Calliope 👀 🍿

Leftist fiction bot, WB11 Scholar, Club Chalamet for Rockets basketball 🚀 🏀

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Everyone is saying “leftists need to read more fiction”

So here’s a list of 25 leftist fiction finds, their synopses, and a brief description of the author’s relation to the movement 💁‍♀️ 📚

https://t.co/IVoW3TQp5G

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Fall incantations

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Making a playlist to listen to on my trampoline but it’s only ‘Beauty and A Beat’ so far

[se🍐 @unholder]

US just attacked a wedding in southern Iran and murdered two ppl, injuring several others.

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Expected tomorrow !

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Mrs. Saxobeat

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Carefully depositing all my writing inside the art that expands consciousness annals of literature to make sure it doesn’t accidentally leak into society’s air supply as “media”

[Max Lawton @maxdaniellawton]

Ottessa is a queen

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

A lottttt of workplace sexual harassment in the CSI pilot but otherwise … it’s electric

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Also they do teach people how to research as part of most BA/BS. A lot of people have that training. Obviously there are levels to it but I think there is a negation of people possessing that skill even if they didn’t go on to pursue mastery that aligns with capitalist interests

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Right wing anti intellectualism + attempts to deskill research + bad job market = academics scared by acknowledging the swath w. independently rigorous intellectual lives theyre undermining their market position so they group us w. ppl “doing their own research” about vaccines

[kate wehwalt @mcmansionhell]

i really dislike some of the resentment and disdain some academics have for those of us who live a life of the mind without a phd. no offense but i doubt that my intellectual life would've been better off if i spent 6 more years of my life studying concert halls instead of writing

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

This is the food I make in my SpongeBob Krabby Patty game on the random side quest levels

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Time to dust off ye olde ‘Enes Kanter is a CIA asset’ thread for everyone new here

[shaedon sharpe’s rifles @Shikima_King_]

@justinbaragona Enes Kanter is in a crypto fascist Pan Turkic ultranationalist cult tightly connected to US intelligence and if you wanna read a bunch of tweets about it here you go

https://t.co/A1l6V3fDzK

[farah @farahsfile]

any social analysis on gen z can be tied back to the economic situation it is really not that interesting at all

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

@bioleera @knife_manifest I see I think I maybe misunderstood what you meant by social repro. If you have anything either you’ve written or an article you’ve found useful about that I’d be keen to read. To me that i think that means UBI, housing for all, healthcare for all, and strategic work allocations

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

For people so in love with mainstream American politics it’s wild they refuse to look to their current political opponents’ ability to win on the maximalist demands of Project 2025 and keep insisting the Left remove equal but opposite components for a project of liberation

[Micah Uetricht @micahuetricht]

Most socialist electeds and candidates are publicly rejecting the defund/abolish police & prisons demands. That makes sense: those demands are counterproductive and weigh the socialist movement down. @_ericblanc spoke well to this on WNYC this week. https://t.co/6BLdywv7sR

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

@bioleera @knife_manifest So where I land here is there should always be efforts to erode prison/policing as we know it and build toward a society with a social contract that functions for all. I’m not wholesale against harm redux care programs but they are technically, to me, carceral logic extenders

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

@bioleera @knife_manifest If the onus rests on abolitionists to create more social programs to in a way continue to police that same group but nicer then we aren’t departing from the ideology that 1 group needs a monitoring support system while the other doesnt and that is how safety exists for a society

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

@bioleera @knife_manifest Yes I’m pro “care not cops” rhetoric, I think there are 1000s of small ways to dismantle something and rebuild something else and anyone demanding detailed blueprints to convince them not to imprison 2 mil ppl would never be moved until history moves forward for them

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

Everyone @ Jacobin when they can’t get the toothpaste back in the tube on abolition and defund after 5 years of whining

[Calliope 👀 🍿 @GrecianBust]

@knife_manifest Why would it be a lie? I don’t see the left making demands against policing/ prison as new. It’s been the platform of the last century of US leftism in various forms. What evidence is there it’s empty/poisoned? A poll? Try as some may you can’t rebrand mass political slogans

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

I am not persuaded by the argument I see often on the left that you have to essentially lie to people about your political commitments and affiliations to get them to your side. Whether it’s about being a socialist or about what needs to be done about policing. To me that betrays a sort of parochial view of the working class that infantilizes them and makes them out to be unable to comprehend concepts that Marxists should always believe they can handle and see value in.