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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's better this way. Had the US won tonight it would've been a vindication of corruption as a means to success. This way a single nation drops out of a tournament, but the game itself gets to live on to be played, watched and enjoyed another day.

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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 17/05/2026

Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS will still be dying, and corporate vultures will still be picking our lives apart.

A red text-based public artwork by Frank Riot displayed in a JCDecaux advertising panel outside Holborn Station in London, UK. The poster reads: “When you’ve got rid of all the mosques but the costs of life still rise and you’ve built your fortressed borders but the NHS still dies and the Muslims are all gone and your town’s a wall of white but corporate vultures are still pillaging every facet of our lives who will you blame then? What will you have gained? A badge for barbarism against a backdrop of decay.” Pedestrians walk past the bus shelter on a busy city street.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school

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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Common tactic of the chronically unreflective and insecure. "Self-important condescension is like peeing on oneself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings." -Alan Wald

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Fully armed and supplied police forces spent summer 2020 beating protestors while nurses worked through a pandemic wearing garbage bags because they ran out of proper medical gowns

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It has often been said that fascism is when colonialism comes home, but now we can also say that it is when the organized abandonment that defines racism overspills its boundaries (the irony of course is that it does so in the name of preserving the wages of whiteness).

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 05/08/2025

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Was literally writing about this exact phenomenon when this happened. Ty Donald Trump for making this essay easier to write diakena.substack.com/p/enemy-hall...

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Enemy Hallucinations

Programming guys to go to war against...

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Yeah, Descartes' Meditations with the Objections and Replies

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

OH YA ? - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELTAN GRASPEN FOR THERE HORSE THATS GETTEN AWAY AND IT SAYS " WANT ME TO QUIT FUCKING EVERYTHING UP ? ME TOO MOTHER FUCKER " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

For anyone interested, I turned the last couple chapters of my book into a Substack post. Admittedly the Zizek/Peterson debate feels like old news, but I still see interest in critically responding to Petersons ideas. Here's one attempt that may prove helpful. diakena.substack.com/p/critiquing...

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Critiquing the Lobster

On Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek, and everything discussing these two naturally entails...

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Wonderwall @mnwonderwall.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Marching was great, winning was great, but the best part of last night was reminding y’all that your mental health is important, you are valued, and that our community is here for you.

Mental Health Night tifo that says “People with Autism are not broken, are not damaged, are not all the same, are not a burden, need understanding and not a “cure”. Adapt. Accept. Advocate.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"Do your own research," "Grow your own food," "Get a gun to defend yourself" Okay, but I would like to like in a society, something where we work together to improve life for each other and not in some weird amalgamation of little robinsonades where everyone is looking out for themselves.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The stupidity is the point. All of these cuts to research, to education, to libraries, are not cost saving measures that have collateral damage to knowledge, they are attempts to eviscerate collective intelligence.

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kyle-a-edwards.bsky.social @kyle-a-edwards.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thanks to @diakena.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for having this conversation with August and I about our book comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in real-time! newbooksnetwork.com/the-communis...

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whalefact @awhalefact.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

despite living under enormous pressure whales very rarely give up hope

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I wrote about Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism and what it might tell us about the next four years in the US. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/11/whe-...

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Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men...? On Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

No cat and the book is old news but I do do author-interviews at the New Books Network, so maybe it's time to start linking new episodes here. Full interview list in the link below diakena.substack.com/p/nbn-podcas...

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NBN Podcasts and Other Writings

An ongoing list of interviews with authors about their new books, conducted for the New Books Network, as well as anything else I manage to get published somewhere.

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Ty Atlanta United for doing the funniest thing imaginable

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

it's been a while, so i'll rate some more sums of money $38,820: a lot of money $100: nice and neat $0: uhhh ... is this thing on? $388: feels like more than it is when you say it out loud $0.09: you gotta be kidding me $7,402.61: now THAT is quite a chunk of change $5,000,020: sensational!

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

i can't wait until brands start their own accounts here. i want to interact with brands

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

The unstated premise of the “truth versus social justice” narrative is that racism, sexism, etc., are all in some sense true, natural and any attempt to overcome them is political, social engineering, and ultimately deception or fraud.

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Book has endnotes instead of footnotes

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

“In the hands of a talented biographer, this kind of tragic story would provide rich material.”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/10/2023

I think the best response I've seen to AI anything has been, "Why should I bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

I wrote about Mitt Romney, American fascists, and how "echo chambers" are found not in giving persuadable minds new language to understand known truths, but rather in endlessly predictable repetitive arguments about observable truths with unpersuadable people. armoxon.substack.com/p/preaching-...

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Preaching To The Choir

On echo chambers, persuasion, Mitt Romney, "wise Republicans," salad bars, and the chronically shirked responsibility for changing our own minds.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

everyone saying "you have to convince students of the value of the humanities/higher ed/etc." has not seen what i've been seeing. the students are not the ones who need convincing.

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

“Quixote needs his windmills” is as succinct an explanation as one could ask for

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Owen 🕷️ @owenod.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

New video! TETRIS McNUGGET youtu.be/rrBVRTOw1ao?... Please enjoy! 🧱

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