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surasays.bsky.social
Letterrioter
@surasays.bsky.social
“Radical simply means grasping things at the root.” - Angela Davis // settler migrant on stolen, unceded Wurundjeri lands // Views my own
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A small thing, lovingly done. We need more of those.
December 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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In 2020, I started hosting online crafternoons for folks all over the world. Today was the last one of 2025. For five years we have gathered and the community that has been built is astounding. All crafty Badasses are welcome!

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December 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Capping off our series on what Zohran Mamdani can accomplish in his first 100 days, here's a grab bag of actionable policy ideas ranging from immigration and homelessness to culture, schools, parks and reproductive justice.
Everything Else Mamdani Should Do in His First 100 Days
Should be easy, right?
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December 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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There’s not a white person in this room that would change places with me and I'm rich! That's how good it is to be white! - Chris Rock
December 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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thinking of that James Baldwin quote about "blame" vs "responsibility" & how many white people utterly fail to get that distinction bc they're so defensively attached to whiteness (for better & for worse) as a personal identity
December 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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None of them have ever done any such thing. I think what they object to is that other white people have started talking publicly about how whiteness as a concept creates inequality, and they feel the social pressure that truth creates, which they experience exclusively in terms of blame management.
December 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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wealth redistribution also includes giving tens of billions of public dollars to wealthy schools, the military industrial complex, landlords (again) via negative gearing and rent assistance, tradies, franking boomers, and employment agency grifters.

thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...
thepoint.com.au
December 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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In all honesty, we really need a permanent Truth and Reconciliation Commission with a broad mandate covering institutional racism more than we need a narrowly focused RC.
December 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Nothing threatens white comfort like the idea that non-white people deserve everything they have or wish to have.
December 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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In these dark days, three things give me hope:

1) Dogs exist.
2) So does general anesthestic.
3) If you can’t stop hiccuping, there’s a nerve in your chest they can cut.
December 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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I think I want my own website to blog at but then again, maybe I should just keep using Medium? Thoughts?
December 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” - Ray Goforth
December 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.
December 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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capitalism: the only war where the side with vastly fewer combatants is winning because the other side doesn't actually know it's at war
December 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Often times when people travel to a poorer country when they say “everyone was so nice” they mean “everyone was so solicitous”.
December 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I do think AI companies underestimate the degree to which simply being this annoyed can turn most of us into full on supervillains. Like, ask me again if I, a writer, want you, a fuck burger barf box, to help me with this sentence? We will collectively ruin the AI boom out of sheer pettiness watch
December 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Some people you defeat, not convince.
December 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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"Capitalism has a notorious tendency to periodically come spinning apart. Each time it does, those who profit from it have to convince everyone there is really no choice but to dutifully paste it all back together again, in something like the original form."

- David Graeber
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have:

- no one to see on Christmas Day,
- no presents, or
- no contactable relatives.

Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.
December 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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If you, like me searched for "David Graeber Christmas" (someone on the internet somewhere must have), this 1.5 minute mini-podcast is for you.
December 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives working tirelessly to deliver the food we eat.

Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.

act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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"Gender Biased Resistance to Harsh Feedback"

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM