Reposted by Alex 🖤LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I think westerners tend to underestimate just how oppressive copyright is and how much worse it would be if it were possible to enforce globally. Enabling textbook and academic piracy is one of the more liberatory impacts of the internet. Money is too cheap for us to fully understand how vital it is 14863146
Reposted by Alex 🖤Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Wrote a physicalist rant about why a lot of debates in AI seem philosophically goofy to me blog.andymasley.com/p/dont-treat...blog.andymasley.comDon't treat surface-level metaphors about AI as if they describe fundamental realityDebates about whether AI is a “tool” or whether it’s wrong to “anthropomorphize” it often seem confused about what reality is made of 65410
Reposted by Alex 🖤Kaleidic Riot @badmenbad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Look, it's one thing to believe in "sovereign nations" and "borders" as a child, but eventually you're supposed to grow up and become an anarchist. 016355
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is why the concept and category of the "human" is not our fucking ally. Will never be our fucking ally. When you fetishize the "human" as response to AI, you simply empower fascists to champion human-nationalism until boring plumbline veganism is "anti-human," to say nothing of trans folks. 66821
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Yep. See also Mussolini constantly quoting anarchists. Fascism arose as a response to anarchism, we both cut through the tangled delusions of liberalism, but fascism simply inverts anarchist moral values so that might is right. Fascists are often sharply clearheaded about what the state is. 28718
Reposted by Alex 🖤John Boo! 🏳️🌈 @jsoo.refl.club · 22/07/2026Campism is only one of many red-brown vectors. Others include: - labor protectionism leading to anti-immigrant hatred - woo-to-conspiracism - related but different, anti-empiricism - authoritarianisms - related but different, accelerationism - GENDER, interacting with every other item 26422
Reposted by Alex 🖤Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Me Too did not go far enough. 905631957
Reposted by Alex 🖤Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 17/07/2026US soldiers btw do regularly rape people especially when overseas, so while it is appropriate to be mad about this post, maybe have the same outrage for the already existing reality of US imperialism and fight the “support our troops” mentality in the US 06719
Reposted by Alex 🖤themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026cw: mentions of csa - same reason pederasty is wide spread in patriarchal societies. most famously ancient greece & rome but also all over the world & history, the position of "boy" as acceptable object of desire and the the violent NON-acceptability of "man" as object of desire are one and the same 423655
Reposted by Alex 🖤tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The term "transmedicalism" needs to be put on a high shelf until people learn the difference between a random trans person being mean online and a hegemonic power structure restricting your bodily autonomy. 552390
Reposted by Alex 🖤Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026people already popping off in the comments about the rankings yes we should push for more transformative futures and: climate solutions demand empiricism. part of that empiricism is being willing and able to identify political barriers to ideal solutions, and do the slow work to dismantle them 3709
Reposted by Alex 🖤Scott B 🏴 @scottb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When interacting w/ medical professionals: Presenting a biased account of your own case, tailored to key words & patterns that they are trained for, is almost always the best path to appropriate treatment when you've already figured out what's most likely going on. *Make it seems like their idea.* 153
Reposted by Alex 🖤👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 05/06/2026"we need a gruff masculine guy to lead the left's image" ideology has continually failed and at this point is just a waste of energy 13952178
Reposted by Alex 🖤Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23/05/2026They say the door to Hell is locked from the inside. And the same is true of reactionary politics. The solution to the Male Loneliness Epidemic <dismissive wanking gesture> is and has always been feminism. Simple as. Men, go clean your rooms and learn feminism. 549990
Reposted by Alex 🖤ave @ave.zone · 07/05/2026Many of us think that copyright is bad, actually. Somehow used to be the common position among the people on the left and now so many are talking about how IP violations are theft. 1124
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026What's strange and horrifying is that "the left" as a whole has proceeded in the *opposite* direction. Shockingly bad arguments against veganism are now mainstream ("it's my tradition" etc). Occasionally you can now even find animal products at *anarchist* events! This demands an explanation 5373
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Also Torres is IN FAVOR of an authoritarian AI god controlling us!! It's just a classic "let's use technology to create a totalitarian state to stop technology" anti-transhumanist like Bostrom and a ton of the neoreactionaries! This is who you're credulously citing to dunk on transhumanists!! 0499
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026It's been widely noted that Torres is batshit dishonest in their lossy reductive "TESCREAL" account in ways that writes out the long history of anarchist & socialist transhumanists, cosmists, etc. Today I learned they EXPLICITLY grounds hostility to transhumanism in hostility to anarchism!! 56414
Reposted by Alex 🖤jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...propublica.orgBabies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at BirthA lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement. 470160066038
Reposted by Alex 🖤Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026This "hindsight" thing is like the "man of his times" trope about slavery, when it was widely contested as evil at the time. Long before Biden there was a growing perception that his generation's knife-to-a-gunfight approach of "reaching across the aisle" and "bipartisanship" was outmoded. 073
Alex 🖤 @utopiandreams.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I've been listening to the Sold a Story podcast, about the cueing system used to teach reading in elementary schools. It's had me thinking about the impulse to provide maximal autonomy, but in a way that forecloses on an individuals future capacity. 100
Reposted by Alex 🖤Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Not content with copyright maximalism, the anti-AI crowd decides to also come out against nuclear energy. Increasingly seems like the worst thing about AI is the reactionary polarization it causes in ostensibly left-liberal people. 3265
Reposted by Alex 🖤Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The fundamental problem of the "degrowth" debate is that both degrowthers and "ecomodernists" fail to clearly define what they mean by "growth."... 1/ c4ss.org/content/52500c4ss.orgWe Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists. Analysis of a Debate.View or download a PDF copy of Kevin Carson’s full C4SS Study: We Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists. Analysis of a Debate. Introduction One of the biggest problems with the debate over “de... 182
Reposted by Alex 🖤mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 28/04/2026this is morally reprehensible. AI should not be used to improve access to knowledge. it’s simply not worth burning 10,000 amazon rainforests per query for this 0835
Reposted by Alex 🖤Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Two of the most fundamental ethical principles of transhumanism are morphological freedom (the freedom to modify one's body) and cognitive freedom (the freedom to control one's mental processes). If you think trans people shouldn't be able to transition, you're not a transhumanist. 09227
Reposted by Alex 🖤Very Sane AI Newsletter @verysane.ai · 29/03/2026"Luddism does not deserve to be rehabilitated. It was a medieval throwback, reactionary and primitive, a pre-Marxist labor convulsion closer in spirit to the Khmer Rouge’s fantasies of agrarian restoration than to the universalist solidarity of Eugene Debs." open.substack.com/pub/verysane...open.substack.comAgainst the LudditesThe rehabilitation of Luddism is a vice signal. 826070
Reposted by Alex 🖤Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 29/03/2026Exactly; as long as you have a mechanism for people to impose a fractional share of their will on their neighbors, then you have a straight line to "I need to worry about ahd control who those neighbors are and what kinds of things they believe" 1172
Reposted by Alex 🖤Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026There are not "math people" and "not math people." School math represents a sliver of mathematics as a discipline, and there is a lot more in there that the so called "not math people" could really dig and be good at. 1217841
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I keep increasingly emphasizing anarchism's hostility to democracy because folks really need to grapple with how democracy is tied to the evil of borders. A majoritarian collective decision-making process requires inclusions & exclusions, and *regional* exclusion is popular pretty much everywhere. 513739
Reposted by Alex 🖤Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 10/03/2026If you can envision farm labor in a non-exploitative system, you're able to distinguish a thing as such from the system of power it's implemented in. So why not also do that with labor-saving technology, instead of just assuming that everyone who wants it must be envisioning it within capitalism? 0364
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026It should not be remotely controversial to say that it's fucked up to be celebrating a statement from "leaders of left and right" -- in the same way that it was incredibly fucked when greens marched with TERFs, catholics, and fascists in that Italian rally against transhumanism. 45714
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026It's wild to think the xenofeminist manifesto is now over a decade old and some folks haven't encountered it? There's a zine version folks made too: anarchotranshuman.org/post/1222154...anarchotranshuman.orgAnarchoTranshumanXenofeminism by Laboria Cuboniks, republished by AnarchoTranshuman. Click image for imposed-PDF ready for printing. 13513
Reposted by Alex 🖤The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 05/03/2026It fucked then and it fucks now 1102
Reposted by Alex 🖤ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/03/2026One missing piece is that a total revolution has *not* occurred in the evolution of how people decide _what_ software features or solutions to build, which was always a social and not technical problem, and the conditions of which have been in steady and then increasing deterioration for decades. 38615
Reposted by Alex 🖤👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 02/03/2026the united states might be the only country on the planet where its military is entirely volunteer based but the majority of discourse around it acts like conscription exists. i hope people can maybe read the room a little when soldiers are currently slaughtering people in west asia again 141363394
Reposted by Alex 🖤Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026This is a test run, for when they use coercion to force all trans people into conversion therapy. Want rehab for your broken leg? Or insulin for diabetes? You'll have to detransition. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...transitics.substack.comThe Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in PrisonsThe Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work. 10417187
Reposted by Alex 🖤themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 21/02/2026it comforts allos to believe that everything violent or repressive "lacks sexuality," and everything sexual lacks violence or repression, but alas, it is not true. sexuality and desire is as enmeshed with the social, the construction of power, oppression, subject-formation, etc as everything else 311720
Reposted by Alex 🖤themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 21/02/2026i really am begging people to understand that hate and desire are not at all contradictory 333790
Reposted by Alex 🖤░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░▒▓▒░ @sullyj3.bsky.social · 09/02/2026It's insane how deep the pro-death propaganda has sunk into culture. Every other movie has a villain whose selfish misguided unnatural quest for immortality was their undoing. 5214
Reposted by Alex 🖤Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I didn’t bring any of my gear because surely they wouldn’t gas a daytime march with a bunch of kids, right? 619428
Reposted by Alex 🖤William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 01/02/2026It's actually completely fucking brain-breaking that Epstein was emailing to Chomsky links to the neonazi website of former right-libertarians that got their start incessantly stalking and attacking C4SS. 210027
Reposted by Alex 🖤Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com 376125506108
Reposted by Alex 🖤Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 22/01/2026okay yes but contesting that definition is, i would say, pretty important to the project of anarchism succeeding! this goes all the way back to the english civil war and how that word was used to define certain aspirations out of existence humaniterations.net/2017/06/14/y... 32911
Reposted by Alex 🖤Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Let’s PLEASE not suggest that the Neighborhood Watch—a civilian volunteer branch of the carceral system—is *anywhere* in the lineage of the direct action being performed by ICE Watches. 210732
