michael michaels

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michael michaels

michael michaels

@michaelm071130

Katılım Mayıs 2026
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michael michaels
michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@BolshevikBeyond Materialism is not physicalism, but it can't be indifferent to the materially/biologically given of embodied sex. 'Self-affirmed gender' restores the body/mind, and even body/soul distinction. How can you tell people they're objectively of a class, but not objectively their sex?
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Bats ☭🔻@BolshevikBeyond·
There is a reason I’ve stopped orienting who I associate with around the China question when building hegemony *here* is a significantly more relevant question, but not only is this bad for China no matter your stance on its economics, it also hurts that very question of hegemony
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Bats ☭🔻@BolshevikBeyond·
i hope it will not be controversial on marxist twitter for me to say that this is Bad and that there is no excuse for it
𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓🏳️‍⚧️@amber_digit2

Due to new medicare regulations, the Chinese medical system is blocking trans women from accessing estrogen even with a doctor’s prescription. The picture below shows the digital prescription system blocking the diagnosis, mandating estrogen to be prescribed only to cis women.

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michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@harbingerofwoke You Geese kids are nutters. What would you like him to have seen most? The Gulag? The Great Leap Forward? North Korea? Feral capitalism in post USSR Russia? 500 books from Brill on Lukacs?
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J. Ryder🪿@harbingerofwoke·
Sometimes it makes me sad when I think about the fact that Marx never really got to see the fruits of his labor. He never saw any of the world shattering revolutions based on his theories, the literal billions of people totally consumed by his studies. He wasn’t alive long enough to ever perceive a fraction of how influential he would really be.
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bradpsychology
bradpsychology@bradpsychology·
Can someone tell Pauline Hanson that Australian women can vote.
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michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@unison_moody @soulkhan Yes, of course. But do sex scenes work in non porn film if they're just trying to be beautiful and expressive? Or do they always leave us between porn and non porn spectatorship, feeling guilty yet dissatisfied? A lot of arty sex scenes are just ghastly...
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Moody✨@unison_moody·
@michaelm071130 @soulkhan As if a movie is just about narrative. There is more than I am comfortable to count what a movie can do and a narrative is just one of theose things, albeit a more important one for most.
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michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@AndrewWoodman When it's a possibility versus a certainty, mathematical probability isn't king. 50k is 50k in yr hand. 50% chance of one mill is the chance to feel everlasting regret that you didn't take the safe option. It's a rational act not to take the gamble.
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Holly Lawford-Smith
Holly Lawford-Smith@aytchellesse·
my new feminist hero is almayra shah from the BBC's ~i kissed a girl~ season 2. she has reconciled her sexual orientation with her faith (muslim); she doesn't believe in sex before marriage; and she wore a turtleneck to the exhibitionist leather straps party. absolute legend ⭐️
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michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@comradejumpshot It seems to have a dozen articles analysing the situation in which socialism is reviving and fighting. Seems quite an offer to me...
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holdennn 🍺@comradejumpshot·
it's sad that we are in a moment of genuine socialist revival and the most historically important socialist mag has nothing to offer
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Bernard Keane
Bernard Keane@BernardKeane·
Today's ALP is no longer the party of Hawke and Keating, or even of Carr and Bracks. It's the party of Richard Marles and little men like him. Richard fucking Marles. crikey.com.au/2026/07/23/lab…
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Patrick Marlborough/Bang Bang Bart (new account)
Patrick Marlborough/Bang Bang Bart (new account)@cormac_mccafe69·
can anyone recommend any ambient(or adjacent) violin/fiddle albums? i've got a bit of a list, but i'm sure i'm missing tonnes. who is the John Fahey or Bill Orcutt of the fiddle?
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michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@ArthurMacwaters @dcbuilder It was all bureaucrats. It wasn't capitalism. There were private businesses but commodity trade didn't dominate the society. All those things could be built because the state had its own income plus slaves plus taxes. The new Rome is China.
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Arthur MacWaters@ArthurMacwaters·
@dcbuilder Very cool! Point is more about the ubiquitous ambition of their civic work, much of which has yet to be surpassed despite massively lower cost materials and machinery
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Arthur MacWaters
Arthur MacWaters@ArthurMacwaters·
What blows my mind about the Roman Empire is that lack of technology is far easier to overcome than lack of freedom from bureaucrats Like unironically these guys built the most insane civic architecture and still hold the record We have to technology to build something a hundred times bigger than ever but instead we chose to employ bureaucrats and allow them to micromanage every detail of buildings down to toilet spacing and the number of fasteners per foot They were willing to spend a significant portion of their GDP on making their civilization epic, and we have cheap bullshit and decay Terrible trade Absolutely humiliating
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Rome@ConsulofRome_

The Circus Maximus, to this day, holds the record as the largest sporting venue ever built by mankind. Image by @JCGolvin

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Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons@Peter_Fitz·
Look it up. Helmets make zero difference. And I played American football for a season in Ohio, in 1978. Constant head-clashing. Stars before my eyes.
Anders Axelson 🇦🇺@AndersAxelson1

@Peter_Fitz The Americans figured out that helmets were a good idea for their football a century ago. Soccer, the rugby codes, and 161 are only starting to figure it out now!

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michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@walletcheck Did anybody really claim he was an actual stoker? The famous story is he wrote the novel at work, on the night shift. So it's assumed he wasn't stoking
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tyler@walletcheck·
so according to legend, Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying while doing this job. per Blotner bio—it's true, Faulkner worked in a boiler room just like this. he was the manager. he sat at a desk & wrote all day, occasionally bossing around the two Black employees who did all the work
Eastern Bloc Visuals@eastblocvisuals

Legendary Soviet rockstar Viktor Tsoi of the band Kino working his day job as a stoker in a Leningrad boiler room, required by law to avoid being prosecuted for "parasitism", 1986.

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michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@peter_tulip I don't trust you not to be blinkered in these. You wrote a snooty comment on Kate Shaw, suggesting that demand was static, and could not possibly be increased by increased supply, and she was an idiot. That was so obviously wrong and self-serving, rules you out as trustworthy
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Peter Tulip
Peter Tulip@peter_tulip·
My favourite 10 examples where relaxing planning restrictions substantially increased housing supply. 1) Auckland 2) Sao Paulo 3) Zurich 4) Campbelltown, SA 5) Lower Hutt 6) New York 7) Austin 8) Edmonton 9) Tokyo 10) Croydon Here’s a tweet or two on each. 1/15
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michael michaels@michaelm071130·
@Watershedd Also some of them are attached to their violent partners. They don't like the violence, but they like strong assertive physical men. Not just circumstances...
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🦉🦆Watershedd🦜🦉@Watershedd·
Pauline Hanson thinks women experiencing DV should just leave. Often they have no money. Many fear being stalked. The DV murders are overwhelmingly of women by abusive male partners. Look at what happened to Hannah Clarke and her three children. Stop blaming the victims.
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