Nostr notes by William Gillis 🏴

Statement from Collettivo Autistici / Inventati: ...

2026-08-26T21:00:42Z

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Statement from Collettivo Autistici / Inventati:
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

Words completely fail me when addressing the potential loss to ...

2026-08-26T19:29:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…4pu5
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Words completely fail me when addressing the potential loss to the anarchist movement of -- as the US names it -- 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 blogs. This must be fought aggressively and immediately.

The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the ...

2026-08-26T19:25:39Z

The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc).

This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist/

@npub1kwa…e0nj @npub1jya…qq2d Oh so you think nationalism can ...

2026-07-08T07:50:54Z

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Oh so you think nationalism can be left wing? A national socialism, maybe? Go fuck yourself. Anti-immigration is inherently reactionary. Marxists can be reactionaries.

My heart goes out to the heroes raided by the FBI in Minneapolis. ...

2026-06-16T19:04:41Z

My heart goes out to the heroes raided by the FBI in Minneapolis. Please don't be flippant about these charges.

Among those charged, Emmett Doyle has a public career as a radical historian and folksinger and you should listen to his work:

https://soundcloud.com/edrootsmusic

Liberalism, standing over the battered unconscious body of ...

2026-04-25T00:43:54Z

Liberalism, standing over the battered unconscious body of Fascism: "Now's the time to end this. To finally do what we should have done a long time ago. Make anarchism illegal."

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went ...

2026-02-14T00:54:53Z

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.

Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:

https://zinelibrary.org

Timur Kacharava was stabbed to death twenty years ago today by ...

2025-11-13T18:24:51Z

Timur Kacharava was stabbed to death twenty years ago today by nazis, just after sharing food at a Food Not Bombs.

I remember being intensely affected by this murder, more so than Carlo or Spit and Dan's, in part I think because I'm the same age as Timur. He missed out on the last 20 years.

Everyone on here should follow ...

2025-10-08T19:56:58Z

Everyone on here should follow

https://mastodon.social/@FIJAnational

They've been the main repository of resources on Jury Nullification since 1989 and, thanks to the extended influence of their education efforts, are almost certainly the reason you know about it.

Jury nullification is the one thing repeatedly saving activists in LA, DC, and now Chicago from charges rn. It's critical that we spread information more widely and direct people to actually useful and in-depth knowledge.

"Civility" is two wolves and a sheep voting on what the ...

2025-10-02T02:49:51Z

"Civility" is two wolves and a sheep voting on what the overton window of public discourse should be.

But nothing means anything. A bunch of random far-right trolls ...

2025-09-27T18:54:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…nxmz
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But nothing means anything. A bunch of random far-right trolls have completely seized the national media narrative for a decade. No one bothers to fact check anything, and even foreign outlets like the BBC will just repeat any made up bullshit https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddmn6ge6e2o

What's insane about this alliance between conservative ...

2025-09-27T18:54:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…wlp3
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What's insane about this alliance between conservative wingnuts and the national media, is that they can do this shit to ANY activist group.

Your local street medics?

JewRemover88 made a poster with their name on it saying they're doing white genocide. Now it's on the BBC.

Back in 2017 some random conservative wingnut sent off anonymous ...

2025-09-27T18:54:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…80p9
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Back in 2017 some random conservative wingnut sent off anonymous emails pretending to be RCA, promising to "punch conservative families" at a parade -- just cartoonishly fake shit -- and piles national media echoed it as somehow real without mentioning RCA themselves debunking it.

Like you can blame the crew for not having some robust million ...

2025-09-27T18:54:02Z

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Like you can blame the crew for not having some robust million dollar press office, but at the end of the day, it's like watching the local Food Not Bombs chapter get accused of shooting grandmas, and literally not a single journalist in the world bothers to talk with them.

Since 2017, it's been insane to watch random conservatives ...

2025-09-27T18:53:47Z

Since 2017, it's been insane to watch random conservatives make up absurd nonsense about Rose City Antifa, a local activist research group, and get those lies repeated by every national news outlet, with literally not a single journalist noting that group's official responses.

I know folks within the US are preoccupied daily with the ...

2025-09-12T01:31:17Z

I know folks within the US are preoccupied daily with the ratcheting fascist takeover, but solidarity actions with those in revolt in Nepal and Indonesia right now would probably mean a lot. Even if it's just a banner wave, it means a lot to those youth on the streets fighting their regimes.

This is a list of Indonesian consulates in the US: https://embassies.net/indonesia-in-united-states

Regrettably, Nepal has nothing outside DC and NYC:
https://embassies.net/nepal-in-united-states

The fascist rot that infests over a third of the US and is ...

2025-08-26T03:20:39Z

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The fascist rot that infests over a third of the US and is tolerated by almost all of the rest of it is not a deviation, it is an unbroken zombified sludge that has thickened the veins of this nation throughout its entire history. They are not deviations, they are the eternal sin at its core.

These cancerous pustules of flesh will hungrily consume any ...

2025-08-26T03:20:31Z

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These cancerous pustules of flesh will hungrily consume any pretense of liberty. They don't corrupt or pervert the ideals of "freedom," rather their vacant eyes reveal the words they mouth were always just habitualized rituals. They neither understand nor want to understand the content of anything.

9/11 demonstrated one thing in abundance that seemingly every ...

2025-08-26T03:20:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…ee7j
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9/11 demonstrated one thing in abundance that seemingly every generation needs to learn anew: the US population is rotten the whole way through with ignorant venal fascists. Credulous thugs who hunger for nothing more than the boot of an authoritarian state.

Two decades ago my friends and I went to a 4th of July ...

2025-08-26T03:20:11Z

Two decades ago my friends and I went to a 4th of July celebration at the waterfront and burned some flags. The suburban dipshits who invade our city to get drunk at festivals could not fathom what was happening or what punks were and started screaming in sincere terror that Al Qaeda had arrived.

The Victims Of Crime Act and the Violence Against Women Act ...

2025-08-19T18:43:16Z

The Victims Of Crime Act and the Violence Against Women Act intentionally create barriers to police access, so that survivors can escape from rapists, stalkers, abusers, etc with badges.

This is a complete violation of that to empower Trump's predator base.
https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2025/08/state-ag-lawsuit-ice-victim-funds/

The federal government is now demanding to know "what kind of ...

2025-08-14T22:12:47Z

The federal government is now demanding to know "what kind of white" you are

https://bsky.app/profile/jacquelyngill.bsky.social/post/3lwf3wsu5p22e

Hey, I wrote a book. Did The Science Wars Take Place? Covers the ...

2025-08-06T17:25:11Z

Hey, I wrote a book.

Did The Science Wars Take Place?

Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.

Pre-order here:

https://store.c4ss.org/index.php/product/did-the-science-wars-take-place-the-political-ethical-stakes-of-radical-realism-preorder/

"Intellectual property" is a stupendously evil concept, ...

2025-07-25T20:42:10Z

"Intellectual property" is a stupendously evil concept, one that kills millions while holding back discourse, science, and art, but it is also a disease that inexorably infests and ruins even the smallest corners of our lives.

Giant liberal demonstrations continue their impressive record at ...

2025-06-22T01:06:27Z

Giant liberal demonstrations continue their impressive record at stopping US presidents from starting wars.

Around computational complexity, yeah

2025-06-21T17:22:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…n9mq
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Around computational complexity, yeah

Increasingly, compsci has been added to the polycule.

2025-06-21T16:53:08Z

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Increasingly, compsci has been added to the polycule.

If I recall correctly, there's a lot of evidence that Galileo ...

2025-06-20T21:04:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…wjge
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If I recall correctly, there's a lot of evidence that Galileo was strongly down with the realist ontology but it was aggressively filtered out -- in large part by others around him -- to avoid nasty sanctions.

The "this is a mere tool/description" whine was very much not of him. Much more Newton's thing. Although again in that case there's a lot of evidence he thought other things and used it as a defense.

I made this for liberals randomly showing up to comment under ...

2025-06-16T06:24:44Z

I made this for liberals randomly showing up to comment under anarchists talking to anarchists on social media:

This is a good design actually. ...

2025-06-07T04:30:41Z

This is a good design actually.

The modern fascist movement is just a coalition of bad people who ...

2025-03-29T22:20:40Z

The modern fascist movement is just a coalition of bad people who can't understand caring about other people and are genocidally furious about being pressured into pretending like they had conscience.

They would happily push a button to exterminate everyone with a conscience forever.

I am still furious at this man and the work he did to legitimize ...

2025-03-24T00:12:08Z

I am still furious at this man and the work he did to legitimize neoreactionaries and propagate ignorance as a weapon against antifascists.

Scott Siskind did more than almost any other individual, and he's still capable of feeling shame. I want him to pickle in that shame for eternity.

Anarchists in 2004: "We should invent a technology to enable ...

2025-03-05T21:18:28Z

Anarchists in 2004: "We should invent a technology to enable the bloc to coordinate better against the cops. This definitely won't mutate into a global torment nexus of fascism controlled by a billionaire south african trying to start World War 3."

Liberal: "I would rather DIE than give up on trusting the ...

2025-02-24T01:24:38Z

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Liberal: "I would rather DIE than give up on trusting the police and buy a gun."

Fascist: "brb, arranging precisely that."

Liberal: "Checkout my punny protest sign! I'm very ...

2025-02-24T01:21:10Z

Liberal: "Checkout my punny protest sign! I'm very clever!"

Fascist: "We are going to enjoy drinking the blood of your slaughtered family in front of you while you die slowly, tomorrow, at 7:35pm. Nothing matters but force, and I delight in the knowledge you have made no material preparations to stop me."

Liberal: "Lol, what you're saying is technically against the law. It's illegal."

The entire house of cards of fascism is dependent upon no one ...

2025-02-21T07:33:47Z

The entire house of cards of fascism is dependent upon no one ever examining, comparing, or developing moral values.

This is why they're so allergic to any discursive mode that drills to these root moral questions and challenges the values of domination they're trying to smuggle in as given.

My point is more that they're motivated around what ...

2024-12-09T21:57:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…m3cj
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My point is more that they're motivated around what they'll publish, and I doubt they would be interested in the more nuanced truth.

The TESCREAL shit is some of the most horrendous pile of garbage ...

2024-12-09T21:53:24Z

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The TESCREAL shit is some of the most horrendous pile of garbage ever and anyone publishing that is not interested in an actual map of reality.

I don't mean this (entirely) disparagingly. I'm just ...

2024-12-09T21:46:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…peva
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I don't mean this (entirely) disparagingly. I'm just shocked that so many people are unfamiliar with the grey tribe world.

Like if you're surprised that a "tech bro" would be hostile to NFTs as an obvious hype scam, you have a bad map of the different camps grouped as "tech bros."

Like this is as plumbline as one could possibly be in the Slate ...

2024-12-09T21:46:11Z

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Like this is as plumbline as one could possibly be in the Slate Star Codex comments sections. There's hundreds of thousands of copies of this guy.

I've found absolutely nothing from him that breaks with this mold. Like he's not weird and quirky. His opinions are all exactly party line.

Luigi Mangione has INCREDIBLY STANDARD "grey tribe" ...

2024-12-09T21:45:45Z

Luigi Mangione has INCREDIBLY STANDARD "grey tribe" politics.

Approves of meritocratic social hierarchy and technological capacity, but bemoans the erosion of tradition by feminism and atheism. Hates antifa no platforming. Flirts with anticiv thinkers. Supports nuclear power and animal liberation.

This is the liberation of all prisoners from the "Palestine ...

2024-12-08T10:31:22Z

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This is the liberation of all prisoners from the "Palestine Branch" prison, which the US infamously used as a black site to torture and kill countless people it had abducted in other counties after September 11th.

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2024-12-08T10:15:13Z

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The struggle against US imperialism is incoherent without the ...

2024-12-08T06:13:57Z

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The struggle against US imperialism is incoherent without the struggle against Russian imperialism. We cheer when prison walls are torn down in Israel or Syria.

These absolute clowns have no fucking principles, consistency, or values whatsoever. Just the same old campist/tankie trash briefly repackaged as common cause with anarchists.

"Unity Of Fields" can eat a fucking bullet, absolutely ...

2024-12-08T05:43:52Z

"Unity Of Fields" can eat a fucking bullet, absolutely despicable campist scum incapable of diagnosing imperialism much less fighting it. There's no place in anarchism for these monsters.

People who actually truly give a fuck have always been and will ...

2024-11-06T21:42:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…rdd2
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People who actually truly give a fuck have always been and will always be in the position of a small minority. That's not the end of the world. We're fighting an asymmetric conflict, so we need to leverage asymmetric tools to increase the costs to repression.

But mostly folks need to be scrubbed of the lingering liberal ...

2024-11-06T21:42:20Z

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But mostly folks need to be scrubbed of the lingering liberal obsession with getting a majority.

Minorities alone can impede the function of power. Civil rights were not won at the ballotbox so much as made an increasing fait accompli from armed black activists.

We need to build science-from-the-bottom participatory structures ...

2024-11-06T21:41:56Z

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We need to build science-from-the-bottom participatory structures to spread common contact with objective reality rather than relying on academia or institutions (cf those built by Dalits in India).

We need to focus on normalizing better epistemic obligations and tools.

Yes, we need to continue outreach, even to the privileged, ...

2024-11-06T21:41:36Z

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Yes, we need to continue outreach, even to the privileged, streamlining our argumentation and resources for middle schoolers, gamers, boomers, etc who might get sniped by the 101 level arguments that leverage their ignorance and selfishness.

We have to catalyze large social spaces both offline and on that ...

2024-11-06T21:41:18Z

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We have to catalyze large social spaces both offline and on that are not overrun by lowest common denominator, so that anarchist-influenced social norms can gel and activist tacit knowledge can compound without wasting time constantly fighting 101 level discourse brushfires.

The pull of simplistic arguments that ask nothing of you is also ...

2024-11-06T21:41:06Z

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The pull of simplistic arguments that ask nothing of you is also how the left is in increasingly worse shape, rotted out with nationalism, tankies, and the shallowest nonprofit idpol, while enthusiastically echoing obvious absurdities from grifters collecting paychecks for it.

We're dealing with a huge number of hardened fash who are not ...

2024-11-06T21:40:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…4zee
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We're dealing with a huge number of hardened fash who are not going to see the light. They will likewise exploit any vulnerability they can find. If they think we haven't prepared to make civil war or genocide sufficiently painful for them, they will embrace such.

The fash have been crowing for a long time about getting gen-z ...

2024-11-06T21:40:40Z

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The fash have been crowing for a long time about getting gen-z men, and they're not wrong. Simple reactionary arguments win out over more complicated true arguments with kids, locking them into fashy media ecosystems, and shallow leveraging of selfish entitlement works.

The notion that there's some vast base that could have tapped ...

2024-11-06T21:40:17Z

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The notion that there's some vast base that could have tapped had the libs not been so fashy is itself liberal delusion; it allows folks to think the electoral system can be saved and to fantasize about the Dems "learning a lesson" and respecting some leftist (non)voting bloc.

Harris lost piles of votes because of how rabidly complicit the ...

2024-11-06T21:39:50Z

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Harris lost piles of votes because of how rabidly complicit the Biden administration is in the genocide in Gaza and how utterly callous she is. But if she had said "a Palestinian child is worth even a thousandth of an Israeli life" she probably would have lost MORE zionist votes.

There is no grand leftist coalition in the wings waiting to be ...

2024-11-06T21:39:16Z

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There is no grand leftist coalition in the wings waiting to be discovered. The election could have easily gone the other way from happenstance, but there is no vast mobilization of class consciousness and the working class that will ever happen. That's an 1800s era map of power.

How we got here was libs and leftists incessantly downplaying the ...

2024-11-06T21:39:00Z

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How we got here was libs and leftists incessantly downplaying the existence of fascists as a marginal fringe that could never matter. But the "Right Wing Death Squads" and "the natural order is warlords raping young men and eating them" folks really do constitute millions now.

4) transphobia is intense and rabidly popular rn as a blowback to ...

2024-11-06T21:38:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…fwcx
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4) transphobia is intense and rabidly popular rn as a blowback to progress, 5) mild personal inconveniences and changes to every day life during COVID radicalized people for life, 6) the left keeps pratfalling with horrifically bad analysis, and yes 7) inflation sucks.

People love Trump because 1) our epistemic ecosystems are toxic ...

2024-11-06T21:38:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…h9tl
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People love Trump because 1) our epistemic ecosystems are toxic sludge, 2) many people have intense investments in the (often non-material) benefits of patriarchy and racism, 3) fear of ratcheting cancelation has scared every type of amoral bastard into mobilizing together...

Love the inane "trump voters are just a product of material ...

2024-11-06T21:38:14Z

Love the inane "trump voters are just a product of material conditions" re-tread of 2016's "it's just economic anxiety." Same sort of reactionaries saying it, but they've swapped from identifying as libs to marxists. 🧵

I wish that everyone who scoffed at Trump winning cuz "the ...

2024-11-06T20:32:00Z

I wish that everyone who scoffed at Trump winning cuz "the liberal establishment is too powerful; they will never make that mistake again" would update their model of reality.

They won't, of course. They'll die convinced libs are our only appreciable threat. But I wish they would.

Found an old laptop from 2012 ...

2024-10-10T01:45:33Z

Found an old laptop from 2012

Had to help supervise the mass deletion of ~7k screenshots of ...

2024-09-27T19:20:15Z

Had to help supervise the mass deletion of ~7k screenshots of signal messages from an abuser's phone, as directed by a survivor. I barely looked but the screens were almost exclusively of private conversations where disappearing messages were used. Shit where people admit to being closeted, etc.

Who fucking does that?! I'm still just completely agog.

Sometimes you just wanna steal a primmie's abused rope dog, ...

2024-09-23T04:20:54Z

Sometimes you just wanna steal a primmie's abused rope dog, damn the scene fallout.

There's moments -- like Trump shouting about "man ...

2024-09-12T19:35:19Z

There's moments -- like Trump shouting about "man buns" -- where everyone delighting in collectively hating on a thing needs to stop and take stock of the reactionary subcurrents involved.

Oops, a fash got too explicit with the misogyny and prudishness in hating on booktok.