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Mfg. Content | Lady M.

@culturalcapitalist.bsky.social
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Witty quips from your local Melbournian trans fem trying to avoid entering the Vampire's Castle. Deconstructing manufactured consent, corporate habitus, and algorithmic status games. All opinions are my own and not the product of manufactured consent.

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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
all i want is to find people who can hold dialectical debate and are mature enough to accept that i may have an opposing viewpoint without running the other direction or slapping the block button. one of my personal mottos is “strong opinions AND loosely held.”
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
watching myself get blocked for making a campy “the room” joke on an account name clearly riffing on tommy wiseau is just sad. couldn’t take a joke, i guess? 🙃 the entire point of this account was not to shrink myself and be okay with this exact sort of thing happening. you don’t need to like me
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
having to sometimes remember that the healthiest thing to do is be okay with the fact that i have disagreements about something someone believes and that’s okay. i refuse to fall into the camp of “this person is a bad person since not all their ideas align with mine”
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
i accidentally wound up creating an aphrodisiac. i always thought it was dogshit but then i wind up making my own fragrance and i sniff the scent i made and wound up dropping on a lil piece of cardboard yesterday. without fail, i sniff it and i want to bone like mad like oh my god!! this is wild
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
reading dense prose and realising that the em dash is actually quite useful—they’re like parentheses—and would actually help me write the way i often think, that is, in disparate thoughts. the problem with that is people will jump down my throat and accuse me of not thinking for myself, oh the irony
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
tempted to join a local critical theory course just to have intellectual sparring partners because i'm clearly shouting into the void so far. i was hoping to connect with other trans feminine critical theorists but i haven't so far. i'm making a good effort to catalogue my thoughts though
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
learning that mark fisher was a student of nick land and alex karp a student of jürgen habermas makes the whole trajectory of silicon valley make a sick but deeply understandable amount of sense
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
realising that at some point i'm probably going to wind up pulling a jeffersonian bible out of my practice of vajrayana buddhism, psychology and critical theory to help people not just survive under capitalism but thrive and resist and regulate their nervous system and come out of chronic stress
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
watching people deify the algorithm as a product of enlightened false consciousness makes me want to gag on my own vomit. instead of "praise be to god" it's now "thank you algorithm." keep offering your digital tithes and may the server rack look upon you favourably. stop praying to the panopticon
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
the temptation to make my bedroom smell exquisite because the closet is releasing my fragrances non-stop like a den of extreme pleasure is too strong to resist. you will know you’re about to lay down with a seductive and tasteful trans feminine vampire when you enter the room and inhale
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
oh my gods, i’ve been bitten by the perfumer’s itch! i’m sitting here hunched over mixing precise amounts of essential oils, sniffing 3:1 vs 2:1 ratio of cedarwood and benzoin and trying not to rub one out metaphorically speaking
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
i would argue it is not enough to take someone at their word as you develop intimacy. you have to demand transparency. absolute trust can only be given once you understand someone’s incentive structures. that is, you can only trust someone as much as they know themselves and confront their shadow
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
capitalism has taught me to go in with my fists raised but my voice calm metaphorically speaking. hoping i don’t have to fight a local bdsm leatherwork artisan like i did a linen company on their colourway being incorrect vs the photography. i am discerning in taste and will fight to the bitter end
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
in my initial understanding of it, subject to change ofc, i would argue that jo freeman’s argument that when power retreats into the the darkness it is harder to fight. it is the most realistic argument against anarchy i have ever seen. you cannot resist informal structures of power you cannot see
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
i am an involuntary capitalist. i did not choose it, it choose me. i do not like it, but i have to embrace the reality to survive and enact resistance when and where i can. capitalism exists outside of economic capitalism. other queers trade in social capital, in symbolic and especially in erotic
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
as a practicing audiophile i’d argue that the war on loudness is definitely worse than war on christmas! uncompress those dynamics and let the sound be free! tbh, the real solution is tone mapping like how visual hdr handles the fact that not all displays have the same dynamic range
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
understanding critical theory and watching the rest of australia like
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
every time i go ah yes the pinnacle of aesthetic, cigarettes, i have to remind myself the only reason i even have that association is because of edward bernay’s torches of freedom campaign. no, they are not assthetic. ignore that freudian slip, they are cancer sticks!
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
you know what frustrates the ever loving hell out of me? the myth that uni is where you go when you get serious about education. you’ve just outsourced your epistemic agency to an institution and embraced learned helplessness! institutional permission is not a substitute for competency
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
my biggest beef with common modern psychology is you cannot think your way out of chronic stress. if your body thinks there is a tiger it will tell you every sound is dangerous. you have to show it you are safe, there is no way to think yourself out of it. a bottom up approach works for that
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
gods do i want to break down the greek pantheon thru the lens of extreme autism, the ruling class and peasantry copium. in before i give away my thesis on the intersection between extreme type s autism and the ruling class. i’m still workshopping the idea and need to find solid arguments
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
stubbornly sleeping on the same gross sole unwashed sheet for months just so i can afford a set of black 100% french flax linen bedding and see samuel vines boot theory in action ✨🥺 fuck fast fashion!
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i really hope i remain mentally stable and never go psychotic again because if i do im going to sound like diogenes accidentally filled his barrel with ambrosia and got drunk off it
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i shouldn’t be allowed near a computer *or* an art gallery. in the latter i’ll be on the floor with a bucket of paint posed in the act of supplication as an avant-garde installation
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
posting in the local classifieds like “looking to do a puppet scene with elmo and count von dracula”
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
calling myself a puppeteer with pride despite having never touched a fuzzy puppet in my life
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
looking for someone to unironically chat about critical theory with while someone puppets me like elmo
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
a book a day keeps totalitarianism away! — arendt & bernays 📚
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
assortative mating and pierre bourdieu’s concept of habitus and cultural capital is why power reproduces itself. i grew up from a very young age hearing about trust funds and estate planning mechanics and developed the tenacity to pursue someone legally should they become an issue for me
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
if you’re gonna lean into the hyperreal at least use a term like “genuine lab diamonds” and stick it to de beers! 🙃
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“with REAL glass rhinestones!!” 🤮 your hyperreal marketing/propaganda sludge isn’t going to get past me. behold, our real fake fake gemstones! an imitation of simulated luxury. baudrillard is rolling in his grave right now
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i would posit that price’s law, that is only a small amount of people who complete an education go on to contribute meaningfully to their field exists only because of the german positivist model of education is very very broken
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i took one look at a thumbnail from a philosophy tube video on a bluesky and realised that abigail thorn is using bourdieusian status signalling to instal herself as a form of authority. background in drama or not doesn’t change the impact of the visual signifiers of the aesthetic
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“The public is not sovereign over the media—the owners and managers, seeking ads, decide what is to be offered, and the public must choose among these. People watch and read in good part on the basis of what is readily available and intensively promoted.” — herman & chomsky on cultural hegemony
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i love this. herman and chomsky’s manufacturing consent is the direct complement to the spectre of edward bernays work on advancing propaganda and public relations as it is now known
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
sigh, what i’m beginning to realise is that you can’t beat capitalism with economic policies. you can only beat it with the synergy of psychology and then you wind up with capitalism using it as a blunt instrument instead. anything you learn and create will be weaponised by the machinery itself
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
this is how you become an artist isn’t it? you stumble in thru the backdoor and smash your head right into a palette
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
accidentally re-embracing a centuries old rivalry by calling memes Semioticje and declaring that Dutch is a hyperreal linguistic simulation of German
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i may have accidentally become an absurdist avante-garde simulation of reality
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
btw if you want a masterclass in seeing bernay’s foundational ideas on propaganda/pr or critical theory play out in the form of televised or written entertainment watch Silo or the book it was based on, Wool. it’s basically modern society as a fucking anthill in an underground silo
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
oops, i’ve been spelling michael levin’s last name wrong as levine because i often refer to peter levine’s work on somatic therapy. sorry about that!
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
like just to demonstrate what i mean, i studied human neurobiology for nearly two years so that i could find the exact pharmacological cocktail i needed to reliably stop cycling in and out of mixed and depressive episodes and no it was absolutely not typical but it damn well worked!
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i’ve gone so far outside the cultural hegemony that i guarantee you not a single person who isn’t autistic as fuck will have a clue what i am talking about. the curse of having a hyper-systematising detached mind that sees the world as a giant chess board. i refuse to be a pawn, instead i will study
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
ah hell. just when i think i’ve looked behind the curtain and spotted the man controlling the strings i discover the basic premise of modern monetary theory. using the fear of a debt ceiling is a blunt instrument to keep people in line ensure unemployment never hits zero so that people settle
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
time to add walter benjamin’s “capitalism as religion” to my ever expanding reading list ig. i just pray i don’t wind up creating a new syncretic religion and becoming the high priestess of capitalism. tho i do think i would look pretty good in some black robes 🥲
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
bernays makes a really good point. the problem of educators being paid poorly is actually a problem of the beliefs of the populous not capitalism or the state. the collective can say they value education all they want but where they direct their values of status and prestige betrays this
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
every time i think about false enlightened consciousness my mind immediately goes “who’s a good little wage slave? such a good girl! keep typing that jira ticket, yes you are, aren't you just serving the quarterly metrics so well”
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
where’s a goth when you need one to appreciate your subversion of the cultural hegemony?
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
poor michael levine. he and his buds combine cosmology with natural selection. how does he sleep at night? though i will argue combining it with set theory is arguably worse but together it is like staring into an abyss that only those experienced in eldritch horrors can survive
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Mfg. Content | Lady M. @culturalcapitalist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
as long as i don’t combine set theory with cosmology i get to refrain from having an existential crisis
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