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[ πℵ@S950 ~ ]$ :sparkletrans: :v_aroace: @[email protected] · 2026-01-27 · 17:22 UTC

CW: platform criticism, failure of political activism

Trans*, queer, feminist, decolonial initiatives, progressive media festivals still using Telegram channels and Discord servers in 2026 to disseminate their content, "building communities". Mutual aid groups reluctantly sticking with WhatsApp. Still those who do know better, should know better, keep recommending BlueSky, keeping their X accounts. :neocat_baa: Oh, c'mon!

Not to mention Instagram, where the above waste time in posting selfies for beating the algorithm, obfuscating trigger words to avoid their content being shaded, policed, accounts getting suspended.

Oi gurl! :akko_listen: It's the encompassing capitalist realism, there's no alternative, hardly anyone uses Fedi platforms …

Feckin' tired of addressing these issues every time I bump into a new group, being that trans* political activist troublemaker making an ass out of herself :neocat_facepalm: :neocat_reject:

#trans #queer #feminism #capitalistrealism #platformcapitalism #politicalactivism

Xamanismo Coletivo @[email protected] · 2025-10-19 · 11:17 UTC

"#Culturalstudies — even music and arts journalism more broadly — had an unfortunate tendency to treat cultural artefacts like the capitalist elite, perhaps not consciously but certainly as a result of their pervasive influence. In this sense, #ChildrenOfMen becomes a hyperbolic rendering of the present, and so #Fisher puts it back to work on us, presenting "#capitalistrealism" — the belief that the end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of capitalism — immediately as a #symptomatology of the late capitalist condition, excavated from its own cultural offerings."

https://thequietus.com/culture/books/matt-colquhoun-egress-mark-fisher-hauntology-essay/

#culturalstudies #childrenofmen #fisher #capitalistrealism #symptomatology