@vonvalancius.bsky.social
to be better if you just don't embarrass them. Forgetting is just as active a process as learning. Cruelty can expand to fill an available social space like kindness can. Don't give people the pre-emptive excuse of assuming they shouldn't know better or act better. Usually cruelty's just easy. [n/4]
BLM and trans lives. Where are they now? Anyway if you're not cool enough that other people care much about being casually cruel to you I think you can see the naked cowardice of appeals to compromise for the times - don't harass or polarize people who "don't know better" - that people learn [n/3]
a Weird Kid in class who made the mistake of standing on principle re: torture, and the rights of protestors in Ferguson. Half a decade from then (something like that) during "peak woke" preppy girls in that class who'd defended CIA torture or just let it pass were posting in solidarity with [2/n]
December 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
to be better if you just don't embarrass them. Forgetting is just as active a process as learning. Cruelty can expand to fill an available social space like kindness can. Don't give people the pre-emptive excuse of assuming they shouldn't know better or act better. Usually cruelty's just easy. [n/4]
BLM and trans lives. Where are they now? Anyway if you're not cool enough that other people care much about being casually cruel to you I think you can see the naked cowardice of appeals to compromise for the times - don't harass or polarize people who "don't know better" - that people learn [n/3]
a Weird Kid in class who made the mistake of standing on principle re: torture, and the rights of protestors in Ferguson. Half a decade from then (something like that) during "peak woke" preppy girls in that class who'd defended CIA torture or just let it pass were posting in solidarity with [2/n]
A decade ago now, nearly everyone in my HS Civics Class defended the CIA's torture at "black sites" to me - under the assumption that it was necessary for national security, but some of them - especially the jocks - were honest enough to admit that they did it because it hurt me, personally, [1/n]
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
BLM and trans lives. Where are they now? Anyway if you're not cool enough that other people care much about being casually cruel to you I think you can see the naked cowardice of appeals to compromise for the times - don't harass or polarize people who "don't know better" - that people learn [n/3]
a Weird Kid in class who made the mistake of standing on principle re: torture, and the rights of protestors in Ferguson. Half a decade from then (something like that) during "peak woke" preppy girls in that class who'd defended CIA torture or just let it pass were posting in solidarity with [2/n]
A decade ago now, nearly everyone in my HS Civics Class defended the CIA's torture at "black sites" to me - under the assumption that it was necessary for national security, but some of them - especially the jocks - were honest enough to admit that they did it because it hurt me, personally, [1/n]
Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
a Weird Kid in class who made the mistake of standing on principle re: torture, and the rights of protestors in Ferguson. Half a decade from then (something like that) during "peak woke" preppy girls in that class who'd defended CIA torture or just let it pass were posting in solidarity with [2/n]
A decade ago now, nearly everyone in my HS Civics Class defended the CIA's torture at "black sites" to me - under the assumption that it was necessary for national security, but some of them - especially the jocks - were honest enough to admit that they did it because it hurt me, personally, [1/n]
Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.
December 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
A decade ago now, nearly everyone in my HS Civics Class defended the CIA's torture at "black sites" to me - under the assumption that it was necessary for national security, but some of them - especially the jocks - were honest enough to admit that they did it because it hurt me, personally, [1/n]
*eyeroll* Love it when one of my favorite feminist commentators HAS to shit on the prospect that bisexual women and lesbians might possibly have shared community or goals, like, reflexively, for no visible purpose whatsoever. (this kinda biphobia is what makes me so wary of calling myself a lesbian)
September 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
*eyeroll* Love it when one of my favorite feminist commentators HAS to shit on the prospect that bisexual women and lesbians might possibly have shared community or goals, like, reflexively, for no visible purpose whatsoever. (this kinda biphobia is what makes me so wary of calling myself a lesbian)
Mike Davis' The City of Quartz clarified a lot about the current AI bubble, tech fascism's playbook re: squatting on public projects, and "Abundance"s sketchy allegiances - Davis really had already thought of (and through) everything.
A famous tech fascist recently lectured me on how "California was great in the 1970s"—before Democrats supposedly ruined it.
It was clear he had never heard of Gov. Pat Brown— or of Prop. 13, which slashed the public funding that created said greatness.
Computer intelligence ain't everything
It was clear he had never heard of Gov. Pat Brown— or of Prop. 13, which slashed the public funding that created said greatness.
Computer intelligence ain't everything
September 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Mike Davis' The City of Quartz clarified a lot about the current AI bubble, tech fascism's playbook re: squatting on public projects, and "Abundance"s sketchy allegiances - Davis really had already thought of (and through) everything.
Funny to see infamous sex pest Cuomo dogwhistle to the racist fears of the kind of suburban white dad who works himself up into a lather on Facebook fantasizing about his own daughter(s) as a desirable sexual commodity he needs to defend from his suburban castle with a gun
Ah yes, Zohran Mamdani: a candidate famously not focused on affordability issues
August 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Funny to see infamous sex pest Cuomo dogwhistle to the racist fears of the kind of suburban white dad who works himself up into a lather on Facebook fantasizing about his own daughter(s) as a desirable sexual commodity he needs to defend from his suburban castle with a gun