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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
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We are tentatively planning to release #Glimpse 0.1.0 towards the end of next week!
Read the latest updates on our project's progress here: https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/nearing-release/
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queering heterosexuality by starting a podcast with the boys (no homo)
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@em okay but it took me a while to realize that apparently NONE of the McElroys are gay
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@velexiraptor @em I think academics should be disallowed from using the words "queer" or "queering" for a decade or so while they develop an understanding of those terms
I own a Wikipedia scarf, but holy shit is it easy to see that there are issues with trolls and bigots holding articles hostage on there
"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" seems pretty quaint now
"What would be a chill beat to study to? Hm...how about I take this Hoagie Carmichael track, combine it with some Gameboy samples, and slip in a little bit of Marge having a serious conversation with Homer?"
I was listening to a podcast about "Best Years of Our Lives," a movie from the 40s about WWII soldiers returning home from the war, and there was this jazzy piano track up front in the mix while a couple discussed getting a divorce. It sounded like chill beats to study to.
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me 5 yrs ago 🤝 me today
not knowing what monads are
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i stand against all the major forms of hatred and bigotry - being mean to YA authors, being mean to marvel movie fans, and being mean to guys who just happen to have infinity bajillion dollars
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you can't understand Marxism-Leninism unless you understand that it is fundamentally a defensive posture against capitalism: it's the answer that 20th-century communists came up with to the question of "how do you maintain power after a revolution when imperialist powers will inevitably attempt to crush it?"
this is an extremely important question, because they will. How can you maintain any gains the left makes, when reactionary forces will inevitably attempt to roll them back, with all of the power of international capitalism behind them?
I notice a lot of critiques of Leninism from other leftists that tend to assume that it is the answer to a different question, which is the question that anarchism is often better poised to answer: "what does the ideal society look like, and how can I help us get there?"
It's the real life equivalent of people complaining about highly specific things on social media because they've curated their experience so narrowly.
"Everyone on Tumblr is always posting porn!"
Uh...you follow nothing but porn accounts?
"Where are all these tacky ethnic people coming from? Must be Queens! Haha, I live in an East Village loft and attended NYU so I'm superior to these ugly, badly-behaved, cheap losers!"
People like this invented the term "bridge and tunnel" because they were too far up their own asses.
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also fun fact. I made a dummy Twitter account solely for the purpose of crossposting Twitter screenshots. Twitter is a bad website, of course, but when I was filling out what I *thought* was my @ handle, it turned out to be my display name, and it automatically generated a handle based on that, leaving me with, uh
I complain about rich white people being annoying, but they're mostly just trustafarians who are slumming it, I'm not hanging out exclusively with Wall Street bros and then wondering why everyone in this city of 8 million is a Wall Street bro
Like, I just saw this Twitter thread about nepotism, and it's like, sure, but you're talking about top companies that most people will only ever interact with as customers or low-level employees? If they characterize your everyday experience of NYC, you too are WILDLY privileged
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
