I ask the same question regularly, but probably for different reasons.

Thought I'd share some of my fiction writing for a change. It's the first chapter of a book I've been playing with for a while. I think it's a nice window into the sort of things I write for fun, rather than my "serious" work. seallan.com/index.php/20...

New website, first drop. I had to cut 4 chapters I'd already written when my book's direction changed, but since Frank Rosenblatt's story was — in my opinion — worth reading, I thought I'd post it for free rather than send it to the archive. seallan.com/index.php/20...

On the one hand, this is truth. On the other hand, how did y'all discover a song that came out when I was eight years old?

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

more like government slutdown the way chuck schumer is serving 🥵

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Getting blocked by this asshole for asking him why he was posting weird shit is how my day started, so at this point I'm literally willing to pick fights with anyone trying to hide their antisemitism behind anti-zionist rhetoric. Being pro-Palestinian doesn't give you an excuse to be a fascist.

NGL, the amount of "leftist" antisemitism I'm seeing on this site today is fucked. If you repost anti-Jewish conspiracy shit don't try to hide behind ironic racism or whatever other sad excuse you're trying. If you entertain this conspiracy shit you aren't a leftist and you aren't my ally. Period.

Military bases have well-supplied commissaries because if something goes wrong in the area the base will have independent supply lines established. It has always been (at least domestically) a form of redundancy, but given that other logistical systems are also at risk, this seems... unwise.

Just a reminder that somewhere, someone is doing something outstanding in a way that we can and should be doing here.

Not sure what's going on with @falconryfinance.bsky.social this morning, but shit like this doesn't feel right. The majority of Jews in the US vocally oppose Israel's genocide, and applying scrutiny to them based on what synagogue they attend is pretty fucking shady.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Antifascism is something you do.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

The degree to which there are two very, very different Oregons depending on where you live is incredible. It was a state founded by the Klan as a white supremacist project. In the 70s they actually barricaded I-5 to keep people from coming north from CA.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Political indoctrination aside (which is, by no means, ASIDE) a generation of kids coming out of the educational system without the bare minimum of actual critical reasoning skills will make literally every social problem substantially worse.

sponsored the state's youth gender affirming care ban

Going to see this skeet on Fox News tomorrow as an example of left wing antisemitism. "So @francesmeh.reviews believe every jew who wears a yamulke is unhinged!"

So, the Trump DOJ has very smartly decided to make sure the media is laser-focused on publicly airing every detail of the FBI investigation into the 2016 campaign. I'm sure this won't explode in their face prompting mass public hostility.

South Park has always done the weird American centrist thing: ✔ Punch up and down in equal measure ✔ Be extremely smug about how clever it thinks it is ✔ Ultimately do harm to minorities by spreading right wing stereotypes ✔ Stay safe and never threaten the status quo It's not subversive.

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

I'm in the mud to tell a true story about a stupid criminal I knew once. His name was Tony and everyone in town knew who he was. He was a bit fat, a bit scruffy, and for some reason he was inexplicably damp. He was too cowardly to be mean, but he was always trying to get away with some bullshit. 1/

That's the sort of shit a Nazi would say.

hey besties, i was recently let go from my job (company restructure) so i am FunEmployed. if anyone has leads on hiring in the twin cities or wants to kick a couple of bucks my way, i would really appreciate it. i'm trying to not freak, but i'm gonna be real i'm very stressed love bugs

Further investigation turned up an Antifa™️ Membership Card showing that the shooter was officially ranked as a SuperTrans Woke Lieutenant 1st Class and several paystubs from George Soros in the amounts of $420.

This is an objectively terrible joke and I can't stop giggling. Send help. 😂

This is the hardest thing to communicate to allistic people. Like, yeah, autism sucks sometimes but it's usually just because neurotypical folks make it suck. When people talk about "curing" autism they are literally saying, "I don't want people like you to exist."

This is among the many reasons that I set up a full MySQL db immediately after starting any new django project.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Sure, except that he's not going to even attempt to pretend he cares. He'll brag about how tough he is, say the democrats are very radical bad people, and do nothing. Then the democrats will fold because whatever else they may be, they actually do care about the economy collapsing. Trump doesn't.

Listen, autistics aren't *better* or more moral than anyone else. However, we will give you: -high speed transit -brands having to clearly advertise when they've changed the recipe -UBI, because autism and its comorbidities can be disabling as fuck -people to do the boring repetitive jobs you hate

i wil add to this sentiment that the Kimmel thing got me out the door and in community with others. I talked about the importance of unions, especially in *this* moment to folls who aren't currently in a union. Action begets action. Action is good. Momentum and shit

i went on a few dates with someone and it wasn't serious or anything but they kind of dipped after that and i just realized on that last date i said that i get really emotional when i think about the history of crop cultivation

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

I'm ngl if Tylenol causes autism (it doesn't) I propose we spike every reservoir in the nation with as high a dose as we can muster, because dear god just look at what the allistics have made of the place

Obviously the actual amount of information out there is limited, but Kirk's misogyny and transphobia were very likely the motivating factors behind his murder. People who elide that fact are not condemning further violence, they are encouraging it.

I used to love Gwar, but then they got political

anyone have leads on resources for trans folks (esp youth, esp mental health/crisis support) specifically in or near Syracuse, NY? asking for my stepmom who is helping a friend mobilize a brigade of support for a struggling grandkid

My favorite thing about using libGDX is that I get to write "import badlogic.[whatever]" multiple times in every class. Usually I have to spend a lot of time coming up with my own bad logic, so for me importing it is very efficient.

Eyeball necrosis.

it’s funny how deep the american exceptionalism brainwashing goes. i know better. i’ve known better for years. i’ve breathed gas clouds just like this one. and yet every time i see pictures like this, i want so badly to say “i can’t believe this is america.” but i won’t. because i know better.