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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alyson-escalante-gender-nihilism-an-anti-manifesto alyson escalante - gender nihilism, an anti manifesto The self, the subject is a product of power. The “I” in “I am a man” or “I am a woman” is not an “I” which transcends those statements. Those statements do not reveal a truth about the “I,” rather they constitute the “I.” Man and Woman do not exist as labels for certain metaphysical or essential categories of being, they are rather discursive, social, and linguistic symbols which are historically contingent. They evolve and change over time; their implications have always been determined by power. Who we are, the very core of our being, might perhaps not be found in the categorical realm of being at all. The self is a convergence of power and discourses. Every word you use to define yourself, every category of identity within which you find yourself place, is the result of a historical development of power. Gender, race, sexuality, and every other normative category is not referencing a truth about the body of the subject or about the soul of the subject. These categories construct the subject and the self. There is no static self, no consistent “I”, no history transcending subject. We can only refer to a self with the language given to us, and that language has radically fluctuated throughout history, and continues to fluctuate in our day to day life. The self is a product of power. Statements which claim a categorical identity do not reveal a transcendental truth about the “I,” rather they constitute the “I.” Assertions of identity do not reveal a truth about the “I,” rather they constitute the “I.”
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I AM QUITE LITERALLY ALWAYS SAYING THIS
https://dreary.dev/blog/playlist-auto-ethnography/ It's clear the purpose for making playlists is not primarily about them appreciating what I share, and in some ways directly having an interaction or conversation about what I had shared would spoil it for me. I want to have this minimal act of creation that allows me to externalize my feelings about a person without requiring direct social interaction. Once this creation exists it serves a variety of distinct but highly related functions: a repository for videos and music that I associate with a significant person in my life, allows me to reaffirm myself and the things I enjoy, recontextualizes existing aesthetic associations (for instance, I have very different emotional engagement with the same song that is placed in *G, *J, and *K), and offers a space for me to think about a significant person in my life and reflect on our relationship.
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that can't be right...
https://www.idrlabs.com/sonic-syndrome/test.php shadow (ptsd) 35% tails (anxiety) 60% metal sonic (schizoid) 60% sonic (adhd) 30% amy rose (dependent) 15% knuckles (ocpd) 25% dr eggman (narcissistic) 0%
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i think about this anecdote a lot from geuss, and recognize myself quite a bit. one of the reasons i appreciate kasey's familiarity with me is that she's grown accustomed to this and treats my statements with the appropriate amount of distance.
raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 34 As I said above, I lost contact with Krigler when he moved so far west as to be outside my ken. One might think that, in parallel to that, I lost touch with Sidney, because I moved so far east (to Cambridge) that our worlds could no longer intersect. That, however, would not be the whole truth. If one thinks that it is a central part of pragmatism to value actions, deeds, real changes, rather than mere words, Sidney had always been a rather odd kind of pragmatist, in that for him the spoken word was everything. He could (and did) talk about anything; argue one side of an issue, then change and argue the other, reversing positions immediately, elegantly, and at will; assimilate any new perspective; counter, deflect, or rebut any objection, or accept it and suggest revisions of the original position that had been criticised. He was an absolute master of all of this. It was his
raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 35 way of keeping the world at a safe distance. You could say anything to him and it was all grist for his mill. However, although spoken words were everything, also, in an odd way, they were nothing. They weren’t real, but part of an autonomous realm of discourse, and did not necessarily lead to deeds or consequences. One could also, when talking with him, sometimes get the sense of being caught in a web of words: one could say anything precisely because the words did not really count; they were mere speech. Sidney and I eventually had a terminal falling out, ostensibly about the appointment of a new member to the academic department of which we were both members. He supported the appointment and I opposed it. After a very long and very acrimonious series of debates, interviews, and discussions in the department and the university, the decision was taken to make the appointment. This was disappointing, but it was the sort of thing that happens in human life and which one must deal with as best one can. The fact that Sidney and I were on opposite sides of what I took to be an extremely serious matter also did not bother me terribly—we often disagreed; what could be more usual among philosophers? One might even say it was our natural state, as the joke had it: two philosophers, three opinions. However, the day after the final vote, he came up to me and tried to suggest that life would now simply go on as before; this infuriated me. In my view, this had not just been one further turn in the argument, that could be countered or reversed by another dialectical twist, but an actual decision had been made which had consequence that changed reality.
raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 36 I made the countersuggestion to him that if he wished things to remain as they had been, he should write to the provost immediately and say that we, the members of the department, had not really intended to make a decision and needed more time for further discussion; then life could continue as before. When he started explaining evasively and interminably why he was not willing to do this, I lost my temper and took the nuclear option, doing the one thing I knew he would find it difficult to construe as a mere move in a verbal game or which he could make disappear by verbal redescription: I told him I was not going to talk to him anymore. If I had been less angry, I might have responded more positively to his no doubt genuine desire that we stay on good terms. Since I am not, and have never been, a Kantian, I never attribute special value to the consistency of action per se; however, since I was able to arrange an almost immediate change in my affiliation to a dif­ferent academic department, and soon after emigrated to Britain, we never in fact had another conversation. Thus, I don’t know, and never will know, whether he actually took the point I was trying to make to him: that speech sometimes has real consequences.
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like hop off my dick maybe
AWESOME!! Thank you so much Kyler!!
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External Mail Amazing! Thanks so much Kyler! System Director Product Management
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:~/Code/bsky/bsky-dump$ py song-scraper.py Attempting: dreary.dev JSON retrieved Media search complete: dreary.dev JSON extracted to 'media/dreary.dev/links.json' Results: 298 total, 219 youtube, 59 soundcloud, 20 bandcamp, 0 spotify Attempting: mary.my.id JSON retrieved Media search complete: mary.my.id JSON extracted to 'media/mary.my.id/links.json' Results: 111 total, 110 youtube, 0 soundcloud, 0 bandcamp, 1 spotify Attempting: renahlee.com JSON retrieved Media search complete: renahlee.com JSON extracted to 'media/renahlee.com/links.json' Results: 43 total, 7 youtube, 0 soundcloud, 0 bandcamp, 36 spotify :~/Code/bsky/bsky-dump$
willowMar 13, 2025
i’m literally always saying this
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i will heal the philippines bus stop bootleg - beansclub2 https://soundcloud.com/beansclub2/bus-stop-bootleg
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just willow
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🐻‍❄️🖤 https://on.soundcloud.com/GzCFuyp6j6VPV2F79
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https://on.soundcloud.com/QybunuVCUCA1i5D48 twikipedia - factory (demo) Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.
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William James - The Stream of Consciousness https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/jimmy11.htm 'Substantive' and 'Transitive' States of Mind. -- When we take a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is the different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be an alternation of flights and perchings. The rhythm of language expresses this, where every thought is expressed in a sentence, and every sentence closed by a period. The resting-places are usually occupied by sensorial imaginations of some sort, whose peculiarity is that they can be held before the mind for an indefinite time, and contemplated without changing; the places of flight are filled with thoughts of relations, static or dynamic, that for the most part obtain between the matters contemplated in the periods of comparative rest.
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im gonna curtail bsky usage a bunch, and probably dms a bunch too. #diary in the burrow is my new home. a lot of this mess is very much wrapped up in the fact that i have an audience, even if that's just an audience of 1.
The Burrow Private #diary #secret
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mhmhmhm i mean i was just coming at it with the angle of, i cant expect every person around to be familiar with my idiosyncrasies, you're absolutely right that in the context of me it's one of the most offensive things you can do
sure, i probably should have said something sooner i get it on her side of things with the context of me, and that me being down about stuff was (unintuitively) entirely unrelated to deadname stuff, but there’s no reason it had to remain so escalated
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worst mistake of my life peter griffin meme
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lmao yea you know me
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i actually have no clue how you come away with that interpretation
paulo freire pedagogy of the oppressed @ArticulateThat • 1h ago This book is contradictory so far. To stop being oppressed you need to become an oppressor to the oppressed? Oppressors dehumanize those who they oppress so the oppressed need to dehumanize their oppressors to be free? The problem is so big that you need one big collectivists mindset of solidarity to solve the problem otherwise the problem of oppressed and oppressor will never be solved? Steipping oneself of individuality to become one with a bunch of other people is more dehumanizing than recognizing yourself your strengths and weaknesses is more humanizing then stripping oneself of that. While i agree there are strength in numbers the individual strengths are what makes those numbers powerful
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nah ur chill
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… i love u n im scared evaboy
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yea
moss clip https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx2TKkLw4UsDPa6VdDSj3GkGTMUA2iuaof
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the moss is calling me man
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this doesn’t count but soundcloud.com/nuzzlesu/o-o
soundcloud search in likes tracks for mario super mario bros hentai by nuzzlesu
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oh thats cute i had a dropbox account in 2017
folders: heart, apps, drawing, gail, other, sad, etc, vods
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oh my god, he admit it northernlion aita cop educator https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxpNaLahCY9Ig9sY-naa6jnuGTX92nwtpt
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there was an attempt star
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jet lag (also not at tim hortons)
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airport drive home playlist
replay 2024 3 Better Off Roe Kapara 4 Titles (feat. funeral) E twikipedia .. 5 Siphon LiL Xtra ... BASTILLE "BAD BLOOD 6 Weight of Living, Pt. I Bastille .•• 7 Coming Home beabadoobee .•• 8 Failed LiL Xtra 9 Pretty Bones yeule 10 Carry On LiL Xtra ... 11 They Told Me I Could Be... Edgemaster42 12 Juna Clairo 13 nightmares hard life ..• cyber meat yeule
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this is up there as possibly the most influential passage in my life, one of those things that i’ve thoroughly integrated into my approach to the world
nietzsche and morality, raymond geuss, pg. 186-187, in morality, culture and history This position may seem counterintuitive because the strong impression many readers have is that one of Nietzsche's basic claims is that finally only power (in something like our everyday sense of that term) is truly admirable. I'm suggesting that when Nietzsche is at his most interesting he doesn't think that admiration is locked onto power (in the usual sense) as its object, and admiration is what is finally important for him (cf. GM 1. 12). 'Will-to-power' is an empty, metaphysical concept. 186 Nietzsche and morality Being vital, flourishing, being a 'higher specimen' means being able to inspire admiration. There seems also to be no single substantive trait which all higher specimens have in common by virtue of which they succeed in getting themselves admired; they are admired in different ways for different traits. Admiration (Bewunderung) and its opposite, disgust (Ekel), are for Nietzsche two of the most powerful internal forces that move human beings (JGB §26; GM I. 11, HI. 24, II. 14 etc.).14 Both admiration and disgust in the first instance are elicited by and directed at concrete, individual objects, persons, or situa-tions, and what will be an object of admiration or of disgust varies from person to person and from time to time. In a sense the most important fact about a given person for Nietzsche is which particular objects (or people) that person finds admirable (at what time), and which disgusting, and why. There are no naturally or antecedently fixed criteria of what is worthy of admiration. It doesn't follow from this that no generalizations
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“the most important fact about a given person for Nietzsche is which particular objects (or people) that person finds admirable, which disgusting, and why.” you’re the one i’ve experienced this in a particularly strong fashion with; my admiration for you is mediated through objects of admiration
ty for sharing yourself through curated means idk how exactly to word it elegantly but you are opinionated (complimentary) yet still manage to find a way to connect with your recipient / create shared culture. it's an honor to be on the receiving end. willow 2/12/25, 09:53 yes!! i'm really happy you feel this way willow 2/12/25, 09:55 thats a really cool way to put it, i think that people's influences are like really significant and one of the more compelling ways to get familiar with someone
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# diary > willow Today at 01:35 oh !!! there was things i was gonna type before i really really am interested in relationships where there's room and pressure for me to grow like i think that's the central core of the mini "older women" arc because yes that's a pretty good proxy i just don't want to be the one to do the dragging along and honestly someone that i'm able to admire, that pushes me higher nietzsche just cooked so hard, the hierarchical relation here is so important he often spoke of entire persons, and that has its place, but really it's most enlightening looking at aspects and features that there is an unsurveyable array of things not antecedently specifically that can be admirative objects
willow Today at 01:43 and it doesn't have to be like so apparent that i'm deficient in some thing, it can even be as simple as an appreciation of a mode of their behavior, their way of seeing the world merely being exposed to their actions and thoughts is enough to have the right educative effect, and it doesn't even have the feeling of being deficient just "here's a reminder that this is a way to do things", and of course it need not be, and often is not a cognitive process for the instructor either [redacted1], [redacted2], [redacted3] have this
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it’s extra clever bc s(o)mmer, get it? :)
[Verse 1] So summer's gone, it's fun to act like it's not over I'm ugly like I was back then I ran away into a mountain, where nothing passes by but wind And everybody's looking at me, but no one looks at me like you No one looks at me like you It all went wrong I tried to tell you you were different, you never even paid me mind And getting you to say "I love you" isn't the same as "ily" And if I wasn't so obsessed, I admit that it's a waste of time Admit that it's a waste of time [Verse 2] Would you care to add me to the roster? My bones are getting weak I know I've been acting like a monster, but don't be afraid of me This time I don't wanna go home, I'll be one of your freaks Your sorry eyes put me to bed, wake me up from my sleep (My sleep) Gnawing every single bone you shattered, you're everything I need Lately you've been coming off as creepy, like there's something that you've seen Why couldn't things be simple as I thought they would be? I clenched my jaw hard onto you, now I ran out of teeth [Outro] (Now I ran out of teeth) (Teeth)
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bye bye for now
i'm crying on my plane and we haven't even taken off yet heart reaction signal message
willowMar 16, 2025
feeling vacant without you in my arms
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fuck you hedgehog twikipedia - no deal pitched up kinda bangs ngl https://youtu.be/XEBt72qcnKU
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it's still so funny to me that josh fixed his own recipes but not anyone elses recipe.exchange/recipes/01JG...
https://recipe.exchange/recipes/01JGHBSKG2VBS3P2WJ2XVHCBC9 recipe exchange I STOLE YOUR RKEY MUAHAHAH @glorbo.vore.bar NOW ITS MY grandmother's recipe for Lemon Cake Pudding
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i tried to zonk and got bonked too…
plonk.li 502 bad gateway nginx/1.22.1 after trying to reply to kasey’s plonk
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silly kasey /^([a-zA-Z0-9]([a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?\.)+[a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?$/
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oops
kasey Yesterday at 23:49 who's k* k**** willow Yesterday at 23:49 oh lmao as you texted i just realized that could be easily mistook as you kasey Yesterday at 23:49 kavya willow Yesterday at 23:50 kyler kasey Yesterday at 23:50 Imfao bro i would never have guessed willow Yesterday at 23:50 im so sorry
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holy shit david john locke posting
john locke, an essay concerning human understanding, chapter viii, section 14 some further considerations cornering our simple ideas of sensation 14. They depend on the primary Qualities. What I have said concerning colours and smells may be understood also of tastes and sounds, and other the like sensible qualities; which, whatever reality we by mistake attribute to them, are in truth nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us; and depend on those primary qualities, viz. bulk, figure, texture, and motion of parts and therefore I call them SECONDARY QUALITIES.
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love this :) i have a few discord channels for similar, i could maybe put up a page when i finally update my website
# politics › willow 9/30/23, 18:58 Mephistopheles: I am the spirit, ever, that denies! And rightly so: since everything created, In turn deserves to be annihilated
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kinda tired of seeing things like this
https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:hx53snho72xoj7zqt5uice4u/com.ruthub.kanban/default content:{"title":"","columns":[{"id":"7a893a56-d5a2-46b9-97ec-729b08bac547","name":"new column","description":"detail","ord":1,"ft_color":null,"bg_color":null}],"cards":[{"id":"f90ac560-692b-4193-960a-898782e0859a","name":"card","description":"detail","column_id":"7a893a56-d5a2-46b9-97ec-729b08bac547","ord":1,"ft_color":null,"bg_color":null,"due_time":"","start_time":""}]}
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willow
it's fine, it works, it's whatever, but it still makes me sad
i guess guy meme
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log in and add age keys to supercoolclient.pages.dev/settings (by @aylac.codeberg.page). if i have you added to my list of dids (at the time of making the post) and you have keys defined, you can decrypt it when viewing from the supercoolclient :D
https://supercoolclient.pages.dev/settings the ugliest Settings you have ever seen click on me to go to a site where you can generate your keypair btw the private key is saved as plaintext on your local storage so i don't recommend using one use somewhere else. just make a new one. save it on like your password manager if you plan on using it across devices. but like this is silly so youre probably not going to to Age Settings Public Age: Private Age: People that can see your posts: (the handles get turned into dids once saved) did:plc:avlpu4l2j5u3johint7tqrmu did:plc:znmktqkgqhm2twxcbqiszvx4did:plc:hx53snho72xoj7zqt5uice4udid:plc:vaskeay2qch6aclpfycomxxi
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