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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

new odium symposium episode is now available on all platforms. we look Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini's Gender Without Identity, a contemporary work of queer psychoanalytic theory. then we look at a case study in which it all goes wrong.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/14-just-call-me-155052365

also we're starting a discord for the podcast https://discord.gg/7tEEE39Fx

also also we're going to release our first subscriber episode next week, where we look at the pseudoscientists of paper repository viXra

Maybe it's just because I'm rolling back through Age of Mythology, but I died laughing at "it's like the centaur, Helen"