Poise Under Chaos @poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club

List of Bail Funds for Protestors across the Country

https://bailfunds.github.io/

driving a whole second cup of coffee mid-afternoon, like the pros do

things Glenn Gould contributed to humanity:

- brilliant interpretations of Bach

- making it ok to wear a thick coat when its cold on stage

- doing something different with your life, even if there's pressure to "do what you're famous for"

*taps mic*

- $2000/month, tax-free, up to the income cap
- free distance learning
- free telemedicine
- free rent
- no price-gouging on essentials
- actual worker safety
- masks suggested, if it's not an additional hazard. everybody working in essential services has access to them. (calling out "jim the conservative" for not wearing one on the job, good, good)
- stop forcing people to work if they're sick
- ritual shaming of jeff bezos and other assholes

other accounts:

we'll try to explain related political analytical things, but we have limits to our patience and available energy. it's a process, though! we get that.

this account:

if it's not related to the politics of music, writing or the surrounding cultures in relation to that? don't care *and* we're highly opinionated about such things *and* should really be spending this time writing new material instead. so, um, bye

in order of severity:

- no, that's not the way to run a "cloud-based subscription service"

- no, that's not way to (mis-)manage a pandemic, locally, state-level, and (in case it wasn't already clear) nationally

- whatever the fuck this is, which i'm still wrapping my head around

https://anticapitalist.party/@teslas_moustache/104502262560981590

the post-mercury rx theme of the day appears to be: "whatever the heck that is, fuck no"

in general

so far

/vent

i know that CA and NY governors have made some really facepalm-worthy screw-ups, even if they've also "defied the emperor" and saved a fuckton of people from being hospitalized or dead in the process.

then there's the "lol covid isn't real, you snowflake" republican governors, ofc. but fuck them.

are there any governors in the US who haven't fucked up at least one major thing, that they can''t pin on the breathtakingly horrible federal non-response to covid? i'm having more than a few doubts, but if this isn't the case, i'd like to know.

maybe Hawaiʻi? haven't checked, tbh.

who feels like a baked shrimp and is hot and damn tired of being under lockdown because the pandemic is still being mismanaged to this day? me, that's who

the same goes for white liberals who have no problems calling the cops on people of color. in neighborhoods they're gentrifying, no less. as well as ableist anti-neurodiversity types. as if being neurodivergent and of color isn't its own form of heightened risk, and as if such eugenicist views don't reinforce that kind of abusive, if not murderous, stigma.

y'all are cut from the same damn cloth.

terfs are racist, and if you don't believe me, look at the murder rates for trans women of color. it's not just like they're not standing up for us -- they're actively part of the problem. when was the last time you heard a terf say anything about that, that wasn't some sort of rationalization for their views, if they even mention such things? (they typically do not).

carceral-minded liberals will call the cops on people of color while fronting as being "progressive", in some hogwash way or another. it's just where they live and breathe.

which by the by, is why i'm wary of some white folks who paint themselves as Very Down (tm), but will side with landlord, cops, and bosses if it comes down to it. words are plentiful, talk is cheap.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/11/the-spectre-of-censorship-and-intolerance-stalks-todays-left

the thing that gets me about takes like this is that they advocate for fascist ideologies in ways that more overtly stated far right views can not. at least in more "respectable" circles.

it's not just about this kind of "free speech advocate" terfy BS, either. white liberals use this kind of rationale to cover up their law-and-order centrism all the time, in the face of calls for abolition, or just actual reforms of the prison system.

I wish terf apologists would get that their essentialist "controversy" isn't about free speech, but about fascism

but white liberals in particular sign off on all sorts of heinous BS,, as long as they can look "progressive", from the carceral state to the military industrial complex. so no shock there

I read this hoping that The Guardian would go in-depth like "Get Me Roger Stone" did with this, but no such luck

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/10/roger-stone-five-things-to-know-about-trumps-controversial-ally

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6714534/

"write about what you know" whoo boy

if you ever read something i've written, and you're somewhat confused and disoriented as a result? welcome to my world

while i'm sitting on a poetry manuscript i finished a year ago, like "...what do i even do with this? self-publishing doesn't make a lot of sense, submitting it kind of doesn't either, and either way, i have numerous ambivalent feelings about the production of poetry being a kind of club by and for poets"

but i'll figure it all out, heh

i'm finishing reading Samuel Delany's "Dark Reflections" -- which is great, btw -- which has me up in my feelings about being an <unfurls list of hyphenated identities> "aging poet" in the US