situation or strategy?

dual power and mutual aid are descriptive categories, not strategies!

guys what if we titled the thing that we're doing currently The Good End State we hope to achieve? this will not delude ourselves, surely. btw i hate leninists that call the USSR socialism

she was sweet for indulging me, i'm glad she doesn't have to right now

whats-in-a-name.m4a is great, i love kasey

im a fairly linear person lol

there's a joke here somewhere about rorty or early nietzsche

ive got new laptop without stickers now yknow

metaphor is trying too hard but you get it lol

well it's not a metaphor that's just real life

old me was right that getting good at something is to some extent uncritically adopting it's internal logic

which is to say adorno was right about "joining in"

do you ever get the feeling you've imagined a synonym that simply doesn't exist and then forgotten it

this is a confusing way of saying i could have sworn there was a better word for "commandment" and i can't think of it

this is who you're asking to come in at 5:30 am

and this is her girlfriend so be nice

thank you Best Small Cats: The Consensus Top 5 Little Breeds According To Experts

idk if im really ready to lock in this week ngl lol, im so sick of go-live work, scrunkly pseudo-dev shit it better

kind of a waste of a day but that's fine

after working with an api for a while you start to feel for the ppl that have to use this every day

musicbee eat your heart out

essex invented toasters to warm up your hands at breakfast time

i feel for chloe, i hope you make it okay

im starting to think some of you may be okay with copyright violations

i slept in a bit this morning because i stayed up late, but i don't have that luxury tonight ! lock in bestie

i have the gamer gene

when the boysmell hits juuust right

i hit the sweet spot, you gotta feel bad for those who have to be around real boys @ f*sdem

polyphony is cool in theory but it doesn't work so well

gtk 3 > gtk 4 also you had the chance to free yourself from the ugly left sidebar

i should be nice its very very new, im just saying from current-day usability pov

flatpak is so mega ass dude omfg :sob: :sob: :sob:

well that's not true

then again no one uses the term right anymore in part because anything contributing to proper dual power is so far out of reach. the meta has moved on to calling things "prefigurative", which sounds awesome and revolutionary and it's great because you can pursue it in unthreatening weakness

i don't mean to be so dismissive because yea it's worth doing and yea it is necessary and genuinely individually transformative, albeit as basically a more action-oriented form of consciousness raising. theoretically the action could be leveraged further but like that's not happening.

it's also worth doing because the alternative is acquiescent accomodation to the status quo and while this is inevitable when weak, making a conscious effort to behave differently in the spaces granted as "private", you might as well try to make your action as utopian as you can imagine

it sucks less in the here-and-now for yourself and others and might help you imagine further. but yknow from a macro perspective i think it's fair to admit we're basically at "subversive poem" tier behavior

im well aware there are more ambitious projects of prefigurative institution building, some that could even be dual power, and these are a necessary precondition of a more complete consciousness raising. but the benefit of prefigurative politics is the slippage between the revolutionary and private

(i use "benefit" cynically here of course). you get to feel subversive and as a part of a larger struggle while not doing very much at all. which yknow, is fine. by the time you get over it you're likely to have some cool intuitive styles of relating that persist

ngl i don't fw the timpani so much, just an ostentatious percussion piece

the urge to message all my signal contacts they are beautiful and how much i appreciate their unique contribution my life and the ways i value contributing to theirs

wait huh it's not working even now what the hell. oh well, tomorrow problem

me when i lie and it's fine

i sure post about this girl a whole lot

it's cool how kasey and i swapped personalities in the last two months

jetstream blipped again, if ur on my feed and u care go to the profile meow

signing off o7

kasey watching what i'm up to and saying "oh you little mittens mage"