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New video! Shikata Ga Nai: The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

This one is really special to me ✨ I love space and I love communism and I love utopianism, and the Mars trilogy has been a huge inspiration to me ever since I first read it. It's a sociological epic telling the story of human habitation of Mars through a series of successive revolutions over 200 years as humanity strives towards a future where nobody is hungry or homeless

The books have never been adapted to screen, which presented a big challenge to me as a video essayist, so I included a lot of my own astrophotography to show everyone why I love space 🌌 🔭

I also spent hundreds of hours in Kerbal Space Program recreating iconic sci fi set pieces from the series ✨👽

It's a really pretty video about a story that matters a lot to me, and I think there's so much in the trilogy to enjoy that I didn't get around to that you really don't need have read the books before watching 🥰 but I hope you'll want to read them after.

This essay is about utopianism, which I think is utterly vital. We need to formulate and share our postcapitalist desire. We must dream.

"The deepest desires of our hearts and minds and those of others are a necessary form of knowledge and of truth" - Ruth Levitas, Utopia as Method

✨🪐Incredible thumbnail art by @lafleurailee 🪐✨

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In 2023 I was so unwell that I would routinely hallucinate that strangers were filming me on their phones and start screaming at them in the street

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One of the first victims of Epstein to speak out was a Latina transgender girl, Ava Cordero. She was sixteen when she was lured to Epstein’s apartment under the guise of helping her career in modeling. Ava Cordero was mocked, belittled, and denied by the media, her transness somehow overshadowing her status as a victim of assault. The media (Dareh Gregorian and Lucy Carne of the New York Post) specifically somehow spun it as Epstein being a victim of the case and treated her claims as an attempt to defame Epstein. Mind you, the journalists, Epstein’s lawyer (Gerald Lefcourt), and Epstein himself, were able to get away with this specifically because she was a transgender woman.

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My wife and I are taking care of her nephew (8) for a few days you have no idea how much bluey I've watched

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you will be able to afford your bottom surgery soon and your recovery will be smooth

like to charge, reblog to cast

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Ok on top of this I was also having extremely intense violent flashbacks to times my abusive ex had assaulted me multiple times a day

I talked to the people around me about some of this at the time, the people who've known me for years all knew I was extremely unwell

In 2023 I was so unwell that I would routinely hallucinate that strangers were filming me on their phones and start screaming at them in the street

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I thought cops could hear me all day every day and that my thoughts may be being recorded too

I thought I was in a fucking simulation full brain in a jar style and more than once visually hallucinated actual 3d gridlines like I was seeing through it

I would regularly hear birdsong and start crying because I couldn't tell if it was really there or if it was the sample of birdsong that was on that one Left At London track that I regularly hear when it's not actually playing

I sometimes suspected that people in my life including long term partners had been replaced by actors or were undercover cops

In 2023 I was so unwell that I would routinely hallucinate that strangers were filming me on their phones and start screaming at them in the street

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In 2023 I was so unwell that I would routinely hallucinate that strangers were filming me on their phones and start screaming at them in the street

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Good Will Hunting style film about Ted Kaczinsky

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composite and moon phases I've got so far (blood moon picture is stolen I'm gonna replace it with my own when I get it)

Last night's waning moon! I haven't got any waning moons yet by coincidence of weather and phases, and I'm excited to start adding them into my moon phases print as we go into winter. Composite in reblog

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Last night's waning moon! I haven't got any waning moons yet by coincidence of weather and phases, and I'm excited to start adding them into my moon phases print as we go into winter. Composite in reblog

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This is true, so I want to semantically reconcile here. We waste loads of energy making spaces where there are only leftists who are all dogmatically perfect and have never even accidentally done A Bad Thing, and then we go to debate jordan peterson, to chase after people who are voting Trump or Reform, we make content online that is all about right wingers. We need to swap these around and present leftist ideas without having them be a footnote reply to andrew tate or nick fuentes, and build communities where we sit with our own discomfort and embrace people whose behaviour isn't perfect on the premise that everyone is doing their best and everyone needs to do better

The left has never won by debating the right or sharing spaces with the right, it has won by building its own structures and improving people's lives which makes them less interested in reactionary distractions. It's such a deep and totalising failure that everything in our politics is focused on "left versus right" when the left's actual enemy is inequality, is capitalism, is oppressive systems, not the fanboys of the oppressive systems

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Do you think Sonic the Hedgehog supports unions?

I think he's a left accelerationist (and also yes)

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The left has never won by debating the right or sharing spaces with the right, it has won by building its own structures and improving people's lives which makes them less interested in reactionary distractions. It's such a deep and totalising failure that everything in our politics is focused on "left versus right" when the left's actual enemy is inequality, is capitalism, is oppressive systems, not the fanboys of the oppressive systems

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Solar composites from August 10th to August 12th - taking advantage of the UK having a FOURTH heatwave to get some looks at current solar activity

I would've killed for the sun's surface to be this active when I was making my solar composites that I actually used in the video lol

but how cool is that!!! there's currently a huge string of quite large sunspots (most of these are at least several Earths across) along one side of the sun's equator

If I take enough of these for a short gif I'll reblog with them later

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Guys if I did a twitch stream and talked about ideology for 3 hours while playing resident evil or something would you watch?

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Going to see Chali 2na :))))