Lost in Transition

[subduedintellectual-blog]

Any future where humans aren’t replaced by sentient machines is insufficient

[80sanime]

[active-rva]

There’s no good reason to celebrate this man. 

[yyunglame]

columbus day

[owarim]

[subduedintellectual-blog]

College Sheldon was an embarrassment

[whattheendoftheworldlookedlike]

Prague, 1968.

[tonybannerkenobi]

[subduedintellectual-blog]

I haven’t felt depressed in weeks and this is unreal, this sense of comfort with myself. It’s weird that I can simultaneously feel so critical of myself--all the traits I lack, all the toxin I’ve had bred into me--and still feel like I’m exactly who I want to be. It’s a shame to have lost people, to know there are people who used to like having me around, who think of me now as nothing more than a caricature (and it’s fair! I knew so many good people, had the company of so many people I never deserved!) but also like, those people are out there, doing their thing, growing and blossoming, and I’m good with that. I wake up at sunrise every day and write my stories, I bike to work, I bike home, I make my meals and read. I see so few people now, have so much less of a need for it. Sometimes I spend time with a person I care deeply about,  and she puts me in my place, keeps me here. I have so little to offer and yet here I am, every day, hands outstretched, trying. I could do this forever. Will probably do this forever. Until the whole thing collapses.

[nevver]

Why so glum, chum?

[subduedintellectual-blog]

History had made it clear that we will get what we deserve. 

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The history of the term redneck is long and complex. One of the earliest recorded uses of the term comes from the 1890s, and refers to rednecks as “poorer inhabitants of the rural districts…men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin burned red by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks”. In 1921, the term became synonymous with armed insurrection against capitalists and the state, as members of the United Mine Workers of America tied red bandanas around their necks during the Battle of Blair Mountain, a two week long armed labor uprising in the coalfields of West Virginia. Today, the term redneck has taken on a demeaning connotation, primarily among upper class urban liberals who have gone out of their way to dehumanize white working class and poor people. Terms like “white trash” have come to signify the view among these same upper class liberals of poor and rural whites. To us, the term redneck is a term that signifies a pride in our class as well as a pride in resistance to bosses, politicians, and all those that protect domination and tyranny.

[studioghiblishy]

Scene art from Whisper of the Heart 

[whattheendoftheworldlookedlike]

Gaza City, Palestine, 2014.

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Barcelona, 1936.

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Soweto, South Africa, 1976.

[subduedintellectual-blog]

It’s that gnawed bone moment when you realize “The Community” will do nothing to stop him from showing up at your backdoor in the middle of the night with the rifle he bought for the revolution safety off It’s personal not political          they don’t know what to do ‘bout you lying bitch Then you think: if they are the only thing that can save my life and they won’t are they betrayers       are the family what good are they? Do we need any more Eldridge Cleavers? as we try to do it right this time something we want with every cell Our last chance not to fuck up. but sometimes we want to close our eyes jack off to pictures of radical disneyland not watch as we gnaw our own flesh into meat

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “so what the fuck does conscious mean anyway”, from Consensual Genocide (TSAR Publications, 2006)