RA 128 is here! Ft poetry by Emily R. Daniel @haleydirenzo.bsky.social Heather Emmanuel @loriaharris.bsky.social Nadeen Murhaf Maida, Chenxi Meng, @carynmg.bsky.social @leepotspoet.bsky.social Sonya Schneider, and @fairingforward.bsky.social w art by Donald Patten // rogueagentjournal.com/issue128

I hate Thomas Hardy.

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

Does anyone else feel like "a fraction of the cost" is a useless phrase? Like... *what* fraction, dude? At least let me know what denominator we're working with here...

Denim AND fake pearls and rhinestones

Y'know. Language acquisition and retention are really weird. I don't think I could remember how to conjugate the future tense of an -ir verb if you held a gun to my head, but I will remember the French word for "subtitles" until I die.

My students are innovators

I reupholstered my ottoman! Admire me please.

Kevin... I know you're either a scammer or an innocent victim yourself, who has been press-ganged into trying to scam me, but... please just say "available" twice.

Today my student was late for class because she's been pulling 12-14 hour shifts non-stop at work - multiple coworkers, including a dear friend, were just deported to Ukraine. Even aside from empathy and ethics and humanity... We are cutting off our nose to spite our face. Damnable foolishness.

It's good to see green things.

Kitty glamor shot

What it feels like to live in America, especially right now

Little elephant buddy ❤️ I always make these for any new littles in my life. My husband got jealous, so now this one lives on our bedside table.

Fear me, mortals!