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De Clarke

The Ethno-State: blessing or curse?

[Note: while I was struggling for days on end with this article, editing and dithering, I noticed that someone else has been thinking along…

17 min readDec 18, 2023

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The Ethno-State: blessing or curse?

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Yet Another Not A Drag Queen

… some musings on moral panics, projection, and patriarchy.

13 min readNov 20, 2023

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Yet Another Not A Drag Queen

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De Clarke

The Bronze Age Backlash

The New Far Right International — perhaps we might call it the International Fascist Tendency? — is making headlines worldwide. While…

17 min readNov 18, 2023

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The Bronze Age Backlash

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Unstable Diffusion: stochastic terrorism and turbulent priests

Well, by now everyone’s heard about it and everyone’s talking about it. In Lewiston, Maine (Maine!) an angry white man — with an online…

7 min readOct 28, 2023

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In Praise of My Native Tongue

English is a lot like a rambling old mansion that has been added on to ad hoc, over generations upon generations… so that every possible…

4 min readOct 25, 2023

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In Praise of My Native Tongue

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Screening Sociopaths (another modest proposal)

Ingredients of this essay include Fallon’s The Psychopath Inside (a very interesting book, by the way, which I highly recommend) — and…

9 min readOct 23, 2023

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Screening Sociopaths (another modest proposal)

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A Headline From Our Timeline? or, How Weird Can Things Get?

Young Dirtifarians at Tampa Rally — Midjourney, prompt by author

13 min readSep 2, 2023

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The Politics of Yeast

In the last couple of years the US Far Right seems to be suffering from a full-blown gender panic attack. Their outrage at any deviation…

9 min readMar 20, 2023

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The Politics of Yeast

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The Woke Scare

Elon is not the only right-leaning member of the online chatterati experiencing a frisson of existential fear as he contemplates…

6 min readJan 22, 2023

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The Woke Scare

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Popper’s Paradox and our Present Predicament

Karl Popper is famous for a number of publications and ideas, but the one that has lodged most firmly in my head over the years is what is…

6 min readNov 7, 2022

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De Clarke

De Clarke

Retired; ex-software engineer. Paleo-feminist. Sailor. Enviro. Libertarian Socialist (Anarcho-Syndicalist, kinda). Writer. Altermondialiste. @tazling@mstdn.ca

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