BlackFlagPhillip @BlackFlagPhillip@mastodon.xyz

Films set in New England in which Anya Taylor-Joy plays a teen who wants to kill her dad continue to be good. #thoroughbreds #livedeliciously

Anyways social media is weird. I kinda want to make a personal Mastodon account and use something like IFTTT to push content to the corporate social media apps, and slowly wean off FB and Insta.

Weird social media thing: I took a number of fairly decent photos at a National Park recently. I'm excited to share them but haven't yet because Instagram defaults to square images, while many of my photos make more sense in their rectangle format. I could use my phone's built in filter capabilities and post to Facebook, but Insta feels like the place where my decent pics "live."

The most obvious solutions are either keep your online persona(s) completely separate from your real identify or use yr real name. For some reason I seem to tend towards a halfway solution of pseudonyms that *could* be linked to my real name by someone looking close enough.

Problem of being a private person and a somewhat heavy social media user, I guess.

I find pseudonym management weirdly challenging, to the point that it feels like a mental block that gets in the way of writing more. Currently I'm thinking of starting a proper, old school blog (blog posts > Twitter threads) and *really* overthinking the issue of whether or not I should link it to my Tumblr, which is circuitously tied to my real identity.

Who has recommendations for #feminist blogs? For that matter, any feminist or feminist-adjacent media that has an RSS qualifies. Between a few blogs going defunct, a lot of online discussion moving onto social media/micro-blogging, and being more focused on anarchist stuff for a while the feminism category in my Feedly has grown a little sparse.

Pretty great to see cool folks migrating over here from the ol' Tweetsville. It seems rare for an open-source/libre alternative to gain traction *after* the big corporate provider has become established. I want us to take back the potential of the internet as a commons.

#FullyInsurrectionaryLuxuryQueerSpaceAnarchism https://mastodon.xyz/media/Xq0wNeWX4CT0CtUMflI

Goddamnit just realized I should have made my handle BlackFlagRANGER cause the Black Power Ranger's animal was a mastodon. https://mastodon.xyz/media/tRln3vLFmKLuluWXMHw

"Anarchism is the lifting of our eyes beyond our immediate preoccupations and connecting with one another. Seeing the same spark, the same churning hurricane, same explosion of consciousness, within them that resides within us. Anarchism is the recognition that liberty is not kingdoms at war, but a network interwoven and ultimately unbroken — a single expanse of possibility growing every day. Anarchism is the realization that freedom has no owners. It has only fountainheads."

3. This sort of freedom is a social relationship, a "more general phenomenon." "Your freedom is my freedom"

4. Anarchists are most known for opposing the state, but as radicals - i.e., because they grasp at the root of things, in this case rulership vs freedom - that's not the limit of the anarchist project. We're not aiming for a final stage of history without a state, but an open ended process of knocking down relationships of domination and expanding freedom.

A few of the issues covered:

1. "Anarchy" means the absence of domination or rulership, not the fractured rulership of all-vs-all. Decentralization of power is not enough.

2. Freedom to > Freedom from

"True freedom is of course not about retreating from or walling off outside influences but rather having *choice* in our interactions with the world.

Not a single isolated “choice” of a certain identity or role, but continual, engaged, active choice, every moment of our lives."

I really enjoyed this piece by @rechelon , "Your Freedom Is My Freedom: The Premise Of Anarchism" and hope it gains some traction. It addresses some fundamental issues in anarchism while staying relatively short; kind of like a distillation of many of his other pieces from over the years.

https://humaniterations.net/2017/06/14/your-freedom-is-my-freedom-the-premise-of-anarchism/

Me, [reading a bad post]: A "toot" indeed.

#fistnames
Hammer & Sickle

#fistnames
Emma & Sasha

#fistnames are like #knuckletats with out an 8 character limit (REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING?).