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no one of consequence. professional cybersecurity person and failed academic. queer feminist wittgensteinian artist who values privacy and is inspired by people.
no one of consequence. professional cybersecurity person and failed academic. queer feminist wittgensteinian artist who values privacy and is inspired by people.
![from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations Wikipedia article: "The American philosopher Norman Malcolm credits Piero Sraffa with helping Wittgenstein's break away from the notion that a proposition must literally function as a picture of reality. According to Malcolm, this shift was prompted by a rude gesture from Sraffa, who then asked Wittgenstein, "What is the logical form of that?"[5] In the Introduction of Philosophical Investigations, written in 1945, Wittgenstein acknowledged Sraffa: "for many years unceasingly practiced on my thoughts. I am indebted to this stimulus for the most consequential ideas in this book".[6]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3ahbkf2ffyahj2eoauoisqd/bafkreigaqirarjj66tf2lcnlkwdxrcj5fyjp45xkyravdi2n7uqen56foq)
![screenshot of text from Harry Potter wiki entry for "Queenie Goldstein", reading " Queenie Goldstein[9] (b. 6 January 1903)[1] was an American half-blood[2] witch[10] and the younger sister of Tina Goldstein. She attended Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she was sorted into Pukwudgie house.
After graduating from Ilvermorny, Queenie acquired a desk job in the Wand Permit"
the screenshotter has annotated with red, circling "where she was sorted into Pukwudgie house" and writing "WTF?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3ahbkf2ffyahj2eoauoisqd/bafkreifxheagt4breknibw7ylqk7kzktftelngraxthwp4nn3gkkadhwcm)
![screenshot of text from Harry Potter wiki entry for "Queenie Goldstein", reading
"J. K. Rowling revealed in a tweet that Anthony Goldstein, a Ravenclaw Hogwarts student first introduced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was distantly related to Tina and Queenie Goldstein.[32]"
screenshotter has annotated "amazing 😯" by "jk rowling revealed in a tweet". screenshotter is amazed at this stupid shit](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3ahbkf2ffyahj2eoauoisqd/bafkreic4jdjhny2ejf6tcynzz5uocuygsd7cl74cf64xu32gia7wjyqgpe)
![[Text from the Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba (from Mariame Kaba's introduction)]
"I came of age in New York City in the 1980s. I was incredibly lucky to find some wonderful touchstones. These people were patient with me, sometimes hard on me, but most important, they listened to my ideas. They were role models who taught me about the limits and possibilities of lifelong activism and organizing. Yet, I must admit that I write these words with retrospective admiration. When I was fourteen and fifteen years old, I didn’t appreciate these people in the way I do now. As a teenager, I thought that they were too cautious and lacked revolutionary zeal.
The truth is that I was being seduced by another group of people—I’ll call them the butterflies. These were the people who always had a ready quote by Fanon, Malcolm, Che, or Marx. Only men, of course. They carried around tattered books that I had not yet read. This would send me scurrying to the library or to Liberation Bookstore to find those exact tomes. These were the people in my life who spent the most time talking about revolution. In retrospect, I know that the reason I was so enthralled was because it was exciting to imagine myself as a revolutionary. My untested ideas were always brilliant around them. They were fun to be around because they rarely participated in the actual hard work of building organization, and they had a lot of criticisms of those who did that work.
While others were going door to door in Harlem to talk with community members about affordable housing, the butterflies were lamenting the fact that “the people” were not being sufficiently engaged in “our” struggles. None of them ever went door to door. We talked a lot about “new” models of engagement, even"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3ahbkf2ffyahj2eoauoisqd/bafkreiam7i37wji2mgdwwe3hlivgatzyb5ybijh66baci4yvuzg5pkupay)
