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beadsland@beige.party

Lumpentheorist; abolitionist; critic of whiteness, workerist cosmogony, and the ableism of the Left.Masks are empathy fashion. Own it—make it yours.Intricate words fulfill me: Anticipate jargon here.Semantic critique ain't your jam? Don't whinge—just go away.Ace enby aphant WP in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NYC</a>.they/them/gonzo/whateverIf you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡ass to someone else's mentions.

Posts

Post #4279755
"Israeli human rights org @btselem is calling for action to stop POGROMS against Palestinians." https://mastox.eu/@AssalRad/116983171821494845
Post #4249763
#Normalcy is dead. Yet we have yet to bury it. Climate would&#39;ve killed it—if #covid hadn&#39;t. Yet normalcy is dead. Yet we have yet to bury it. We only got so many #spoons. We can bury ourselves or bury the dead. We only got so many spoons. Use them wisely. ❖ #lumpentheory #poetry Previously: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109317477421500057 (Originally April 22, 2022 on Xitter.)
Post #4051149
I was today years old when I learned that there's a cat cafe on youtube with hundreds of hours of engine-perspective videos of remote-controlled model trains being casually batted off their tracks by resident felines.
Post #3836920
"Indeed, when I first entered the corridors of the United Nations in the 1980s, many states then existed that no longer existed when I left in 2023. Did the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and the United Arab Republic have a “right to exist?” No. And neither does Israel. "States come and go, but none of them has a “right to exist.” As a factual matter, this is undeniable. "And yet, some still actively parrot the baseless Zionist fabricatio...
Post #3740313
The Oddcube Kickstarter, for a stylish, maintainable, 10" furnace filter-based, PC-fan driven air purifier, launched yesterday, and is already fully funded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpA7-EJpKWU The cuboctahedron Corsi-Rosenthal box! Available as a kit or as 3d printer files for personal use. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joelcreates/oddcube-air-purifier-kit #CleanIndoorAirNow #CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne
Post #3710303
"So last week on June 30th, Brian Johnson, uh the the blood guy, announced to the public that he has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. The name of the disease is autoimmune gastritis or atrophic gastritis. And basically it means that your stomach lining like eats itself or your body attacks the stomach lining and gradually replaces it with other tissue. Sounds pretty bad. "And people everywhere. Okay. Well, people some places thought it was it was quite funny. People in his T...
Post #3625623
#Annoplot #dataviz has had only minor maintenance this month. Previous status found here: https://beige.party/@beadsland/116049587908706944 Maintenance included diagnostic logging and further tweaks to bundling and color assignments, in support of dynamic legend pruning; also expansion of criteria and squishing a one-line bug for footnotes. Root level scripting included a rough plot of incarcerated populations by census block record: https://beige.party/@beadsland/116125341132396326 This w...
Post #2010139
Insomnia is a bane.
Post #1758065
@kAlvaro @n_dimension Please steer clear from parallels to blood libel in my mentions. One can discuss the cruelties they&#39;re engaged in, including, as disisdeguey mentions in reply to your post, accusations of resumed organ harvesting (this practice having been documented in a previous decade), without casting the institutional processes involved as even prospectively cannibalistic. Even without the blood libel angle, such insinuations are especially uncalled for given that both Juda...
Post #1758058
Just ticked off the self-styled curator of a solarpunk visual art (still images) collection by noting that their event seeking submissions of art to said collection prohibits submissions that in any way make use of AI art, for a style of art that, in terms of aesthetics alone, has consistently looked, to my eye at the very least, like AI art, this since well before AI art was a thing. To be clear, myself agree with the prohibition. Indeed, only days prior had written up a 10+ page essay on why...
Post #1758057
There was an article being shared the other day regarding a mathematical proof that supposed &quot;AI&quot; machines, if cut off from human input, would in feeding on their own outputs, converge toward a disconnect from representation of the world we inhabit. Can&#39;t lay my finger on same. Anyone got a link?
Post #1385924
Israel not even waiting for the dust to settle before yet again violating yet another #ceasefire? Whodda thunk?
Post #1179294
Were a genie to grant me three wishes, one of those would be for universal #STS literacy education starting from primary school.
Post #1167532
Huh. A #MediaHistory question. Trying to find scholarship discussing the practice of 1970s/1980s television broadcasters compressing film on the horizontal (for instance, kung-fu genre movies) rather than cropping or letterboxing. Grew up watching impossibly lanky live-action martial artists on screen, and have a sense that this has impacted the aesthetics of media inheriting from that experience of the genre in latter decades. Yet am only turning up discussions of the much later transition...
Post #979803
@inquiline Sitting with the foundational colonialist irony of not understanding what the &quot;resulting pile of materials&quot; represents.
Post #953174
&quot;At least three Palestinians were killed on Sunday evening in an Israeli strike targeting a gathering of civilians in Gaza City, amid near-daily attacks and ongoing violations of the US-backed ceasefire.&quot; https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116354996136613488 #ceasefire
Post #889690
&quot;The instinct to pathologise it comes from discomfort, from the sense that something is off. But the more accurate way to understand it is not as deviation, but as outcome — the outcome of a specific social and ideological structure.&quot; https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116311555165101069 #lumpentheory
Post #822424
Really need to stop arguing with folk who believe &quot;late stage&quot; is a thing. The term &quot;capitalism&quot; first appears in print in 1850 (Blanc). Supposed &quot;late capitalism&quot; was identified by Sombart as starting in 1918. At this point, supposed capitalism has been &quot;late&quot; for 108 of the 176 years, or three fifths of the time, during which &quot;capitalism&quot; has been a word. It&#39;s easier to imagine a forever late s...
Post #695786
As someone of the generation that had to learn that trusting someone is not a prophylactic, have to say this is the perfect way to frame prevention of transmission of communicable disease: https://friendhole.social/@beandreams/116242768550730215
Post #438004
&quot;Lebanon’s army reported a low-altitude Israeli drone strike near an observation post in Marjayoun, southern Lebanon, on Tuesday, prompting troops to hold their positions and return fire. &quot;The attack comes as Israel continues regular strikes in southern Lebanon despite the November 2024 ceasefire and maintains illegal control over five positions along the border.&quot; https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116128504874755805 #ceasefire
Post #288409
As in the West Bank, so in the United States. Abductions off the street continue. https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116065805230309064
Post #288408
&quot;After Omar Shakir stepped down from Human Rights Watch over the suppression of a report labeling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return a “crime against humanity,” similar concerns have emerged at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).&quot; https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116065274130635094
Post #288407
Is true that sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of vulnerable populations is a feature of extreme privilege. Is also true that Usian liberals, unable to imagine themselves organizing an effective response to fascism, that has finally intensified to the point that they are able to name it… Are increasingly hoping that moral scandal alone will somehow &quot;take back&quot; a system that has always operated to abet sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of vulnerable populations. [This t...
Post #288406
&quot;The army&#39;s condition for returning the body: a funeral of no more than 15 people, held at night.&quot; https://social.mondoweiss.net/@mondoweiss/116061033000966345 Mourning is a place of power. Which is why mourning is proscribed. It is why the grief taboo persists.
Post #288405
Maggie Mae Fish talks about how Barbie, in the eponymous movie, is a fetish object, both as commodity and as woman, &quot;traditionally framed as the &#39;object&#39; of film.&quot; &quot;In Kubrick’s original film, the monolith is a fetish object. Not in the fun way. But in the original, NOT fun way: a fetish object is anything that we attribute inherent non-material value, or powers, to.&quot; Anything that we attribute inherent non-material value, or powers, to. This...
Post #288404
Women&#39;s suffrage is gonna go the same way Roe did. Because white liberals have given up their own power.
Post #288403
OH: &quot;The voting structure that we have forced them to allow us to have is our only power.&quot; So close. How did we force &quot;them&quot;? If what we forced &quot;them&quot; to allow is our only power? Before we forced &quot;them&quot; to allow that, what power did we have to force &quot;them&quot; to do anything? &quot;only power&quot; smh
Post #288402
Aug 14, 2025 A society in which housing is a perk, to which humans, as individuals, have a right, is a society that squanders flourishing in deference to the fortunate. But then, the Fortunate Isles, a/k/a the Islands of the Blessed, were that land in the western ocean, at the edge of the known world (sit with that geography), that &quot;bore all pleasant fruits to their happy dwellers&quot;, those judged to be thrice-fold especially pure. Quisitiarchy is rule by happy dwellers, by re...
Post #288399
Watching a video of folk looking though home decor magazines from the 70s, listening to them be triggered with childhood memories of growing up as 80s kids in households decorated in the 70s, and reading a comment section of other folk sharing in the same memories... And wondering what planet this version of the 70s had unfolded on, as it certainly wasn&#39;t one myself or my childhood peers inhabited. My 70s was the decade of stagflation, not the riotous vomits of raucous color and over-t...
Post #286067
Don&#39;t just shut down DHS. Abolish it. Should never have been a thing. Stolen land is only the &quot;homeland&quot; of those it was stolen from.