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Garden State boymoder. 36, She/They. Parent of the world's sweetest toddler. Recovering astrophysicist, now general computational physics

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · Jul 19

If you're scared do it scared. If you're tired do it tired. Just do it

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back 💚

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 1d

GM Bluesky

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 1d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 2d

Oh shit girl you've done it again

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

How bad could it be? SO(3) is perfectly fine...

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

It also feels very anime to slice clean through it and have it still standing

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway I gotta go chop down a banana plant

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

Liv's working shit out on the timeline again IG

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

Neoliberal late capital hegemony Jiu-Jitsued us into both of these memes at once, is what I'm saying I guess:

Kelsey Atherton tweet saying "Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?"

Meme where a chud asks a guy "LGBTQ rights or economic stability?" and our king responds "Both?"

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

Neoliberal late capital hegemony Jiu-Jitsued us into both of these memes at once, is what I'm saying I guess:

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

That it was shallow and performative at best, and at worst shifted responsibility for structural inequality onto individuals while positioning marginalized groups as aligned to capital and in opposition to the "white working class"

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

But this was the leftist critique of neoliberal DEI that mainstream culture just glossed over for the past decade:

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

(imo it's probably not nothing, but not close to enough to balance the simultaneous harm politicians, corporations, et al. were simultaneously doing to those same communities, nevermind contributing to this backlash)

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 3d

Of course how much those neoliberal DEI initiatives *actually* benefited marginalized communities is irrelevant

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 4d

It seems like some people earnestly thought rolling back trans rights or getting rid of black managers will bring back prosperity somehow? Others just figured "they benefited at my expense so now I want to hurt them in retaliation"

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 4d

But blue collar workers see this happen, and from there it's easier for the real fascists to argue that blue collar immiseration is inextricably linked to LGBTQ+ rights, BIPOC advancement, etc. This is a deliberate strategy for the far right, but some people earnestly seem to believe it

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 4d

Neoliberal DEI is packaged with neoliberal economics as a way to have something to point to that says "see, things are getting better, you can't complain" without having to actually address the systemic rot or endanger shareowners

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 4d

KKR pride logos, pronouns in emails, even corporate DEI trainings are relatively cheap ways to assuage the guilt of mildly conscious PMC types and virtue signal while reframing systemic issues (caused or exacerbated by these same corporations!) into personal challenges

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 4d

To the extent that there's any "there" there in the popularist antiwoke crackdown beyond old-school patriarchal racism it really seems like empty neoliberal DEI really served to align marginalized identities with late capitalist exploitation in the white working class and petite bourgeoisie

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 5d

As a neutral observer, this seems cruel

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 5d

Oh shit, I've only been on one

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 6d

Just realized that's two "hell yeses" but I am excited for you!

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 6d

I want a boy with a short thought and a long, loooong op-ed

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

🎶Now his hat is on backwards
He can show you his tattoos
He is in the music business
He is calling you dude

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 6d

Hell yes, I would love to dish about astronomy or physics or climate or something with you

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Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 6d

Hell yes, I love this