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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 13h

what an incredible world we live in

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 15h

i’m not so sure

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 15h

i knew the risk i took posting this

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 15h

i’ve never seen anything like it, that back fin is insane

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 15h

a man is sitting in front of a laptop computer looking at the camera .

Alt: a man is sitting in front of a laptop computer looking at the camera . he’s nodding with a concerned look on his face

media.tenor.com

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 15h

whaaaaaaaaaaaat am i lookin at

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 22h

new little piece by me on the dustiest blog on the internet:

cncptmchn.com/2025/10/10/s...

strata

even during an incompetent, authoritarian regime, new ideas, politics, movements and solidarities can emerge from local conditions, precisely because the global can never fully saturate the local, …

cncptmchn.com

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 19h

you had me in the first half meme

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 19h

you hate to see an afternoon ruined

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 19h

i'm not smart enough to go full-actually on this post, but still hilarious given the marxist concept of metabolism

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 20h

i'll do it

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 20h

haha that was my favorite bit, you're going to slide? that's great

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 20h

if they don't, i will

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 20h

this is fantastic lol

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🌭 stevia nicks @muffinlab.bsky.social · 20h

IT BEGINS NOW

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 21h

how does power move through institutions, and how does that shape how we move through our small lives? what happens to possibility itself when there's a disruption that makes power's movements visible?

the apparent contradiction of strata–the clearly visible and terrifying global impact of the virus compared against the understated, often invisible, presentation in many local (and especially rural) communities–provides a good framework for thinking about the movements of fascism through our society. the dominant themes of our world–inequality, hyperindividuation, omni-marketization–got a critical infusion of momentum during the pandemic, right at the precise moment they came into question. we shouldn’t ever forget the early days of the global shutdown, the sudden stalling of capitalism, the lurch of daily life into slower and more meandering rhythms.

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 22h

trying to trace out the contours of how regime power trickles down unevenly into local conditions, how to account for both wichita and chicago/portland, in a way

what i’m trying to notice are the ways that even during an incompetent, authoritarian regime, new ideas, politics, movements and solidarities can emerge from local conditions, precisely because the global can never fully saturate the local, even as it shapes it.

where the pandemic was “external/existential”, the second trump regime is clearly “internal/existential”, but still very much subject to the same ineffective and incomplete totalizing capacities. they simply cannot physically exert power everywhere all at once–no one can. there are a couple of important implications to this idea of unevenness.

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 22h

new little piece by me on the dustiest blog on the internet:

cncptmchn.com/2025/10/10/s...

strata

even during an incompetent, authoritarian regime, new ideas, politics, movements and solidarities can emerge from local conditions, precisely because the global can never fully saturate the local, …

cncptmchn.com

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spookytown, USA @superhayo.bsky.social · 22h

goatse flapjack

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 22h

ISP really wants to get an elevated look here but they’ve been struggling to figure this out for almost ten minutes.

One protesters yells, “I’m certified if you need help.”