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The three methods of Faster-than-Light travel

The Boring No-FTL: Yeah, according to the laws of our universe, relativity and causality, FTL can't exist. Sorry, them's the rules.

The Delusional No-Relativity: Yeeeeah, FTL is tooootaly possible. What? Noooo, it doesn't allow for time travel, don't be silly. How does that mesh with the speed of light being constant? Don't woooorry about it, it's fine.

The Industrious No-Causality: Yes, FTL is possible. Yes, relativity is real. Yes, this means time travel is possible. Either causality is broken and your past is an unstable house of cards that can be toppled at any moment, or causality is intact, free will is a lie, and you are powerless to change anything in the grand scheme of the universe. Fuck you.

the generational gap between me and the people my age who use chat gpt

The Department of Housing got hacked and they showed an ai generated video of Trump kissing Elon's feet with the words 'Long Live The Real King' btw

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

The Billionaire's Plot for Ending Democracy Is Already in Motion

This isn’t the usual content, but we recently came across some information and felt compelled to research and share as widely as possible:

The Butterfly Revolution: A Roadmap to Corporate Authoritarianism 

🚨 The lesser-known companion piece to Project 2025 that paints a more complete picture of what Trump and Musk are doing—and where we're headed.

It’s authored by Curtis Yarvin, a name unfamiliar to some but deeply influential in elite tech circles and the Trump Administration. 

🚨 Yarvin is a close friend and political guru to Vice President Vance, who has openly cited him as an influence and espouses his ideas. 

Billionaires have been talking about Yarvin’s political philosophy for years—referencing it in private forums, fanatical social media accounts, podcasts, and tech industry events.

His framework has been cited by sitting senators and policy architects who openly discuss his vision for the future in blogs, interviews, and private summits.

The vision? Destroy democracy, replace it with corporate-led fiefdoms, and eliminate any possibility of returning to representative governance.

🐌 Project 2025 is the slow, legal route to authoritarian control. 

🔥 The Butterfly Revolution is its accelerationist counterpart—designed to gut the administrative state irreversibly.

💰 The billionaire class isn’t just talking about it—they’re funding it. 🚨 The Butterfly Revolution is already underway.

See the roadmap below:

Yarvin’s Vision vs. Reality: What’s Happening Now

1. Install a CEO-President

“Trump himself will not be the brain of this butterfly. He will not be the CEO. He will be the chairman of the board—he will select the CEO (an experienced executive)...The CEO he picks will run the executive branch without any interference from the Congress or courts, probably also taking over state and local governments.” — Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolution​

“What Trump is going to do is to build this regime-in-exile or occupation authority as a private… institution—a larva. By winning a Presidential election, he will then install it in office.”  — Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolution​

📌 What’s Happening Now:

Musk now exerts more direct control over federal infrastructure than any cabinet member while avoiding the disclosure, ethics, and congressional nomination process generally required of a cabinet-level position.  

DOGE has also been granted broad authority, with virtually no transparency, security screening, or guardrails to prevent conflicts of interest. Many have expressed concern and bewilderment about Musk’s outsized role, wondering why Trump would cede so much power to Musk, but this autonomy is a hallmark of Yarvin’s CEO-president.

🚨 Musk isn’t just an advisor. He’s governing.

2. Dismantle the U.S. Government and Centralize Power

“A government is just a corporation which owns a country. Nothing more, nothing less. It so happens that our sovereign corporation is very poorly managed, and there’s a very simple way to replace that, which is what we do at all corporations that have failed. We simply delete them.” — Curtis Yarvin in an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show

“As a butterfly, the new regime’s authority in every field will be inescapable. Since no field today is independent of power, old power can only be displaced by new power.” — Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolution​

📌 What’s Happening Now:

Musk’s DOGE was established via executive order to advise agencies on efficiency and technology but has far exceeded this mandate. DOGE has moved from “advising” to dissolving entire agencies (starting with USAID), withholding congressionally appropriated funds, and infiltrating at least 18 other agencies and departments.

Over 17 Inspectors General—government watchdogs responsible for oversight—have been fired or forced out, eroding independent checks on financial and legal misconduct​.

🚨 The government is being hollowed out from the inside.

3.  Ignore the Courts

“Congress and the judiciary should serve ceremonial roles, nothing more. The executive must be unchallenged." — Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolution​

“I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you…stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson, and say, ‘the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.” – JD Vance in a podcast interview in 2021 

📌 What’s Happening Now:

Trump entered office issuing blatantly unconstitutional executive orders, including ending birthright citizenship and freezing congressionally appropriated funds.

Musk’s DOGE moved to slash and defund congressionally approved departments, agencies, and funding.  

While federal judges have moved to temporarily block these actions, it appears the administration will once again follow Yarvin’s playbook and ignore the courts. 

Vance, who has expressed a willingness to bypass the courts in the past, is echoing this sentiment again, challenging the court’s long-standing authority to rein in executive power.

🚨 Trump is threatening a constitutional crisis without modern precedent. If he continues to follow Yarvin’s playbook, we can expect Trump to ignore the many judicial challenges he’s facing. If the Supreme Court attempts to stop him, Yarvin would have him declare a state of emergency to achieve his objectives.

What Comes Next: Complete Corporate Takeover and the Erosion of Sovereignty

1. Dismantling Legacy Press and Higher Learning Institutions

"...mainly journalism, academia and social media… The new regime must seize all points of power, without respect for paper protections. Anything can be nationalized—so long as the new regime has the staff, the prize crew as it were, to nationalize it." — Curtis Yarvin, The Butterfly Revolution​

“You can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April” – Curtis Yarvin, podcast interview with Michael Anton

📌 What’s Happening Now:

Musk has weaponized Twitter/X to dominate news narratives. Since acquiring the platform, he has 

fired key investigative teams, including key members responsible for U.S. elections, content moderation, and public policy

suppressed dissenting voices and stripped departments dedicated to tracking misinformation and enforcing rules against harmful content.

Meta has pulled its fact-checking program, further opening the door for unregulated political misinformation​.

University funding is being systematically stripped:

Federal grants for academic institutions are being revoked or redirected toward private, right-wing think tanks aligned with Project 2025​.

Programs on climate science, racial equity, and democratic governance are being cut, reinforcing authoritarian ideologies in higher education.

Efforts to defund NPR, PBS, and other independent media outlets are underway:

Congress has been pressured to cut federal subsidies to public broadcasting.

Right-wing media conglomerates are consolidating control over traditional media, ensuring that billionaire-backed narratives dominate​.

🚨 A coordinated effort is underway to eliminate independent journalism, silence academic dissent, and replace traditional media with propaganda arms.

2. Creating a National Police Force 

“I’m federalizing the police. I’m establishing direct control over all police departments, the military, of course, it goes without saying, the National Guard. And all of this is happening at a moment when every Trump supporter is in the street.” – Curtis Yarvin in a podcast interview with Jim Rutt

“...within a week, every law enforcement officer in America is wearing a red armband to show that he follows the new President’s direct, unconditional command."  – Curtis Yarvin in a podcast interview with Jim Rutt

📌 What’s Happening Now:

The administration has granted immigration-enforcement authority to agencies within the Justice Department, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.S. Marshals Service.

The administration has halted agreements that required reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found patterns of abuse. This move reduces federal oversight and aligns with a more centralized approach to law enforcement. 

Trump has repeatedly suggested deploying the National Guard and active-duty military to respond to domestic protests and civil unrest.

In June 2020, he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces if states did not take sufficient action to quell protests.

More recently, he has proposed using the National Guard against what he describes as "radical-left lunatics," indicating a willingness to employ military force against domestic political opponents.

🚨 These developments indicate a concerted effort to centralize law enforcement authority under the executive branch, echoing Yarvin's proposals for consolidating power and diminishing local autonomy.

3. Gaza Inc

“But—what if the Gazans left, but still owned the property? Or stock in a company, run by slick Arab MIT graduates, with the right to develop the strip as a new Israeli city? The LA or Vegas of Southern Israel? Perhaps the “international community” could even get an equity slice, for brokering the deal? That could even fund the 401(k)s of the aid administrators in UNRWA. They’ll need to eat somehow once their problem is solved.” — Curtis Yarvin, “Clearpill yourself on Gaza​”

📌 Yarvin’s Future:

Yarvin proposes replacing traditional democratic governance with a corporate model, where private interests control governance rather than elected officials. This aligns with his broader philosophy, which advocates for centralized, corporate-style authority.

This vision parallels Donald Trump’s 2025 proposal to displace Gaza’s population and redevelop the territory into a luxury destination under U.S. control.

Separation of “Blood and Soil”: Yarvin argues that if the elimination of the Palestinian people is not an option, then the people must be separated from their land. 

Yarvin suggests Palestinians could be relocated while Gaza is redeveloped into a high-value economic hub. This approach treats land as a financial asset rather than a cultural or national heritage.

This vision assumes that Palestinians would accept financial compensation (e.g., equity in the new Gaza) in exchange for relinquishing political control and physical presence.

The proposal suggests a profit-driven approach to governance where Palestinians are displaced and without political power.

📌 What’s Happening Now:

Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Trump administration has explored privatizing Gaza under a “special economic zone” model, aiming to transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” This plan emphasizes real estate development and luxury tourism, echoing Yarvin’s vision.

Key Overlaps:

Depopulation: Both plans prioritize removing Gaza’s Palestinian population, framing it as a pragmatic solution to the conflict.

Economic Reimagining: Gaza is treated as a financial asset—Yarvin’s “GAZA stock” or Trump’s “Riviera of the Middle East.”

Anti-Democratic Pragmatism: Rejects humanitarian or diplomatic norms in favor of transactional, efficiency-driven governance.

🚨 Yarvin’s vision for Gaza, echoed in Trump’s proposals, prioritizing corporate control and economic development over democratic processes and human rights. This approach seeks to transform Gaza into a high-value hub at the expense of its current inhabitants.

Final Warning: This Isn’t a Reform—It’s a Full Government Takeover

💰 Billionaires aren’t just influencing policy; they’re rewriting governance itself, ensuring that the future belongs to financial stakeholders, not citizens.

This is not speculation—it’s unfolding right now. If Trump successfully follows through with Yarvins plan, we can expect: ✔ Elections to become obsolete as billionaires consolidate control over media, universities, and the institutions meant to hold power accountable. ✔ Independent journalism and higher education will disappear, replaced by right-wing think tanks and tech-backed propaganda arms. ✔ Entire regions are privatized, governed not by elected representatives but by corporate boards deciding who gets rights—and who doesn’t. ✔ A nationalized police force that assimilates all state and local law enforcement agencies in favor of one that enforces the administration’s agenda, as opposed to the laws. ✔ Citizenship is redefined, not as a birthright or legal status, but as a financial investment in a "network state" controlled by the ultra-wealthy.

🚨 This is not a bipartisan issue—it’s an existential one. The question is no longer if democracy survives but whether we’re willing to fight for it. The corporate coup has already begun. What happens next depends on us.

🔥 This is the future being built right now. The only question now is: Who will stop it?

If you want to learn more, please check out these resources from folks who have been following the technocrat takeover and helped inform this piece:

The Blonde Politics

Curtis Yarvin on the End of American Democracy - The New York Times Podcast

Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans. - Vox

The Nerd Reich 

The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley's Prophet of Urban Doom, The New Republic

Thank you to my partner, Brittany Ellexis Nieto, and her sibling, Dante Nieto, for co-authoring this post with me. While tech is neither of their focus areas, Brittany has worked in national policy and advocacy for the last 8 years, and Dante is a published journalist and studies political ideologies. 

The opinions expressed in this post are our own.

Spin this wheel of ~300 AO3 tags three times.

The US economy genuinely might collapse within a week. lol

I don't really think it's fair to dismiss the idea that that guy might have been framed for killing the CEO as like an unfounded conspiracy theory when NYPD has a proven history of planting/fabricating evidence on people. in 2011 there was a massive investigation of the NYPD and hundreds of cases against people were dismissed after a former police officer testified that they literally have a name for planting evidence on people: flaking. you cannot be out here acting like considering the possibility that cops who do this shit under normal circumstances might possibly also do it when they're under intense global pressure and scrutiny is the same as republicans thinking democrats run a secret pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant

via tiktok + comments

the most depressing part is that it's not even kamala's stance on genocide that is costing her the elections. i wish it were. it's people genuinely shifting for trump. but it's the pro-palestine movement that's going to get the blame for it.

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i feel obligated to talk about this bc i am egyptian and one of the central reasons people from gaza have been fundraising is because of egypt's border policy, which is no longer active since the rafah border was destroyed

i know nothing gets people more heated or self-righteous than the idea that they might be getting scammed, and i know the gofundmes here can be overwhelming in your inboxes and i know for many people in the west who want some kind of reliable process this can seem sketchy but palestinian bloggers on here (and palestinians across platforms including on gazafunds.com) don't want you to be scammed any more than you want to be scammed, and they have put in an extraordinary effort to verify information literally in the middle of a warzone

the truth is you all have no idea how difficult this entire process is from top to bottom, tech companies and fintech companies literally hate anything that passes through this area. i'm banned from uber and doordash because i used an egyptian credit card while travelling and it flagged their automated fraud systems and they never reinstated it lol like that's how arbitrary it is. and egypt is one of the better-connected countries in the area.

the entire reason people in gaza are relying on gofundmes is because the barriers to entry and exit are not accidental—they're deliberate! this is literally what being occupied and middle-eastern means. it means you don't have easy access to bank accounts, you don't have easy access to fundraising, you don't have easy access to your own records, and you are automatically mistrusted by the world at large of how thoroughly dehumanized your language and your people have been during a genocide where you are being bombed and living in a tent. this is also part of what it means to be a refugee from the global south or to be a refugee from the global north, where these processes are expedited (as they were for ukrainian refugees, for example) precisely because they are part of the structure of a war.

like just to explain to you guys how difficult it was for me (someone with access to networks across the world) to get money to a friend in gaza, because egypt's also going through an economic crisis and transferring usd here is close to impossible: to get 15k usd (enough to get 3 people out of gaza) to the office in egypt that registers people for evacuation, that family needed

a stable internet connection to communicate with us (they were only able to get in touch briefly every other day)

first-degree relatives in egypt to register for them

people from abroad who could raise the money for them (which they did; they were family friends who knew them)

an egyptian with a usd bank account and a foreigner coming to egypt who could carry usd in cash to divide it among themselves because there is no other way to receive that amount of money here at once

we managed to get the money to their relatives here, they managed to register them, and then the rafah border was destroyed. so now the are just waiting while being bombed and displaced from one area to another. and this is a family who had every connection needed. imagine how it is for people where only one of these links are dropped?

that's why the work the palestinian bloggers do here to support palestinians in gaza is necessary, because they fill in for people who don't have good language skills, who don't have friends abroad to fundraise or vouch for them, who don't have relatives in egypt who can receive money for them, etc

does this mean every fundraiser is 100% reliable? no. this is why the verification list exists! the things i would be wary of would be if someone sends you a false or phishing link, or if someone who is running the campaign from abroad decides to scam the palestinians they're raising it for and refuse to send the money, both of which i've witnessed personally

but the likelihood of someone faking being from gaza and getting onto the verified list is much smaller because the verification process is rigorous and like i said, palestinians themselves don't want to be promoting scams. but also most of these gofundmes protect your donation, meaning if someone disputes it you get your donation back. they are paranoid to the extent that they will sometimes refuse to pay out people in gaza even after the campaign goal is reached for no reason except that anything from the middle east is generally regarded with suspicion. i've seen paypal also refuse to do the same

as a matter of fact from a tech standpoint it's so, so much easier for someone located in the west to create a fake gofundme/phishing scam than for a palestinian to do so, but by that token it's more difficult for someone in the west to convincingly fake being from gaza. which is why the verification list and other initiatives (like again, gazafunds.com) are so important

i have tried to get gofundmes on gazafunds before and i can promise you their process is rigorous. you might not see a lot of the paperwork behind a specific campaign but i know they don't add campaigns unless they verify their IDs personally or through a network of trusted references. the bloggers on here are a volunteer network working independently, of their own effort, and they are doing their best in what is a genuinely horrible situation. the border is closed now but people in gaza have worked out alternate ways to receive money raised online (again, often via relatives transferring to each other outside gaza or other means) and aid hasn't been coming in for months and those regulating the aid were killed, which means extremely limited supplies and high inflation, so money raised and received now is literally survival money that goes wherever it can, and people are very desperate to raise as much as possible as things get more dire. there is no employment in gaza right now. people have been living off their savings for ten months.

is that simple to convey to some blogger on tumblr donating 5$ to a gofundme? is it simple to understand? no. and that's part of the structure of genocide. you aren't going to be able to venmo someone and get a receipt like you do if you're donating to an org, so volunteers are doing their best to fill in the gaps for that by making sure you know how your money is helping real human beings while relieving the pressure on these humans, in a genocide with limited internet, to constantly post about themselves.

the fact of the matter is that your risk of being scammed by a gofundme from the verified list or gazafunds dot com is extremely low, but the damage of of assuming (and even worse, claiming) these campaigns are a scam is extremely high

if you don't trust a campaign, don't donate to it. if you notice a red flag you feel like the bloggers verifying might have missed, alert them to it. if you notice someone impersonating one of the verified campaigns on here (also common) alert people to it. i often have difficulty identifying which blogs are legitimate because they are deleted and remade so frequently, so i just try to reblog posts from the verified list or promoted by palestinians bloggers as i donate to them.

don't cast doubt on the process if you don't understand it, and don't be cruel about a situation you should pray you never experience—and odds are, if you have a US passport and a US bank account, you never will.

it's been one year of horrifying genocide, on top of over seven decades of occupation and violence. please donate to palestinian families to help them survive. if you don't know where to look, or are anxious about making a choice about who to help, head to gazafunds.com. please do what you can to help.

How I'm feeling atm

Also related are engineering drawings.

If a character is making an engineering drawing, there are specific standards that they must meet, which can become monotonous fast. Also, drawings must be detailed while also not conveying extraneous information, which is a fine line to walk.

Another thing a character could be doing is drawing revision. Drawings must be revised if/when they become outdated (or if errors are found).

Finally, engineering drawings are legal documents, so they need to be reviewed and signed. This also needs to be done for any revision made to a drawing.

(If anyone else has more information please share because I've only ever worked as an intern.)

We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

Y'all!!! Emergency!!!

Your Esims are also helping Palestinians in Jenin!!

Instructions & Discount codes

Truly Esim

Thank you @anneemay for the notice

Urgent update my little brother is dying 😭

Today we took our little brother to the hospital because he suffers from an infection that affects his breathing and causes him pain. I hope that every living conscience will help us save our young son’s life and donate any amount you can.

Unfortunately, there is no treatment in the hospital for my little. Help us before it is too late.

Am I the only one who thought you had to suck on the flower of honeysuckle plants instead of the stem and so never tasted anything.

Noor doesn't want to die burned in the tents. She must live like the rest of the children in the world. Please help her by donating at the link gfm🙏😭💔

@90-ghost @nabulsi

gofundme.com

Doneer aan Help a family from Gaza, georganiseerd door Yaser Matar

Hello, I am Ibtisam Al-Habil. My suffering began in 2014 when my husband was martyred, and I wa… Yaser Matar heeft je hulp nodig voor Help

In light of current events, we need to be aware of this.

not my meme but you all do know about this right? It feels like it's getting buried right now and I feel like its proponents are trying to take advantage of that.

Stop for a while. do not cross . My name is Amna from Gaza. We lost everything, home, dreams, and everything that gives life. My children are living in bad conditions. I ask you to help me for the sake of my children, for the sake of humanity. Those who cannot donate can share the post and link

@occupationsurfer @northgazaupdates @nabulsi @elierlick @evelyn-art-05 @soon-palestine @fairuzfan @bibyebae @riding-with-the-wild-hunt

gofundme.com

Donate to Welive in Gaza My family is experiencing war, organized by Amna Merwan

I am Amna Marwan, 32 years old, I live in Gaza, married and a mother of… Amna Merwan needs your support for Welive in Gaza My family i

so matt's absolutely giving scorched earth orders behind the scenes right. Not only are publically visible transfems dropping like flies, but every third person who musters up the audacity to comment negatively on Staff or Matt about this vanishes fucking instantly

Biden Biden you can't hide

You're committing genocide

Listen up and listen well

You will rot in fucking hell!

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Help Sahar and Her Family to Evacuate Gaza🇵🇸

I am in an urgent matter and I hope you watch the video. I hope you all stand by my side. Do not be stingy with me. You are my second family. I hope you help me so that I and my family are free Gaza🙏 . Donation link on my page in bio 🍉👇

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Donate to Help Sahar and Her Family to Evacuate Gaza, organized by Ahmed Shamia

My name is Sahar Shehab. I am 14 years old from Gaza . I ask you for urgent h… Ahmed Shamia needs your support for Help Sahar and Her Famil

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This is for the support of Gaza's Municipality Services - which help ensure clean drinking water, waste collection, debri removal and sanitation services - life saving services to run a state - reader I imagine wherever you are or how lacking the municipality services in your city is, it's not worse than Ghazza.

Currently it's only at 11% - please donate -

gaza-city.ensany.com

Life For Gaza

Life For GazaDrinking Water, Waste Collection, Debris Removal, and Sanitation Services for the Residents of Gaza City - Gaza Municipality

Dude those belong to the factory you can't take them home dude you'll get fired dude

Here’s every ceasefire deal and hostage exchange Hamas has offered Israel since October 7th, 2023, courtesy of BreakThrough News.

For everyone who keeps saying “wHaT aBoUt ThE hOsTaGeS?!?! ReLeAsE tHe HoStAgEs!!1!”