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Silence of the Whales: mysticmikester.com

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Art is a Weapon We Could All Be Using \"\" : mikester.xyz

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but I’m seeing reports of national guard members refusing to work with ICE being court martialed so the time to prepare is now. Remember “just following orders” didn’t work for the nazis and it won’t work for you.

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This kind of low energy fear bait is tiresome and ignorant: mikester.xyz

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@annabower.bsky.social Nothing about this is normal. Read that as many times as you need to. It’s not the new normal, it’s not the old normal, it’s not normal in any timeline of the multiverse. Enabling crimes against humanity is not a normal action of justice in a purportedly open and free society and it never will be.

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@binarydigit This looks interesting, thanks for sharing this … I remembering checking it out briefly a few years ago but at the time I wasn’t really a bookmark person, now I use them frequently. I’m curious!!

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@annabower.bsky.social These “inevitability” proclamations help normalize the abuses. We should not accept them as foregone, we are correct to be shocked and outraged each time.

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Also, beyond the performative “denial of normative scope creep” aspect, SCOTUS hasn’t given him everything, every time. So it’s NOT inevitable.

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Wondering what you can do? mikester.xyz

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And you may ask yourself …. 🎶

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You can’t begin to know how wild we were in the clubs for this unless you were there. OMG I needed this today. Thank you algorithm gods!! 🕺

\n

tidal.com/browse/tr…

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@jedda This thread full of colorful umbrellas is the mood lifter I didn’t know I needed this morning. Thanks to everyone who added to it!! ☂️

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I activated cross posting functions on micro.blog for mastodon, bluesky, and pixelfed so let’s see how that’s working out.

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@mjdescy I’m having a similar experience with Zed learning Python. I ended up turning the predictive feature off while I’m learning.

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It’s clear there’s some kind of masculinity-themed crisis going on that I want to address in my work so I picked this up out of curiosity and it’s giving me so much life!! I don’t have the same wounds as many cishet men but still … wow.

\n

Currently reading: The Flowering Wand by Sophie Strand 📚

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Happy Friday everyone!! I’m giving a workshop this weekend so making last minute adjustments to my outline and putting the finishing touches on my Ghost site in hopes of launching it today as well. The world is on fire but the good things in life go on.

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@dmejia I just discovered Kagi last week and went for the subscription after using up my credits. It was actually the Assistant function that sold me on paying for search as I was able to cancel my T3 Chat and meet both needs. I am honestly loving it so far!!

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My indieweb odyssey continues - after migrating my personal WP site to Ghost while rebranding my content creator persona, I realized I want a just personal site to meet just social needs. Ideally, using micro.blog will help me avoid diverting too much maintenance labor. So hello, world!!

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Built on Sand: The Architecture of Lies: mysticmikester.com

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@whstancil.bsky.social Are they spending money or creating debt?

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@mysticmikester.com You’re supposed to not want to toil over things a machine can do, so you can eat grapes and write epic poems and play the lute by the sea. This isn’t hard!!
\n2/2

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@mysticmikester.com This post brought to you by the human gaze, which I don’t think can really be abolished, because beauty and art are universal, I just wish the conversation could actually be about art and not a proxy for everyone’s repressed sex and power fantasies.
\n5/5

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@mysticmikester.com So anyway, I love the new superman dude but he looks way better with facial hair so I’m not sure I care to see the movie and I’m gonna miss Henry Cavill, whose video shorts have somehow vanished from my feed. Put one of them in your jeans ad next time!!
\n4/5

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@mysticmikester.com The problem with the whole discussion is that it is so completely shot through with misogynist undertones and assumptions that you really can’t even talk about it without reinforcing them. The fact that it’s considered debatable itself is the problematic fact.
\n3/5

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@mysticmikester.com But I feel like there’s this fundamentally unquestioned idea that Sydney Sweeney is some kind of peak visual and I get that I’m gay, but I still have an eye for a diva when I see one, and I’m just seeing basic. I hear Miranda Priestley voice “dirty tired and paunchy”.
\n2/5

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@mysticmikester.com That the federal government should have the power to decide that some are screened for cancer, and others are left to die?
\nThere’s a word for that, and that word is “eugenics”.
\n3/3

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@mysticmikester.com They want cancer screens to be limited to white males? I’m not sure how else one can even interpret that.

\n

Are we supposed to imagine that cancer is an actor in the culture war?
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@mysticmikester.com It’s hard to imagine being so out of touch when people are plainly trying to tell them. But here we are.

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@mysticmikester.com

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@mysticmikester.com When a close friend refuses to see a difficult truth, how do you encourage them? I don’t expect liberals and the left to be besties, but we need to be capable of coalition. What’s one thing you can do today to cultivate solidarity? 2/2
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@mysticmikester.com Imagine that it finally arrived and everyone completely shit the bed over “small artists” who have always had the most to benefit from a society that meets everyone’s needs without demanding they commodify every minute of their day. Wow.
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@mysticmikester.com It’s like the collective consciousness having a giant abandonment trigger meltdown over the fear of being replaced and it’s really sad. Our ancestors dreamed of automation and post scarcity and being set free of the toil of every day survival.
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@mysticmikester.com If we put all that energy into projects like a general strike with demands that all productivity gains be pooled for a UBI w/ basic needs guarantee it would go so much farther toward addressing the inchoate fear beneath it.
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To My Friends on Independence Day: mysticmikester.com

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Emma Goldman on Means & Ends: mysticmikester.com

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Queers Read This: mysticmikester.com

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Anarchist Summer Reading Program: mysticmikester.com

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State of the Mikester: mysticmikester.com

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Justice for Jonathan Joss: mysticmikester.com

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Trump Admin Fails at Freshman Debate Club: mysticmikester.com

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The Ghost of Lady Liberty: mysticmikester.com

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Degradation is Literally Empire: mysticmikester.com

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America, The Magical: mysticmikester.com

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Wisdom > Logic: mysticmikester.com

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Anti-Theists and Anti-Vaxxers: An Unholy Alliance: mysticmikester.com

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