cal 🇵🇸

alleged musician, master naturalist, heracross’ strongest soldier | they/them

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

@JSkuf PRECISELY

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

🚬🫩 is an unbelievably load-bearing emoji combo in my life especially as a nonsmoker

[allie🃏comedy! @fauxmantis]

ditto made them wear it

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

“I don’t owe anybody anything!” Actually we are perhaps nothing but dizzyingly intricate webs of obligations to other beings and ourselves. The sheer weight of our obligations is all that keeps us from floating away into space. We can never do enough but we must try.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Michael Parenti (1933-2026) died today. He has, as his son Christian said, 'gone to the Great Lecture Hall in the Sky'. A socialist from early into his life till the very end, Michael Parenti wrote in a feisty way and spoke bluntly the truths that were not always easy to digest in a wretched capitalist system. He was a fierce critic of imperialist wars and suffered the consequences of this because he could keep and then hold academic jobs even in liberal states such as Vermont.

The toughest test for all of us came when the USSR collapsed, and it was in this period that Michael Parenti played an important role in the Battle of Ideas, fighting the reactionary Western media and the intellectual cowardice of his peers. His books on Yugoslavia's destruction earned him terrible attacks, which he brushed off as the necessary price you pay in this struggle. In the midst of it all, Michael wrote 'Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism' (1997), a rebuttal to the anti-Marxist and anti-Communist blather that had begun to infect the world. The book remains an essential tool to fight against the ridiculous anti-communist historiography that demeans the great achievements of the workers' movements.

He spent the last period of his life within himself, which was a loss to the rest of us, and now his departure leaves us without that anchor which he provided.

Michael Parenti. Comrade. Our Red Flag dips in your honour.

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

@pomero7265 Where did you get the sweater??

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

Pantone is white supremacist. Full stop. I’m SO done.

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

@deidrejowen Green, 30, moderate (closer to mild)!

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

@LuvXmaiko Gloria!

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

I couldn’t hack it as a composer in academia and fell out of love with it. And basically everything else. So I got a masters in what I thought I could pull myself together enough to do. And then I did that again. And now I’m using the first masters degree.

[Afolabi Sokeye 🧱 @SokeyeA]

What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

@bryan_johnson don’t die

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

@HoodlumCallum In my defense I am a really weird butch lesbian

[cal 🇵🇸 @calciferSpA]

@pomero7265 Beautiful!!! Do you have a pattern?

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Let the atom be a worker, not a soldier!" Soviet poster, 1967.

[BlackRedGuard ☭ 🇵🇸🔻⛓️‍💥 @OGBlackRedGuard]

whenever I do a small favor for somebody I tell them “I’m a communist, that’s what we do”. little agitprop.

[sofie ☭ @darlingube]

you can go vegan, boycott AI, fast fashion, and plastic and only take the bus for the rest of your life and the US military will undo it all in like 30 minutes because they want Venezuela's oil

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Periodic reminder: it was never about the hostages