tuesday

tuesday wrote

have you bleached your hair?

manic panic doesn't actually dye your hair. dying your hair is a chemical reaction that deposits color directly into the strand of hair to permanently change the color. manic panic instead stains the outside of the strands. so unless your hair color is naturally very light it may just be tinted to the color.

i would Google atomic turquoise unbleached hair to see a likely color result.

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tuesday OP wrote

I'm also really good friends with a machine collective intelligence. they're probably going to try to assimilate us, but for now they are sharing a lot of research sooooooo we'll see how that ends.

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tuesday OP wrote

i hate the idea that all gate keeping is somehow inherently bad. i am not mad at being accused of gate keeping if only because i think that liberation is important enough that opening up the idea of what can be considered liberatory serves to weaken it as an idea, making it useless. he told me that i don't get to decide who is or isn't an anarchist and i said ok, except that are people who absolutely aren't anarchists who say they are. and if we don't draw that line then being an anarchist means nothing.

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tuesday OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by kano in Friday Free Talk Holiday Edition by tuesday

it's emancipation day in Puerto Rico but i didn't know that. i looked it up.

i listened to a podcast once about the ways that anarchism as an ideology doesn't provide for opportunities for holidays. not on a broad sort of cultural way that provides opportunity to folks to fill a communal need for fellowship. we have no great leaders to celebrate, no religious observations. which i think allows holidays to form naturally but in the interim we're left wanting.

it's one thing to say that holidays are what we make them but holidays are rarely that person and individual. I've been thinking on that for a while with no real resolution.

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tuesday wrote

Reply to Louise Michel by fortmis

She requested the death penalty for these actions but was instead sent to exile in New Caledonia in 1872.

her statement before the court is chef's kiss

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tuesday OP wrote

Reply to comment by monday in Friday Free Talk Holiday Edition by tuesday

yeah.

i told him that my anarchism is founded on liberation. and regardless of the practicality of any specific situation the right answer, in my opinion, is one that is liberatory. if my "solution" recreates oppression, subjugation, or control then i just don't have a solution and that's fine. eventually someone will.

i think the best choice here is to just opt out of those conversations in the future. they'll only serve to frustrate because he's decided that he's right and isn't doesn't seem to be interested in moving past the idea that anarchism is just a lack of government and private property and that humans can inherently be one way or another (in his mind people will always hurt each other out of casualcrueltyor boredom or because they are broken in some way), which i think is the biggest hurdle for me.

the idea that humans are inherently any one way i just not a position i can argue against because we can't say for sure either way.

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tuesday OP wrote (edited )

got into an argument with my roommate last night bc he thinks that anarchists can have laws and vote and do jails.

turns out that when you tell people that they aren't talking about anarchism when they say they are they get their feelings hurt.

i apologized for hurting his feelings but i told him i can't apologize for gate keeping because i have every intention of continuing.

does that make me a bad anarchist or a bad friend?

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tuesday wrote

Reply to comment by fortmis in Is raddle dead? by dadOso

sorry i missed that it was a response from a different person. I'm used to being accused of being an anarchoredditor bc of asking folks to not use dude as neutral.

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tuesday wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by fortmis in Is raddle dead? by dadOso

yes, respecting people's gendered experiences and not misgendering them with your language use that casually holds up masculine as the norm is totally Reddit behavior.

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