Mythopoeist

Pottery, blacksmithing, cosmism, and shitposts. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Mythopoeist/profile https://www.deviantart.com/mythopoeist https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4s8kEwiWcwCWcr7tk/very-accurate-ancestor-simulation-practicality-and-ethics He/Him, cishet Bigots of any kind DNI, also sex workers are welcome to talk with me if you want but I’m not interested in being a customer. For one thing, I’m flat out broke and spend most of my time at work. For another, I’m looking for an actual relationship rather than a business transaction.

[encaitarion]

My own pet project. It's hard-ish science fiction.

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[theconcealedweapon]

[estrellasrojas]

on twitter (i know, i know) there's a very cyclical debate on who is latino, with latin americans asserting that latinidad is an economic experience from living in the actual region of latin american, making them capital l latinos, while those in the us, while latinos in the american racial structure, are not. do you feel this is in any way a useful distinction?

Not really, this preserves the same problem of methodological nationalism except it expands it to the Americas south of the Río Grande writ large. Whatever we might identify as an economic experience of “latinidad” is directly tied to the “latinos” in the U.S. through migration circuits and the dependency of many families (and tbh, full on national economies) south of the Río on their relatives to the north sending money and resources. This is also after all a phenomenon that is reinforced by and continues to reinforce the hegemony of the dollar in this hemisphere, and along with it the push and pull factors of migration like hyperinflation of home currencies versus the outsized purchasing power of wages paid in the dollar.

If we go back to actual intelligent theorists of the economics of imperialism in the Americas, like Ruy Mauro Marini for example, many of them understood that the politics of the Monroe Doctrine is meant to preserve Latin America as a labor pool for the North and the West as a whole, which means that immigrants are part of that phenomenon even when they move. This is a necessary framework for understanding the actual motives of the deportation regime for example, which isn’t meant to actually eliminate all latinos but serves as a form of brute force labor arbitrage especially bc once deported the migrant workers often enter the worst and most precarious pools of labor in whatever country they’re sent to (think the maquiladoras).

I also strongly disagree with this naive sharp distinction between racial and economic characteristics. In the Americas the labor pools themselves are racialized. If anyone denies that this also happens south of the Río, if differently, then they’re being dishonest. Some theorists who have analyzed this in the case of indigenous peoples are Héctor Díaz Polanco, Tomás Cruz Lorenzo, and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, and in the case of afrolatinos, Carlos Moore and Erika Denise Edwards. This is also to say nothing of the fact that the labor pools in North America are incredibly racialized. After African Americans began to empty out of the plantocracy-dominated countryside in the Great Migration, and then mounted a national struggle against sharecropping and debt servitude in the Black Power movement, the racialized position of expendable rural labor was taken largely by latino immigrants instead after they had begun to become incorporated into the plantation-inspire industrial agricultural system in the late 19th century. If you want to learn about this, you should read Neil Foley and Tanya Maria Golash-Boza. In North America, racial oppression and economic control over farmable land are historically two of the greatest fault lines in politics, and the two overlap directly. Mechanically separating them or failing to achieve a hemispheric view through methodological nationalism prevents those of us who want to overthrow the system prevents from seeing the full scope of our strategic imperatives.

[drb13695]

Gaza's seaport. 2023 vs 2025.

[depsidase]

[prokopetz]

I love it when media fucks up the wording of the Rasputin disclaimer and ends up with shit like "any resemblance to people or locations living or dead is coincidental". I'd love to know what committing libel against a dead location would entail.

[abalidoth]

Fuck the Fiesta Mall in Mesa, AZ. I heard it ate someone once.

[probabilitydirigible]

this sea sucks shit. it doesnt even have any scrolls im sure

[prokopetz]

#Sorry what do you mean “rasputin disclaimer” (via @big-condiments-official)

For once I'm not actually doing a bit; those "any resemblance to real persons living or dead" disclaimers genuinely exist because of Rasputin.

(In brief, the 1932 MGM Studios film Rasputin and the Empress is a dramatisation of the life and times of Grigori Rasputin which is partially adapted from the personal memoirs of Felix Yusupov, one of the principal conspirators responsible for Rasputin's assassination. The film, which was heavily marketed as being based on real events, falsely claims that Rasputin fucked Yusupov's wife, Princess Irina Alexandrovna. As both Yusupov and Princess Irina were still alive at the time, they jointly sued MGM for libel – and won. This is actually, literally the reason the practice of including those disclaimers was taken up.)

[theanoncollective]

You'll see pseudo-marxists on here talk about how material analysis is important and then they'll proceed to say something along the lines of "transgender men have systemic male privilege and privilege over cis women" as if that's based in any material reality of the systemic conditions transgender men face.

If you were able to transition out of systemic misogyny into systemic male privilege, the patriarchy would not exist as we know it. Cisgender women would just be able to transition into transgender men and not only face zero consequences, but be rewarded for it too. Looking at the academic literature out there though, the actual material reality is that transgender men tend to have worse outcomes than cisgender women in almost every field— from sexual violence to amount paid to ability to access healthcare.

An actual Marxist material analysis of transgender men under our system would understand that while some of the most privileged in the community can get some very conditional male privilege off of the basis of being mistaken as cis men; however that doesn't equate to systemic access and the overwhelming majority of transgender men have never benefited from this and never will. Actual material analysis would acknowledge that transgender men outside the global north exist and face much harsher conditions and barriers to transition that transgender men in the west do not. Actual material analysis would note that transgender men, while men as in the gender identity, are never let into the group of men as a social class. Actual material analysis would note that transgender men are much more likely to be working class, unemployed, or in poverty than cisgender people and need extra support under capitalist systems that don't cater to them. Actual material analysis would be noting that there are not any transgender men who are in positions of significant political power, and if they were accepted as men (the socialpolitical class) they would be overrepresented into positions of power and privilege as opposed to consistently erased and left to die.

An intersectional, Marxist analysis of the material reality of transgender men would see them as a marginalized group who is disproportionately burdened and erased within our society— a group that has no access to systemic patriarchal or capitalistic power in any way.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 30 June 1892, the Homestead strike broke out in the US when Andrew Carnegie moved to break the power of the steelworkers organised in the the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. The strikers initially defeated a violent attack by armed Pinkerton detectives, using small arms, lots of dynamite and even a cannon, forcing them to surrender. However, then over 6,000 troops arrived. The steelworkers held firm for four months, continued to defend themselves from violent attacks by Pinkertons and the state militia, however they were eventually defeated. Learn the history of the strike in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/strike-jeremy-brecher

[jackalpants]

THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

Show your pride with our 25mm transgender pride flag pin badge. Perfect for wearing on your favourite denim jacket, back pack, or lanyard to

[esther-winchester]

[stoptheantisemitism]

Denying genocide and posting Facebook Nazi Grandma level memes isn't gonna erase the fact that you're a fascist or that there is indeed a genocide happening in Gaza.

[tinyuglyworld]

tumblr liberals in the 1990s: "i believe that the boers and africans need a two state solution. anti boerism on the left is a real problem that needs to be critiqued. as a boer i feel unsafe leaving my house. wont someone please think of the boers?"

[ironmyrmidon]

This is how white South Africans still talk

[gallpall]

Birmingham Community Mourns Kalena “Peaches” Croskey, Trans Woman Found Dead in City Jail Cell

Conditions in the jail have reportedly been deteriorating for years.

This is my hometown – Birmingham, Alabama. I ache to be with my community, no matter how far removed I am from it now.

She's lost to the injustice system, she's lost to the racist, antiblack, transmisogynistic empire we inhabit and that many, many people benefit from upholding.

I'm so sorry Peaches. You deserved to live, and be loved by everyone who so clearly loved you. I hope you're listening to Beyoncé, or something even better tonight.

The TAKE-Away, June 2026 Issue: Remembering Peaches

Pride is more than a celebration, remembering a beloved community member we lost, and more, inside the issue:

This loss is not accidental. It is a tragic reminder of the failures within the carceral system. The lack of adequate mental health resources, combined with negligence and systemic shortcomings in our system, continues to cost lives.

Far too many people are dying at the hands of systems that cause harm rather than healing. Incarceration should never lead to dehumanization. Peaches was a human being. She deserved dignity, respect, compassion, and access to the care she needed.

As we mourn her loss, we also honor her life. Let Peaches’ legacy be a call to action. We must continue advocating for a transformation of our systems of incarceration and for better responses to individuals living with severe mental illness. No one should be forgotten, neglected, or stripped of their humanity. Rest peacefully, Peaches. Your life mattered, your presence was felt, and your memory will forever remain with us.

- TAKE Resource Center

[theconcealedweapon]

If you're so sure that the dystopian nightmares you attribute to socialism are actually relevant to socialism, try speaking out just against the dystopian nightmare without mentioning what system causes it. If you're so sure that socialism is the system that causes it, then it will be implied and you won't have to specify it.

For example, instead of saying:

Socialism is an evil system because the common people have nothing while those controlling the system have an overwhelming surplus.

Try saying:

A system in which the common people have nothing while those controlling the system have an overwhelming surplus is an evil system.

See how people feel about that. See whether you get labeled as a capitalist or a socialist for saying that.

[stalinita]

??? Can I not hate a man who has inflicted harm upon the Cuban people through his support for a blockade on Cuba??? He supports STARVING the Cuban people and then he LIES about who is starving them because he wants to create anger amongst Cubans so that they will suddenly decide to hate socialism. And his lies aren't even good lies. He's obviously lying.

Cubans have been dying in hospitals because of conditions that could have been easily fixed if not for the blackout. Cuban doctors are some of the best in the world, but the blackouts have taken absolute necessities from them. Sometimes blackouts happen in the middle of an operation, and all they can do is KEEP WORKING. It's incredibly dangerous!

Cubans are some of the strongest people in the world for continuing to persevere. They persevere FOR SOCIALISM. The cause of imperialist scum like Marco Rubio is lost.

Telling somebody to "lighten up" because they are angry that Cubans are having everything taken away from them by USAmerican imperialism is actually fucking disgusting. This is a serious matter. People are dying and all that these braindead pieces of shit ever do is ignore it.

Ignoring it is supporting it. I don't care if those aren't your intentions.

[lesserjoke]

Today in obscure Doctor Who jokes:

Somebody on Twitter pointed out that the Big Finish companion Hex is canonically from the year 2021, so when he occasionally abbreviates the word "suspicious" to "sus," it's probably an Among Us reference.

The punchline is that this character was actually introduced back in 2004. It was made-up future slang that they happened to get right.

[marlinspirkhall]

“British writer invents time travel and uses it on One Joke”

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[depsidase]

[stoptheantisemitism]

The above is a before and after picture of Palestinian journalist Mujahid Bani Mufleh. He was abducted by the IDF last year in June and tortured for 6 months before he was released earlier this year.

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