Tools of the Trade

Published July 10, 2018 by CZ Edwards

UTS: Team #FeedBabies, or how the Religious Right weaponizes Facebook to make you feel bad about Similac and working, while also exploiting SAH parents and every impoverished parent on the planet in the name of Breast is Best (for whom?) With a side of misogyny and corporate malfeasance.

This was originally a Twitter thread, but with the death of Twitter and its slow zombification into an Ayn Rand Hellscape, the thread no longer exists. I wrote it in July of 2018 (and have lightly edited it for clarity in 2024).

Usually when people write connections like that, we’re talking conspiracy theories. But nope, this is just corporate evil and exploitation in the name of profit.

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Published March 20, 2018 by CZ Edwards

UTS: A Case Study of the Insecurity and Anxiety that underlies gun ownership/collecting

This started as a twitter thread in March of 2018. It remains a case study of all of the failures underlying gun harm.

After his family died, he threatened to kill himself. So the police took his guns.

⬆️ Washington Post article that inspired this. Read it first.

Let’s start with career: a police officer. He seems like he was as pro-social as a cop can be, but two aspects of personality are drawn to law enforcement: a need for control, and authoritarian thinking. These two traits tend to lead to dysfunctional behavior.

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Archive: Anything That Gets You Through the Night Album Review

Album cover for Anything That Gets You Through the Night by Edge of Dawn. A pretty white woman with auburn hair, wearing a red bra and black panties adjusts a black stocking on one leg, next to an unmade bed against a crimson wall. In the foreground, there is half of a man in a dark suit. We can see one shoulder and half of his back, one hand and his thigh, but not his head or face.

Published October 12, 2010 by CZ Edwards

Archive: Anything That Gets You Through the Night Album Review

Archive: originally posted 10/12/2010 at czedwards.com

I have been an EBM fan for a long time now, so I’m always looking for something fresh, both from new artists and past favorites. I found Edge of Dawn a couple years ago, when they only had one album, Enjoy the Fall, out. That effort is exceptional, not just as music to be danced to and listened to, but as a meditation on one of the hardest psychological illnesses to endure, both for those suffering from it and those who have to live around it. Enjoy the Fall represents Borderline Personality Disorder the way only someone who has lived it can, and yet… doesn’t fall into despair.

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Published September 8, 2010 by CZ Edwards

Archive: Galantier’s background

Archive: Originally posted on 09/01/2010 at mac.com

Nine years ago [23 years as of 2024], I was thinking about the fall of the Roman Empire. (Yes, I do this.) Rome didn’t fall so much as contract and stop interfering in the world, but it still served as a center of communication, cultural movement and authority.

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Tools of the Trade Posts

UTS: Team #FeedBabies, or how the Religious Right weaponizes Facebook to make you feel bad about Similac and working, while also exploiting SAH parents and every impoverished parent on the planet in the name of Breast is Best (for whom?) With a side of misogyny and corporate malfeasance.

UTS: A Case Study of the Insecurity and Anxiety that underlies gun ownership/collecting

Archive: Anything That Gets You Through the Night Album Review

Archive: Galantier’s background

Archive: The EUSCA