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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

God I love Zoologist perfumes

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway, Les Revenanta (le serie) m'a fait trop effrayant à dormir 😭😭

rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

C'est drole (commr bizarre pas amusant) à guetter les actualités charrer sur le sujet du fascisme dans les États Unis s'il existe non plus. Mais j'trouve que Umberto Eco a raison

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

Ur-Fascism

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

theanarchistlibrary.org

rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

Vous autres fasse une tite sieste, comme un cadeau pour toi-même

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 4d

This talk situates these developments within the FBI’s long history of surveilling leftist movements, LGBTQ organizations, and liberation activists, and explores how current policy priorities continue that legacy. firestorm.coop/events/3478-...

Gender Terrorism?: Surviving MAGA's War on Trans People

Activists Eric King, Josh Davidson, and Zane McNeill put the current federal attack on trans rights in historical perspective.

firestorm.coop

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

New favorite activity is booing every time a pundit revises a bigoted person post-mortem and tries to frame them as a normal and fine voice

Normalizing right wing authoritarianism is no good

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 5d

Just confirmed I'm one of the author victims of the blood sucking company Anthropic that stole my book to train it's LLM. I filed a claim and it felt really good. If you're an author who may have been victimized, you can find out here:

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

I hear manufactures drama is all the rage

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

Next interview we should pretend to friend breakup just so I can say - et tu brute

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

Weird how the free speech people keep labeling work that criticizes the State as terrorism and needing to be suppressed

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

The other day I was outside the Bun Shop and a rat waddled from the sewer, sat on the steps of the next door shop Im not sure is actually a shop, and watched people for 5 minutes before returning to the sewer
One of the locals and I only communicate through bird whistles
This city is a fever dream 💜

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

My students asked me if I have any beef with other political theorists / writers, and really it's only @zanemcneill.bsky.social

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 4d

I will do most things if I can be convinced that
1) it'll be a good time
2) if it isn't a good time, it'll be a great story

so far moving to Baltimore has been a bit of both

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 6d

Discount Code: PALAUT
link.springer.com/book/9783032... @rileyval.bsky.social

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 8d

Can't wait to go 🤩

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Zane McNeill @zanemcneill.bsky.social · 8d

Join us to chat about the history of State surveillance and infiltration of social movements and what we can do to keep trans people (and all of us) as safe as possible firestorm.coop/events/3478-...

Gender Terrorism?: Surviving MAGA's War on Trans People

Activists Eric King, Josh Davidson, and Zane McNeill put the current federal attack on trans rights in historical perspective.

firestorm.coop

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 9d

Atomic Books was a dream 🤩

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 11d

Treating migrants with care, regardless of immigration status or legality, is a core part of Catholic Social Teaching

#LeftistCatholic #Liberationtheology

www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

Catholic immigrant advocates caught ‘flat-footed’ by Trump chart a path forward

On immigration enforcement: “If there is any institution in this country that can stop what is happening, it is the Catholic Church.”

www.americamagazine.org

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 12d

Book tour in the works for @zanemcneill.bsky.social and I's newest book

Support a book that according to The Heritage Foundation is a call to violence because it...argues in support for gender-affirming care?

link.springer.com/book/9783032...

The Coercive Power of the Law

This book offers a critical exploration of the interplay between law, care ethics, and the body, emphasizing how legal systems both reflect societal values

link.springer.com

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Annes Mien @annesmien.bsky.social · 12d

Bambi
#cats #catsofbluesky #TGIF #yayFriday

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 13d

spoiler - I won't be doing that

Instead I'll continue to stare into the orb

rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 13d

Need to boost my seizure thresh hold after staring into a glowing orb for hours

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 15d

20 years ago I had my first seizure
I just received my third epilepsy disorder diagnosis (there are many different types of epilepsy)

Thinking about writing about disability and diagnosis, diagnoses can change the way I understand myself and the world, and it no doubt shapes how the world sees me

rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 16d

Hard to be so cool n talented ain't it

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rileyval.bsky.social @rileyval.bsky.social · 16d

The problmlem with watching Reno911 after a glass of wine, is going to the Reno subreddit and then reading months of posts about Burners being horrible and learning about Mexican Japanese fusion restaurants

I need to go to Reno