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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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a national pathology, truly, and it’s usually anti-Arab, especially these days
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Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city |
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I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics.
Preservation, erotic art, old tech.
18+ only
(she / they)
Writing: antientro.pics
Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
@cara.city
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a national pathology, truly, and it’s usually anti-Arab, especially these days
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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Germans on this website love to be like totally normal for months then out of nowhere post the most out of pocket racist shit you’ve ever seen and act like nothing’s changed
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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you didn’t read the Said, so you’re getting a mute sorry
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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also apolitical is almost always code for right-wing these days so there’s that too
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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it is legitimately weird how often I see posts that don’t match up at all with my experience here and then I realize that: - I’ve been on here since last April - finding cool people in those early days required work - people really don’t want to do that work anymore
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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he’s also legitimately a good writer and most historians are not
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they/them might be giants ☭
@babadookspinoza.bsky.social
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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this is what I do with June’s other gf
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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you can’t pretend that the history of those two religions are somehow divorced from the last 9 centuries of colonial exploitation. read some Said before you @ me.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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he just loooooves to choose the most exciting thing to write about, bonus points if it contradicts extant narratives of the people who live there. his bio on Octavian was good though, I enjoyed that.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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I think the most compelling thing is after reading Tom Holland’s In The Shadow Of The Sword years ago I thought to myself “well that was wildly orientalist and probably wrong” and this book is like “girl, TRUE”
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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Pre Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities During Late Antiquity by Valentina Grosso
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Esper Quinn 🟣🟣
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until we can get the election figured out, i propose a poster’s strike
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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also not at all what happened, but first and foremost: the racism
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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that’s insanely racist dude
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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back on my bullshit (about halfway through a really compelling academic history of pre-Islamic Arabia)
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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thanks Greg
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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Paris is so cool bc you go to a place called like “Greg’s House” and have the best pastry you’ve literally ever eaten in your life
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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????
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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I dunno. I’m never getting mad at anyone who can’t bring themselves to vote for the guy, I’ll say that much.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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source: 19thnews.org/2024/07/whit...
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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Biden officially put out a statement opposing surgeries for trans kids, and only listing “mental health care” as an acceptable intervention (not puberty blockers or HRT)
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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oh no I am an Elder
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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people will just get on this website and defend the integrity of Keir Starmer to a trans woman
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Xander Lenc
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We will never how many were executed before they had a chance to be exonerated. It is time to end the death penalty.
deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/larry-r...
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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the reply was “I’m sorry you feel that way” lol
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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environmental storytelling
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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how can you go online and defend a guy to me, a trans woman, whose friends in the UK are directly being threatened by his proposed policies? I am about one reply away from a block right now
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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he paraded Brianna Ghey’s mom around for political points and then attacked trans people’s rights to exist in women’s spaces. he’s a hypocrite at best, and likely a danger to my friends in the UK.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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I’m talking about Labor.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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they’re neoliberals who hate trans people almost more than the conservatives!!
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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never
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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I think that would be funny
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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what if I bring my gameboy camera to the louvre
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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going full YIMBY sicko mode on this one oh my god, please put a 15 story housing unit in Rockridge
sfyimby.com/2024/07/plan...
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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June’s going to the UK next (I’m visiting my sister in Jordan) so im sure she’ll have a more nuanced take but the last time I was there in 2016 it felt like it was speedrunning neoliberalism and now it’s full on fascism time
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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no that gets worse under fascism tbh
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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it’s bad everywhere but at least they have trains here, yknow?
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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fascism with social democratic characteristics does feel better than fascism with neoliberal characteristics, I’ll say that much
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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on one hand I don’t think the politics are any better in Europe than the United States, on the other hand the basic level of psychic damage you take when you leave your house and exist in the world here *does* feel considerably lower
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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thank you! we’re going to the D’Orsay today I’m super excited <333
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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even images are often stored this way, it sucks
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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yeah absolutely, I think that part of it is very very good
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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totally, yes, and people have, and that’s good, but some folks take it to be leftist on-face without additional analysis and it’s like… idk. it feels like they’re reaching there because they like it.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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fwiw: whether something is good or not has no bearing on whether or not it’s leftist. I like a lot of conservative art. I’m just saying that it’s missing key elements to be considered leftist in the same way a lot of progressive libs miss class analysis as part of their politics.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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but that’s the point: leftism is class struggle, not power politics. I don’t think they need to tell that story, I just don’t think it’s particularly leftist without it. maybe left informed?
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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fwiw none of this is to say it’s bad, I enjoyed it! I just think it’s a better than average TV show, and an amazing piece of Star Wars media post-Disney, but it’s not life changing or anything.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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ha, its mostly that the content is not particularly leftist (in that it mostly is about contending against power vs class struggle), it’s been picked up by people who want the vibes of leftism without the politics, and I think generally (and this is an aside) it’s kinda overrated as a show.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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I don’t think Andor is Harry Potter for leftists I think it’s Harry Potter for progressive libs who convince themselves they’re leftists
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
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I love my little app so much
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