtheriskto is an antifascist run club", it partially covers another sticker which is mostly cropped out containing the Bible verse 1 Corinthians 13:4 (Love is patient, love is kind). A building in the background A picture of Vladimir Lenin pointing at the viewer. Behind him, partially obscured are the words "Hard seltzer? Cold beer store". It's on a public information poll covered in moldering posters A black pickup truck with cab tows an olive green artillery piece past downtown construction
November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Blessing your timeline with Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse who lived in Senegal in the 20th century and was a teacher and Quranic exegete and founder of the Fayda Tijaniyya Sufi order.
An old photograph of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse a Black man perhaps in his 50's or 60's. He has a large frame and a round, solid face with a look that would wither fools. He has small square glasses, long white clothes with patterns that are almost invisible due to how washed out the the photo is. He's holding a set of prayer beads and looking at the camera.
November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Comme ca?
George W. Bush standing in front of a chalkboard reading "Child Left Behind" which crops out the word "No"
October 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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City Hall this morning
Toronto city hall with a long, pink, and white banner with words reading, "English is a foreign language! Maintaining beauty requires resistance! Love revolution!"
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I felt really connected to my queer ancestors when I saw this image of a transmasc priest doing a handfasting for this transfemme polycule
A medieval book detail showing a wedding. Their are five figures. At the centre is a priest with a tonsure and light stubble on a full face. The Priest is joining the hands of two figures, they're both ambigously gendered with strong jaws, flowing robes and curly hair. One has light stubble. Beside them are two witness whose bodies are inclined towards the couple whose hands are joined. Everyone in the image has a mix of features that one might name as masculine and feminine. So while we know that the image likely depicts a male priest, a groom, his male witness, a bride, and her female witness, it could also depict four trans women and a trans man.
October 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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From Ursula K. LeGuin's adaptation of the Tao Te Ching. The last two lines are eternally solid advice for certain kinds of fighters for justice and peace
A page from the Tao Te Ching - #9 Being Quiet Brim-fill the bowl, it'll spill over. Keep sharpening the blade, you'll soon blunt it. Nobody can protect a house full of gold and jade. Wealth, status, pride are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of blessing.
September 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Just got handed a business card by a city worker and it had, what I assume is, the person's contact info in braille which is cool
The business card of a city of Toronto employee The reverse side of the cars shows several lines of braille text
September 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The muscle arm meme with one arm labeled "Spanish-speakers," the other arm labeled "Scots and Scot-descendants," and their clasped hands are labeled "Doing drumline with unsuspecting R's"
September 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A sticker with messy handwriting reading, "A better world is possible! So is a worse one..."
September 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I've been cracking up at this bus ad for weeks and finally snapped a picture
An ad for the TV series Alien Earth on the side of a bus. The image contains a shadowy sphere implying Earth but also reminiscent of an egg. A v-shape of green energy slices through the bottom third of the sphere, intended to indicate the egg is cracking. The ad is afixed to the bus by two bolts directly above the v-shape, which makes the two bolts look like eyes, and the v-shape looks like an extremely goofy mouth.
September 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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A screenshot from the linked CBC article reading, "'I think that the vast majority of Sasktoon police service members will be very happy, very encouraged at the position that we have taken to uphold [the code of ethics]?' He told reporter Wednesday A picture of Maury Povitch with the caption "The lie detector determined that that was a lie"
September 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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This Personal section of the Wikipedia article about a German woman who got thrown out of the PEGIDA executive for being too extreme paints a picture of a particular manifestation of the modern far right
A screenshot from Wikipedia reading, 'Personal Festerling trained in coaching and yoga and had two grown up children.'
September 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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They're trying to legislate the Air Canada workers back to work

www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
Morgan Freeman as Alfred from Batman Begins, but it's been edited to say, "Let me get this straight You think your workers, who have a 99% strike mandate, are making too radical of demands And your plan is to mandate these workers? Good Luck!"
August 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I finally remembered to bring cardboard to a march.

Full arms embargo now! Free Free Palestine!
A cardboard sign that reads, "We refuse recognition which denies liberation" The second i in recognition is very small because I missed it at first and had to try and squeeze it in after.
August 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Game Changer nerds:
Want to take part in a viral marketing campaign in exchange for sweet, sweet content from Daddy Sam?

Password is:
SAMALAMADINGDONG

ep11.love
Screenshot reading: Congrats on exposing Sam's secret You are Game Changer superfan #5348 94652 others needed to unlock episode 11
August 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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This is what reminded me of it. I don't think the only thing standing between Americans and mat leave is just the baby formula companies but this at least starts to point to the interests.
An Instagram post from bigdogsocialism which is a screenshot from threads by poster thenatejc "Baby Formula companies lobby hard AGAINST Maternity Leave in the U.S. This is one of the most American sentences you can type"
August 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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More voids
Two black cats with yellow eyes on a bed staring at the camera. One stands, leaning slightly forward, the other lies down mid-clean Same black cats. One lies on their side while the other investigates their feet The same black cats. They're standing in similar poses one stares at the camera, the other looks the opposite direction The same black cats. One is sprawled partially off a leather ottoman while the other grooms them
August 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I'm spending the next week voidsitting. Photos will be shared as often as they can be captured (rarely)
Two black cats with yellow eyes staring at the camera. One is in an awkward half pounce, the other is in a loaf shape
August 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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This is in the etymology. We haven't even gotten to the history section yet
A screenshot from Wikipedia reading, 'In the 1970's, however, the term was synonymous with forced labour.'
July 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Ok
A page of a book that reads, "It is common to speak of the center of a black hole as if it were a position in space. But it's not. It is a moment in time. When crossing the event horizon of a black hole, time and space (the radial direction) interchange roles. If you fall into a black hole, for example, your radial motion represents progress through time. You are thus pulled toward the black hole's center in the same way you are pulled to the next moment in time. The center of the black hole is, in this sense, akin to a last moment in time."
May 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I love punk rock music
A screenshot from Spotify describing an album. It says 3 song - 4 min 45 sec
May 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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I couldn't figure out how to DM a screenshot so I'm here
An email containing a digital receipt for a $30 donation to the Racial and Environmental Justice Committee
May 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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From Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
A screenshot of text reading "13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view — one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People."
April 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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But they've apparently chosen D.
Simpsons meme where Seymour Skinner asks, "Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong" but children has been edited to say "voters"
April 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM