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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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i came here to escape my horrible audience. they confound me to no end. i cannot be free of their torturous grasp. i'm moving to neopets next

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look there is nothing funnier than rediscovering placeholder dialogue

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Knight's Departure

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dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

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More than anything, I think this speaks to the impoverished view of the role of government. The idea of organizing collective support and aid to solve overwhelming problems is reclassified as akin to some sort of dealer-addict relationship.

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DHS Chief: ‘We Are A Nation Of Immigrants Who Came Here Between 1776 And 1943’

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The media is going to BOTH SIDES us right into martial law

submitted 3 days ago • 571 comments

“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.

submitted 3 days ago • 131 comments

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.

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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 4 days ago • 58 comments

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

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

submitted 4 days 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

submitted 5 days ago • 234 comments

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

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