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Artist, amateur wikidot coder, writer - (he/him) - Pan

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

I often think of this passage from Lenin’s text on Tolstoy and the labor movement: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

We rarely see the other parts of that paragraph. "Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing,” Lenin writes. "The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."

Lenin was writing about the labor movement, and the objective historical process that saw it rise and replace the peasantry as the dominant force in Russia. The peasantry was gripped by despair because its class no longer had a future. The proletariat, by contrast, was growing in strength and number.

Today, Lenin’s insight also holds true of the streets of Iran, where people mobilize by the millions under bombardment. It is true of the communes in Venezuela, whose militants continue the task of building socialism and are prepared to take up arms to defend it. It is true of the people of Cuba, who remain defiant under a crushing blockade that has turned their cities dark.

Those who despair now — as a new world is being born — are really just mourning the death of liberalism. They are mourning the death of a world that never existed: a world of supposed lawfulness and “rules-based” governance. Anyone who has ever earnestly tried to bring a new world into being quickly learned that these were fictions created to secure impunity for the colonizer and oppressor.

That is why we find that people on the vanguard of the systemic transition underway — as with the labor movement in Lenin’s time — “have plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about.”

[Frederick🇺🇲🇷🇺 @Frederick7551]

China’s system is no longer authoritarian. It is now totalitarian.

[heterohound (work) @cokehounnd]

A search operation remains underway for 17-year-old Nanashi Shiraishi after a dogsledding accident during a school training event on Sunday.

Rescue personnel arrived on scene within the hour and successfully recovered all other students involved. Shiraishi remains missing.

[Benjamin Luk @benjaminluk]

This is Zach Cregger’s approach to first drafts as a screenwriter. It’s called “elfing”. He’s right. ✍🏼

[Nezha | 💥 HEATHENS @Nezhahah]

these are all the animation job boards I've used to find work 🔻🧵

[Zunkee | comms closed @Immaskunk]

waitin in line n shi

[Animarchy History 🇦🇺 @AnimarchyYT]

The Liberals discover Trotskyism

[Vic Vaiana @vicvaiana]

All this in just 4 years.

Remember when they insisted it was impossible to build green infrastructure quickly enough

[Talexis @TalesTigerfox]

This hallowed hall.

[Kola @DarkKolaa]

imagine selling furry karl marx

[Piggyback @PiggybackRam]

Quad stomp pixel animation!

[Rivka @rivka_huehhh]

Impossible

[togekk0💜 @togekk0]

How I approach Bushes/Leaves

[thursday ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🌻 @thealmostthurs]

read my yappings on how i treat colors with grids and sliders

[Star Seeker @starseeker1334]

Congrats, you all discovered how google AI image generation got so good so quickly,

everyone using a drive, every TB of family photos kept in a cloud for safekeeping, so long promised to be private, is scanned, used and abused by google.

Never believe in anything they say.

[潤憫 RunMin ルンミン @RunMinCBWH]

Recently, a student friend who just entered the animation industry asked me what kinds of things they should keep in mind while working in the industry.

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

FDR and Stalin when Churchill showed up at any conference

[CLOSE COMMISSIONS🐱NINA the kittie🍔 @nina_kittie]

Muscular mare in red dress
@theRealLukaCro1 thank's for your support 🩷

[02PNG @02png]

Process video (1hr) uploaded on Patre0n!

[dane 🚩 @buckadeath]

Now this is some larp I can get behind