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What I eat in a day as a low agency emotionally manipulative performative metrosexual avoidant ADHD Adult male

the technocrats in geneva and elsewhere must know they’re making the lives of the poor a living hell at least for the most part. the IMF, WTO et al has such a bad reputation amongst loads of people in the know so they can’t be insulated from that. so they’re simply not afraid of being completely evil. we need to make sure these people have as bad a reputation as the police and armed forces. it won’t do much to them but at least they’ll be included in the popular consciousness as the people’s villains. remember to include technocrats working in global trade or the IMF &/or world bank in your lists of people who are fundamentally tainted by their choice of profession

#honestly they’re worse than even rank and file oil company workers if we’re being serious #moth.txt

how do you ladies avoid getting suncream / sunscreen stains on your clothes especially around the collars of t-shirts and shirts and the like? I know some people must have it down to a science where they basically never get them but if you’re on a holiday without access to stain remover you’re basically cooked if you get one. a wash never seems to get rid of it properly. do you just apply suncream to your upper body, wait, and then change into your clothes? there must be a way 😭

#some people apply suncream everyday they can’t be living like this having to endlessly replace tshirts when they get stains #or else just having permanently stained clothing…#moth.txt

is it time to move on from being a bambi blog

yes

no

it’s a tough one

button for me

Voting ended onJul 21

#honestly idk if I can be bothered. world’s laziest blogger #polls #moth.txt

medievalthymes

how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting

#rarely do this anymore unless a book disturbs me enough to need to finish it quickly #but yes

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are any of you (feminist) women artists/comic artists? or do you know any women who are? I would like to get in touch. idk how many people see this blog’s posts nowadays but sending out my message into the void possibly… dm or reply if any of this applies thank you

#I’ll reblog this a few times #moth.txt

The Crown Prosecution Service says it has requested their extradition from the US, while their lawyer says they are innocent.

tate brothers arrested in US as UK seeks extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges

#feminism #articles #bbc #andrew tate #moth.txt

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#completely untrue definitely left #I wonder if there’s a correlation with what side of the road your country drives on

when you learn that the development of capitalism actually undermined patriarchy decisively, far from being somehow the modern cause of it that you hear people imply online sometimes

#you only hear silly misogynists who don’t want to believe how far back patriarchy goes #say this though #not to say it didn’t create conditions for patriarchy in other ways #but it undermined the traditional role of women very decisively #in basically every advanced capitalist country #feminism #moth.txt

I don't always find there's much on here in feminist tags about how economic imperialism affects women, so I thought I'd start documenting some examples of it when I see them. this is an excerpt from jason hickel's book the divide

#yes yes he calls it 'involuntary sex work' he's not from a feminist bg #but it's still a great book/resource and this is still a very illustrative example #of how economic and trade policies permeate the lives of the most deprived people on this earth #jason hickel #feminism #imperialism #quote #moth.txt

I love the fact my mother knows many normal middle-aged women because hearing their takes is honestly the best… they all knew amber heard was being abused, it was never a question for them that it was the other way around. one of them recently, let’s call her natalie, was discussing how she has been hearing about and seeing the phenomenon of the “trad wives” online, women who “want to be all the things and have all the things we have tried so hard to fight against”, who are in fact business owners who hire a whole team of people to try and sell this fantasy to younger women. she sounded pained, but also like she couldn’t quite believe what she was describing and that people are really out here doing this. balm for the soul talking with and listening to them…

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logged back into twitter where I spent a brief moment this morning to find I’ve absolutely ratio’d a neohomophobe on their own post. I don’t usually get any pleasure from this sort of thing and I mute the conversations I join anyway, but this one was pretty sweet and the support I received was cute… sound of the summer ♥️

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towerofglass

fuck it. we blog

being able to see political horrors taking place in your own country and abroad online and being expected to form personal opinions about those things quickly creates all sorts of interesting groups. you have the ‘social justice’ liberals who in their attempt to deal with their feelings of distress engage in excessive policing of themselves and others, unremarkable conspiracy theories, etc, to try and impose a kind of control in the face of uncontrollable circumstances. then you have the groups who like to laugh at these people and define themselves in opposition to them, who can be liberals, centrists, or lightly right-wing, who deal with their distress by making light of the political horrors or defining oneself as above/beyond them or otherwise apathetic towards them, as a means of holding them at an arms length and not needing to think about them too seriously

this is not serious btw I am interpreting this solely based on vibes. but the feeling I get is that both of these behaviours are coping mechanisms uniquely suited for those who live in largely safe countries in the digital age in which you can have absolute power to curate your own circle/self-image and also have easy and immediate access to the perspectives of other groups whom you can define yourself in opposition to to feel as though you are doing politics. neither of them are radical, in either ‘the far left’ or the alt-right sense, but they both believe they and the other are more radical in some way than they truly are and may accuse each other of being ‘the far left’ or the alt-right. neither has a practical sense of politics or even coherent political demands. but both gain a huge amount socially and personally from being able to position themselves as absolute political opposites. okay there we go and post

#none of this means anything I am musing #moth.txt

susansontag

I don’t understand why people even pretend to be shocked or offended at the fact that female influencers who associate themselves with the red scare pod duo turn out to be either insane or involved somehow with the right. why make subreddits acting incredulous over the fact a bad instagram poet who posts frequently about how much she hates homeless people is not in fact a kind reasonable or intelligent person. none of these people give a fuck about your outrage, that is part of their selling point. they are open about being awful people! also sorry but the idea ‘spiritual influencer instagram poets’ of all people don’t have cogent things to say is not a shock

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that said if you believe these people are truly dangerous in a serious sense then that’s another outsized reaction. these people are mostly pitiable. an influencer in general is a sales person whose entire lifestyle becomes the product, which is soul-destroying enough. but at least some of them are beauty gurus or else actually associated with large industries. some of them publish books and have to try to create the impression they have substantive things to say despite not dedicating any time to understanding anything they want to talk about. that’s pitiable but it’s not necessarily nefarious. the real upsetting this is that the internet has created these people who are paid to live in this way. that is a sad thing

#moth.txt

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