2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

Okay fine also turtlenecks.

Reluctantly, I suppose I'm also now looking forward to radicchio and seeing theatre/dance (which I can't bear to do in the summer because its INSIDE).

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

It was really quite romantic!

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

This piece is working through what is both intoxicating and terrifying about collectivity—which is a crucial exploration I think if we're trying to create larger and more loving versions of "we"!

But beyond looking back at teenage drama-school nonsense, I was quite moved by this observation. This "we" is one of the things that brings me to organizing. I spoke of it to a fairly apolitical friend recently and she (vulnerably) said she was afraid of that kind of collectivity.

In short, this sounds like the kind of emotional masochism I would have enjoyed once upon a time and still find fascinating! But I'm now blessed to largely belong to functional group formations these days, so I channel this impulse into group therapy and other...concentually masochistic behaviors.

(Another unrelated game was Spin-the/Flip-the Bottle—like the classic Spin the bottle, but after you spin the bottle, you also flip a coin. Heads you kiss, tails you hit them across the face).

Unsurprisingly, this resulted in a great deal of hurt feelings, some disastrous meltdowns during rehearsals, and a few ill-advised fucks. We were quite unwell and in the company of some master manipulators! We were also nineteen!

So you end up knowing that you were the answer to a question but not which question!

2) Paranoia: Person A whispers a question in the ear of Person B. The answer to the question has to be someone in the room (the classic here is "Who would you most want to fuck?"). Person B then walks over to Person C (who is the answer to the question they were asked) and whispers them a question.

Simultaneously two games would be played at once. 1) People would ask eachother yes/no questions and you'd have to answer immediately (for the most honest answer) "Do you think I'm a good actor?" was a masochistic classic.

This piece reminded me of when I was nineteen and we learned about Meisner technique at drama school. My peers started playing a game (drunk, late at night) called "Yes/No/Paranoia."

Particularly compelled by how Sarah Khatry and @aprzhu.bsky.social's @nplusonemag.com interview shows the ways Chen's poor craft obscures Israel's colonial project.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“I was out there today because being part of a music collective gives me the strength and courage to do brave things, like sing beautiful songs at people who wish us and our neighbors harm.”

"...the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from 'the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.'" heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

This is handled and I’m grateful to everyone who kicked in. I could not tolerate this local musician being penalized for doing something brave and beautiful—not when they helped make music that kept us strong while ICE fired less lethals and drove cars into us.

A propos my hypothesis that those looking for democratic unity lack the the psychological fortitude to weather personal conflict

When you avoid the unpleasantness of -gasp- rejecting association with your opponent, you displace your discomfort onto those most vulnerable to your opponent’s abuses.

Last week yall did a lot of doomering on this website, lets make a plan together to not let the fascists dictate the tenor of our feelings or the content of our discussions by simply saying something scary. This week lets don't afraid and set an example of courage for ourselves and our communities

Statement from No Azure for Apartheid: medium.com/@noazurefora...

this week i learned that the anarchist scientist peter kropotkin was the guy who discovered how glaciers move and also wrote maybe the first treatise on the need to combat climate change

chicago ! i'm playing at Collider on Friday!! dm for address and be cool. wear a mask.