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If you’re an anarchist creating digital media (texts, zines, art, etc.) for other anarchists and don’t allow people to download copies for free, you’re excluding the least privileged. So congrats on reproducing the ills of capitalism.

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The movie Hackers is like the Rosetta Stone for my entire personality. Johnny Lee Miller gets forcefemmed by his hacker girlfriend as they team up to make queer tech anarchy happen by taking down a massive oil company and the FBI. Meanwhile The Prodigy and Orbital is blasting in the background.

so, our friend found out from the neighbors that the bunnies have been left out there for about 3 weeks now. it at least makes me feel good to know that people have been consistently seeing them around. they must be hiding around nearby mostly then.

i really hope we can get them to safety.

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went back. could only find one. still dont have the means to catch it. going back tonight.

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we're going back in the morning to try to catch them

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we just helped a friend move in and it looks like someone in the neighborhood got evicted and theres a bunch of rabbit hutches out front that have been torn open and theres like 7, very obviously pet bunnies running around the neighborhood.

that number was in the 80k range

ive had this account for toooooo long

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okay, officially wiping away my previous existence on the birdsite

also if you claim any philosophers as "obscurantist" you have to have more to back that up than "they're difficult" or "esoteric" or anything like that.

marx's critique of political economy seems plenty "esoteric" and unhelpful when you have 0 smith or ricardo under your belt!

have you ever read hobbes? read some leviathan and tell me that it feels straightforward

"For the question is not of promises mutual, where there is no security of performance on either side, as when there is no civil power erected over the parties promising; for such promises are no covenants..."

that sentence from hobbes has like 8 more predicates that i truncated. you tellin me that feels straightforward?

or are you gonna start calling hobbes obscurantist too?

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i am "anti-" plenty of ideological camps, parties, orgs, cliques, milieus and more!

when i'm mad at a clique or a milieu i don't blame the theory! why be mad at marx or his writings for what the 2nd international decided?

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being anti-tiqqun without making reference to literally any of their actual philosophy is so silly

currently my website (anarch.cc) hosts a library of texts, but it sucks as a library. i'm just utilizing blog infrastructure and dumping pdfs inside of a series of folders somewhere.

does anyone know of a good library infrastructure i could start utilizing? i've considered the anarchistlibrary infrastructure, but i'd prefer something else honestly.

fuck i said i was gonna go through that zine but it misunderstands things so instantly and in such bad faith idek if its worth it

UH; FIWV, Going in Circles, (anti-)tiqqun 

fuck am i really going to torture myself with this?

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UH; FIWV, Going in Circles, (anti-)tiqqun 

already not looking good here. they blanketly say that there is just "no analysis provided" in the text The Coming Insurrection, and instead only "statements" only "immediate objectivity." i'd like to see this substantiated.

their attempt is immediately them stringing together random half sentences and then misconstruing even their own frankenstein's version of it.

where tiqqun says they want to: “introduce a little order into the common-places of our time, collecting some of the murmurings around barroom tables and behind closed bedroom doors.."

and that they need to “lay down a few necessary truths" the Ungrateful Hyenas speak this back to us as: "the common-places are the necessary truths..."

if you can't even follow your own reconstructions of other's sentences, you should maybe reconsider your attempt... anyways, continuing.

Ungrateful Hyenas seem to mistake utilizing the bald-faced truth spoken by people in positions of power to ironic effect as treating them as a "credible source."

it also claims that the goal of tiqqunism is to get you to join their big multitudinous "We," which... well, i don't know how else to tell you that you've literally no idea what tiqqun has actually written.

tiqqun says: Every attempt to grasp a “people” as a form-of life—as race, class, ethnicity, or nation—has been undermined by the fact that the ethical differences within each “people” have always been greater than the ethical differences between “peoples” themselves.

or, later, in that same piece, where they ironically quote their enemy who was saying that the "period of civil war in japan was the freest of all"

these are not projects of a unified "We," rather, explicitly the opposite.

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UH; FIWV intro, (anti-)tiqqun 

reading a set of pieces on tiqqun and the introduction does not fill me with confidence for how the rest of it will go.

i'll write my thoughts on each piece in a single post at a time, marked with the content warning.

most notably about the intro: they make no reference to any piece published under "tiqqun" only pieces published under "The Invisible Committee"

those are not the same. to mistake the two is silly. but, perhaps they're more interested in some "milieu" they've tried to define but have not yet shown.

let's see how this goes.

i just learned about this brick, made under Nebuchadnezzar II. Thousands of bricks were stamped with his name and title, to emphasize that he had made what they were building.

But on one, a worker who was actually making the bricks, added their own name: Zabina’

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