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Writer and co-founder at Media Magpies WIPs include completed scripts and some art for a children's graphic novel and "underground" webcomic, and 1300 words of a combo novel/short story collection
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The media is going to BOTH SIDES us right into martial law

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“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

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I keep seeing the argument that the failure rate of AI is down to poor prompts, and that it isn't the tool that is to blame but the person using it. But like, if you had a hammer and the head fell off that hammer 60% of the time, meaning you had to hold the hammer a certain way for it to work...

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I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

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The Marvel Family by Michael Cho.

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Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

submitted 1 day ago • 356 comments

I love seeing what trivia turns up in articles about individual numbers

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Imagine if you were so bad at your job that you completely messed up 79% of the time. But instead of being sacked, your company sacks everyone else, and the government changes the law to give you everyone else’s money.

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The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

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lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

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The Right Way To Protest is to stand very still in your apartment and whisper “I wish this wasn’t happening” then get your ass to work, you’re gonna be late damn it

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mass protest is not the right way to oppose fascism. the right way to oppose fascism is to shake your head and say “no thank you” whenever a fascist offers you some fascism

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

the film SATURDAY NIGHT portrayed Jim Henson as a stick in the mud who stood in opposition to SNL’s crass coked out humor, a premise that doesn’t seem to understand that THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER was written by cocaine

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“Firing back”

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"If we'd do well to use the split between Musk and Trump as an occasion to welcome Musk into the big tent, wouldn't we do just as well to welcome Trump into the big tent, too? If one mass-murdering Nazi billionaire in the tent is good, wouldn't two be better?" www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

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For Republicans, every government action is tyranny except for actual tyranny, which is good.

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Seems like most people on here are anti-evil. That's the kind of insular groupthink that loses elections :/

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

It wasn't a warzone until cops armed for an invasion of Baghdad showed up

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For some reason, Goldy Gopher, mascot of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, is the special guest star at this lesbian wedding I am at.

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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There’s no reason that any Democrat should not be running on a platform of abolishing ICE. It should be one of the first question to asked of any candidate, running for a federal office representative, senator, or president.

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