Landlords are scum of the planet. None of us should be paying for a fucking safe roof over our heads, and we especially shouldn't be paying some greedy shitbag who leaves our homes to fall apart (if they weren't before).
And it should be especially clear that landlords are the scum of the earth when they exist in a place where an active fucking genocide is taking place and are still greedily leeching off people who've lost damn near everything.
Fuck landlords, fuck landlordism, and fuck every single person and system enabling this bullshit.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@chu Also worth reminding people that those little old grannies? Can be their own family members, too. Which a lot of people just don't want to deal with.
The number of times I hear this kind of garbage from my own mother is excruciatingly disgusting (and also my grandmother, aunt, cousins... and it used to be all of the men, too, but nature ensured that they're all unable to speak anymore). It's not just someone else's little old granny; it can even be your own.
The number of times I hear this kind of garbage from my own mother is excruciatingly disgusting (and also my grandmother, aunt, cousins... and it used to be all of the men, too, but nature ensured that they're all unable to speak anymore). It's not just someone else's little old granny; it can even be your own.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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Apr 14, 2026
@angelteeth I may sound somewhat heartless, but my sympathy with people who repeat the "if I do this, I'll get fired" mantra really decreased significantly when I did what I thought was right to protect my students.
And effectively got fired (had my contracted reneged—I'm not even going to say withdrawn because that would be too polite for what they did to me).
... And that's as an immigrant who was on a fucking work visa, which also meant that my right to live where I am was directly impacted.
Because my employer thought I caused too much trouble for the sake of making sure that students were safe (from a predatory teacher) and that their needs were being met so that they could successfully graduate (which was curiously a massive problem because of the people running the school, hmm).
The only way I want to know these people were forced is if they literally actually were. Just being bystanders to an event and worrying that you'll be fired if you stop to help is grotesque.
And effectively got fired (had my contracted reneged—I'm not even going to say withdrawn because that would be too polite for what they did to me).
... And that's as an immigrant who was on a fucking work visa, which also meant that my right to live where I am was directly impacted.
Because my employer thought I caused too much trouble for the sake of making sure that students were safe (from a predatory teacher) and that their needs were being met so that they could successfully graduate (which was curiously a massive problem because of the people running the school, hmm).
The only way I want to know these people were forced is if they literally actually were. Just being bystanders to an event and worrying that you'll be fired if you stop to help is grotesque.
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An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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Apr 04, 2026
@jonny Did... he run your thread through Claude to summarise it or...? That is the only explanation I can think of for his refusal to understand that this isn't yours, lmao.
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An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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Mar 29, 2026
@angelteeth So much this. It's also about what people do with those protests. When these things are led and organised by people who have, for example, an electoral goal? It's likely not going to have the same impact as when people just straight up deny access to platforms to politicians and instead focus on both protesting and building connections between people.
Also, also! It's about what people do to make these events accessible. Are there multilingual people in the organising that enable people who don't speak the dominant language of a place to participate and also stay safe so they know what's going on? Are there people in the whole crowd who are aware of what's happening so that chaos is less likely to occur (if cops or opposing protesters attack)? Are people ensuring that the event is safe for disabled people to exist in any capacity (masking, communication, etc)? (Part of the reason I will not go to protests where I live is both because I usually cannot hear any of the speakers, no one knows what's going on when cops choose to close in and scare people, and my language skills aren't that great. Plus, way too many citizens still love leaving immigrants to get caught so they escape, despite us being way more precarious in existing here than they are.)
Because even if those events don't do something in the immediate, being very prominent about building communal care into something and pushing people to do it? Can be helpful, too. It might even shift the way people behave in other events or protests, making them easier to participate in for more people... which can only help them.
(Side note: I keep wanting to call 'protests' as 'manifestations' because I keep hearing and seeing people use the closest English translation, lol.)
Also, also! It's about what people do to make these events accessible. Are there multilingual people in the organising that enable people who don't speak the dominant language of a place to participate and also stay safe so they know what's going on? Are there people in the whole crowd who are aware of what's happening so that chaos is less likely to occur (if cops or opposing protesters attack)? Are people ensuring that the event is safe for disabled people to exist in any capacity (masking, communication, etc)? (Part of the reason I will not go to protests where I live is both because I usually cannot hear any of the speakers, no one knows what's going on when cops choose to close in and scare people, and my language skills aren't that great. Plus, way too many citizens still love leaving immigrants to get caught so they escape, despite us being way more precarious in existing here than they are.)
Because even if those events don't do something in the immediate, being very prominent about building communal care into something and pushing people to do it? Can be helpful, too. It might even shift the way people behave in other events or protests, making them easier to participate in for more people... which can only help them.
(Side note: I keep wanting to call 'protests' as 'manifestations' because I keep hearing and seeing people use the closest English translation, lol.)
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An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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Mar 16, 2026
I know this is me kind of... spiraling on something, but I need to be very clear:
Judith Suissa has literally done precisely zero for anarchist pedagogy (or anarchist learning spaces or anarchist anything). She wrote a book about a niche topic. One. She hasn't worked with anarchists, she isn't an anarchist, and she makes her living by being an academic.
And we know that academics, particularly those who do not engage with the topics they research (but even those...), are engaged in extractive work. Nothing she did benefited any anarchic learning community. Her work also focused primarily on alternative schools that weren't specifically anarchist in any capacity, regardless of whether or not there was an anarchist somewhere inside of it.
She did the academic thing. Niche topic to extract from, conflate things that aren't really that topic (while ignoring the relevant people in that space), and then move on.
And she has spent the last decade being a piece of shit TERF and has appeared in Krauss's most recent piece of shit bigot book, The War on Science (2025). And here's me... in 2023 pointing this out for what feels like the dozenth time.
Judith Suissa has literally done precisely zero for anarchist pedagogy (or anarchist learning spaces or anarchist anything). She wrote a book about a niche topic. One. She hasn't worked with anarchists, she isn't an anarchist, and she makes her living by being an academic.
And we know that academics, particularly those who do not engage with the topics they research (but even those...), are engaged in extractive work. Nothing she did benefited any anarchic learning community. Her work also focused primarily on alternative schools that weren't specifically anarchist in any capacity, regardless of whether or not there was an anarchist somewhere inside of it.
She did the academic thing. Niche topic to extract from, conflate things that aren't really that topic (while ignoring the relevant people in that space), and then move on.
And she has spent the last decade being a piece of shit TERF and has appeared in Krauss's most recent piece of shit bigot book, The War on Science (2025). And here's me... in 2023 pointing this out for what feels like the dozenth time.
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An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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Mar 16, 2026
The people who constantly say things like "We need education" in response to problems of the world make me want to stab someone. Probably them.
My dude, look at the fucking people running the planet. How educated are they? Very. They have gone through a number of "prestigious" schools and programs. What the fuck are they doing?
Please, stop just going WE NEED EDUCATION to every problem. No, we don't. We know shit's wrong, and we're still not giving a shit. This is not an education problem.
My dude, look at the fucking people running the planet. How educated are they? Very. They have gone through a number of "prestigious" schools and programs. What the fuck are they doing?
Please, stop just going WE NEED EDUCATION to every problem. No, we don't. We know shit's wrong, and we're still not giving a shit. This is not an education problem.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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Feb 02, 2026
Just throwing out here that Khaled (@bilal_mo) is a total sweetheart and in need of help. If you can, throw him and his family a little bit of assistance.
https://gofund.me/0962a012a
https://gofund.me/0962a012a
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
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Nov 26, 2023
Please, anarchists, do some of us trans and non-binary folks a fucking favour and start excluding known transphobes from your constant recommendations.
I do not care if Judith Suissa is the only person you know who wrote a book about anarchism and education (and did so very superficially, btw).
She is a transphobe. You do not need her. You can find almost everything she talked about somewhere else. You can (and should) put her in a bin. Literally. With the lid on.
I do not care if Judith Suissa is the only person you know who wrote a book about anarchism and education (and did so very superficially, btw).
She is a transphobe. You do not need her. You can find almost everything she talked about somewhere else. You can (and should) put her in a bin. Literally. With the lid on.
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