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Corvid Gossip & Advice: January 28, 2025
In our first Corvid advice column, a reader asks: "Should I punch a fascist or a liberal?"
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Thirty Days of Prompts and Opportunities for Solidarity: Week Two
Welcome to the Shitshow, part 851, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 38. Regardless of who is in office, solidarity, mutual aid and community are what keep us safe. I’ve put together these daily prompts and opportunities for solidarity (i.e. folks doing work that you can support if
Nitrate Fires
The Wolf(man) at our Door
I've been wanting to write all week, some analysis of the current situation, maybe something inspiring and helpful around organizing and orienting ourselves, but I've only really been able to do so on bluesky, thoughts in tiny bursts, with immediate feedback loops of endorphins and positivity.
Thirty Days of Prompts and Opportunities for Solidarity: Week One
Welcome to the Shitshow, Part 850, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 37. Note: Solidarity, mutual aid and community are what keep us safe, regardless of who is in office. Still, I’ve compiled these daily prompts and opportunities for solidarity (i.e. folks doing work that you can support
Disaster Looting and the LA Fires
As the fires began to get under control in LA, news media started reporting on arrests for looting, and in particular the presence of the military police "maintaining order" in the overwhelmingly non-white and poor Altadena. I wrote about the use of looting panic as a form of
She's Not There
SWITCHPOINTS, or jumping timelines
There are moments when you feel the timeline jump. You are sitting there and there is a breach, a punch in the gut—breathless. Then the whole world reconfigures around something new that has jutted into this reality. These can be bad personal moments, shocks like an unexpected breakup, a
The Fires This and Every Time
There’s a particular kind of emotional chaos that comes with living in the fire-prone west. Fire behavior can be erratic, unpredictable. There are no meteorologist predictions of when the firestorm will pass. Flames climb hillsides, winds send embers flying—sometimes for miles—and there’s no guarantee where they’
Zine Distro Live!
Our Sticker and Zine distro is officially live! We're starting with a small number of both, as a teaser of what we will do moving forward. We'll be updating the libraries regularly, as well as developing design, organization and accessibility as the libraries grow. But for
I Was Promised a More Aesthetically Pleasing Cyberpunk Dystopia
Even the horrors are mid
She's Not There
Burn Down the Hot Take Machine
Logging onto twitter of instagram after the election involves confronting a series of reaction posts posing as political insight, which, in the typical memeified leftism/anarchism, usually functions through scolding, moralizing, or just simple “I told you so.” I don’t believe anyone who says they knew something would happen,
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The Breakup Theory Episode 19 - Thinking Feeling Doing with Conner Habib
I got to talk to one of my favorite people to get into it with, Conner Habib.
fragments
start again
knowing when to leave is to know when it's time for something to go to seed, to allow decomposing to begin and for regeneration to take hold.