At long last, we have created the tyrannical king from the classic declaration

"Many, likely most have seen firsthand how their “inferior” social situation is first used as permission for abuse, and then the abuse used as evidence of their inferiority, feeding a self-reinforcing of performative cruelty. "

I’ve been thinking about language a lot this week & how our language in what happened to Renee Good has varied. I think it’s b/c the terminology feels foreign for our general public. It’s one some know from history or the worst of Despots but not here. It was an extrajudicial execution.

When the dishwasher is full of clean dishes it's pregnant and when the dishwasher is empty it's in heat. And that's all I have to say about that.

Male to New Yorker / Male to Marisa Tomei

Does anyone ever get sad about not being able to know what happens in future history after you're dead? No? Just me?

new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...

If nothing else I appreciate the clarity of “they have bigger guns than we do”. Because that is indeed where we’re at—whoever has the biggest guns can do whatever they want for any reason—and that’s exactly what they want. Stephen Miller literally said as much a few days ago

The thing about people saying, “Where are the 2A zealots now?” when bringing up the second amendment as a defense against fascist governments is that the 2A zealots all got hired by ICE because the 2A is actually about controlling minority populations and suppressing slave uprisings.

This. We can break the videos down frame-by-frame, but as long as they show a woman who rejected the authority of a fascist state, fascists will say she deserved it—and so, in their view, does anyone who isn't actively assisting the fascist state in body or, importantly, belief.

if you tell me the baby is “too cute,” i assume you mean such excess cannot be borne, and that the creature must be destroyed.

Sometimes people will go "season one and two of Strange New Worlds weren't that bad" and that always infuriates me season 1, 2 and 3 are pretty comparable in terms of quality, and I've been saying the show sucked shit for years! they're ALL bad for the SAME REASONS!

Every year, I put in a proposal for a panel called "An Hour Of Your Life You'll Never Get Back: Five Old White Dudes Talk Condescendingly About Why Dune Is The Only Important Science Fiction Novel," but for some reason they never put it into the schedule. I'm being censored by the Worldcon Elites.

They should invent a country for old men

Since the infighting and one-upsmanship has started--people who feel helpless + frustrated turn on each other, it's just a sad fact--remember: you don't have to like the people you fight alongside. Your comrades will say profoundly stupid bullshit to you, about you, etc. Let it roll off, keep going

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

I feel like this is extremely relevant again Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder” Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”

the problem isn't that the admins are lying about the video (partially because everything they say publicly is a lie for power) the problem is that, even if they weren't, the admins are asserting the right to shoot to kill if obstructed--a right that actual police shouldn't have, much less rentals

It’s simply deranged to refuse to accept that you’re in a war when someone has explicitly and repeatedly declared violent, murderous war on you

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

four answers i’m confident about in both quality and cuntiness

The "Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery" fanfic should be nominated for the Hugos archiveofourown.org/works/733964...

in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2

annual repost of Trashed Bathrooms

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/

The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.

every now and then the bullies take power, carve out power and territory through force, and we all reap the whirlwind people voting for the fuck-around party forgot hard how bad finding out can get

bro taking exactly the wrong lessons from exactly the wrong asoaif characters

It's wholly Map Game Brain. Yes, this is violently immoral and illegal under any circumstances. But even strategically, this does not advantage the US in the slightest. It gets us nothing militarily that we don't already have. This is about macho imperialist warmongering, nothing more.

We are through the looking glass where the US government believes alliances and diplomacy are gay, and the only way to appear Strong is by doing the geostrategic equivalent of drunk driving without a seatbelt.

sure sure you can have hegemony by trade, ideology and cultural influence, but does that make your dick hard?

Synesthetic, Uncapturable, Uninterpretable, Irreproducible: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social reviews Hiron Ennes' THE WORKS OF VERMIN (@torbooks.bsky.social)

sometimes I like to give myself a brain owie the way you might eat a spicy pepper for fun by thinking “what if earth really does have the only life in the universe and the entire cosmos was meant to be our garden, but this is what we’re doing as a species to ourselves and our planet instead”

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

This is the inspiration I needed today 💚

"something's gotten into the animals" happy year of the horse

Hey guys, what did Nazi Germany not have in common with current America out of curiosity?

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another. Our #3 most-read story of 2025:

This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

I know there are a lot of speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.

we did it! a perfectly structured democracy. it's got checks, it's got balances. this thing is made to last. there's only one weakness: bad guys. if somehow some bad guys who don't care about decorum got elected they could basically just tip the whole thing over. luckily such men are unelectable

it is really funny to me that “marry a wealthy man who promises to respect my autonomy in a time when I have no legal rights and will just have to trust him, and that level of trust in another human is possible to have” is equivalent to “clerics can cast Dimension Door”

ME: (puts the kettle on) ANCIENT GREEK CHORUS: he's had too much caffeine today ME: (turns kettle off, visibly annoyed. puts mug away) CHORUS: he can run from the kettle but not from his blood pressure

The Mexican president is: - a woman - a Jew - a climate scientist A perfect storm for someone Trump would absolutely fucking love to abduct from power and throw in jail.

my take since the inauguration is that people do not understand that *we do not have the power right now.* the best time to stop trump was november 2024. now our position is different: we have to get back into power.

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe