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The Déliquescent Future

@bothpithyandangry.bsky.social

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Old-ass trans woman from the bad old days. Work as a professional trauma dumpster. Have a dog for when I'm sad and a bsky for when I'm pissed off. Rural public health! Trevor Project (crisis support for LGBT+, unaffiliated with the regime) 212 695-8650

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · Jul 27

GenX butch transbian working in the shaft alley of a pocket seiner listening to Team Dresch seeks same- or any human on this earth who knows what all those words mean.

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 19h

Reading _Light From Uncommon Stars_ and I have never found anything as distressing as the Endplague, the book's answer to the Fermi Paradox: civilizations eventually confront despair and their own mortality with atavistic self-murder.

Another planet set on fire. This has happened before. Over and over. Leaders drawing new plans, finding new scapegoats.
A civilization coming to the end of its life.

So don't think you are special. You are a digit, trying to dodge statistics. And, while you are still insignificant, leave now.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 20h

culturally a lot closer than even mainland Asian cultures two thousand years ago. World religions are world religions.

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 20h

I never felt okay with the appropriation argument for Buddhism. Like it crossed from Nepal to Indonesia in a few hundred years- if you go with the common theory, US Buddhism grew out of books and teachers from Japan in the early mid-20th century, at a time when the US and Japan were

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 20h

Something I heard a Lebanese refugee say in an interview once: if they say it'll only last a week find an apartment. If they say it'll be done in a month find a job. If they say it'll all be over in a year learn the language; you're never going home.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 20h

I just mean, I always said I'd only ever move towards something and not away, but the thing is sometimes I don't get a choice.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 20h

I cannot express how much I want to stay. In this country, in my little off-the-road town where the postmaster brings my accidentally-unclaimed packages to my housemate on his rescue squad shift and people call me for their bake sale fundraisers. Where I know the berry and mushroom spots.

But...

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 22h

Funny thought- both the current democratic party and capitalism have the same response to everything: "yeah, but what if you didn't have a choice?"

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 22h

Hey! Don't do my man Victor Hugo dirty like that!

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 22h

I first knew about the historical figure in the context of the whiskey rebellion, essentially a real estate scam to dispossess poor farmers in what was then the West.

Can I please hate him without "you just don't think a Black man can play a founding father"?

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 22h

Still waiting on a paycheck but will order

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 22h

This does nothing to assuage my fear that the democrats' first priority is always the next election, specifically ensuring all public actions leading up to an election are as nondisruptive as possible. Winning, in this worldview, is natural and losing is the unfortunate outcome of someone fucking up

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 22h

You going to do a second printing?

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering if that was just some other dialect. I only know fusha and also i suck at it.

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 1d

If your supervisor ever tells you that in order to remain in employee housing you have to Venmo a thousand bucks to his personal account, call HR.

I know calling HR is usually worthless or even suicidal but occasionally they do get it right.

How's everybody else's Halloween weekend?

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 1d

Got a follow from me

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Kentoc'h Mervel @torr-reor.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry but that's the profile picture of the Afanc on the social networks. IRL the afanc looks like this:

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 2d

@wyrdlittleguy.bsky.social hey congrats on the Netherlands not necessarily going fash! I know I know forming a majority coalition blah blah it could have gone much worse!

(And Ireland! And if Canada can pass a budget tomorrow, Canada too!)

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 2d

Is the argument that Israel is a colony of... Britain? Again? Wasn't there a war or something?

Also Israeli third-worldism is an interesting platform...

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 2d

Goddammit living in a truck again...

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 2d

Istg every other story out of Canada is someone promising to invoke the notwithstanding clause. Like fine Bill 21 had problems but I don't think CAQ intended to end federalism overall

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 2d

I think someday there will be room to explore the difference between "hate" and sadism. I don't know if Trump voters are truly emotionally overwhelmed by the thought of trans people and immigrants, as much as they enjoy recreationally watching them squirm in agony.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 2d

But Twinkies! In co-ops!

The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 2d

"when the Dems take power" is an unproven and unlikely outcome anyway. How exactly would that even happen?

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2d

Dunno how to break it to you but we're not going to vote our way to democracy. We're also not suing our way there. As absolutely vital as both of these things are, they're necessary but not sufficient. We need people to get to their bones that we are in extraordinary times & break out of habits.

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The Déliquescent Future @bothpithyandangry.bsky.social · 2d

You see this in Alaska- the city or Borough subsidizes the construction of low cost units and they're immediately bought up by existing homeowners as short term rentals