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A while back I wrote about this kind of "let the past be the past" forgiveness culture that often rears its head when stuff done a long time ago comes to light. Like in a lot of sexual assault cases. www.selfawaresoup.com/2023/06/24/i...

Forgiveness especially is something I struggle with. It’s valued highly in our society and people who forgive unbelievable atrocities done to them are publicly praised for it and paraded around like something everyone should aspire to. There’s also a widely shared belief that after enough time has passed, you should just “let things go”. Both never made sense to me. Why should abuse and violence be forgotten or forgiven simply by letting time pass? The people responsible have done nothing to justify that and they have faced zero consequences. And by consequences I don’t mean punishment. I mean seeing and acknowledging the consequences of their actions in the world, they pain they have caused and the years of other people’s lifetime they have irrevocably stolen. They got to simply move on with their lives while I didn’t. I can’t and don’t want to do anything about that, but I also can’t forgive or forget.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s obviously extremely easy to hurt men’s tender feelings when we talk about rape culture (we’re talking about them or their buddies after all) but what will it take to make them feel afraid?

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

idk like i'm not trying to be "exclusionary" i'm just saying it's starting to get uncomfortable how much people are laser-focused on making sure sexual availability is never COMPLETELY off the table, at the cost of eliding everything else including and especially extremely high SA rates, you get me?

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this thought spurred today by seeing people going on about how lesbians can have sex with men too, and replies going "yeah just like aces are often the biggest sluts you know!" and tbh those talking points DO feel similar, but not in the way the people going on about it intended, i think

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

but the result is that i have had people come onto me irl and have reasoned, explicitly in their appeals, that "well aces can have sex too!" the message allos receive is that asexuals are sexually available regardless of their stated identities and experiences. it becomes compulsory sexuality

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the other reason being of course a valid and good desire to not make aces who do choose to have sex feel invalidated or excluded or like they're "not ace enough" etc., because they ARE a small minority within the community, and that's completely understandable, i get why this is important

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i realize that we aces are frequently the first to insist we're not prudes, we're not frigid, not puriteens, we're not trying to "trojan horse christian puritanism into queer spaces," and all the other things we're frequently accused of & it's one reason this talking point tends to get foregrounded

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the majority asexuals who report having sex say they do it to make an allo partner happy. not so much because aces are actually *more* sexually available than anyone else

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tbh it bothers me that almost the only thing allos know about asexuality is that "ace people can have sex too! ace people are often the biggest sluts you know!" & they never acknowledge or even know that like 79% of aces report being sexually assaulted but only like 2% report having voluntary sex

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 30/09/2026

So. Happy things Everything is awful However I grew some sunflowers Sometimes we all need a small moment of joy (Images are small closeups of yellow sunflowers surrounded by purple morning glories)

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 30/09/2026

Still a bit short I know everyone is struggling but

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026

I hope it works. Hollow out your own societies and collapse your own systems until the blood your misbegotten nations choke on is finally your own.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026

The simple fact is that the average Westerner enjoys a much higher standard of living by sucking the Third World dry, but now because bourgeoisie's rapacious gaze has turned inward to the metropole, the failchildren of the hegemony are throwing tantrums and demanding they never see a brown again.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026

The bare facts of the West's dependency on immigrant labour and neocolonialism are always elided in these discourses. Counter-arguments always invoke a benevolent, kind West magnanimously opening up its doors to the world's poor, graciously offering back a fraction of their stolen wealth.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026

I find it infuriating that nations who for decades have profited off the exploitation of immigrant labour, who have indeed engineered the conditions for that exploitation through making the countries of origin nigh unliveable, now dare to turn around and call migrants a drain. Absolutely maddening.

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Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

"Das Verhältnis der CDU zum Antisemitismus ist ein instrumentelles. Dass Merz Antisemitismus kürzlich als eine Form von Ausländerfeindlichkeit bezeichnete, spricht für sich. Die CDU nutzt die Vorwürfe gegen die Linke als Hebel, um Grüne und SPD unter maximalen Druck zu setzen..."

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Krise der CDU: Den Schuss nicht gehört

Statt aufarbeiten, was zum Verlust der Wahrnehmung als Volkspartei führt, betreibt die CDU weiter Abgrenzung nach links. Das freut vor allem die AfD.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 27/09/2026

Ignoring for a moment that many parents are abusive and their kids are justifed in going no contact, I would also point out this an inevitable outcome of the obsession with captialism, nuclear families, and hyper independence/indivuality.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even if she wasn’t transphobic, even if you look past that, there is still a really repugnant person there with this cynical, petty middle-class and obnoxiously English attitude re: the world she and the rest of us exist in.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And there is something deeply unpleasant about that kind of person. About a person, in this case a writer no less, who is constitutionally incapable of imagining a better world. I mean, the world she did imagine is as bad as this one, and even worse in some respects (slavery is still a thing in it).

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ursula Le Guin was like: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable—so did the divine right of kings.” Whereas the JK Rowling ethos is more like: “We live under capitalism and the British class [caste] system and these facts are as immutable as gender.”

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a better world children would read the Earthsea books not that Harry Potter trash.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ursula Le Guin was in many ways the anti-Rowling. She was an anarchist & not an establishment flunky, she had a strong moral sense instead of being a self-aggrandising bourgeois, & most importantly she actually knew how to write.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this isn't conjecture. This is the EXACT reason why one of the quickest ways to shut down a fash with a camera is to start shouting: "this video is brought to you by SquareSpace!" INSTANT demonitization. Because the streaming/social platforms already protect their advertisers more than the state.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can also personally attest that playing Taylor Swift or any other similarly aggressively litigious major label artist through a minirig works a treat.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...

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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism

Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.

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Miley Crisis. 🎃👻 @miley-crisis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Europeans, hi! If you're against invasive age verification, losing your privacy online, and the thousands of possible leaks of people's passports or other identification documents, please sign this ECI to push back against the EU's overreach citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/09/2026

I would hope that's obvious, but yeah, good to underline, and indeed: > The claim that PISA measures knowledge and skills essential for the modern society or the future world is not based on any empirical evidence.

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

And tbh I don't even say this to convince cis people, who are mostly beyond reaching right now. I say this to remind other trans people not to let these fuckers gaslight you into letting them treat you like shit. You matter, your bodily autonomy matters, your life matters.

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

This shit is serious. Trans people get hurt, sexually assaulted, denied emergency medical treatment, outright fucking murdered. It's not a culture war to us, it's our fucking lives.

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

It frustrates me so deeply that cis people simply cannot concieve of transphobia as something serious.

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Max @talkless.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

paying to watch ads. what stage of capitalism is this

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

qBittorrent. That’s the best one imo.

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

her work is also very fundamental to modern particle physics

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."

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From Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on Mathematics

Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 19/09/2026

Sometimes i really think about the foster care/adoption system and how they're framed as a kindness to unwanted children And then i remember that when I was taken from my family it was because the state decided it was better to pay white republicans to raise me instead of giving services to my mom

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

and this legitimacy of violence can be extended to any person who can be cast as sharing characteristics with a "child."

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

on the contrary, there are forms and practices of violence, terror, and humiliation we as a society have agreed are reserved specifically for children's bodies. the child's body is the archetypal site of legitimate, disciplinary violence. violence BECOMES socially legitimate when done to a child.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

there's a popular, deeply ingrained myth that children are a uniquely "protected" class, sheltered from the harsh realities of the world, coddled, that any act of violence against them is regarded as uniquely horrifying and galvanizing instant universal outrage, but it's not borne out by reality

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

anyway food for thought: if an adult man were forced by his boss to bend over, possibly lower his pants, and allow himself to be struck painfully on the buttocks with a hard wooden paddle, spoon, belt, or hand, would that be: a) not just assault but *sexual* assault or b) "necessary discipline"

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(also, and it shouldn't be left unsaid: it also comes from a desire for an explanation that is exonerative and sympathetic)

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

as long as we continue to concede that sexual violence (or the desire to commit it) is a problem of individual "deviance" or mental affliction instead of structural rape culture, we will be required to come up with some kind of bioesssentialist explanation for the cis male majority. so stop it pls.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CW: CSA - the desire for biospychological naturalist explanations is born out of a reluctance to acknowledge that cis male supremacy is the context in which sexual violence against children occurs, the context that shapes it, that produces desire, that inscribes certain bodies with (sexual) meaning

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

there is no naturalist/biological/medical explanation for the cis male majority. it's patriarchy, folks. it's socially constructed patterns of incitement to desire. sexology as a field is like evopsych, it's whole function is to naturalize social forces by attributing them to biopsychological causes

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"pedophilia" is not a condition that afflicts men due to biological factors. it is not a sexual orientation. it is a product of *social* forces. i truly believe that if people viewed children as real human beings & violence against them as structural & political, they would not fall for this shit

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

unfortunately pr0st@sia is coming up in the discourse again bc apparently berlatsky's posting some shit so we have to have these conversations bc people continue to fall for pr0st@sia's selling lines even if they admit it "went astray," but it was always 100% pseudoscience

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CW: CSA/pedophilia myths, transphobia (sorry) - in conclusion, stop falling for that shit. the predominance of cis men in reporting or acting on desire toward children is a product of social construction & the structural forces of male supremacy in which sex = power & children are powerless

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CW: CSA/pedophilia myths, transphobia (sorry) - 4. within the same framework, they argue that a person with one "paraphilia" is more prone to have "comorbid" "paraphilias" ergo, someone with "autogynephilia" is also more prone to have "male chronophilias" (e.g., pedophilia, hebephilia, etc)

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CW: CSA/pedophilia myths (sorry) - 1. the overwhelming majority is perpetrated by cis men 2. the overwhelming majority of people who self-report desire toward children are also cis men 3. sexologists & transphobes attribute this to a "male" biological tendency toward "paraphilia"

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