#Radical New Notions of Empty #Space : Medium

Let Your #Kids Fail : Misc

What an #Olympic #Medal Is Worth : NY Times

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#MissKittyPolitics #ALBUS mousy motherfucker with evil heart. Albus relies on legal #jargon to hide #radical acts. We need to strip the "administrative" veneer away. This is a seizure of your rights, not a "ballot audit." Demand the Epstein files. Demand the ballots stay in state hands. #DemandTruth

Cooooool! Think I'm getting a cold. #radical #dope #tight

In culture of narcissism, compassionate insight is radical, www.compassmethods.com. @CompassionsCompass-sb7jo #mentalhealth #radical #love #compassion #wisdom

As a member of the Lumpenproletariat I wear the badge with pride. I refuse to look down on those people consider "underclass" and I also refuse to believe we are not able to be organized or educated
#Anarchist #Radical #ACAB #AnarchistART

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David Draiman Has a ‘Radical’ Idea for a Music Festival

https://loudwire.com/disturbed-david-draiman-radical-idea-music-festival/

#DavidDraimanHas #Radical #festival #vocalist #Metal #music

Radical

Pequeño ejercicio literario y tipográfico sobre la palabra «radical». Realizado en Inkscape con Work Sans.

Es verdad que el arma de la crítica no puede substituir la crítica por las armas; la violencia material solo puede ser derrocada con violencia material. Pero también la teoría se convierte en fuerza material, cuando se apodera de las masas. La teoría es capaz de apoderarse de las masas, en cuanto demuestra ad hominem; y demuestra ad hominem, en cuanto se radicaliza. Ser radical es tomar la cosa de raíz. Y para el hombre la raíz es el mismo hombre.

Karl Marx.

The prominent Hindi and Bangla writer and translator Kanchan Kumar passed away in Kolkata on 28thNovember, 2025. Born in Birudiha (Bardhaman district, then in undivided Bengal) in 1936, he grew up in Banaras and had already gained recognition as an emerging Hindi writer by the 1960s, working across multiple genres. His life and work took new turns after the 1967 uprising in Naxalbari which he was inspired by...

#translation #radical #culture #naxalbari

https://www.groundxero.in/2026/02/05/i-came-towards-the-revolution-a-conversation-with-the-late-kanchan-kumar-1936-2025-writer-translator-organiser/

#Roomba #Radical #stickers

Michael Parenti was a public intellectual, an iconoclast, antiauthoritarian, a brilliant writer and thinker, a dazzlingly articulate and passionate public speaker, and personal hero.

#parenti #radical #memorial

https://open.substack.com/pub/letsmakethempay/p/rest-in-power-michael-parenti-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

BlueSky Is A Platform For Attention Whores With No Standards

I’m convinced that Bluesky is the platform for attention-whores who perform and humiliate themselves for validation and affirmation. It’s really sad. I don’t feel bad when bad things happen to them as a consequence because they were already warned, yet they prioritize fitting into a culture and refuse to deal with their feelings of inadequacy. The reason they stay is that the bar is low for meaningful engagement, allowing them to indulge in their obsessions and compulsions while being rewarded for self-destructive behavior. It truly is quite pathetic.

I initially joined Bluesky for the sexual content because people on Mastodon have little interest in sex and much more elaborate norms around sexuality. Contrary to what people think of me, I don’t actually use social media in the conventional way most people do. I view it on an abstract, non-algorithmically served layer via my network analysis tools, and I interact with YouTube in a very constrained way. So, I wasn’t aware of how bad things were until I started using Bluesky conventionally. The men on Bluesky are just plain repulsive to me. Desperation, neediness, lack of independence, and obsessively posting about a single topic (like sex, religion, or politics), instead of developing a genuine hobby that demonstrates skill, progress, and mastery, are major turn-offs. I find a lack of standards absolutely disgusting.

For example, if someone abhorrent gives you a compliment, you don’t accept it. If an abhorrent person follows you, you block them. Yet what I see are men posting sexual content and seeking attention and validation from anyone, regardless of who it’s coming from. If I look through someone’s activity and see nothing but low-effort posts interacting with nothing but sexual content or obsessive engagement with that type of content, I lose interest immediately.

A reason why my husband has held my attention for over a decade is that there is always something new with him. He is always randomly looking into developing a new skill. One day, he started randomly speaking Mandarin to me, which I did not know he knew how to speak. He had told me he had been learning Mandarin. Yes, my husband is neurodivergent and his interests are cars, but that doesn’t displace all other things. Another reason why my husband holds my attention is that he can keep a conversation going and match anyone’s changes. It’s not one ritualistic or compulsive thing every single fucking day.

A very real consequence of the lack of standards in gay sexual spaces, especially given that many misogynistic, homophobic far-right men suppress their homosexual attractions, is that many of the fetishes in gay sexual spaces are reminiscent of manosphere content. Because of what I do for a living, I have access to audience segmentation metrics and social embeddings of how content is served. Manosphere content clusters with homoerotic content that men consume. At some point, obsession became so normalized that people stopped realizing it was problematic.

Unless gay men set boundaries and tell manosphere bros, “we’re not having that,” you’ll see what I see on Bluesky. I’m actually very sexual myself, and I frequently go to bathhouses—those that have very explicit rules—sex parties, and orgies.

The funny thing is that I have had plenty of really deep philosophical conversations sitting in the hot tub of a bathhouse with naked gay men. Because of health codes and all that, you can’t do sexual things in the pool or the hot tub, so those areas were places for genuine play and conversation, while spots like the saunas were the fuck spots. I recall a particularly interesting conversation I had with an older gay man who had been going to that bathhouse since the ’80s. He explained to me the social context of the HIV epidemic and how, basically, no one knew it was sexually transmitted, so everyone was still barebacking at that exact same bathhouse we were in.

The issue here is people who fuck and sexually perform for awful people who want to murder them because they have absolutely no fucking standards and are so emotionally needy that they forgo all forms of self-preservation. I’m a computer scientist, so I have access to a lot of data tools. I can tell you for a fact that there is a strong correlation between men who want to murder gay men and trans people and the ones liking, engaging in parasocial dynamics with, and commenting in their replies. You’re willing to take sexual attention from people who want to kill you, and that blows my mind.

In their minds, Bluesky is better if it is not a Nazi strip bar but a Nazi BDSM-furry-kink club? What the ever-loving fuck?! Honestly, I watch a lot of feminist content that rips manosphere content apart, so much so that I can instantly recognize coded things. The “fuck no!” moment for me is when I saw manosphere-coded things being fetishized in the ego networks of large gay adult content creators and OnlyFans creators in social network embeddings. It’s not like it is insidious. If I see it, everyone else sees it; they are just ignoring it because they are prioritizing sexual validation and their obsessions.

"When unimaginable headlines become reality, you've got to come up with once unimaginable strategies!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

If the future gets weird, maybe your strategies need to get weird as well.

Think about it: we are less than thirty days into 2026, and the rulebook hasn't just been rewritten—it’s been incinerated. We are witnessing a compression of history, where decades of change are now crammed into days. The definition of "stability" has evaporated, replaced by a relentless volatility that refuses to pause.

Headlines that were unimaginable a decade ago, let alone a year ago, are now common. 

All of this means that if you are still operating on last year's logic, you aren't just behind; you are watching a different movie entirely. And this one isn't a rom-com, it's a horror show.

In that context, any comfort zone is gone. The headlines proving that "it can't happen here" are being printed daily. In this environment, caution is the most dangerous strategy of all. Thinking fast and moving faster is the only way through the mess.

To survive this year (and beyond), you need to dismantle your assumptions, destroy your complacency, and challenge your belief in stability..

You need to build strategies that feel as radical as the news cycle itself.

This means you have to stop planning for the probable and start preparing for the unimaginable.

Because the unimaginable is now reality.

After all, this week, Greenland, next week?

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**#Unimaginable** **#Strategy** **#Disruption** **#Change** **#Volatility** **#Bold** **#Future** **#Leadership** **#Radical** **#Adaptation** **#Reality** **#Speed** **#Innovation** **#Uncertainty** **#Chaos** **#Transformation** **#Headlines** **#Thinking** **#Agility** **#Assumptions** **#Courage** **#Weird** **#Survival** **#Challenge** **#Onwards**

Futurist Jim Carroll is not a big fan of 2026 so far!

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-when-unimaginable-headlines-become-reality-youve-got-to-come-up-with-once-unimaginable-strategies/

Christine Pedotti, directrice de rédaction du journal Témoignage #Chrétien, est une figure emblématique d'un #catholicisme progressiste #radical, qui n'hésite pas à dénoncer l' #Église avec une virulence rare, souvent au mépris des faits. Sous sa plume, l'institution ecclésiale n'est plus qu'un système oppressif, une machine à #violences systématiques, où les clercs, présentés comme des mâles dominateurs et célibataires refoulés, ne seraient que des oppresseurs.
http://carnets.fr.eu.org/5347.html

Yo no soy tan #radical en cuanto al uso de la #ia . Pero, esas voces narrando #documentales me causan desasosiego.

The #Democrat House Minority Leader said it “reflects the #extreme, #radical views that continue to dominate the #House #Republican agenda since right-wing extremists seized control of the House
Republican caucus last year. ~Kansas, ca. 25 years ago

The new year is upon us, and while nothing has really changed except one digit of the date, the tradition of making and sharing resolutions makes a good extra push to reflect on what we want from the next 12 months of our existences. For some of us, what we want to change the most this year is an easy answer that comes readily; for others, it takes more thought. If you fall into the second category, here are some questions I suggest you ask yourself to get started:

1. How did things change for you in the last year? Were there setbacks you don’t want to repeat? Was there progress you want to keep rolling?
2. What didn’t change? And is that lack of change a good thing or a bad one?
3. What would you say are the things that have had the most impact on your well-being? The most helpful, the most harmful?
4. What would you say are your biggest wishes for 2026? Is there anything you can do to achieve them, or at least bring them closer?

Thinking through it, hopefully you have a better idea of what you should be doing with your new year. It can be as specific or as general as you want it to be, as ambitious or as humble as you’d like – the important part is just that you work towards a better future for yourself, whatever that means to you and however you need to do it.

For many beings in the community, this likely relates to their marginalized identities; that might be making more friends who accept them for who they are, taking more pride in themselves, working through internalized stigma, better coming to constructive, forward-looking terms with what is and isn’t possible in the world as it exists today, or even taking a more active part in working towards the social change that will make things better for all of us.

We here at Bt+ are resolved to keep pushing forward, to learn from our mistakes and our setbacks as well as our successes, and to make this year a better one for us than the last, the same as we did in 2025. And if you want to be a part of that, or if we can help you achieve your resolutions through the work we do, we look forward to having you with us this year!

#beyondtheplus #lgbt #lgbtq #gay #identity #paraphilia #queer #para #orientation #transid #transidentity #radical #radicallyqueer

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If you have any questions please check out our FAQ, and if you don’t see a sufficient answer you can always reach out to us and ask (either via our website or here on fedi).

#queer #beyondtheplus #gay #lgbtq #paraphilia #identity #lgbt #para #transid #transidentity #orientation #radical #radicallyqueer

Vuelve la pesadilla al Partido Radical: Servel rechazó cambio estatutario y persiste el riesgo de que los bienes pasen a la Gran Logia | vía #FastCheckCL

https://www.fastcheck.cl/2026/01/15/vuelve-la-pesadilla-al-partido-radical-servel-rechazo-cambio-estatutario-y-persiste-el-riesgo-de-que-los-bienes-pasen-a-la-gran-logia/

#actualidad #chile #fastcheckcl #leonardocubillos #partidoradical #país #radical #servel

"We allow our oppressors to filter our words to others and to filter the words that reach us. I think about how in the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson (spoiler), even a person's thoughts could be exposed to the oppressor, and the utterance of speech and the written word could be obfuscated or changed so that a person could not receive the message unless it was written on steel, where it couldn't be seen or changed by the oppressor.

I think about the words we share through our phones, and through these filters. I think then about human contact and connection, and I think about paper #zines in #radical bookstores."

(excerpt) #antifa

by Jessica Ciocci

This is a cool thing to look at for a while. It's a little edgy and broken-up. Like some violence took place and shredded the internal logic. I recommend looking at this while listening to heavy metal and thinking about the government

#art #color #pixel #graphPaper #gridPaper #shredded #pain #distorted #lol #mirrorMirror #radical #protest