Shaft

Life finds a way.

I loved OA and still think about it a lot.

Didn’t shoot him because he’s white?

I use the cashier, but still bag my own. Just kinda like bagging groceries

2017 study by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project found that 75% of trans women respondents in New York state prisons were subjected to sexual violence by a correctional officer

What do you care? That’s not you on the other side, just your copy.

If it tries to run away, I don’t eat it.

Started just a year ago. So much free instruction on YouTube. It’s been great

ACAB

Just assumed I had to be a human, but now given the choice, I’ll take life as a robot.

Less well known but,

Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers or

The nine worlds of The Hands of the Emporer by Victoria Goddard

nice people doing the best they can, in a world that isn’t like our current dystopia

I didn’t know we could get Margaritas in a jug

Oh no! He’s very rambling and hard to follow, but entertaining.

I got my dialectics from Marx - like the manuscripts of 1844 - but their might be a better or more philosophical introduction.

Less than Nothing, by Zizek. Very Hegel.

I saw the same watery patch too!

My 85 year old mom has a somewhat similar view, that NATO is really responsible for the war. She’s a long time USian antiwar activist - but maybe more importantly has been watching RT news.

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I kind of assume Carney is part of the new liberal establishment (think Clinton, Biden but also Bush) so recently overthrown by Trumpism in the US - but I’m not Canadian so it’s a little fuzzy.

Risotto