Reposted by Gaucho MarxBrian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 19hI watched The Secret Agent on the airplane and something that it did at the end (spoilers) that is interesting is this sudden leap forward to random students living in the present researching Brazilian authoritarian history 182
Reposted by Gaucho MarxEric Lybeck @lybeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Regeneration asks how to attract people and increase engagement. It also needs to ask how people become capable of sustaining institutions together. Community depends on that work continuing after the event ends. Consuming Community: civicreconstruction.substack.com/p/consuming-...civicreconstruction.substack.comConsuming CommunityOn the Limits of Engagement 021
Reposted by Gaucho MarxRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Capitalism is armed robbery" Stencil seen in Maribor, Slovenia 111128
Reposted by Gaucho MarxThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons theonion.com/fall-canceled-after-3-… 372893397
Reposted by Gaucho MarxAastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I fear that most liberal leaders are in deep denial about the urgency with which we need a Gaza reckoning before we save this country from fascism. Must-read interview: www.equator.org/articles/bid... @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.socialequator.orgGuilty Men • EQUATORA new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide 184
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"'Quite pure, quite free of future planning’: a zero-point has been reached. Quite, pure, planless, and free, those are all positive words; future is the negative counterpart. Free of future planning means: freed from all hustle and bustle and self-imposed achievement.” Michael Lentz, Schattenfroh 000
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Joined the multi faith march in support of migrants and refugees today with lots of lovely people. Borders are an affront to our shared humanity. 000
Reposted by Gaucho Marxdamniel spookradski @self.agency · 27/09/2026cornell has more important things to do than punish rich rapists, like hand their pro-palestinian international students over to the feds 115233
Reposted by Gaucho MarxPaul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Well, here's the trailer. Let's make it go viral. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...youtube.comMusk | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetYouTube video by Musk 056
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Pathetic and unserious from a Cornell faculty member 000
Reposted by Gaucho MarxPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026These are the 7 Cornell fraternity boys who ruined that young girl's life. Matthew Ingalls Jonathan Newell (also spelled Johnathan Newell) Winston Lee Gillio Lopes Diego Sarabia Scott Norris Scott Kretzschmar www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 12333208
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Another Saturday another day wondering why so many of you invest so much in amateur football 000
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Funny but we really should stop pretending China is a communist country 000
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Visiting the rich people high school for a water polo game and 1) fuck neighborhood based school inequality and 2) what is wrong with these people not having any shade when 90 degrees and blazing sun is everyday in September 100
Reposted by Gaucho MarxGaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Watched Fassbinder’s Third Generation last night. Like La Chinoise a decade earlier it skewers the revolutionary zeal of middle class Europeans. Gone however is the seductive brightness of youth and pop music and what’s left is an irritating din and grim clownishness boxd.it/42QUboxd.itThe Third Generation (1979)A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies. 101
Reposted by Gaucho MarxJason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I know that there has been a lot of debate if we are even in capitalism anymore, or have passed into the "something worse" of techno-neo-feudalism, but what strikes me, at least in the US is how much Trump seems to look at things from a precapitalist perspective. 191
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Watched Fassbinder’s Third Generation last night. Like La Chinoise a decade earlier it skewers the revolutionary zeal of middle class Europeans. Gone however is the seductive brightness of youth and pop music and what’s left is an irritating din and grim clownishness boxd.it/42QUboxd.itThe Third Generation (1979)A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies. 101
Reposted by Gaucho MarxRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming 17708235
Reposted by Gaucho MarxTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026democracy's fatal flaw: voters 3212
Reposted by Gaucho MarxJana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"anti-migrant" is a euphemism. migrants are not vaccines, mosquitoes, wars, or racism (all nouns for which the prefix anti- is commonly used to denote opposition to, or action designed to kill/harm/obstruct). migrants are human beings. "anti-migrant protesters" are "pro-crimes-against-humanity". 0219
Reposted by Gaucho MarxTribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Beneath the row over Reform donors there is a simple fact: our system is one in which politicians can be bought.tribunemag.co.ukUnder Capitalism, Democracy is Always For SaleBeneath the row over Reform donors there is a simple fact: our system is one in which politicians can be bought. 0106
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You see willful ignorance by childish reactionaries. I see an opportunity for viewpoint diversity. We are not the same. 000
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thread makes a good point but in typical fashion leaves out the existence (or present lack thereof) of an organized radical left movement and real possibility of communist revolution in the early 20th century 000
Reposted by Gaucho Marxthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 19/09/2026lmao holy shit the libs are Not Normal about Mao 251194
Reposted by Gaucho MarxDeborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If anyone knows what it means, it is Czeslaw Milosz 🖤 2154
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As an individual extraordinary rich person, Dolly Parton was great. But the world she represents never came to be. It’s the opposite, in fact. Individual perfection is no means of collective improvement. The name for the collective Dolly Parton is communism. 110
Reposted by Gaucho MarxHarry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"pointless slaughter"? No! Not pointless, a tiny number of people profit from this slaughter of sentient beings and buy off politicians so their violence is permitted & legal. No difference, really from their counterparts in other wings of the flesh industry, e.g., ranchers & slaughterhouses. 011
Reposted by Gaucho MarxDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future. 201444723
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 15/09/2026World historical asshole surprisingly has red line that isn't "not enough of a bigot" 000
Reposted by Gaucho MarxChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music 244129882238
Reposted by Gaucho MarxKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/09/2026Over at the newsletter I wrote about the completely insane last few weeks of AI doomsday rhetoric and media coveragekarlbode.comAI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of ControlThe press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function. 25307104
Reposted by Gaucho MarxAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 14/09/2026On The Climate Brink: The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record. Aug. 2026 probably had more water vapor in the atmosphere than any month in the last few thousand years, if not a 100,000 years. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-atmosp...theclimatebrink.comThe Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor RecordMore water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news 11283163
Reposted by Gaucho MarxPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Feel very seen reading this. Pavement, Slacker, MBV, Melody Maker www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukChal Ravens · All Kinds of Not Much: Slacker DaydreamsLike the hippies and punks before them, slackers were characterised as figures of generational discontent. But theirs... 3247
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There’s so much life in the ocean (despite our best efforts to kill everything) and we’re boiling it 000
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The apocalypse isn't coming to save you from that void of meaning 000
Reposted by Gaucho MarxNick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The thing is portions of cared *a lot* about the way factory work went I grew up in the West Virginia Rust Belt. Have written many articles about deindustrialization. We cared. This is why I find it darkly funny when knowledge workers on here still make fun of ppl fucked by deindustrialization. 110016
Reposted by Gaucho MarxEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My essay on rogue AI has been republished by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — “Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did.” Grateful to @thebulletin.org for the invitation!thebulletin.orgRogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions didAt the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed. 314964
Gaucho Marx @primarymediation.bsky.social · 12/09/2026College football is the Donald Trump of sports 100