Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

i’m thinking about that one zine in LITTLE TEETH for some reason that i’m not going to bother to explain

y u so mad bro

oh you just released like 4 songs about it?

oh

no, i think the kids are probably fucked up like the rest of us

they say the kids are alright but then you get headlines like “trump is polling well with young people because they do not remember a time before his candidacy” and hmmm

kitty won’t send me beats so i guess my diss track needs to be a 5000 word essay instead

surprised @aescling hasn’t leaned fully into being all cute and pastel for her website at this point

unbeknownst to evolutionary psychologists, early humans were probably not eugenicists singlemindedly concerned with improving the overall fitness of their species, and kids are a lot of work

“you mean not EVERY human just wants to seek out and reproduce with the most advantageous mate?!” naw dog, we grew like, brains and shit, and figured out cause and effect on that one pretty quick

very funny to me that evolutionary biologists are like “human bodies undergo concealed ovulation because having frequent sex serves a social benefit” and not the more obvious and evidenced “humans bodies undergo concealed ovulation because if they didn’t we’d all have a lot fewer kids”

we know from Drama that Times writers and editors are given very strict guidelines on how they can cover this stuff, but it’s not like journalists don’t know what’s going on or how to get a message across

reading New York Times coverage right now is wild because they’re forced to interview and use the language of some combination of {out⹀of⹀touch old white man} and {staunch Zionist who thinks any criticism of a certain country in the Middle East is an attack on Jews everywhere} and then you get to the part of the article where they state Facts and they’re like “yeah conservative Jewish student organizations have been actively trying to invade encampments and picking fights with these protesters for weeks despite them mostly just barricading themselves in one place, and that’s where all the violence is coming from”

« Biden Condemns Campus Violence After More Than 130 Arrests at U.C.L.A. » oh, N·Y·T, for a second there i forgot that you don’t include “arrests” in your definition of “campus violence”

« “I used to joke that the same student might be able to burn down a Bank of America branch in 1970 and still successfully sign on as an executive trainee at Bank of America in 1971,” said Rick Perlstein, a historian who has chronicled midcentury American politics.

“Today, anxiety about achieving economic security after graduation is far more pressing,” he added. “The consequences for identification and arrest are, simply, much greater.” »

the thing is, i mean, the other thing, is if you really think that the tools and technologies which made the web great never left us, why do you speak about the death of the web as primarily a technological phenomenon? if we have the tools, but have all collectively decided to stop using them, surely there is something else going on? something important?

it was your apathy that got us in this situation, and now you think you can save us from it? you, who can’t even properly name what was lost

no, career internet user, the people who made the internet good are not you

the people who made the internet good are not here anymore, and you can not bring them back

do you really think you and the people who read your bland {career internet user}⹀level takes are a workable substitute?

i’m tired of career internet users posting thinkpieces like “the internet used to be good! now it’s bad! we can make it good again!”

no, you can’t, an essay in three parts :⁠—

• you say the internet was good? what made it good? more importantly, WHO?

• what happened to those people?

• what is stopping that from happening to those people again?

i might be writing an essay about the internet

Quit bemoaning the loss of the old web and take it back!

Happy May Day 🌹! Are you a furry (or furry‐adjacent) ​? Are you a lesbian, or trans(‐adjacent‐)fem(me) ​? Do you have a website which you would like to be listed on the public internet, in a directory of other websites by people with those qualities 🌐?

@aescling and I recently launched a new website for serving this purpose! Visit <https://the.awoo.directory/> to see it for yourself, and let me know if you would like your page to be added!