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Your friendly local woke high school indoctrinator. D&D, ADHD, languages, linguistics, politics, and bad puns. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him, he/they when I'm vibing. On stolen Bunurong land. Just a weird little guy but not in the fashy way. Death before brevity.
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One thing I miss about the Obama years is the feeling that time was forwardly progressing. We had a president who was born later than the previous presidents because he was president later. The previous presidents were presidents previously and we didn’t have to worry about them again.

It’s her turn

Controversial stances in the year 2025 (saving for posterity): 1) trans people exist and are people 2) concentration camps are bad 3) a government should sometimes help its citizens 4) avocado is good but overrated Keen to see how many of these hold up in a decade!

JD pls add me to the "Tariffs Small Group PC" chat.

Previously unsaid sentences in human history

reading Gay Berlin and tearing up at the story of Karl Ulrichs, the first person to express in public a modern understanding of homosexuality and also simultaneously the first gay man to come out openly under his own name. talk about standing on the edge of the world.

Sigur Ray

As a distant (if freakishly obsessed) observer, watching the collective wheeze of Democrats in the Senate has me thinking two things. 1) the push/need to find dems who were deemed "electable" in red states has resulted in a very, very conservative dem caucus. 1/2

imagine having the kind of energy it takes to do things

Watering the half-dead wildflowers in my garden every day, and watching them start to bloom and grow again over the last few weeks, has done wonders for my mental health. The Olds have it right- gardening is good for you. Not thrilled by this news!

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

If we all cyber bully Elon enough maybe he'll wear Joker make-up in the Oval Office.

Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.