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ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼 @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space · 6d ago

CW: fascism, genocide, dehumanisation, violence, death Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

I wrote a poem again. And, well… this one crawled out of a considerably darker corner of the basement. It deals with fascism, genocide, dehumanisation, violence, death, and some other subjects that really ought to come with a warning label and a small cup of tea. Hence the CW for this post... I do like that poem. Quite a lot, actually. Writing it was cathartic. Sometimes the things that fester in your head need to be dragged into the light, given a name, and made to sit quietly on the page instead. Whether I publish it is another question. I’m still deciding whether this particular little monster belongs in public, or whether it should remain locked in the cupboard where I keep the other things I write when the world gets particularly unbearable. I'll give you one small look: We are not your citizens. We are not your subjects. We are what you get when the hunted grow teeth. What do you think? 🖤 #Poetry #DarkPoetry #PoliticalPoetry #AntiFascist #NeverAgain #QueerPoetry #WritingAsCatharsis #WordsMatter

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ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼 @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space · Aug 07, 2026

CW: queerphobia, hate speech, stochastic terrorism Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

There is a reason I take the endless stream of anti-queer slurs, lies and accusations seriously. Stochastic terrorism is when people in positions of influence repeatedly spread hateful or dehumanising rhetoric about a group, creating an environment in which violence against members of that group becomes more likely - even if they never explicitly tell anyone to attack. And yes, this can and does include state actors. Calling queer people “groomers”, “predators”, “degenerates”, “child abusers”, or some other invented monstrosity is not merely “words”. When those accusations are repeated often enough, they manufacture a target. They tell the public who supposedly deserves suspicion, hatred and punishment. Words become permission. Permission becomes action. That is why “it was just a slur” is such a grotesquely inadequate defence. A lie repeated often enough can become a weapon. And when powerful people keep handing that weapon to an angry crowd, pretending not to know what might happen next is simply dishonest. We should take the words seriously, because history has shown us what can follow when we don't. #QueerRights #LGBTQIA #TransRights #StochasticTerrorism #HateSpeech #WordsMatter

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Eric Lawton @EricLawton@kolektiva.social · Jul 12, 2026

Mark Carney spent a year gathering political capital. Now he’s spending it — along with billions of taxpayers’ dollars They are NOT "taxpayers' dollars". Why do the media and others keep using this phrase. It belongs to the general public. Nobody claims that when corporations spend money that it's "customers' money". The phrase implies that it's been illegitimately taken from people, as if thieves spent their "victims' money". https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/mark-carney-spent-a-year-gathering-political-capital-now-hes-spending-it----along-with-billions-of-taxpayers-dollars/article_aca7aa58-23bf-4073-a293-a78dcb75a65f.html #taxpayers #wordsMatter #Propaganda

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PaulaToThePeople 😷 @PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social · Jul 11, 2026

I wish people on the left would stop using diagnoses as swearwords and swearwords as diagnoses. That's nazi rhetoric. #ableism #saneism #WordsMatter

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PaulaToThePeople 😷 @PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social · Jun 06, 2026

Regular reminder to not use violent sexualized language to talk about toxic people. Victims of sexualized violence, no matter their age, often blame themselves. That is a normal psychological reaction to traumatizing abuse. When you say "fuck nazis" you're basically telling women, men, non-binary grownups and children victimized: "Yes its okay to use sexualized violence against bad people. They deserve it." And that means: "You must have deserved it too, which means you're as bad as a nazi." Show empathy to the victims by not normalizing the acts and language of the perpetrators. #SexualizedViolence #SexualizedLanguage #RapeCulture #WordsMatter

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Preston MacDougall @ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science · Apr 24, 2026

TIL that the astrophysicist who coined the term #DarkMatter , Fritz Zwicky, also coined the term ‘spherical bastard’, meaning someone who is a bastard no matter how you look at them. 🍊 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky #WordsMatter

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Ben M0SWV 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 @TheSwiv@hear-me.social · Mar 03, 2026

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Philip C James @PhilipCJames@mas.to

The language used really matters. Why gunfire and not attack?! #wordsmatter #mediacomplicity #israeliwarcrimes Israeli Settler Gunfire Kills Two Palestinian Brothers in West Bank https://ground.news/article/israeli-settlers-shoot-dead-two-palestinian-brothers-in-nablus-attack?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

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