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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Was at a wedding yesterday, wedding it up. As one does.

Person in a suit pointing his phone at the mirror.

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This catter is a pillar of the community

reddish black catterpillar that looks very fuzzy

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Held a big heavy DSC sign for several hours and now my arms are tired lol

Protesting for Grassy Narrows. Took this photo one-handed as I was holding the aforementioned sign

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The damn birds are shittin on the baseball field! Go away, birds!!

Snapshot of a baseball field with some geese in view. These birds, I tell you, these birds shit like you wouldn't believe.

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Who out here de-rusting their scythe?

Rusted scythe in a tray filled with vinegar, water, and baking soda. Hopefully this works?

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Doctor's office is pissing me off with this low-brow fiction. What do they think I am, a child? 🙄

Children's picture boom with a penguin showing off a red circle to a seal and a bunch of other penguins or whatever. "My ball is a circle, nice and round," the penguin says. YEAH, WE CAN SEE THAT. "My ball goes rolling on the ground." Yeah, THATS WHAT BALLS DO!

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Found an IRL dungeon puzzle, hopefully this unlocks something cool like an item or something

One of those letter spinny things you see on playgrounds

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today's book haul at the library!

The Black Jacobins, Fonner's Black Reconstruction (I read about 100 pages of Du Bois but I had to return it because it was taking too long), and Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Uhm, I think you're referring to noted British Whig politician John Lemon??

Wikipedia article for John Lemon, british politician in the 1700s. Tbh i don't even know how I know this guy exists. John Lemon exists somewhere in my mind palace.

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I was reading this one story of Chekhov's where this character does a monotonous task to relax him and pass the time, and I thought "damn I need something like that." So here we are.

Jenga blocks stacked into a random shape

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's almost like we need some sort of discipline that analyzes the conjunction between politics and economy, not as two disparate things but as the highly intertwined fields that they truly are. We will call it: political-economy! And—sorry what was that?

Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Vol. 1

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

oh no lol the book is written from the perspective of the landlord

Assume that you are a paralegal, and Joe Smith, the landlord in Fact
Situation #1, wants to retain your services to evict Sheila Ryan as soon
as possible. To represent Smith successfully, you will need to concern
yourself with the following matters.

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is a crazy map of Toronto. Anyway,

Page 13 of a paper called Financialization, housing rents and affordability in Toronto. Figure 3. Panel (a) Bivariate map of average rent premiums of financial landlords by neighbourhood and Panel (b) Bivariate map of rent premiums and percentage visible minority population.

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

LMAO Slack fuckin suuuuuckks haha

Slack notifies me w a message that says "Save time catching up. With Slack’s Pro subscription, you can use AI to summarise all the unread messages in this channel. START FREE TRIAL!"

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I like how there's just several radicals relating to silkworms

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm trying to understand this character, and how it looks like 'thread' but I don't get how the thread is stacked on top of each other? Is this how they used to make thread?

the character for 纟sī and an image of a thread 'piece' (idk the term for it) that's weirdly stacked on top of each other

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Made a GO board ('made' meaning just cut and sanded a plank of wood and drew some lines lol)

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I like the juche symbol personaly, but the bike wheel is cool too

Hammer, sickle, caligraphy brush (workers, farmers, intellectuals)

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

So this is what second-wave feminism merged with evolutionary psychology looks like....

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I think I kinda get the basics now

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

People need to read Marx's Critique of the Gotha Programme; people need to know the difference between distribution and the mode of production! Now more than ever, this cannot be more clear!!

Quote from pg 18 of Marx's Critique, where he writes "Quite apart from the analysis so far given, it was in general a mistake to make a fuss about so-called distribution and put the principal stress on it.

Any distribution whatever of the means of consumption is only a consequence of the distribution of the conditions of production themselves. The latter distribution, however, is a feature of the mode of production itself. The capitalist mode of production, for example, rests on the fact that the material conditions of production are in the hands of nonworkers in the form of property in capital and land, while the masses are only owners of the personal condition of production, of labor power. If the elements of production are so distributed, then the present-day distribution of the means of consumption results automatically. If the material conditions of production are the co-operative property of the workers themselves, then there likewise results a distribution of the means of consumption different from the present one. Vulgar socialism (and from it in turn a section of the democrats) has taken over from the bourgeois economists the consideration and treatment of distribution as independent of the mode of production and hence the presentation of socialism as turning principally on distribution. After the real relation has long been made clear, why retrogress again? "

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I think I'm actually starting to get how this is played (I'm white)

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Now how the fuck does 月 look like 'moon'.....oh, that's how. Huh.

the character for moon and its historical progression over time (moon-looking to less moon-looking as the character was simplified)

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

can't stop laughing, that was sooo quick

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

lmao I suck, but the players on here are super nice! 3 different players wished me luck learning.

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Asking bc the group seems to be trotskyist, but I don't know how accurate this is today. The last they're mentioned in the wiki is 2013 and it gets hazy from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Socialists_(Canada) The IS is often identified as the "state-capitalist" group—reflecting the position of the IS that, from 1928 on, Soviet Union was no longer a workers' state, but state capitalist.

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Another example. 生 (shēng) means "to be born • to give birth • life • to grow." How does this random assemblage of lines mean 'to be born'? Here's how!

Page 52 of the aforementioned book, which shows the character 生 and a depiction of a tree as well as its progression over time

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Take this character: 对 [duì]. It kind of just looks like a bunch of abstract lines. But it actually breaks down into the radicals for right hand. So when I'm doing the visualization process for remembering the character, I think about a right hand.

The radical for right hand, page 85 of Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters by Fazzioli, Edoardo. https://archive.org/details/chinesecalligrap0000fazz/page/n7/mode/2up

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

To that effect, I often think back to the last paragraph in Rosa Luxemburg's Accumalation of Capital. She was writing this in 19-freaking-13! All of this is to say that I think that there's a balance between pessimism and revolutionary optimism.

“Capitalism is the first mode of economy with the weapon of propaganda, a mode which tends to engulf the entire globe and to stamp out all other economies, tolerating no rival at its side. Yet at the same time it is also the first mode of economy which is unable to exist by itself, which needs other economic systems as a medium and soil. Although it strives to become universal, and, indeed, on account of this its tendency, it must break down—because it is immanently incapable of becoming a universal form of production. In its living history it is a contradiction in itself, and its movement of accumulation provides a solution to the conflict and aggravates it at the same time. At a certain stage of development there will be no other way out than the application of socialist principles. The aim of socialism is not accumulation but the satisfaction of toiling humanity’s wants by developing the productive forces of the entire globe. And so we find that socialism is by its very nature an harmonious and universal system of economy.”

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I'm finally reading The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism...in Chinese! I got another English copy to read side-by-side and help with understanding. Obviously imperfect, but I think this will be fun trying to translate

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Like what the fuck was I thinking here!?

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Yeah... I left that part empty for now because it's going to take...an hour or two?? to come up with the visualizations for around 50 characters. Especially since THIS is the fucked up visual aid reference sheet I'm using (adopted from Mandarin Blueprint YT channel)

I dont even know how to describe this. Basically this is the reference of pinyin initials-each of which has a sound tied to a person. I couldn't think of some of them, and after I ran out of memorable people (mostly revolutionary figures and a couple one-off fictional characters) I just started naming fuckin pokemon

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Made a set of 50 flashcards for chinese characters, i'm going to start incorporating 'visualizations' (memory aids that combine the pinyin (initial + final), meaning, as well as the stroke-order of the characters. I'll continue with the next 50 once I'm done these, etc.

Flashcard containing the hanzi, memory aid visualization, pinyin, and stroke order

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Yes, women ARE learning chinese!

the chinese characters, followed by the pinyin "women ..." and its translation "we are learning chinese."

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Defenestrator @irrationalwisp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Y'all, I just learnt that the plural for 'people' in chinese is pronounced 'wǒmen.' so true.

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