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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Domestic labour being fought over by black and white feminists

the union Was tour state had been recruited. Given the enormous dithculties ot or- ganizing domestics, however, this was hardly a small accomplish- ment. White women-feminists included-have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorat- ing the conditions of domestic service. The convenient omission of household workers' problems from the programs of "middle- class" feminists past and present has often turned out to be a veiled justification—at least on the part of the affluent women_ of their own exploitative treatment of their maids. In 1902 the author of an article entitled "A Nine-Hour Day for Domestic Servants" described a conversation with a feminist friend who had asked her to sign a petition urging employers to furnish seats for women clerks. "The girls," she said, "have to stand on their feet ten hours a day and it makes my heart ache to see their tired faces." "Mrs. Jones," said I, "how many hours a day does your maid stand upon her feet?" "Why, I don't know," she gasped, "five or six I suppose. "At what time does she rise?" "At six." "And at what hour does she finish at night?" "Oh, about eight, I think, generally." "That makes fourteen hours.• •.. (S)he can often sit down at her work." "At what work? Washing? Ironing? Sweeping? Making beds? Cooking? Washing dishes? ... Perhaps she sits for two hours at

her meals and preparing vegetables, and four days in the week she has an hour in the afternoon. According to that, your maid is on her feet at least eleven hours a day with a score of stair-climbings included. It seems to me that her case is more pitiable than that of the store clerk." My caller rose with red cheeks and flashing eyes. "My maid always has Sunday after dinner," she said "Yes, but the clerk has all day Sunday. Please don't go until I have signed that petition. No one would be more thankful than I to see the clerks have a chance to sit ... "39 This feminist activist was perpetrating the very oppression she protested. Yet her contradictory behavior and her inordinate in- sensitivity are not without explanation, for people who work as servants are generally viewed as less than human beings. Inherent in the dynamic of the master-servant (or mistress-maid) relation- ship, said the philosopher Hegel, is the constant striving to annihi- late the consciousness of the servant. The clerk referred to in the conversation was a wage laborer—a human being possessing at least a modicum of independence from her employer and her work. The servant, on the other hand, labored solely for the purpose of satisfying her mistress needs. Probably viewing her servant as a mere extension of herselt, the feminist could hardly be conscious of her own active role as an oppressor. As Angelina Grimke had declared in her Appeal to the Chris- tian Women of the South white women who did not challenge

Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(Compare living in Mississauga, pop 700k, in the general Toronto area, which has almost no bars, and basically zero non-franchise bars, because Toronto is simply too close by)

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Never been to NYC but I think one could easily be out hours after midnight if you’re very centrally located in Montreal, Canada has a lot of sprawl, producing large areas of faux city

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zionism is morally just like Rhodesian nationalism, or 80s South African nationalism, even if that’s analytically similar to Bosnian nationalism in some ways

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Analytically it is good to understand Israeli nationalism is like other (especially other settler-colonial/apartheid) nationalisms, but it is also important to understand that said nationalism becomes more untenable when the state commits genocide

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I believe there’s some kind of impasse between local organizing stands the best chance of producing real democracy & solidarity vs municipal socialism is a political dead end due to its geo-political limits

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had to look it up because I couldn't believe he did this, but yes, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social actually vetoed the Speaker's bill banning former ICE agents from public employment in CA. The Legislature should over ride his veto.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to bar former ICE officers from California jobs

The ambitious and sweeping measure was strongly supported by Democrats in the Legislature.

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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility." - @lilymasonphd.bsky.social

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026

there is only one major kind of business today and it is stripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society to buy more money before the world ends

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Or at least the white middle class women’s movement)

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Davis’ discussion of how transactionally (that is, feeling the need for immediate reciprocity, even at theirpartner’s expense) the women’s movement viewed solidarity with black men

There was a strong element ot political naiveté in Stanton's analysis of the conditions prevailing at the war's end, which meant that she was more vulnerable than ever to racist ideology. As soon as the Union Army triumphed over their Confederate opponents, she and her co-workers insisted that the Republican party reward them for their wartime efforts. The reward they demanded was woman suffrage—as if a deal had been made; as if women's rights proponents had fought for the defeat of slavery with the understanding that their prize would be the vote. Of course the Republicans did not lend their support to woman suffrage after the Union victory was won. But it was not so much because they were men, it was rather because, as politicians, they were beholden to the dominant economic interests of the period Insofar as the military contest between the North and the South was a war to overthrow the Southern slaveholding class, it was a war which had been basically conducted in the interests of the Northern bourgeoisie, i.e., the young and enthusiastic industrial capitalists who found their political voice in the Republican party. The Northern capitalists sought economic control over the entire nation. Their struggle against the Southern slaveocracy did not therefore mean that they supported the liberation of Black men or women as human beings. If woman suffrage was not to be included in the postwar agenda of the Republican party, neither were the innate political rights of Black people of any real concern to these triumphant politi- cians. That they conceded the necessity of extending the vote to newly emancipated Black men in the South did not imply that they favored Black males over white females. Black male suffrage —as spelled out in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Constitutional Amendments proposed by the Republicans—was a tactical move designed to ensure the political hegemony of the Republican party in the chaotic postwar South. The Republican Senate leader Charles Sumne…

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

+ the defined blocs of time, etc That’s as much the nature of the medium as live TV

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Screenshot is someone who doesn’t recognize that seriality is a major aspect of TV qua TV

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sojourner Truth intervening against hecklers in early women’s movement meetings

BARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN 61 female weakness was incompatible with sutrage-and she did this with irrefutable logic. The leader of the provocateurs had argued that it was ridiculous for women to desire the vote, since they could not even walk over a puddle or get into a carriage without the help of a man. Sojourner Truth pointed out with compelling simplicity that she herself had never been helped over mud puddles or into carriages. "And ain't I a woman?" With a voice like "rolling thunder,"44 she said, . "Look at me! Look at my arm," and rolled up her sleeve to reveal the "tremendous muscu- lar power" of her arm.45 I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen them most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't l a woman?46 As the only Black woman attending the Akron convention, Sojourner Truth had done what not one of her timid white sisters was capable of doing. According to the chairperson, "there were very few women in those days who dared to 'speak in meeting. Having powerfully pleaded the cause of her sex, having com- manded the attention of the white women as well as their disrup- 1a. She had not only dealt a

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Davis does a good job of showing the women’s movement was already integrated with the class movement, even if the big conventions weren’t

EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN 55 oppression they suffered as women and as industrial workers. In Dover, New Hampshire, for example, the mill women walked off the job in 1828 to dramatize their opposition to newly instituted restrictions. They "shocked the community by parading with banners and flags, shooting off gunpowder."27 By the summer of 1840, when the Seneca Falls Convention took place, conditions in the mills—-hardly ideal to begin with- had deteriorated to such an extent that the New England farmers' daughters were fast becoming a minority in the textile labor force. Replacing the women from "well-born," " "Yankee" backgrounds were immigrant women who, like their fathers, brothers and husbands, were becoming the industrial proletariat of the nation. These women—unlike their predecessors, whose families owned land— had nothing to rely upon but their labor power. When they resisted, they were fighting for their right to survive. They fought so passionately that "in the 1840's, women workers were in the leadership of labor militancy in the United States. Campaigning for the ten-hour day, the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association presented petitions to the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1843 and 1844. When the Legislature agreed to hold public hearings, the Lowell women acquired the distinc- tion of winning the very first investigation of labor conditions by a government body in the history of the United States. 29 This was clearly a blow for women's rights-and it predated, by four years, the official launching of the women's movement. Judging from the struggles conducted by white working women -their relentless defense of their dignity as workers and as women, their conscious as well as implicit challenges to the sexist ideology of womanhood-they had more than earned the right to ore of the women's movement. But their trail- hers ex-

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Angela Davis describing Frederick Douglass’ role in the first American Women’s Rights convention passing a pro-suffrage resolution

EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN 51 refuted. If intelligence is the only true and rational basis of govern- ment, it follows that that is the best government which draws its life and power from the largest sources of wisdom, energy and goodness at its command. 15 Among the approximately three hundred women and men at- tending the Seneca Falls Convention, the issue of electoral power for women was the only major point of contention: the suffrage resolution alone was not unanimously endorsed. That the contro- versial proposal was presented at all, however, was due to Freder- ick Douglass' willingness to second Stanton's motion and to employ his oratorical abilities in defense of women's right to vote. 16 During those early days when women's rights was not yet a legitimate cause, when woman suffrage was unfamiliar and un- popular as a demand, Frederick Douglass publicly agitated for the political equality of women. In the immediate aftermath of the Seneca Falls Convention, he published an editorial in his newspa- per, the North Star. Entitled "The Rights of Women," its con- tent was quite radical for the times: In respect to political rights, we hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for men. We go further, and express our conviction that all political rights which it is expedient for men to exercise, it is equally so for woman. All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman, and if that govern- ment only is just which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the elective franchise, or a hand in making and adminis-

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With the previous trilogy it was insane to me how asleep at the wheel the writing was, just completely pointless plot lines all over, not bland, just poor choices repeatedly

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

^ the entire internet discussing western Massachusetts

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“This bill explicitly gives government the power to end legal strikes when a minister decides that a strike is or could become contrary to the national interest — and the national interest is defined solely by the opinion of the minister,” warns top labour leader Bea Bruske. Holy shit. This is bad.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Historian here. Let me explain how in the past far-right parties in Germany have caused problems not only for their own country, but for other countries as well: (1/?)

Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state

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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026

that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

... Anyone have a convenient source that explains that Gaddafi was a theoretical lightweight?

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had to justify today why there wouldn't be any value in reading Gaddafi's Green Book, and I recall some source that went through and talked about how it is bad theory and a total mishmash of things and which quoted his "A man is a man, and a woman is a woman" bit, but I don't have it on hand. ...

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certainly my own criticism of EA was as someone who went into the space because I was happy to find people with some sense of proportion I thought (focusing on global poverty/health), only to find out they were all trying to rationalize working for Google

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As a corollary: I think those people are often among the critics that are hottest under the collar about Actually Existing Institutional Effective Altruism

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am curious if the (short lived) american green new deal or the Iran war has had a larger effect on global emissions

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This feels kind of like if an artist were trying to present eugenics-y stuff in a way designed to flush out the absurdity of it

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tbh a lot of the problems with a lot of AI discourse is the idea that a machine that can solve a rather theoretical question in fluid dynamics is a useful business tool, let alone The Machine God

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Recently finished Spinoza’s Ethics Working on Plath’s The Bell Jar

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OpenAI will not be accepting the million dollar Millennium Prize, continuing in the proud tradition established by Grigori Perelman. They are mathematical soulmates, Perelman and OpenAI. Their kinship is that of two strongly philosophically aligned peas in a pod.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just some routine preying upon the vulnerable nbd in our contemporary world

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Kind of pissed that when I post about a lost cat on FB I get a bunch of comments for fake ai slop scam animal search services

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not sure if my mom’s place had indoor plumbing put in before or after she was born, but it’s close

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026

yes. if companies know the GOP will demand illegal appeasement and the Dems will be too timid to punish them for it, the incentive to appease will be strengthened. in effect Dems will be participating in the appeasement

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My Functional Analysis & Perturbation Theory of Linear Operators textbooks 😅

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck

This 11,000-Year-Old Statue from Turkey Shows a Man Riding a Leopard.
Archaeologists Aren't Sure
Why
The strange sculpture reverses a recurring Stone Age motif of humans confronting dangerous predators.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this was written by Daniel Penny, whom they employ in spite of his having no relevant qualifications of any kind

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

honestly hasan needs to hit a couple of these guys with defamation suits. time to teach some of these freaks some discipline.

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

me explaining Marxist contradictions to an analytic philosopher: imagine a schmontradiction

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Pseudospectre @pseudospectre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Much less bonkers than you’d expect but this is what I was reading, and if you know a little bit about Marxism’s use of contradictions you can see why they’d be immediately making things very complicated by thinking about contradictions philpapers.org/rec/SEGGSB

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