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Decolonial secular humanist & analyst. Autistic & ADHD, white, Mad. I got hit by a car end of 2020 and my hand doesn't work properly now. There is no absolute objective frame of reference. UK based she/her. DMs open. COVID kills. Wear a mask N95+
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · Aug 12
Fascism isn't a disease. Fascism isn't a disability. Fascism isn't a lack of education. Fascism isn't foreign.

Fascism is a defence of established power and privilege through the dehumanisation of anyone that challenges it.
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h
do you want people to wake up or go to sleep you can't really have both
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1h
plenty of people in the US have always known that to be the reality of the system

your rights are conditional and dependent on whether you are judged worthy by institutional power and authority
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 2h
Britain and the USA don't need to be manipulated into supporting a colonial regime that they created.
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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 7h
Sandra Bland was murdered for being calmly defiant.
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thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d
Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.
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recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 7h
when your government is more conservative than the Vatican then you've got a big fucking problem

especially when you're meant to have just voted them out

(I am in the UK)
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 1d
Go woke, go Pope
Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected
In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.
www.npr.org
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recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 7h
it keeps refusing to live up to the brochure so they are demanding the manager comes down and sorts it out
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recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 7h
it's been eternally immutably true since Proper Knowledge was discovered in the 18th century 🫠
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recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 7h
yet another ideological purge by an authoritarian political establishment
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d
Ok, have fun and joke around but then don't allow yourselves to go full doomer. Maybe Americans don't want anybody to survive the end of their so-called democracy but everyone else wants to survive Americans since forever
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 1d
it's crazy how fast movies become dated. for instance, the 2021 movie "Don't Look Up" no longer makes sense, because if an American scientist discovered a planet-killing comet heading towards us today, their main response would be "oh thank fuck for that"
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1d
I had a mental health breakdown nearly twenty years ago and I got sent to a work coach months before I had any kind of talking therapy.

And they still try and act like it's a fresh new idea 😫
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8h
being right wing more rudely isn't going to help when the country didn't vote for a right wing government at all
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8h
as if touching anything Bad means you're corrupted by sin and must give up on your humanity
recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8h
it's not a contradiction

it's like saying you can't complain about a car crashing into your house if you've ever driven one
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8h
that's been the status quo for decades

it's just some people had the privilege to be able to ignore it
recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8h
there are people who think they can't be fooled

but that's not everyone

many of us know we can be and have been and will be again

that's being human

it's not as good as being a perfect rational actor, but it is real
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recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 9h
the claim of objective neutrality is always a scam

it just means you're ignoring the people who identify your biases
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recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1d
humanity doesn't need to be educated into people

they already have it

it is the inhumanity of the civilised rational actor that must be taught

and it takes the rewards of privilege to motivate acceptance of membership of that elite class
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 9h
as if you can't criticise anything on a computer if you've ever done anything on a computer 🙄
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 9h
we don't all believe that AI can do these things well enough to use it for them though

the people pushing for it in contexts like healthcare are clearly not concerned about potential harm, but getting medical care is an important task for the person seeking it
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 2d
this is a deeply traditional approach across 'western civilisation'

in many ways it is fundamental to Enlightenment philosophy

the belief that human nature is inherently sinful and undeserving and must be overcome in order to be considered a valid person
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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 3d
"Haarer viewed children, especially babies, as nuisances whose wills needed to be broken."
Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today
The Nazi regime urged German mothers to ignore their toddlers’ emotional needs—the better to raise hardened soldiers and followers. Attachment researchers say that the harmful effects of that teaching...
www.scientificamerican.com
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recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 5d
neurotypicality is a myth as in an ideal concept that cannot exist in material reality

but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality

because nothing is just one thing

everything is lots of things
recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 5d
some people think that's how brains work

it's a relic of the natural philosophy of Newton's era that still dominates some areas of academia

the ideal rational actor has access to the instruction manual and therefore never makes mistakes
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 10d
the history I learned was romanticised

especially the avoidance of colonialism

but it was not the story of serfs liberated by the enlightened bourgeois

it was a story of an establishment that assumed a divine/natural right to rule

and a working class that has always rebelled and fought back
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 10d
the people of this country have never been as compliant and weak willed as his agenda needs them to be
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Leanest Optician @vertigoem.bsky.social · 9h
AFAICT, out of the mainstream media, only The Independent has covered this story
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ECIU @eciu.net · 9h
England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

England has seen its second worst harvest on record, according to an analysis of Government figures, after the country’s hottest spring and summer on record as well as the driest spring in more than 100 years.
buff.ly/ip0wwGL
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recombobulating.bsky.social
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 9h
we don't want a party that's keeping problems secret

that's the problem
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 4d
elites don't have broken brains

they have fixed brains

as in minds and belief systems that are assumed to be mature and complete and therefore immutable

maintaining that against the weight of contradiction means they must dismiss and deny more and more of material reality
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