My favorite thing about Baltimore is that you always can just go up to a complete stranger and talk to them. I’ve lived in so many different places and this is the only place that’s like pretty universal.

Did it once again 🙈 happened to be doing research on the decolonization of tattooing and folk Vietnamese lore at the same time which felt a bit like another ancestral push 🥰

As you read this, take as many deep breaths as you need, while taking in the abundance of Real research that exists. A 🧵 copy and pasted directly from my new book We Are F**king Machines: Why We Are Like This and What We Can Do About It.

a historian and a journalist go to a protest…

When asked why at a #rally/ #proest I cover my face: 1:today’s w/me me in frame 2:2014 masked, made SF Gate’s front page article 3:same day as article, cops had spotlights on me 4:broken sternum, same day as spotlight-got thrown behind riot line-pic after arrest release #action #resist #HandsOff

Baltimore showed up #HandsOff #stopthecoup

Scanned some of my old doods

I did it I submitted for the first time for a publication contest

I love Baltimore and it’s passive aggression

Old #passiveaggressive psych stay #drawing back when we were only allowed non internet mp3 players and my ex volunteered to load my iPod nano with my #music requests

Journal entry around insurrection time 2020 Still fitting in these times, and even more so as I am hung through a health scare/crisis #thoughts #journaling #writing #movement #liberation #liberationist

#Baltimore weekly #jamsession Especially in this new regime/new world that requires our bravery, remember: It's not "at the end of the day all l've got is me" it's "to get through these days, we must rely on each other" 1/ #survivorship #community #music #safespace

If I don’t write I will forget to breathe. The world is burning, the pen is my shovel and the page is my Mylar blanket. More #poetry I’ve thrown together in insomnia hours #writing #writer #poem

You can crash all the economies you like, but for God's sake don't let your slogans get too stark www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

May we all be agitators. Didn’t sleep b/c couldn’t sleep b/c yknow existential crisis but did do a lot of #writing. #poem #resitance

“Hey Siri, what’s the most weak-ass limp-as-fuck bullshit performative response that we as a collective could make to a speech widely expected to signal the end of American democracy”

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

NEW: RFK Jr.'s "radical transparency" means ending a 54-year-old transparency policy. A Nixon-era policy gave the public the ability to comment on HHS decisions relating to “public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.“ RFK Jr. ended that on Friday. www.lawdork.com/p/rfk-jr-rad...

Mass protest in support of Ukraine in Nottingham. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #UKprotests #Nottinghamprotests #StandWithUkraine

When the stupid reveals itself..once again.. We don’t do kings, no matter how hard you try, asshole 🖕🏻 #SheShed

*Reminder: not all action has to be and actually, is organized or lofty.* Action also happens *organically and within simplicity*. Mutual aid isn’t just weekends and narcan distribution it’s asking your neighbor what they need, it’s giving out the starter vegetables you have to thin out anyways

I went off on a white dude friend over a text and it led to what might be a booklet filter is officially off on this one lmao

Excerpts on a current project, the prompt was daddy issues 🫠 I’ve been quiet bc I am ill and feeling a decent baseline has been an uphill battle turned pipe dream. That being said, when my brain can cooperate in fleeting moments- of course I write, literally what else would I do. #writer #poetry

Can The Onion please buy TikTok and save it for us specifically me i need to have digestible accessible info and do not want to go back to pre TikTok isolation 😓🫠

I wanna start a #workplace #benefits conversation bc I feel i can’t sit on this myself I’m #hourly ($ is in OT) but we get guaranteed hours aka if they can only give 10hrs of work, still paid 38hrs/wk Anyone else have this benefit or know if this can be a negotiable term? Lets make this the norm

It’s as tough as it is gratifying being an AFAB in a trade job

No festive spirit at all. Neither Christmas nor New Year. Each passing day drags us closer to the nightmare that will soon unfold on a full scale. There’s nothing left to believe in or to hope for, and it’s hard to wish anything to anyone. Perhaps just to survive and endure.🎄❄️⛄️

One of the great questions starting Jan 21 is how will Elon and Donald communicate? Trump is all phone. Nothing in writing. Elon isn't going to take 10+ calls a day. I wouldn't be surprised if more than half their communications are via posts on Truth Social and X Literally.

If there's one thing the NYPD is good at, it's...art history? Not comparing Luigi Mangione to Jesus Christ, but I am comparing composition to composition.

A cool friend shared this very good good for thought with me and I love it when folks can articulate what I’ve been trying to preach #organize

And like I’m on a no 2lbs weight limit medically but I had to lift my 70lbs #dog up and out of the way I’m livid and dunno how to raise a stink but dang I wanna

I’ve lived in cities -had pedestrian vs. car incidents I know how to do the city call out, didn’t expect today walking w/ my off duty service dog, light changes, and a fucking #cop on her phone almost hits us going 20 turning left stopped an inch, I started to yell, she stared and drove around me

Get yourself a girl who gets you a patio heater bc you’re basically feral and will spend all your time outside regardless of the weather. 🥰🥰🥰

Yesterdays fellowship submission was for She Who Has No Masters, and today me the layman writer submitted to the Kenyon Review emerging writers fellowship once again going up MFAs

🙈🙈 applied for a writing fellowship. don’t have a degree let alone MFA but I put my work together, submitted it. never done anything like this before might’ve been stupid m/rookie bc wrote my bio in 3rd person, but I did it. No more insecurity I wont be the reason I’m not published anymore.

“Stop expecting your politicians to lead. They are representing you. If you aren’t in the streets, why would they be?” - Heather Marsh. #BindingChaos #BookSky Read it here: www.patreon.com/posts/thats-...

hi reminder justice for Lịch Vũ k thx bye

To the people fear mongering about the Syrian victory. This one goes out to you.

rn there are lots of submissions i want to bite the bullet and send my stuff to but the problem now is my works’ too long for the ones i feel i’m *worthy* of, and i feel like at this point it’s a book in the works but i’m not #published yet at all and isn’t is a lit mags first pipeline? #writing

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok? Signed, a librarian.

"Online endorsement of the killing of a slain insurance CEO is evidence of a terrible coarsening in society" No. It's evidence of a society with its back against a wall, lashing out at the endless injustices of a broken system that is happy to let people die if it "delivers value" to shareholders.

took this in 2018 i dont feel much has changed #aapi #representationmatters #representation

Japanese government to populace: Go fuck yourselves.