mallaidh (dork aspect) @mallaidh@witches.town

witchcraft was sexual independence, the absolute right to control your childbirth, to pass down knowledge independent of the church and the state. when those parties violently suppressed witches, they in turn suppressed any abilities to resist the reproduction of labor.

i feel like reading caliban and the witch is a good idea for folks of witches.town and beyond. witch-hunting and the subjugation of women's bodies was essential to proletarianizing the west.

https://www.gitbook.com/book/anarchivists/caliban/details

@Fidgetcetera obligatory message to drink more water

"The counterpart of the market, the instrument for the privatization of social relations and, above all, for the propagation of capitalist discipline and patriarchal rule, the family emerges in the period of primitive accumulation also as the most important institution for the appropriation and concealment of women's labor."

Caliban & the Witch, Silvia Federici

@Fidgetcetera cutecutecute

when the worksheet asks which axis the cross-sections are perpendicular to, but they're given in the diagram at about a 45deg angle

@Fidgetcetera I should get off and... wait, wrong line~!

@Fidgetcetera if i had a cheerleader outfit i'd be sending you selfies wearing it with encouraging captions

you can do it 💚

@wxcafe big yikes

nice to see the ol' sports getting back going, almost missed paris-nice entirely (quite an ending there).

race seems to be unfolding well in phoenix. kyle busch in the lead, 63 laps to go in the hot sun.

@amphetamine @vantablack yeah that's a kinda, huge thing that's left out when people praise a single project member for the entire thing

@vantablack like, we've got sports fan as a category but not queer or furry, and it's just goofy

@vantablack i think there was some prior discussion of it, and i wasn't exactly convinced by any of the reasons given against adding it

@kibi see: all the posting about what hackernews thinks about masto (lol)

lydia lunch on no wave and punk rock:
"I hated almost the entirety of punk rock. I don't think that no wave had anything to do with it. Who wanted chords, all these progressions that had been used to death in rock? To play slide guitar I'd use a knife, a beer bottle... glass gave the best sound. To this day I still don't know a single chord on the guitar."

@Gaypow mmm, it's the froth that really sets off the flavors in it