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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most people aren't talking about the kind of transformations we really need, because I think a lot of folks have surrendered to the idea of living in a "rape-prone" society. The satisfaction of occasionally punishing some of the most egregious actors is all many are allowing themselves to hope for.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And by citizen he means who can accrue and control property and wealth.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026

ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026

They wouldn't be building plantations if they weren't counting on having slaves to work them.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 02/10/2026

great day for the moral fiber of people who I suppose thought writing one essay to make up for sexual assault was too little just days ago but now that it's SEVERAL essays and theyre uploaded to YOUTUBE it's fine (?). bizarre to have these back to back in less than 72h

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Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"What to do about Jacob Geller" I dunno, move on? A single person's work is not so integral and sacred that we need to wring our hands about what to do with it. There are a lot of people whose work you could be reading or listening to. Stop making icons out of random dudes. is that so hard

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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

“As a sexual assault survivor” well as a sexual assault survivor myself I’d personally go apeshit if I saw people asking for “nuance” if my assaulter ever went public If he wasn’t a white man y’all would have way less conflicted feelings about his very mild consequences. Let’s not pretend otherwise

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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Jacob Geller sexually assaulted someone. His job is being a YouTuber with side gigs of 2 books and a podcast. All that’s happened to him is losing endorsements, a podcast job, & a book deal. He even admitted to sexual assault. He still has his money and never served jail time. He’s getting off easy.

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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"we live in a carceral state dependent on the mythology of retributive justice." that's the thing, rapists DONT face ANY justice, and they should! he didn't serve any prison time! this is mealy-mouthed apologia. men who commit sex crimes should be punished and the norm is that they *never* are

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Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You, YOU SPECIFICALLY, Flora, are EXACTLY the kind of person who would, and WILL, stand up for my rapist who is currently studying to be a therapist, because he will cry, and claim he's changed, and being a therapist is good, and don't we want ex-rapists to be therapists? He coerced me with therapy-speak, and he will use therapy-speak to tell rape victims to forgive their rapists, and people like YOU will call it "punitive" and "carceral" to demand my rapist be stripped of power, because before a damned thing has happened, people like YOU will be there to protect his career.

Your article did, and IS DOING, tremendous fucking damage to the cause of justice. You are naive and credulous and a convenient tool for every leftist rapist who knows how to cry and claim they're sorry.

Delete your fucking article, gender traitor.

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Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When the rage of the oppressed makes you uncomfortable, when you're afraid they're going too far, shut the fuck up. Don't you fucking dare tell us to calm down. Don't you fucking dare say we're going too far this time. Keep your coward's mouth silent if you can't stop yourself from collaborating.

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Framing any and all backlash to Jacob Geller as carceral is simply a social justice way to call victims hysterical. You're not fucking slick.

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halloween III: season of the wolp @brettnyanderson.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that people can posture themselves as morally superior because they are ~nuanced~ unlike like those ~disgusting bloodthirsty~ survivors who feel outrage, betrayal, horror, etc at finding out about this is the cruelest shit

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the 'pleasure' of discussing rape is that you are not alone. you are embraced by other survivors who tell you it wasnt your fault, that youre right to be angry, that you dont have to forgive and move on. the 'pleasure' is in being humanized for the first time since your violation, in finding a voice

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

what youre defending isnt prison abolition but rape culture. we ALREADY forgive rapists and abusers! thats the fucking problem! wrt basically any other type of crime, we justify the most barbaric inhumane punishments, but rape? we make rapists president!

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You’re not being wise you’re not being radical you are saying more-or-less the same shit that the Christian right says about rapists. You care more for saving the souls of rapists than you care for giving support to their victims.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“This popular rapist brings to mind questions of rehabilitation and repair—“ Shut up!! Shut up. If you’re not the victim, or responding to a victim *specifically* asking for action that centers rehabilitation, shut the fuck up! It’s actually fucked up that this is the primary thing on your mind!

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Dangerously Fine and Unforgiven @rockthekoopa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

why do the rape apologists keep invoking prison when he is a) not facing prison time b) did not spend a single moment in prison c) his "punishment" was a 6 week vacation from college d) he never faced any legal action prison abolition does not mean RAPE should not have real consequences. Freaks

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Bumblejack @bumblejack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One cop accidentally recorded himself talking to a 17yo he stalked using flock/databases trying to show her a dead body to impress her and hitting on her. The other used flock/databases 381+ times to look up a woman he wanted to date who is 20+yrs younger than him. www.youtube.com/live/IkLoy1x...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In case anyone else needs it, the magic phrase for shutting down men picking apart a sexual violence case by blaming victims is: “The only people who would say something like that are rape apologists, rapists, or both.” You don’t have to argue with them on merit when their claims have no merit.

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Maddie Chthonia @maddiequestions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just stop pretending that some weird chimera, some illusion called "misandry" is real. stop acting like only male loneliness matters. stop telling women we don't care enough about men.

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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really tiring seeing men online come out the wood work to pretend they don't understand consent "Oh what so drunk hookups are rape now" Yknow what man yeah in your case I think thats the rule you should stick by yes.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The context of *this* wave of visceral rage at rapists is that in the past decade we've seen them take complete control of the government, turn the entire economy into their ponzi scheme, gain trillions of dollars of exploited wealth. We've seen an opposition party abjectly fail at stopping them

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 01/10/2026

we don't owe platforms to rapists, especially not on the left. that's not punitive justice, it's protecting survivors, both from being in communities with powerful abusers and from being constantly retraumatized by having the same shitty discourse about the same shitty men every six months

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Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 01/10/2026

survivors of sexual violence are constantly asked to sacrifice our safety and wellbeing on the off chance that people who've committed literal torture might at some point have had a change of heart. when will our safety, wellbeing, dreams, aspirations, futures, or peace of mind matter?

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Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 01/10/2026

survivors are also frequently encouraged to "speak out" and "start conversations" in order to "change the world" but we receive nothing but harrassment, suspicion, and hate for doing so. i grieve so often for the girl i was during MeToo who truly believed that things were soon to get better.

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Ophie Dokie 🌻 @ophiedokie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think there's also certainly a through line here to the way that a lot of women who are typically pro-forced birth will moralize their own abortion in a way they won't extend to other people, leftist men think there is a difference between the rapes they did and the rapes bad men do. There is not.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Ok what’s the real story here? Union busting? Trying to get higher paid people to quit?

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 01/10/2026

it is deeply funny (read: extremely not funny) how the spreadsheet that aaron posted about how hard it is to be the head of trust & safety includes multiple (!) examples of him being told to "enjoy the camps" and related expressions. Almost Like That Sentiment Is Always Bad, Aaron.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 01/10/2026

this may be controversial to some but i think even if a rapist has gone to therapy they still shouldnt have a public platform

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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also believe in restorative justice but I don't think that means you get to become a pillar of a community and garner an audience and an income that relies solely on everyone including yourself staying silent about your actions. In the VIDEO GAME SPHERE no less.

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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been thinking about when my 100+ law school crim class covered sex crimes and dozens of men spent the hour arguing with the professor bc they believed the US code definition of rape was unfair. That day, the handful of women in the class realized just how many of our classmates had raped someone.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just think women should be able to get educations without a constant threat of sexual violence.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 01/10/2026

posting a statement like "misogyny is wrong and hurts women. ESPECIALLY the time i sexually assaulted one" is truly wild & grim

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Baagender Pride @woolybully414.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm already seeing comments jumping at the opportunity to scold everyone for... being upset with someone for committing sexual assault? I know rape apologists take every opportunity they can to silence pushback but it's really morbid how much of a gut reaction defending rapists is for these people.

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ApolloJuice *⁠.⁠✧ @apollojuice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow, what a crock of BS. "...the records for recently shared without the permission of the victim..." In the UNC school system, the names of people who are disciplined under Title IX for violent crimes is public record. You should know this.

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jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's interesting his "continued drive to make myself and the world better" came in the form of, you know, a public facing career. that's the only way to change the world after all. any leftist would tell you REAL societal progress is in online culture writing.

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sosa @sosawagon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

your friends knew. every single one of them. and they decided your video essays were worth her whole life. that's the community. that's the restorative justice. she got restored out of the picture so everyone could keep recommending each other's books.

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