Posts by emsenn@kolektiva.social
 (DIR) Post #B5WTkrsO8sg1Y6IMim by emsenn@kolektiva.social
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       @risperdoll My biggest issue with this is that most folk that I encounter want to do this in like a... "invest in their retirement" way, not a "immigrate to a new culture without becoming literally a settler in a new land" sort of way.And so this stuff becomes stuff to buy the means to do, or learn about how to do, later, when it becomes necessary. But pragmatically, continuing to invest in the way things are is usually the better bet, here-and-now.A lot of folk I know have massively backslid on this stuff since like 2020, and have every excuse to do better with 2026 inspiring the next generation *so close to their own experiences*... and treat being burnt out and traumatized as some sort of get-it-of-being-a-good-person pass, rather than an opportunity to internalize, affectively, solidarity.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5WTks7dECs0JNQXTs by emsenn@kolektiva.social
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       @risperdoll One thing I keep thinking about is how many folk are keen to have conversations with me about how I could regain personhood in the eyes of the state (so I can become more like them, because they feel safe and secure) and not so much conversations about how I imagine gaining more personhood for myself, because I think that would make me more safe and secure.Everyone wants to feel sad that I can't get a drivers license or food stamps, no one wants to put their name on an LLC so we can help me and others get around that particular form of oppression.And then don't see how, from my perspective, they are literally the enactor of colonial assimilation, same as a cop or politician, right there in conversation with me, because they feel like they're doing good acts of care and solidarity, and if I don't agree? Well, now they feel obliged to explain to me all the privileges that come from pursuing enslaving oneself to settlerism, because maybe I just don't get how hard my life is and how easy it could otherwise be.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5s7457x4m84gEt00O by emsenn@kolektiva.social
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       @risperdoll the in this essay meme feels like the last breath of human curiosity before we became enthralled to the living corpse of the semantic web; we gave an ironic nod to the concept of putting care into deep thought, and accepted the inevitability of social media corrupting our brain hormones into only feeling never thinking, and so in this essay...
       
 (DIR) Post #B6Fy481664wLqdfKNs by emsenn@kolektiva.social
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       @risperdoll abolish borders
       
 (DIR) Post #B6GUR7HqArFCmHVDc0 by emsenn@kolektiva.social
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       It's weird y'all don't understand settler-colonialism *is* the existential harm that y'all imagine artificial intelligence will be.It's weird, like, I thought we all learned "western sci-fi is a projection of its fears of having done to it what it does to others," like back in the 90s?And Iunno if you know this, but speculating about the future *is* a form of fiction!That's what "spec-fic" is.Iunno.
       
 (DIR) Post #B92ZxeDo8Rly0bcF4i by emsenn@kolektiva.social
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       @castanea_jo I think a lot about how galaxies are getting futher away so there is a time limit on intergalactic travel being feasible, and it would take life too long to re-evolve from monocellular life even if it went twice as fast for that lifeform to be able to even SEE other galaxies in the sky.Like, that we can see other galaxies is a gift of our position in time, and all I can do is fail to appreciate it enough, every day.