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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 18d

This is the account a friend of his has made for him which gives a little more information. I know Hany’s receiver and she will get any money raised to the family so if you want to help his family donating to it is a good way to do it (I don’t know if they will change fundraisers in the future)

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 18d

Has anyone noticed that people have started saying 'centralist' instead of centrist, what's the deal with that lol

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 18d

So much effort goes into occluding the comprehension of time as a resource

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 18d

Like it becomes pretty apparent that he's not a political economist or anything but he was clearly all over psychology, cybernetics, systems theory, deep ecology, philosophy of immanence etc. in a way that only a lifetime of research could give you

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 18d

Coming back to Form, Substance and Difference and realising not only how directly Bateson informed my understanding of cybernetic ontology, but also exactly how clued in he was about major developments in psychology and science. Like, wow. Read it!

faculty.washington.edu/jernel/521/F...

The old unit has already been partly corrected by the population geneticists. They have insisted that the evolutionary unit is, in fact, not homogeneous. A wild population of any species consists always of individuals whose genetic constitution varies widely. In other words, potentiality and readiness for change is already built into the survival unit. The heterogeneity of the wild population is already one-half of that trial-and-error system which is necessary for dealing with environment.

The artificially homogenized populations of man's domestic animals and plants are scarcely fit for survival.

And today a further correction of the unit is necessary. The flexible environment must also be included along with the flexible organism because, as I have already said, the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself. The unit of survival is a flexible organism-in-its-environment.

Now, let me leave evolution for a moment to consider what is the unit of mind. Let us go back to the map and the territory and ask: "What is it in the territory that gets onto the map?" We know the territory does not get onto the map. That is the central point about which we here are all agreed. Now, if the territory were uniform, nothing would get onto the map except its boundaries, which are the points at which it ceases to be uniform against some large matrix. What gets onto the map, in fact, is difference, be it a difference in altitude, a difference in vegetation, a difference in population structure, difference in surface, or whatever. Differences are the things that get onto a map.

$First, let us consider ecology. Ecology as currently two faces to it: the face which is called bioenergetics—the economics of energy and materials within a coral reef, a redwood forest, or a city—and, second, an economics of information, of entropy, negentropy, etc. These two do not fit together very well precisely because the units are differently bounded in the two sorts of ecology. In bioenergetics it is natural and appropriate to think of units bounded at the cell membrane, or at the skin; or of units composed of sets of tiers at which measurements can be made to determine the additive-subtractive budget of energy for the given unit. In contrast, informational or entropic ecology deals with the budgeting of pathways and of probability. The resulting budgets are fractionating (not subtractive). The boundaries must enclose, not cut, the relevant pathways. Moreover, the very meaning of "survival" becomes different when we stop talking about the survival of something bounded by the skin and start to think of the survival of the system of ideas in a circuit. The contents of the skin are randomized at death and the pathways within the skin are randomized. But the ideas, under further transformation, may go on out in the world in books or works of art. Socrates as a bioenergetic individual is dead. But much of him still lives in the contemporary ecology of ideas. It is also clear that theology becomes changed and perhaps renewed. The Mediterranean religions of 5000 years have swung to and fro between immanence and transcendence. In Babylon the gods were transcendent on the tops of hills; in Egypt, there was god immanent in Pharaoh; and Christianity is a complex combination of these two beliefs.$

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 18d

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FALLEN WORLD FOR RECOGNIZING THE PALESTINIAN STATE; NOW MAY THEY RECOGNIZE THE PALESTINIAN HUMAN BEING.

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 19d

Hahakigami (broom spirits) are a type of #yokai that occur once a broom has reached a very old age and is transformed into (or possessed by) a spirit, known as tsukumogami. Because brooms were used in ritual purifications, they can become powerful magical charms.
#MythologyMonday
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Illustration of a broom that appears to be sweeping by itself.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19d

This is awful!

This would be like if the US criminal justice system were almost entirely based on arresting young Black men that are innocent, then putting them in jail for a year pre-trial where they're subjected to sexual violence and assault and saying "Just plead guilty and we'll let you out!"🤡

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20d

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20d

Advocates say the Trump administration’s goal is clear: make the pre-deportation process so punitive that targets give up and leave voluntarily. The administration and its allies see the detention policy as a corrective to decades of catch-and-release policies www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Marghost 👻 @mitildide.bsky.social · 19d

Le paracetamol est officiellement woke

The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 19d

📢 Health Minister Mark Butler has asked Australian authorities for quick advice on studies that have linked paracetamol use in pregnancy to autism, as the White House prepares an announcement.

Australian researchers urge caution as Trump proclaims ‘answer to autism’

www.smh.com.au

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 19d

Did you consult the woke spatial data drone operations consultant before posting that take on the Ukrainian government to Bluesky bro? My friend Nick // 28 // agender nb fox // work in infosec 💜🤖 // writing about the history of steamboats ⛵// artist -COMMISSIONSS OPEN // no AI 🙅‍♂️ is very concerned.

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 21d

Why are there no oat bix? No rice flakes? No corn bubbles? MASSIVE gaps in the market here smdh.

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 21d

SEVEN YEARS WAR (1756-1763)
NAPOLEONIC WARS (1803-1815)
THE WORLD WAR (1914-1918)
THE DEATH WAR (1937-1945)

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 21d

🤓☝️microblogging

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 21d

When I found out that 'bangs' just means fringe I was really disappointed because like, it doesn't seem like it should have the same connotation at all. A fringe is like, a silly thing on the front of your face. Bangs are surely some kind of novel development in hair styling that I don't understand.

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Principia Discordia @principiadiscordia.bsky.social · 22d

$Psychedelic-style meme artwork showing a repeating fractal of stone-like faces stretching diagonally across the image, gradually dissolving into the background. The color palette is teal, blue, and muted green, giving a dreamlike aquatic vibe. Surreal distortions make the faces look like they’re phasing through space and time. Overlaid text at the top reads, “Nice argument,” and at the bottom, “Too bad I’m already slipping into another dimension.” Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.$

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21d

there’s no real point to “dems suck” posts anymore once they hit the point of voting for charlie kirk remembrance day. That’s the end of the game and now you start over with new game plus and everything unlocked. It’s 2007 and you’re about to tell politico Hillary Clinton had slaves

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esoteric cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 22d

these ppl are doing fascism because they got yelled at in a comments section of a web zone that literally doesn't exist anymore. when it's time to for these archonic ghouls to receive real violence they won't even know what it looks like. they are so insulated that consequences are strangers to them

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22d

Britain's chemical castration plan for sex offenders seems like the most obvious attempt to avoid doing anything about sex offending, while giving the govt an excuse to release large numbers of offenders despite the fact people can and do offend while chemically castrated.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 23d

To suffer from COVID in the middle of a massacre of genocide, while thrown into the desert with no means of survival, no healthy food, under the burning sun this is the worst thing you could ever go through.
Kindly give for medicine, clear water and food 🙏🏽

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

chuffed.org

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 22d

I ride for caveman communism

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 22d

life doesn't get easier, you just get albanian

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 22d

It's no wonder that people associate communism with children of the bourgeois when all they see of it are condescending uni trotskyists and kids that think the Soviet Union was cool.

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 22d

but the very idea that you need a party of middle class intellectuals to dictate to the masses on how to become revolutionary is intensely classist, let alone in a world of mass literacy where working people have repeatedly demonstrated the capacity to autonomously agitate for their own interests.

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 22d

This is really the only way I have ever been able to make sense of the vanguardist (Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist etc) worldview. The Bolsheviks clearly had some important insights about revolutionary organisation in a semi-feudal context,

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 23d

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

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☯️Locorum☯️ @realmoses.bsky.social · 23d

Unfortunately, there is nobody around to kick you on this website. Not many people to respond in any way at all.

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