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Writer: NOW PUBLISHED (but still unpaid) Unofficial James Joyce scholar I use my knowledge of books to create chaos and confusion.
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look at what democrats have mustered against zohran mamdani vs. what they've mustered against trump. they've decided who their enemy is and it's the democratic majority.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

We have hit the “placing a wet washcloth on forehead” zone of being in this week of high humidity

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

if you say that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bad you get a bunch of history podcast bros in yr mentions with such illuminating basic-bitch takes as "but the Japanese committed atrocities!" and "a ground war would have killed more!" truly God has abandoned Bluesky

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

The story of LGBT rights is a story of advances followed by setbacks followed by media with no skin in the game saying, "It's because you were too loud/asked for too much/moved too fast/got too big for your britches/didn't make your case." That never changes--but happily it's never the last word.

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

Happy 50th anniversary to the movie Jaws. This is probably the greatest line in cinema history:

submitted 4 days ago • 128 comments

Well, that's a relief.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

basically yeah. my theory is that "knowing things" basically peaked in perceived coolness somewhere around 1970 and has been steadily declining ever since. being a nerd is definitionally about your relationship to trivia but trivia isn't actually the same as expertise

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

There were a lot of interesting sections from that James Gunn interview but I gotta be honest when I say that this section resonated with me the most

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

I just can't imagine being so proud about not learning anything

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submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Was just thinking, it is really nice to know that so many people agree that kidnapping our neighbors sucks beyond words.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

What we know about this admin is that when you push they say they will never back down, and then when you push a little harder they back down immediately. So keep pushing.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I wonder if there's a guy who's like "man I love Morrissey's singing but Johnny Marr's guitar playing totally ruins it"

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

i know it’s completely up to me to save the world and i have been slacking but trust me i’ve been beating myself up about it every single minute

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

This is why protests work! At some point the administration has to ask itself if having a city on fire for days and spending millions to send in the National Guard and exhausting all your cops is worth kidnapping some random girl for waiting tables on a student visa.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

they never miss

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

The protests & slowdowns & leaks & refusals to comply & boycotts & strikes & antifascist art & gumming up the works & sanctuary projects & all the other stuff that we’ve got to run all at once have to feel like that too. Break their hold bit by bit. Here, there, & over here too, until - whoosh.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Always remember:

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 15 days ago • 382 comments

I just tend to think that a consumer culture that teaches readers to think of writers as friends, writers to think of readers as friends and loyal defenders, and for all of them to think of critics/critical readers as enemies sucks shit

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This, and it's what's missing from all the violence/non-violence/optics conversations: we need to make these guys have an absolutely atrocious time, and you can do 99% of that just by being where they are when they get there. Make them see the enemy in everyone they drive past

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

The proper way to protest ICE is to wait until they actually put their hands on you then you yell OPPOSITE DAY and now they have to come live with you

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

nearly the entire SS got off scot free from Nuremberg. most of the Einsatzgruppe were allowed to live peaceful lives. our grandparents fucked up the peace. don't make the same mistakes.

submitted 16 days ago • 57 comments

Whatever you do, it won’t be good enough for these fools. They’re so far detached from normal people they can’t even conceive of your anger, they think it’s all “agitators” because to them it’s not that bad seeing children snatched off the street.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

if you're married to an ICE agent, you can go fuck yourself. if you're still talking to your cousins who are ICE agents, you can go fuck yourself. if your friend you invite to BBQs are ICE agents, you can go fuck yourself. if your neighbor is an ICE agent and you lend them sugar, go fuck yourself.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

happy pride

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Labour today looking at the Polish election results.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Happy pride month to all my gendah flooid pals

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

Just a reminder that if you're queer you don't have to pay rent or go to work this month

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

Asking the AI abomination defiling the memory of Kurt Cobain if it would like to try estrogen

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I've never seen a shower argument play out in the dry world before

submitted 29 days ago • 36 comments

it’s not like there’s a shortage of love songs but i am always on the lookout for ones about the type of love that shatters your illusions and transforms your whole being. doesn’t seem to be a ton of those. but i could be wrong.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

My story "The Two-Headed Woman" has been published by 101 Words Magazine!! 101words.org

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

this is the consequence of the mindset that all art exists to “teach lessons” and if it doesn’t it must be pretentious, naval-gazing, self-indulgent, or morally bankrupt btw

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 37 days ago • 39 comments

British people are not any more transphobic than anyone else, "TERF Island" is just a statistical error. Transphobia Jo who lives in a cave and does 10,000 transphobias a day is an outlier and should not have been counted

submitted 31 days ago • 20 comments

Gender is mostly about doing bits

submitted 32 days ago • 88 comments

I, the most off-putting person you've ever met, have very strident opinions on how to appeal to the "normies."

submitted 33 days ago • 26 comments

I fucking love Stevie Nicks for this

submitted 33 days ago • 41 comments