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[butter tost @oishimoishi]

@ADHDForReal i watch youtube videos of people doing the thing i'm meant to do, but sweetly and gently. if it's a writing task i have to do, i start by reading really good writing that makes me feel the texture of the joy of a thing.

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Cooking Jam - Teija Lehto, 2016.

[butter tost @oishimoishi]

!!! want this sooooo bad

[Ryan Alexanderplatz @ryanhasbadtaste]

woke up at noon. walked ish. drank coffee. wrote. will watch a movie tonight.

[butter tost @oishimoishi]

this happened 2 me w chocos and milk. it's like finding beauty suddenly on a tuesday afternoon.

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

just had plain white bread with butter for the first time in years. saw god, i think. anorexia convinces you such simple pleasures are certain to destroy your life. so glad i am fighting to get better & building a life full of bread & butter

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

kafka

[butter tost @oishimoishi]

imp to rmr as i spiral further down the who-told-me-to-write train of thought

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Kurt Vonnegut, go into the arts

[butter tost @oishimoishi]

i feel this too and i've been saying this for a while but then i saw a poem by sylvia plath about a girl who is just waiting to come into her own, not realising that life is happening as she waits endlessly. and that felt like being stabbed.

[stressed @onlystresstoday]

I’m in an uncomfortable stage of my life where my old self is gone but my new self isn’t fully born yet. I am in midst of transformation.

[꩜ @faeslily]

language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[butter tost @oishimoishi]

@SapphoLang Lisa, I loved your story. It reads with a keenness of a mystery. I couldn't stop myself, I had to keep reading.

[butter tost @oishimoishi]

@squibsters OMG. looking forward to amazing noodle pics.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Mumbai Against Builder Raj @JaiBhimNagar]

Students, youths, and the working class unite against the Bulldozer-Builder Raj at Jai Bhim Nagar! Together, we marched from 'Sabki Library' towards Begumpura, asserting our right to housing and dignity! Against the systemic oppression of the working class and dalits!

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[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

White phosphorus bombs are leaving innocent Palestinians with horrific burns. The Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas is the only place in the Northern Hemisphere where these munitions are filled, and then they are sent to terrorists who use white phosphorus bombs on children.

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

Israel has wiped out over 900 bloodlines in Gaza since October 7th. As in, killed every single living member of the family, in every generation. As in, no survivors of that family name. As in - genocide.