Kate Austin, born on this day in 1864, was an American journalist and anarchist feminist known for her essay "Woman", which disparaged scientific efforts to prove women's inferiority to men and urged society to abandon sexist customs.
Born in LaSalle County, Illinois, Austin lived in the American Midwest for most of her life. In 1883, her father discovered Lucifer, an anarchist/free love journal published by the feminist Moses Harman. This influence coupled with the Haymarket Riot of 1886 politically radicalized Austin, bringing her to call herself an anarchist and a feminist.
Austin joined the American Press Writers Association, and her work increased as she came in contact with many well known radical writers and lecturers of her time, keeping her busy reading and writing. She contributed to the magazine Lucifer, as well as The Firebrand, Free Society, Discontent, and The Demonstrator.
"As for intelligence, my sex has already experimented with that ingredient, and found it like mother Eve's forbidden fruit: Very Good."
- Kate Austin
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guy who believes in climate change but thinks it's good because sea level rise would destroy "coastal elite" cities
I mean I'm not gonna deny that I will enjoy watching extravagant mansions wash into the sea. It'll be the one silver lining to mass human misery
The massive contrarian in me wants to agree but no it would only hurt people who didn't deserve it, even if it was true.
Went on a date with a NATO leftist. I wasn't aware that she was one until she talked about how she considered joining the Ukraine foreign defense league or whatever it was called. The life left my eyes as soon as I heard her say that.
Should I start telling people to join that? It's the same sentiment as saying kys without saying kys.
Long con. Get her to sign up for life insurance and out you down as a beneficiary
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I'm moving
Currently tidying up and cleaning my neglected apartment. I won't lie, I have barely cleaned it for like 4 years because of crippling executive dysfunction and now that I have to clean everything at once it's like I'm constantly confronted with my worst failures and complete inability to function outside of my own head.
And no, I can't take it slowly because my apartment is being inspected today. Not having a great time rn.
Anyway if you see me post anything in the next 4 hours, please tell me to get off my phone and to clean my room, bucko
Edit: I'm actually shaking. This is not poggers.
Edit 2: I did it, finally, this was not a fun experience
Yay! Good job!
Also, have you heard of Unfuck Your Habitat? I found it helpful in getting on a more sustainable routine. Since you're moving, this is a good time for a fresh start. Good luck!
You can do it! For executive dysfunction and cleaning, it helps me sometimes to make a list of the most essential tasks and cross them off as I go. It helps me focus and gives me a little dopamine hit when something gets crossed off. Keep going!
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also i'm graduating tomorrow
i'm wearing a suit for it and everythingJust had one of those "Well capitalism bad, and I don't know what Communism is but Stalin CCP big spoon gulags, so we have to find a third way"
No, they don't know what that would be, or how it would work, or how they'd prevent the capitalist tendency towards monopoly. All they know is communism bad, so we have to do something that's not communism.
Followed within an hour, as is generally the case, by a discussion of how income in the US has fallen dramatically, idiot billionaires are ruining everything, giant corporate monopolies are extorting people for housing, and privately owned utilities charge abusive prices for poor quality but essential services.
I am going to becalm the jongleur. 🎺 🎸
🎸 🎺No campaigner Mr Mundine said he did not take lectures from anyone affiliated with the Yes campaign, likening one board member to a Nazi.
"They've got a communist sitting on their thing [board] and a communist is just as bad as a Nazi," he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-25/voice-no-camp-responds-gary-johns-blood-test-welfare/102639842
He wants to blood test first nations people, to make them prove they're indigenous enough for his cracker ass to take pity on them?
Maybe it’s just me getting out of bed, but the phrase “the screams of children have been muted” just has an abject horror to it and we just havent been allowed to really sit with it
Sometimes I forget I am not a lib.
At my work we are short staffed. If they raised pay we could get more staff, we could do more work, and the company would make more money. In the old lib part of my brain it is just confused as to why they don't wanna do their job right.
Then the rest of my brain warms up and I remember
Me: "It's just a 500 calorie deficit for two months, it won't be a big deal"
My brain: "You will literally die if you don't eat pop tarts in the next 30 minutes"
I find my body craves whatever I’ve been eating recently.
If I’ve been eating brócoli and asparagus then that’s what my brain tells me to eat.
Retrain your gut.
Just drink some sugar free energy drink. It is probably very unhealthy but it works.
just randomly remembered i had an elementary school teacher that said the ice bridge the native americans crossed over was over the atlantic ocean and that noah’s ark created the grand canyon
I wish I remembered my elementary school better, just to have a more objective opinion on the experience. but I feel like I never learned that much. I mostly remember the bullying because I was the only white kid. I kind of hate that there is no place to really talk about that kind of experience without either talking to racists or the lib-brained.
Not really to undo trauma or commiserate, I feel like I'm past that now but just to share an experience without being judged.
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You are ordered to put on your cat ears and report to rowing stations immediately
This is not a drill
Well I'm at work so all I've got is a doorframe but I can do some really shitty rows
