been putting myself to sleep drafting very specific curses. not like “fuck them!” but like “may their organs desiccate in their bodies and may their only lust be for the grave.”

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

pretty disappointing that bluesky still doesn’t support custom gifs

I keep seeing the photo of that 5 yr old being kidnapped by ICE in my mind, knowing exactly how my own small child would feel and react. How deeply it would traumatize her. How it guts me as a mother. Any legislator or representative that didn’t vote to defund and abolish ICE? You disgust me.

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

"Hahaha" said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the seventeeth time that hour. "Fuck".

When I was confronting LAPD during an ICE kidnapping last summer my emotional instinct was to try to get through on a human level to the humans aiding and abetting blatant evil, and I just caution everyone going out into the streets today to abandon that dream, your purpose is tactical not emotional

Immigrants and a glorious diversity of cultures meeting is America's true wealth.

Google's AI overview just told me Moby Dick was written by John Grisham. Good work, everyone, no notes.

On December 19, at 12PM ET, I will be doing the first 24 hour Hyperfixed pledge drive. I will be live on twitch and during these 24 hours, anyone who signs up for an annual membership will be able to request I perform a song live on stream. And I will try to do it.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

just recommended @cantripcandles.bsky.social to a bunch of friends in the hyperfixed discord, then realized they were on bluesky. great shop, go support them and grab some unique gifts 💛

finally order the Vampire Hunter D print i’ve wanted forever 🖤 highly recommend

fave podcast this year 🩵

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

I finally realized what this administration reminds me of.

Please stop using AI slop to make anti-fascist memes. You’d be better off with MS Paint, comrade.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

i'm in tears. ICE is a terrorist organization.

honestly this shit would have had me joining the Foot Clan too

As folklore reminds us, the border between any two things is a traditional place of enchantment: the bridge between two river banks, the wall between the woodlands and the hills, and those interstitial realms where cultures, landscapes, languages, art forms and genres meet.

petition to make october 41 days long

Nothing makes you confront how stupid racism is quite like explaining it to a six year old. "That doesn't make sense." Yeah, girl. I know.

all I'm saying is that if somebody got shot right before they finished saying something racist, that is between them and God.

What if it happens today? What if it happens on live TV? What if it happens in the middle of a sentence? Wow. What if.

got new glasses

sometimes all you have is that you can cuss real good

Never let a machine make an emotional decision for you as a creator. Let it do math, fill out crowds, or fill out spreadsheets. Don't let it make storytelling choices. Don't let it draw what belongs to your imagination. Those decisions take experience, intuition, imagination, fear, hope, and daring.

They have GOT to stop using X (fKA Twitter) to issue Amber Alert info. Makes no damn sense.

an utter lack of curiosity is a defining quality of the worst people u know

true unity found in the Hyperfixed discord

Me (sick at heart, disappointed, scared, wondering if anything's worth the trouble, itchy): maybe another coffee

Can the CA governor do anything to block ICE and Border Patrol from terrorizing us? This is so terrifying. They are kidnapping and disappearing so many of us. Some citizens, some documented immigrants, some undocumented--but almost none are criminals. We

I feel like Jon Snow shouting that the whitewalkers are breeching the gates and the King is like “lol I invited them”

Serious question: is secession as a means of protecting people from being kidnapped and sent to die in concentration camps out of the question for California?

Sometimes I fear I’ve become too good at laughing despite the horrors.

*especially* this

I can’t stop thinking about this

not sure why this didn’t make me a millionaire

I’m going to keep saying it: When did it become ethically correct to kill Hitler?

I have taken the half-eaten slice of chocolate cake from the fridge and set it next to my keyboard. That is Monday's forecast.

dang i might actually finish this novel in the next three weeks. let's go, first drafts! The first act has actually had . . . many drafts. Who cares! There's no rules! Only suffering with mild relief at finishing and then more suffering! WOOO!

unfortunate you can't date the wizard in stardew valley when he's so obviously down to clown