Null convention's avatar

Null convention

@nullconvention.bsky.social

1132 followers 707 following 20500 posts

A little like having the bends.

Reposted by Null convention

Lego Dolemite's avatar Lego Dolemite @psychoalpastor.bsky.social
[ View ]

Y'all... In light of what happened to George Floyd, this is baiting poor people to potentially being murdered in broad daylight simply for being poor. This is FASCIST with a capital F

2 replies 12 reposts 21 likes

Reposted by Null convention

Reposted by Null convention

🥀Zai, the elven goddess of breeding🥀 's avatar 🥀Zai, the elven goddess of breeding🥀 @zaigrey.bsky.social
[ View ]

Well pets, is what Dune said true? 😏

9 replies 9 reposts 41 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

if I'm not goofing off I would say that we lose a lot in our current cultural formation from adoption into corporate culture while we gain other things. more people in a hobby isn't necessarily better to me, but making it less white and male is, for example, which comes with popularization.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

ah, but you must consider that this is written tongue lodged firmly in cheek. you have to make your own determinations on the wins and losses of the cultural zeitgeist which for me doesn't have much to do with being different for its own sake. I have other measures of gain and loss.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

well this is a catastrophically bad. googling how to survive wet bulb temperature... oh, well that's also very very bad.

1 replies 2 reposts 11 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

tomatoes are just a nightshade vine berry you know

1 replies 0 reposts 5 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Yeah well I'm pretty sure that YOU'RE cute so we're even.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

I have not received any complaints about my tongue or how I put it to use.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Thanks! I take like 70 of these and only post the cute ones.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Reposted by Null convention

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉's avatar Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
[ View ]

every time i eat a whole sleeve of oreos while watching movies i think about my homo heidelbergensis ancestors absolutely losing their shit over their descendant, who must be some kind of queen or goddess

4 replies 5 reposts 92 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

when I get out of here this is going to be my vibe constantly. which will probably come as a surprise to all the people I never bothered to tell I was trans.

0 replies 0 reposts 11 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

They know it's unwanted, and part of the power exercise is in doing it anyhow but having known enough abusers they still need some way of justifying it no matter how perverse it is.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

That's why they always seek people in positions of relative powerlessness compared to them. I just wonder what it is where someone decides at a certain point "wait, nobody can tell me know therefore nobody should want to" and that's a retroactive justification power trip feedback loop.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Just knowing it's out there helps. Music makes a big difference to me. Art. That shit saved my life without a single doubt.

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

If the core of your politics remain only self gratification and consumption, no amount of counter culture aesthetic will prevent your complete and willing commodification because neither of those are counter cultural ethos. Capital then destroys what it can't consume. So you must always move.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

But to be honest, it's alright. I'm just sorta ripping on my home town and stuff but it's mostly tolerable.

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

The internet really helped a lot, honestly. I knew there had to be SOMETHING out there somewhere, and there was. I didn't get to spend much or any time there but it's cool it exists. If I get a crack at getting out of here I absolutely fucking am. Even 40's not too old to split.

2 replies 0 reposts 6 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

It wasn't what I'd call a Real Problem, just boring and devoid of texture. But I guess it's not a surprise that now people are shocked and shaken to their core when a girlie shows a little ankle in the street or people are listening to those rap musics you hear about on the news.

2 replies 0 reposts 4 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

yoda voice: "cum I will. take it you must. five more minutes I require."

0 replies 1 reposts 6 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

I just lived in a cultural vacuum. A real life dead end made entirely up of chain restaurants and half full strip malls and somehow all of the "bad grocery store"s in a 50 mile radius. A sort of null zone for having an identity beyond top 40 songs and places with cheese on food that never melts.

1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

all of the good stuff was rightfully and successfully kept from me, the way god intended

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

NO I'm saying they SOLD OUT LIKE POSEURS it is only natural to be somewhat steered by hate for normies and capitalist culture though. but also yeah what you said is also true. that's correct yeah.

1 replies 0 reposts 5 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

I can have a little sisters of mercy or switchblade symphony or red lorry yellow lorry as a treat though.

1 replies 0 reposts 10 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Being in a counter culture is about being a weird little freak with questionable tastes that people don't like in an incestuous, probably venomous little clique where everyone fucked everyone else's friends. THAT is what's great about it. I wasn't cool enough for that. I just wore a lot of black.

1 replies 1 reposts 17 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

I resent that geeks feel like they won the culture wars because they didn't, they LOST everything too. Disney won. Whenever you get more popular Disney buys you and you lose. You can NOT get too popular. That is a mistake for shitheads that want to be loved. That is not what subculture is ABOUT.

4 replies 3 reposts 27 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

I don't belong to any cool counter culture groups. The closest I ever was to fitting into one was when the nerds were still treated like dogshit because they were scrawny little assholes who played dungeons & dragons. That was me. And frankly, choice of games aside, it still basically is.

2 replies 1 reposts 21 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

I have just accepted I am not a real goth, I am just a bitch in black clothing with a depressing taste in music.

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

it's the phantom tollbooth quote that is really the spice here. the bio's nothing without it but with it... I don't know. There's a certain je ne sais quoi that makes it especially funny to me.

1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes

Reposted by Null convention

Bennie (#1 pigeon fan)'s avatar Bennie (#1 pigeon fan) @bennie.gay
[ View ]

Transgender

1 replies 2 reposts 51 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

we're looking at the first real life human being extruded by chatgpt

1 replies 0 reposts 5 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

If you're having trouble finding a book I MIGHT have it. If I don't have it I might know how to get it. If I don't know, I probably know someone who does. So feel free to hit me up in the chat function or on Discord. I will do whatever I can to help you get what you need.

0 replies 1 reposts 4 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is a must for organizers and educators.

It looks like this link still has it uploaded for now. Download it if you want to read it, you don't have to do it now but collecting pdfs is a good habit to share later.
envs.ucsc.edu/internships/...

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

A really good point. I should read some of that.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

"Bet" then several years later someone's like "hey remember that guy you were arguing with on twitter? apparently he's leading a revolutionary army."

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

If twitter had existed then, What is to be Done would be the most intolerable thread in existence and it's possible not a single book would have been written. The funniest thing would be someone telling him to fire bomb a walmart and he goes FINE and fucking takes over russia.

1 replies 1 reposts 3 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Generally speaking, one of the things I warn about the most extensively is not to being to treat books as bibles and writers as prophets. They were just some fucking dudes, and a lot of them are dead now so they can't update their shit. Quote-arguing is also unimpressive but common!

0 replies 1 reposts 3 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

That will tend toward incoherent political foundations but knowing what people talked about generally is helpful. People will have to make their own decisions re: praxis as they become more versed in what they're looking at. It's also easier with oft-derided reading groups.

1 replies 1 reposts 2 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

I am not a foremost scholar, I don't pretend to be. A lot of my scholarship was in other areas that are unhelpful - too niche, too in the weeds, too arcane - to be of easy use for most. You see I didn't cover feminisms either, that's another branch that's equally important.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Don't bother with Zizek. He was a media darling for a bit but I found his work to be unhelpful as anything other than a curiosity. Foucault's Discipline and Punish is useful imo but as a historian he's unimpressive. It will at least help you understand references. (They're common.)

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

For anarchism, I'm trying to catch up. I'm not the best person to ask, there are other well read anarchists out there who can help. The Invisible Committee has some work you can read. I had Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread rec'd in the day and read it but don't know if it's crucial reading.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Consider Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution. It is not long. I'm not as well read on Newton as I could be or the BPP's writings. I haven't read a lot of Mao. Those are not bad places to start. It's already several books.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Null convention's avatar Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social
[ View ]

Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin White Masks It is a LOT to ask you to read Marx's Capital vol. 1 and it is a slog but you will want to find some summaries. You should know what it covers.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes