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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 · 42m

Anyway I gotta go chop down a banana plant

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 42m

Liv's working shit out on the timeline again IG

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 43m

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 · 43m

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 · 51m

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 · 51m

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

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 54m

(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 · 56m

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

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 57m

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 · 59m

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

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

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1d

As a neutral observer, this seems cruel

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

Oh shit, I've only been on one

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

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

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

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

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

🎶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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Hell yes, I love this

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

Girl you have appeared on multiple podcasts

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

I don't know how this happened but my first reaction to Nobel physics prize announcements is now based on whether or not I know them personally?

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

Between this and the pickle thing I'm starting to have Questions

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

Today in shit my dad says:

"Of course estrogen makes you feel good, it makes everyone feel better" 🤨

Liv again 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 17d

Lmao my dad is convinced estrogen is going to kill me because they give it to horses that are too unruly to ride and those horses die young I guess?

Having veterinarian parents is very cool for some things but unexpectedly 🙃 for others

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

Being furloughed sucks for a lot of reasons but one I hadn't counted on was seeing my non-furloughed team members opening PRs and being unable to yell at them to stop working at 5 am

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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

Plus the added indignity that the forum thread many of these guys are coming from is the "How many days are in a week" bodybuilding argument