Benjamin Tate
@sonicdonutflour.bsky.social
Retired bike messenger reading books in the desert. 🏴🏴🏴
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So begins my exodus from other social media platforms. I post about books when I finish them. I’d love to hear your thoughts and/or suggestions based on the books I read.
Painfully boring. For any paragraph of sort of interesting ideas there is seven pages about Marx’s notes and how every other Marxist misinterpreted them. People write about Marx the way people write about Christianity.
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Painfully boring. For any paragraph of sort of interesting ideas there is seven pages about Marx’s notes and how every other Marxist misinterpreted them. People write about Marx the way people write about Christianity.
This was a truly wild ride. I was anticipating a book about the alt-right wellness influencer culture. I was not prepared for yoga being birthed into culture by orientalist, occultist grifters with strong ties to fascism…only 110 years ago when it is generally spoken of as ancient. Bananas. 👍
November 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This was a truly wild ride. I was anticipating a book about the alt-right wellness influencer culture. I was not prepared for yoga being birthed into culture by orientalist, occultist grifters with strong ties to fascism…only 110 years ago when it is generally spoken of as ancient. Bananas. 👍
Finding books about somatics and healing that are written from an expressly anti-capitalist/anti-racist framework feel so refreshing. Really, really recommend this one.
October 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Finding books about somatics and healing that are written from an expressly anti-capitalist/anti-racist framework feel so refreshing. Really, really recommend this one.
This book was truly tough to get through: expansive look at the violence done by evangelical Christians towards women and children and how these people are systematically building power to make everyone’s life really hard in the very near future. A true bummer but probably a necessary read.
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This book was truly tough to get through: expansive look at the violence done by evangelical Christians towards women and children and how these people are systematically building power to make everyone’s life really hard in the very near future. A true bummer but probably a necessary read.
This is an interesting look at family as one of the places where capitalism looms large and furthers the isolation in our society. The historical perspective was enjoyable. I appreciate most books who arrive at the perspective that capitalism must be destroyed in order for humans to survive.
September 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is an interesting look at family as one of the places where capitalism looms large and furthers the isolation in our society. The historical perspective was enjoyable. I appreciate most books who arrive at the perspective that capitalism must be destroyed in order for humans to survive.
This was sooooo good. Really appreciate any sort of liberation theory that takes smashing patriarchy as a central task and seeks to build democracy outside of the idea of a nation state. All the people that dismiss anarchism as utopian would really do well to read this.
August 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This was sooooo good. Really appreciate any sort of liberation theory that takes smashing patriarchy as a central task and seeks to build democracy outside of the idea of a nation state. All the people that dismiss anarchism as utopian would really do well to read this.
I really liked this book. Short essays about water and the relationality that water cycles imply, and how those lessons move us away from racialized capitalism. She traces her shift in organizing to solving people’s problems and away from reforming or being recognized by the state. 👍
July 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I really liked this book. Short essays about water and the relationality that water cycles imply, and how those lessons move us away from racialized capitalism. She traces her shift in organizing to solving people’s problems and away from reforming or being recognized by the state. 👍
How the worst people sold themselves on the worst ideas and then found a way to package it as populism. This is a great primer on how we got to where we are: politicians unmoored from facts who are enamored with race science and are convinced that A: the world is ending, and B: that’s okay for them.
July 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
How the worst people sold themselves on the worst ideas and then found a way to package it as populism. This is a great primer on how we got to where we are: politicians unmoored from facts who are enamored with race science and are convinced that A: the world is ending, and B: that’s okay for them.
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Surprise, surprise: Meta's Manhattan-sized data center is going to be powered by three new gas power plants. Residents of the nearby town have no idea how much their bill will increase: "It’s like building the power impact of a large city overnight”
www.404media.co/a-black-hole...
www.404media.co/a-black-hole...
'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.
www.404media.co
June 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Surprise, surprise: Meta's Manhattan-sized data center is going to be powered by three new gas power plants. Residents of the nearby town have no idea how much their bill will increase: "It’s like building the power impact of a large city overnight”
www.404media.co/a-black-hole...
www.404media.co/a-black-hole...
These are great interviews, and the book is a nice refresher of the history from Oslo right up to the Zionist Entity’s most recent genocidal intensification. The book is from 2021 so it is hard to truly fathom all that has been lost since these interviews took place.
June 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
These are great interviews, and the book is a nice refresher of the history from Oslo right up to the Zionist Entity’s most recent genocidal intensification. The book is from 2021 so it is hard to truly fathom all that has been lost since these interviews took place.
Zerzan becomes fascinated with certain art and cultural wormholes, and overall the focus is mostly WESTERN civilization as opposed to civilization as a whole, but it is still a very interesting read…like most of his work.
June 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Zerzan becomes fascinated with certain art and cultural wormholes, and overall the focus is mostly WESTERN civilization as opposed to civilization as a whole, but it is still a very interesting read…like most of his work.
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i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them
June 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them
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135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.
Israeli military begins ‘extensive’ ground operation as 135 killed in Gaza
Israel continues to unleash its bloodbath in the enclave, rendering all public hospitals in north Gaza ‘out of service’.
www.aljazeera.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.
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Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.
May 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.
Really enjoyed this one! A series of interviews designed to take on what the word “accountability” has meant in various radical and communist communities. It draws the conclusion that authentic community cannot exist under capitalism.
March 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Really enjoyed this one! A series of interviews designed to take on what the word “accountability” has meant in various radical and communist communities. It draws the conclusion that authentic community cannot exist under capitalism.
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A historic oceanfront park on San Francisco’s western edge will officially open on 4/12. The new park, the largest pedestrianization project in California history, will give residents & visitors a place to walk, bike, relax, & connect with the coast like never before.
March 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
A historic oceanfront park on San Francisco’s western edge will officially open on 4/12. The new park, the largest pedestrianization project in California history, will give residents & visitors a place to walk, bike, relax, & connect with the coast like never before.
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JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
February 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
We impulse-adopted a puppy and as a result it took me two full weeks to finish this <200 page book. That said, this book is a worthwhile endeavor and seems especially important as the so-called United States enters its last horrific chapter.
February 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We impulse-adopted a puppy and as a result it took me two full weeks to finish this <200 page book. That said, this book is a worthwhile endeavor and seems especially important as the so-called United States enters its last horrific chapter.
I had only ever encountered his fiction work before (Men in the Sun haunts me to this day.) This book provided a lot of insight into imperialist meddling in the oil Emirates, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia in particular. It can be difficult to understand how we got to where we are.This helps. 👍
February 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I had only ever encountered his fiction work before (Men in the Sun haunts me to this day.) This book provided a lot of insight into imperialist meddling in the oil Emirates, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia in particular. It can be difficult to understand how we got to where we are.This helps. 👍
This provides good background into the so-called “Oka Crisis” but really hits its stride talking about extractive capitalism as Canada’s driving force and how the Canadian government’s “reconciliation” with native folks is just another packaging for more colonialism. 👍👍
January 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This provides good background into the so-called “Oka Crisis” but really hits its stride talking about extractive capitalism as Canada’s driving force and how the Canadian government’s “reconciliation” with native folks is just another packaging for more colonialism. 👍👍
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Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
January 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
More scenes from the Nambé badlands.
January 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
More scenes from the Nambé badlands.
I feel so lucky to live in a beautiful place where I can ride my weirdo tracklocross bike. This is one of the few things keeping me grounded as the world continues to unravel.
January 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I feel so lucky to live in a beautiful place where I can ride my weirdo tracklocross bike. This is one of the few things keeping me grounded as the world continues to unravel.
I wanted to like this more than I did. He mentions repeatedly in the book that he is not a writer and the text bears that out; lots of meandering. That said, a good reminder that there are many, many ways you can contribute to revolutionary ideas.
January 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I wanted to like this more than I did. He mentions repeatedly in the book that he is not a writer and the text bears that out; lots of meandering. That said, a good reminder that there are many, many ways you can contribute to revolutionary ideas.
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Sighted in New York City on the Day of the Forest Defender:
Yesterday, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Communiqué:
www.instagram.com/p/DFBfjbayKvX
Yesterday, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Communiqué:
www.instagram.com/p/DFBfjbayKvX
January 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sighted in New York City on the Day of the Forest Defender:
Yesterday, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Communiqué:
www.instagram.com/p/DFBfjbayKvX
Yesterday, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Communiqué:
www.instagram.com/p/DFBfjbayKvX