Like, he's fucking with your money! Do something!

It is bizarrely nice to finally see one of these entities actually stand up for free market capitalism, something I'd previously concluded none of them actually believed in

Yeah frankly the fact that we're hearing about it at all is a bad sign

I don't want to underplay the fact that it can be tricky to get comfortable in that space and understand the expectations of it -- it's a specific kind of thing to navigate -- but lots of folks just go to hang out. I went to a few play parties before I ever really participated

I was initially invited to some because the host liked me and felt like I could hang, and I've invited a couple of friends along because they've seemed like they'd enjoy it and would also be able to hang. It literally is that simple

Not something that people have to participate in (or should participate in if they don't want to) or that it can't have the kind of messy repercussions that can occur from any hookup. But it's not like searching for faeries, you know?

Which is to say, if you're in a scene were group sex happens (which is more of them than you think) it's a pretty casual thing. Someone sets up the container and people show up to do whatever people are into

I think people who haven't had group sex (which, to be fair, is a lot of folks) think of it as something categorically different and seperate from other encounters, and in practice it's often more of a scene thing than anything

Very important to get someone into office whose attitude is less "unity" and more "get the bastards"

Up to us to try and ensure it's the latter and not the former. In some way, that'll be what the midterms and presidential primaries are for

I think we are going to get out of this one, but they are doing a remarkable amount of damage, all of which could have been avoided and all of which will be a real bitch to even begin repairing

Please do! I'd been on the road too long to snag a photo but it'd be a good one

It should be! It's a great book!

I think a lot of the way that discussions of indigeniety play out sort of implicitly positions indigenous people as being primordial and outside "history," when this is obviously not the case. See also: the Maori arriving in New Zealand in the 13th century at the earliest

Yes! The Norse would have had some reason landing in Canada after Iceland and Greenland to assume it too was uninhabited, though of course they wouldn't have cared much about that one way or another

I do, in fact! It was conceptualized as a package of a couple of little 500 word stories, one of which (the turkey one, naturally) did get carved out and published solo. What's a good email for you?

The question of who is indigenous to, say, various places around the Mediterranean or North Sea is a completely hopeless muddle even if you *aren't* pursuing an avowedly ethnonationalist project, which of course many people are

Anyway I think indigenous gets very, very tricky as a term because it (for understandable historical reasons) carries a racialized undertone, and was sort of formed in the context of the Americas and Australia, i.e very definitive Contacts between extremely disparate peoples