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William Gillis

@rechelon.bsky.social

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go to mastodon Anarchist, physicist, transhumanist. Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”


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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉's avatar Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
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Nobody has a whisper network because they're too lazy to do things the right way. They have them out of necessity.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉's avatar Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
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Whisper networks exist because capitalism permits the rich to trample the workers who sustain and expand their fortunes and to punish us for speaking out against financially valuable abusers. Top to bottom it incentivizes and enforces silence and secrecy.

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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"Two Russian citizens arrested for running the pirate e-book site Z-Library have reportedly escaped house arrest in Argentina and vanished after a court approved their extradition to the United States."

May they remain free.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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“They are feds” -Angela McArdle's avatar “They are feds” -Angela McArdle @fakertarians.bsky.social
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This is on par with Tom’s denial of the fact that he groomed his first wife when he was 26 and she was 15. I can’t tell if he’s overly confident and wrong or if he’s just very comfortable with lying, but it’s about what I’d expect from a guy with narcissistic personality disorder

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Ravin Boodram's avatar Ravin Boodram @handle.invalid
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The horrified headline for what happened on Kyiv is absolutely the correct—and human—reaction. The one for al-Shifa Hospital is fucking disgusting.

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Jessica Pishko's avatar Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social
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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.

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Katie Tightpussy's avatar Katie Tightpussy @juicysteak117.gay
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patreon continually getting worse frustrates me greatly because it's literally a money printing middle-man service where all you've gotta do is keep the lights on and comply with banking laws, but instead they hoover up venture capital just to flail endlessly and make things worse for their users.

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Costa Samaras's avatar Costa Samaras @costasamaras.bsky.social
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They want to take away overtime pay “How many hours did you work this week?” “60” “Well well well looks like we only need you for 20 hours next week, so no OT, sorry about that”

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Ms . Penny  Oaken's avatar Ms . Penny  Oaken @skywitches.net
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Doing research today, unearthed a 3-year-old talking point from a reddit account that is literally a Nazi Groyper laying out why they want to ban IVF: because « IVF allows the weak to breed ». So there’s why Trump / GOP / Project 2025 want to ban it. Eugenics.

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Anna Merlan 's avatar Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social
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Sharing this one more time because my GOD did I spend a lot of months reporting it

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RedwoodGirl (she/her) 💖💜💙's avatar RedwoodGirl (she/her) 💖💜💙 @redwoodgirl.bsky.social
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The California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), an advocacy group, said it appeared a female prisoner at the California Central Women's Facility in Chowchilla suffered a preventable heat-related death. Residents there are begging for air conditioning.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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Explaining to a young anarchist demanding to know my escape plan that I can't just overstay my visa and couch surf around squats in Europe, that window has closed, because I am 38 and have a partner and two dogs.

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥's avatar Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby
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Hello world! It's my birthday and I'm fundraising for the port-a-potties at George Floyd Square! Because everyone needs a place to go 💛🤎 CA: $ iancoldwater V: @ Ian-Coldwater PP dot me /coldwater Please help support if you can and boost for reach! Thank you! 🤗

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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"You know, that thing they call it when an ideological cadre splits but hides in the shadows of academia rather than making podcasts or zines about their position like an honest person." "A research programme?" "Yeah, exactly."

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Radical Graffiti 's avatar Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
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Memorial mural for Julien Terzics, a founding member of the Red Warriors, an antifa group that terrorised French fascists throughout the 80s. Later he was the drummer of anarchist oi! band Brigada Flores Magon, was a union organiser in the CNT and ran le-Saint Sauveur, an antifa bar in Paris

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✨️Angel Facts✨️'s avatar ✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style
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"alpha male" this, "sigma male" that, just admit that you saw trans people inventing cool genders and got jealous

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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And the fact that the piece didn't even mention that northern Idaho has been regarded as a haven for neo-Nazis and white supremacists since the Aryan Nations set up shop there in the 1970s is just a gobsmacking omission.

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pineapple princess 🔒's avatar pineapple princess 🔒 @spindlypete.bsky.social
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i love thinking "sheesh it's so hot, well it's late enough in the day that this is probably about the worst of it, right?" and then realizing i've been up since 6am, it's only 10:30, and it's going to get another 17 degrees hotter yet

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no bonzo's avatar no bonzo @nobonzo.bsky.social
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anarchist sympathetic liberal historians: the police wanted an excuse to suppress the anarchists so claimed they joked about murdering officers anarchist historians: In 1910 at a meeting before the rally, anarchists agreed that when arrested to all give their occupation at booking as "killing cops"

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Pablo Hidalgo's avatar Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social
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Were the far right French memes not dank enough? Did they not try AI images?

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Joshua Erlich's avatar Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

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It's Going Down's avatar It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social
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Trump is trying to back-peddle from Project 2025 - a corporatist-Christian Nationalist plan to gut social services + attack regulations + civil liberties. Project 2025 is headed by Trump's former Chief of Staff Paul Dans. John McEntee, a senior advisor on the project is one of Trump's top aides.

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thicc white duchess's avatar thicc white duchess @felladonna.bsky.social
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I said years ago that I was gonna laugh when "agi" got popped by parsing vulnerabilities llms are nowhere near agi (as these attacks demonstrate!) and I'm already laughing my fool head off langsec has mostly focused on ambiguity as insecurity, but nonsense is also insecurity srsly read the paper

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Sargoth, of Sargoth fame's avatar Sargoth, of Sargoth fame @longersky.com
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here's to those who disappeared and were only eventually noticed, and all the more so for the delay

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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There was literally a combined anarcho-primitivist + neonazi + catholic + TERF protest in Italy against "transhumanism." Rare that I get to feel that level of vindication.

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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Finally watched that Heritage foundation clip advocating outlawing recreational sex. Didn't know she literally pitched it as "rewilding" sex.

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David Forbes's avatar David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social
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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."

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bijan's avatar bijan @bijan.bsky.social
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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost

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Sargoth, of Sargoth fame's avatar Sargoth, of Sargoth fame @longersky.com
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Archived for posterity

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Andrea's avatar Andrea @andrea.tryste.ro
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Eat a bucket of dicks, Clarkhat (For those out of the loop, a certain 'freedom-loving' burn-the-fucking-system-to-the-ground guy who let the alt-right eat his damn brain is currently in the NH legislature voting for these)

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A. Marmot 🌱's avatar A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social
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for Portland-area folks, here are resources from Multnomah County on dealing with the heat wave, including cooling centers - stay safe and hydrated
www.multco.us/hot

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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Well the top viral rape apologist thread on Twitter about Gaiman is by a TERF, so at least some of them are still managing to hold onto their throne as the worst.

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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It's been a recurring conversation in our house for years and years. Like my partner really liked the Sandman show and had complex feels about American Gods, but like obviously it's impossible to bring up or discuss said media without interjecting again and again that they knew Gaiman was a rapist.

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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Since I guess folks are doing wild apologia and doubt-spreading about the accusations against Gaiman, I'll mention that my partner closely knew one of the survivors decades ago and for all that time has been telling everyone they trust her story whenever Gaiman comes up.

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Ryan Wilson's avatar Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social
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They exist right now… they are immigration facilities.

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male to fujo transsexual's avatar male to fujo transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social
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I wish people would stop using the transphobia of the British press to defend an author they're unwilling to contend with. I don't like it either! Maybe the industry shouldn't protect two-faced behavior until some shithead scoops it!

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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I think a lot about how humans didn't even build Omelas, but *reverse-Omelas*, where we'll shower love on a single animal and give it a charmed life as a "pet" while simultaneously torturing and murdering thousands of other animals.

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Andrea's avatar Andrea @andrea.tryste.ro
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Where by porn they mean "absolutely anyone who isn't cishet and probably skirts above the knee"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉's avatar Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
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A lot of rotten people are seizing on the Gaiman allegations in order to score points against the groups and politics he publicly supported. Please do not let this trick your animal brain into thinking he isn't guilty. The publishing world has horror stories about this guy going back decades.

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William Gillis's avatar William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social
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Putting aside everything else, do liberals still not realize that if electoral participation was increased across the board, Trump would win? The bloc of non-voters contains principled anarchists, yes, but it's got a fuck ton more "Biden made gas expensive but Trump is funny" voters.

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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 's avatar Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 @knilirabaj.bsky.social
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“Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis, when talking to children. They tell us, we’re waiting for our legs to grow again. Sometimes, it’s difficult to explain that that’s not going to happen.”

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