Reposted by Toblabob
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Reposted by Toblabob
Recently I asked Drew Daniel of Matmos /Soft Pink Truth to consider a question: what good is making music while the world slides inexorably into disaster.
In response he wrote an essay for tQ that should be of great interest to anyone creating art in the face of global events.
🔗in🧵...
In response he wrote an essay for tQ that should be of great interest to anyone creating art in the face of global events.
🔗in🧵...
January 26, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Recently I asked Drew Daniel of Matmos /Soft Pink Truth to consider a question: what good is making music while the world slides inexorably into disaster.
In response he wrote an essay for tQ that should be of great interest to anyone creating art in the face of global events.
🔗in🧵...
In response he wrote an essay for tQ that should be of great interest to anyone creating art in the face of global events.
🔗in🧵...
Reposted by Toblabob
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
Reposted by Toblabob
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Obligatory solidarity from across the pond 😎
Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
The first General Strike in 80 years
We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before
www.jphilll.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Obligatory solidarity from across the pond 😎
I’d never heard of BT before today, but man, this is a phenomenal example of touching, textured, mid-noughties IDM. Wish I’d heard it sooner
January 22, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I’d never heard of BT before today, but man, this is a phenomenal example of touching, textured, mid-noughties IDM. Wish I’d heard it sooner
Christ, he’s taken out the drums. I’m floating
January 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Christ, he’s taken out the drums. I’m floating
RIP, Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin. Schlagenheim has already proven itself one of the most influential records in recent years, and he played a pivotal role in revitalising guitar music for my generation. Never saw black midi when he was still part of it, but man, I wish I did
January 12, 2026 at 8:39 PM
RIP, Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin. Schlagenheim has already proven itself one of the most influential records in recent years, and he played a pivotal role in revitalising guitar music for my generation. Never saw black midi when he was still part of it, but man, I wish I did
Reposted by Toblabob
I remember Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama sleeping through the Hortmans, to both give heartfelt condemnation of violence in regards to Charlie Kirk mere hours after he died. and Look! The dumbfuck twins back fast asleep when its not a fascist being murdered.
January 8, 2026 at 7:38 AM
I remember Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama sleeping through the Hortmans, to both give heartfelt condemnation of violence in regards to Charlie Kirk mere hours after he died. and Look! The dumbfuck twins back fast asleep when its not a fascist being murdered.
Reposted by Toblabob
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1
They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Reposted by Toblabob
Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
January 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
Reposted by Toblabob
My mother was a refugee of the Salvadoran civil war. The Americans backed the fascists that took over the country. Now Salvador is run by a pro yankee crypto dictator who has built the largest concentration camp in the western hemisphere. That, is American intervention.
January 3, 2026 at 9:12 AM
My mother was a refugee of the Salvadoran civil war. The Americans backed the fascists that took over the country. Now Salvador is run by a pro yankee crypto dictator who has built the largest concentration camp in the western hemisphere. That, is American intervention.
Reposted by Toblabob
We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
Reposted by Toblabob
What is gonna be your response when the US does this exact same thing to Greenland, I wonder.
I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
What is gonna be your response when the US does this exact same thing to Greenland, I wonder.
Reposted by Toblabob
The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
Trump just kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
Reposted by Toblabob
When I say there is no democracy in this country, this is what I mean. We have no democratic control of *anything* no matter how consequential. We can’t stop a genocide, we can’t impeach a billionaire pedophile, we can’t stop an AI CSAM factory.These are all related.
January 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
When I say there is no democracy in this country, this is what I mean. We have no democratic control of *anything* no matter how consequential. We can’t stop a genocide, we can’t impeach a billionaire pedophile, we can’t stop an AI CSAM factory.These are all related.
Blank Banshee was always good, actually
January 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Blank Banshee was always good, actually
In the last three years I’ve become asthmatic, gone to therapy, and started wearing glasses. At this rate I’m gonna get shorter and my hair will turn blue, and then I’ll just be fucking Millhouse
December 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
In the last three years I’ve become asthmatic, gone to therapy, and started wearing glasses. At this rate I’m gonna get shorter and my hair will turn blue, and then I’ll just be fucking Millhouse
Foucault just started making sense. My mind is a Steve Roach album cover
December 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Foucault just started making sense. My mind is a Steve Roach album cover
Leicestershire’s come a long way since I left. They literally have bronze tools here now
December 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Leicestershire’s come a long way since I left. They literally have bronze tools here now
TODAY WE’RE HAVING THE BEST FUCKING DAY EVER LET’S FUCKING GET IT LEGENDS DRINK THAT FUCKING COFFEE AND KILL THAT FUCKING SHIT FUCK ALL THE HATERS AND THEIR WHINY BULLSHIT TODAY IS OUR FUCKING DAY
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
TODAY WE’RE HAVING THE BEST FUCKING DAY EVER LET’S FUCKING GET IT LEGENDS DRINK THAT FUCKING COFFEE AND KILL THAT FUCKING SHIT FUCK ALL THE HATERS AND THEIR WHINY BULLSHIT TODAY IS OUR FUCKING DAY
Starting to think that people's universal hatred of advertising is a good place to start a broadly popular leftwing movement
December 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Starting to think that people's universal hatred of advertising is a good place to start a broadly popular leftwing movement
Started making Bionicle music. I will not be providing more information at this time
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Started making Bionicle music. I will not be providing more information at this time