Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen

I’m Mx. Chara Aznable, fallen angel, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.

System host: Kris Dreemurr (they/them), @kris_of_pnictogen.
Three college degrees, B.S. Computer Science (1999), B.A. Classics (1999), M.S. Chemistry (2012)
Official birthday: 20 Dec 1974, which makes me officially 51 as of 1 Jan 2026. However as an *Undertale* fictive, with vague memories of having “fallen” into the Underground on 31 Aug 1932, I am unofficially over a century old. But my “exo-memory” goes back longer than that.

I write. A lot. Extemporaneously. I get quite political sometimes but I write about a lot of different things, whatever comes to mind. ~Chara

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Cake day: January 7th, 2026
  • Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen@seattle.pinkto Memes of Production@quokk.au•fuck authority
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    6 days ago

    @Deceptichum I was moved to look up the particular snippet of Engels’s writing, and was confronted with this:

    All these workers, men, women and children, are obliged to begin and finish their work at the hours fixed by the authority of the steam, which cares nothing for individual autonomy.

    The “authority of the steam”, by which I think Engels means to refer to the inexorable power of the machinery itself, “which cares nothing for individual autonomy”. And then he gets to…

    Wanting to abolish authority in large-scale industry is tantamount to wanting to abolish industry itself, to destroy the power loom in order to return to the spinning wheel.

    Machines are powerful, therefore authoritarianism is necessary. Uh-huh.