🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I'm reading a book on my phone in dark mode and it's reversed all the b&w photos as well so everyone looks super ominous 191
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Like this but with plastic pastries instead of / as well as fruit and flowers 010
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Where do fish & chip shops get their magic fortune-telling boxes from, I want one for my house to make all decisions for me 152
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This huge dead rat has been on my street for a few days and someone has started leaving flowers next to it lol 4130
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 16/03/2026“I’ve dreamed about making a double plural play my whole life” 030
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Obsessulated with this vase by @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social 060
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Why does he have to look so much like Andrew little though 020
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I don’t think any left wing protest would have been suffered to set up camp at all after chalking this on the forecourt. Let alone shit on the cenotaph for weeks 010
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Someone unprompted guessed my age today and they said 40 😭 kms 260
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I might be overreacting, I think my friends take here is correct but, the normalisation, the effect ends up the same whether it’s purposeful or not 100
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 10/02/2026those = are OCR errors. you can find other copies of the same email www.justice.gov/epstein/file... 020
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I have just started reading this book - it's very informative so far. got it from someone on here who posted snippets but cannot remember who, sorry! theauthoritarians.org isn't the audiobook cover something 110
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 03/02/2026[trigger warning CSA] have any of the children of rich fucks named in the files come forward and said, no this isn't what it looks like? 250
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 05/01/2026i emailed mine on the 1st and got a response yesterday, which was not very reassuring (though i appreciate the effort to reassure) and haven't heard anything further 120
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Oh yay the sparrows have discovered all the aphids on my sweet peas. Sic’em boys! 1130
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Cutest fattest little juvenile blackbird in the courtyard 060
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Even when I am right there holding my cat who is very interested. Do you want to die dude 130
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 20/12/2025I made a bunch of reusable bags for Xmas this year and I am very pleased with myself :) 4211
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 19/12/2025That seems like the direct opposite of breaking news 2111
🐝 Rappaccini @rappaccini.bsky.social · 09/12/2025First flowers just now appearing on my sweet peas. taller than me 030
![privatization, investment subsidies, fiscal austerity, and on so. The result is rising inequality, impoverishment, and insecurity for working and popular classes, precisely the conditions that throw states into crises of legitimacy, destabilize national political systems, and jeopardize elite control. International
frictions escalate as states, in their efforts to retain legitimacy, seek to sublimate social and political tensions and to keep the social order from fracturing. This sublimation may involve channeling social unrest toward scapegoated communities,
such as immigrants in the United States (this is one key function of racism), or an external enemy, such as China or Russia, to again take the case of the United States.
The larger theoretical backdrop to this discussion is how politics, including geopolitics, may overdetermine economics. The state's efforts to resolve the crisis of legitimacy and stabilize the social order runs up against the accumulation strategies pursued by the [transnational capitalist class] and capitalists' efforts in each country of the world to shift the burden of the crisis onto working and popular classes. In its attempt to secure legitimacy and assure the reproduction of the social order as a whole, the capitalist state can and often does impose restraint on capital or push the process of capital accumulation in certain directions.
Yet such imposition runs up against the selfsame capitalist state's drive to promote (transnational) capital accumulation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qt3t467korjyobctognuxwxi/bafkreicah3i6xvlds6j2t7ar5oubgovadsc6r3gj3hlpgxpvc27o7urqey)
