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Writer of fantasy and science fiction. Occasionally poetry but I promise I always wash my hands afterwards. Author Profile - https://www.amazon.com/author/vincentavis Blog - https://worldlessvisible.wordpress.com/
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BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

"When you die, I'm going to spread your remains around Disneyland." "Is cremation really environmentally sound?" "Who said anything about cremation?" - Conversation overheard on the bus that I'm going to have to figure out how to reuse in a story

There are a lot of things that are gross in journalism but the abject careerism and moral bankruptcy of the NYT reporters who jumped on the the youth gender medicine “story” is one of the more disgusting things I’ve witnessed

the fact most reports are leaving out that he was killed protecting his husband during a homophobic hate crime where his dead dog's skull was placed in their mailbox as a threat is leaving some important details out i think

I have a friend who is an exvangelical and she put it very succinctly: “We don’t believe anyone else is human. You are not people to us.” Once you understand this CORE BELIEF and put it into context with the fact that these folks are running our country you can understand clearly their motivations.

One of my students threatened to 'go to your bookshelf and sort it all by page number' and for the first time in my life I'm genuinely frightened by an eight year old.

People work so hard in life only to discover that they fucked up by not being white people who commit fraud

People think we live in a democracy and not a dictatorship of capital cause they don’t want to contend with what you have to do to get out of a dictatorship of the ruling class

“Take a breath man, it’s not that serious.” Unbelievable statement an ICE agent told a man who collapsed after being handcuffed following his immigration hearing. The overzealous agents had the wrong man & would have kidnapped him had his attorney not insisted in reviewing the arrest warrant.

"Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."

Today, I traumatized an entire classroom by biting into a kitkat whole and I'm not even sorry

Calling writers, pyromaniacs, fashionistas with disposable income, and nerds in general: About how long do you think an expensive high-quality leather bag covered by an expensive high-quality leather motorcycle jacket could feasibly protect an infant from fire?

Another day, another nigh-uncontrollable urge to scream positive affirmations at someone like a roided up drill Sergeant until they get it through their head that yes, godfuckingdammit, they do deserve to have a decent fucking cup of coffee in peace now and then.

Main reason I just pulled all my WIPs off google docs and have gone back to carrying a notebook with me everywhere I go

House Republicans are continuing to pursue their scheme to sell over 450,000 acres of public lands across the West. We will use every tool we can to oppose it.

Yes, I'm aware that the 'fact' one of my characters confidently spouted was pulled out of my ass. Please note at no point do I say this character is 'right', and in fact, shortly afterward another character refers to him as a 'prettiest crayon in the toolbox', so why are you 'well, actually' ing me?

I just ordered a new item, and about thirty seconds later youtube tried to make me sit through a 2 minute ad for said product. So I closed youtube, cancelled the order, and dug out my MP3 player

Cuomo and his team are already setting up the excuses he’ll (continue) to use when he sexually harasses City Hall staff. He hasn’t learned a fucking thing, and he doesn’t care. Don’t let him get away with it.

jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be sexual harassment jokes can be

“Earlier this week, The Onion ran a piece headlined “Sean Combs Asks for Quick Trial So He Can Get to Part Where Trump Pardons Him.” It may be on to something.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... By @cheyenneroundtree.bsky.social and me

All the "Biden decline cover-up" coverage just seems wild in the context of the current president's obvious decline (which isn't being reported on).

The reason I love college students is why elites so fear them

Ol Jezza, gets it. Always has frankly. Starmers not fit to lick the allotment mud off Jezzas wellies.

Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

1. This is terrible 2. Will anything be done beyond announcing that it’s terrible

I hope it is very clear what antisemitism looks like, and I'll tell you what, it's not an op-ed condemning genocide. Consider that while Rumeysa Öztürk spent 6 weeks in prison for her constitutionally protected speech, the president's friend wouldn't dream of worrying about such a thing.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Listing Cuomo is a vote for MAGA, it's really not more complicated than that

I have found that many normie democrats are simply unaware of how awful Cuomo is. If you know any New Yorkers, please tell them about how awful Cuomo is and that they should vote for any other candidates in the primary

please, i am begging you, if you do not care about theft or doing your own work - please at least care about our water and planet. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

So I just learned Musk is in a fight with his HOA. Do I have to root for a side or can I just make popcorn and hope for mutually assured destruction?

I’m not sure how different these students are from the ones I taught a decade ago. You realize pretty quickly that curiosity is an exceedingly rare human trait and our technology over the last few decades has served largely to reinforce people’s fundamental incuriosity.

A lot of people are misconstruing this and to put it bluntly a lot of these people are going to restaurants etc like normal and I'm saying we should refuse service and verbally mock them in public. They should be as afraid of going in public as boy band members at the height of their careers

Sam Alito’s favorite restaurant is Fogo de Chao. Just putting this here for the specific purpose of public mockery and refusal of service.

So someone responded that accosting public figures and subjecting them to social mockery was “childish.” I blocked them, but let me break this down.

"But what if the other side--" The other side is out there openly threatening people's LIVES. It's actually absolutely fine if our side refuses Sam Alito service at a restaurant.

"United Airlines, Newark Airport’s largest carrier, advised customers to consider alternative airports in the area as air traffic controller shortages continue to disrupt operations."

Imagine trying to explain to future generations how an entire country allowed an obviously disturbed private individual to hack at the government with a chainsaw. I'm not sure living through it will be much help in laying it out, really.

I remember someone saying they once heard a white person slip up and say they don't like when they see Black people being happy and that explains so much about where we are now.

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

They want to track autism, miscarriages, abortion, birth control use but don’t want to track measles, bird flu, Covid or salmonella. Ask yourselves why that is. They’re setting the stage to blame people for their disabilities. To slate them for elimination. It’s eugenics & it’s escalating.

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases. After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

We must fight to save PBS and NPR.

The law of … … unintended consequences.