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there's a popular mythology that CSA is universally viewed as uniquely taboo, even rape apologists wouldn't defend it. this relies on an unstated assumption that children are somehow exempt from rape culture. outside and set apart from society. but they're not. they're its most disempowered members.

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the thing about rape culture is that it is a technology of oppression, a system by which some people consolidate power through the violation and fragmentation of the bodies of the disempowered. how do you suspect that affects the people LOWEST on the ladder of power?

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"parental rights" are rape culture. the view that adults as a class, and parents in particular, have a RIGHT to, for example, stop children from transitioning is rape culture. there's been much critique of the notion of "innocence" in children, but even those critiques generally miss that >

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> "innocence" as a cultural signifier is an incitement to violate as much as it is to "protect." who doesn't like crunching untouched snow beneath their feet? the first time i was catcalled by a stranger i think i was about 11 or 12.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 4h

and see once again the countless, countless examples like the catholic church, the southern baptist convention, the troubled teen industry. how could those happen everywhere all the time if children were outside & exempt from rape culture? they aren't. what they are is *invisibilized* by it.

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where and when do adults even LEARN the codes, norms, and rhetorical games of rape culture? it's not like we turn 18 and are handed a guidebook of "the unspoken rules of who gets to violate whose bodily autonomy and how to defend it while rhetorically pretending not to." we learn it in childhood.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 4h

imagine my surprise when i started the video and the very first example they go into is the same thing i've hammered on about but never seen anyone else point out: the conflation between "caring too much about sexual violence" and "being childish, needing to grow up."

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4h

I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.

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As near as I can tell it, the literal position of the Democratic establishment and its faithful is as follows: 1) Everyone to their left, as well as anyone in a marginalized demographic, has to vote for who they tell them to in every election and conform all public statements to their messaging...

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2) Party leaders and politicians can never be criticized by those covered by said leftists or marginalized folks under any circumstances, no matter how bigoted or incompetent their actions are. 3) Any such criticism sanctions any level of retaliation or petty cruelty, personal or collective.

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4) Any form of political organizing or demonstration outside voting for said candidates, rallying for said candidates, donating to them or working within a narrow swath of approved non-profits is suspect, outside agitation, infighting (even if no one involved is a Dem) and probably illegal.

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Somehow the above is canny realism and not both absolutely incompetent strategy (even by the miserable standards of electoral politics) and a staggeringly delusional level of conformity to ever expect.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 6h

If, in a moment of clarity and pent up anger, you point out that this is just a nigh-feudal level of entitlement by a cult that exalts ritual obedience to their idealized mythology of a dying empire's political system above all else, the penalty is extra invocations of "enjoy the camps."

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Part of what prompted this thread (there was oh so much) were Dems backing the openly transphobic Jamie Ager yelling that our local journalism co-op's "one job" was to back him and not report any bad news about his campaign. Most of us are anarchists. All of us are trans. None of us are Democrats.

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Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 6h

It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 5h

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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pete rogers, professional diaper changer @petemrogers.bsky.social · 5h

one of my favorite tweets of all time

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Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 5h

My abusive ex was nothing but faux progressive therapy speak supportive while in private hurting me and violating my consent on a regular basis. Then he'd cry about it afterwards. After I left him he went round telling people I had borderline personality disorder and he couldnt help me anymore.

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Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 5h

Abusers being lying manipulators after the fact shouldnt be shocking to people. They will say whatever gets them the result they want! I got very lucky that I had friends and family who'd seen bits and pieces and were willing to go "Actually she yelled because he was hurting her and wouldnt stop"

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Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 5h

It's amazing how utterly gullible everyone wants to be if it means keeping their happy little status quo. They lie! They leave things out! They give you half the story if it makes them look honest but pitiable!

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Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 5h

He monitored every single thing I ever did, using social media to do a lot of it, and then spun out some sob story after I left him that I'd destroyed his social circle and emotional support network in revenge. People wouldn't talk to him because they'd been trying to get me to leave him for ages!

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Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 6h

If I could repost this a thousand times I would… There are so very few that see what’s going on here despite it being in-your-face obvious. Trans people LOST rights. This year. And we have publicly transphobic Dems and it is completely unacceptable. I will never vote for a Democrat again until

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h

a lot of parents are doll collectors. there is not really anything that pushes them to be anything else. all the institutions of society, all the laws, are built to provide structural support for that paradigm of parenting

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h

you can say they aren't parents, but its not like the kids get replacements or additional supportive adults. and the consequences aren't the parents' to bear. the child has to take whatever pieces are salvageable and carve the rest of personhood by whittling whatever resilience they have

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h

when the child is an adult and is learning to cope with the cpsd, the tools they are almost always given are grounding themselves in distance from a childhood experience of powerlessness that they were in thrall of

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h

you have to detangle yourself from so many things you were taught to get out from under this, and you still have to speak the language of children being inherently abusable and other forms of abusive, totalitarian control being justified by its subjects' adjacency to children

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h

i am only learning to talk about this shit now because i need to in order to make sense of the ways i have been hurt not just by abuses of power held over me, but by having that control firmly held in human hands that were not mine

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Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 7h

"when you think about it can anyone ever reeeeally know what's truth"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11h

Thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the deplorable conditions in their high schools and a rapidly collapsing future. Our correspondents in Paris explore the situation in detail. crimethinc.com/France2026

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French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future

Thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the conditions in their high schools and a rapidly collapsing future.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14h

these people truly do not see the victim as a person. as someone who matters in this at ALL. she's an abstraction. she's a silent, invisible, objectified propr in the story of his life. the terrain upon which the drama of his moral arc plays out. total dehumanization.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14h

this is the way many people view SA. not as an act of violence against a PERSON, much less as a technology of oppression, but as a story event in the moral arc of HIS life. the inciting incident of a redemption play. he's the protagonist, she's barely even a supporting character. she's a trope.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14h

in this story she is about as relevant as a "dead wife" in a nolan movie, in the sense that her existence does not extend beyond the hero's emotional backstory. she is not a real person. she has no interiority, no subjective experience, and CERTAINLY no rights, least of all any right to justice.

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i've been trying to articulate for years how the discourse around rape and abuse treats it as an abstract matter of moral taste. there are abstractly "im/moral" ways to treat a thing, but the moral weight rests of whether it's "allowed" or "not allowed," not on the victim's inviolable personhood.

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like trespassing in an empty building, or writing in a library book. these actions are "not allowed" and therefore are abstractly "immoral" to do, but the only real actual person who's affected is the person who does it, and the only dimension in which the affect is felt is in their own moral status

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they see nothing wrong with giving themselves the prerogative to forgive someone else's rape, bc the bodies of women are the property of society, & by society we mean men, so how she feels about it is irrelevant. people break the rules all the time, isn't it unfair to be so draconian about it?

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all of these people, they would read this very thread, and still be so completely, categorically unable to conceptualize women as actual people, that they would still see everything i've said here as mere moralizing. as being a moral-rules-stickler. as just "thinking it's icky." no humans involved.

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speaking from experience: yes. they would feel the same about CSA. children are even less of real people than women. children are even more seen as mere moral abstractions upon whom adults act. property. CSA advocacy gets you sneered at as a histrionic puritanical moralist. bsky.app/profile/lack...

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 11h

i once read a "restorative justice" paper about catholic priests outed for CSA and how it's so cruel and terrible to ostracize or make them feel bad for doing something that "has been considered normal and harmless throughout history, think of the ancient greeks etc." think of their emotional pain

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It’s so funny to imagine what the UK could be like if it took seriously any of its cultural icons—that aren’t wizards, Shakespeare, or in possession of good fortune but in want of a wife. We could have Tyranid statues at Heathrow. Perhaps a grisly frieze depicting Servitor conversion at Gatwick.

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Is it being a yankee, a video game culture writer or wanting to be part of the dogshit video game pseudo-journalist clique so bad that makes you write this shit out ? All three ?

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it's a fundamentally anglo mode of existence to believe you can therapy speak your way out of being so willingly festering with rot that you've had times & times again the opportunity to cleanse the constant grasping at respectability to save face, incredibly disingenuous culture all around

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the vapid faux-congratulatory coworker language like we're not supposed to sneer at the repeated attempts to placate, the emphasis on disagreement like this isn't something with a clear practical & philosophical answer but rather a mere point of discourse & debate for the public sphere to engage in

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