• 1711 || why the war
    Mar 11 2026

    This war is a ponzi scheme by people who use "rapture accelerationism" as a manipulation tactic. People ARE resisting, but we need to address what's really happening if we want to resist it properly.


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    11 mins
  • 1712 || keep me kind
    Mar 11 2026

    Having a broken heart means you still have a heart. Feeling painful feelings means you can still feel.


    It's all part of the process of processing.


    "Keep my anger from becoming meanness.

    Keep my sorrow from collapsing into self-pity.

    Keep my heart soft enough to keep breaking.

    Keep my anger turned towards justice, not cruelty.

    Remind me that all of this, every bit of it, is for love.

    Keep me fiercely kind." Laura Jean Truman



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    11 mins
  • 1710 || bell hooks || men aren't the enemy
    Mar 10 2026

    "By highlighting psychological patriarchy, we see that everyone is implicated and we are freed from the misperception that men are the enemy. To end patriarchy we must challenge both its psychological and its concrete manifestations in daily life.


    To end male pain, to respond effectively to male crisis, we have to name the problem. We have to both acknowledge that the problem is patriarchy and work to end patriarchy. Terrence Real offers this valuable insight: “The reclamation of wholeness is a process even more fraught for men than it has been for women, more difcult and more profoundly threatening to the culture at large.” If men are to reclaim the essential goodness of male being, if they are to regain the space of openheartedness and emotional expressiveness that is the foundation of well-being, we must envision alternatives to patriarchal masculinity. We must all change." - bell hooks


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    8 mins
  • 1709 || bell hooks || patriarchy isn't funny
    Mar 9 2026

    "No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism. It functions as a disclaimer, discounting the significance of what is being named. It suggests that the words themselves are problematic and not the system they describe." - bell hooks


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    12 mins
  • 1708 || bell hooks on understanding patriarchy
    Feb 25 2026

    Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. - bell hooks


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    10 mins
  • 1707 || stop assuming "it" is inevitable
    Feb 24 2026

    There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people’s thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.

    What leaps out from the history of the past hundred years is its utter unpredictability. - Howard Zinn


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    10 mins
  • 1706 || tortoise at the mayfly party
    Feb 23 2026

    "We're all losers until we win." - Astra Taylor


    "Change itself becomes invisible when your timeframe is shorter than that change and the short term view breeds defeatism and despair... The short term view breeds incomprehension and ineffectuality." - Rebecca Solnit


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    9 mins
  • 1705 || stop running from the feeling
    Feb 21 2026

    The source: Feel your feelings


    "This zine is all about why it’s important to cultivate the capacity to stay with our feelings, and how we can go about doing that. Hopefully working through the zine will help you to figure out your own emotional landscape (which feelings you tend to prefer, and which you tend to avoid). It’ll also give you several possible practices for learning to stay with your feelings. Different things work for different people so it’s all about figuring out what works best for you."


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    9 mins