happy international women's day

And I fucking hate, I absolutely cannot stand people insisting that the risk of misinterpretation (often their own misinterpretation) means that work with any kind of moral gray area is too dangerous to exist. This is a reactionary impulse and kills interesting artwork.

"Martinez was not protesting - he was driving by the scene of a road accident where ICE officers were helping to direct traffic." "... he was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." Attorneys for Martinez's mother

woke II has me talking like robert ludlum saying shit like "the w slur-adjacency"

Sometimes people ask me why I always dunk on MCU movies and at this point I can just direct people to the Epic Bacon videos the White House are putting out about American Might that include clips from Marvel movies. That’s why I always dissed em, they fit beautifully into propaganda

Of course Platner knew what his Nazi symbol was. It changed his life. His tattoos were reviewed when he asked to return active duty; a trained officer looked for violations. The sleeve tattoos were OK. The Totenkopf was not. Platner chose to keep it. Somewhere in DoD, it’s all written down. 5/

the only reason capitalist governments have for disrupting socialist/communist nations is to make people think capitalism is the only option. when people witness functional socialist societies, capitalism’s inexcusable exploitation of the proletariat is laid bare. capitalism is fueled by suffering.

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

god damn snow forecast has gone up 3 inches since i got to work lol this sucks lol

ALIEN CHEF: "We don't waste. This animal gave his life, so we must eat every part of him as a sign of respect." ME: *watching from the after life as he drizzles olive oil on my sweetbreads* "choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke..."

this is making me laugh so hard

critical support to my little brother, who i just learned punched markwayne mullin in the balls when mullin was his little league football coach

"What have you been up to lately?" *thinking about an illegal stream I found of Dr. Katz* "oh lots of stuff, real cool stuff"

vegans shouldn't be allowed to eat venus flytraps.

"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't-" *a hand juts in from off screen with a stack of papers* "Excuse me, we've just received this special report-"

Felt like I was going insane watching people accept an AI model's explanation for why that same AI model committed a war crime.

Public health officials officially classified the situation in Broomfield as a measles outbreak, which the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines as three or more related cases.

instead of bayonets we shoulda given old time soldiers big forks, so they can twirl the enemy's guts up like a ball of spaghetti

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

so you're telling me this guy saw 9/11 coming in 1996 🤨... and he just sat pretty and let us enjoy the Atlanta Georgia Summer Olympics 😔

i got a spongebob tattoo and i retweet spongebob fan accounts all the time and i went on a podcast with a spongebob influencer and told him i loved his podcast and appreciated being on. but all of my friends will "freak out" if you say i like spongebob. and well, thats basically just, totally normal

9/11 was a crazy time to be in middle school- not because the attack was scary, but because I'd JUST spent a decade learning to read from anti-authoritarian, anti-war texts like Animorphs and The Giver, only to see every adult transform into a pro-war pod person over night.

fujoing out

teaching is high-strain dummy work that basically any literate person can do if they learn to eat enough shit and smile about it, and somehow it's not even 1% as disgraceful or brain-smoothing as being an American journalist

I'm really glad the very first day of freshman J-school they told me "we intend to dominate your college experience" so I could transfer programs before getting pushed into the Journalistic Debrainulator.

The nihilism of this. "Pedophilia is in the news, so the NYT has a responsibility to publish a piece about how the age of consent shouldn't exist, that's how news works!" And look at that, this person is on Substack. Because a platform that supports Nazism is also apparently fine. Anything goes!

iran is a country where millions of people are born, live, fall in love, have children, make art, read books, play sports, doomscroll, cook, build homes, care for one another, fight, argue, complain, and die. iran is a place with real people and we pretend like theres two sides to this shit.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Here are some of my ideas for variants on how the Andalites (from the book series “Animorphs”) could look in a film or tv show, exploring different possibilities for their alien, centaur-like anatomy!

it feels like Trump really would revive the draft, not even for lack of manpower, but just for the sake of reviving the draft

our “preemptive strike” included bombing a primary school for girls. possibly up to 85 dead.

underground art is important (and important to ME personally) but a world where nobody ever gets a big budget to take a big weird swing is still massively depressing

there's probably not *really* millions of hidden genies waiting in the wings to turn your every declaration or fleeting desire into an ironic comeuppance, but it only takes one or two...

People hate the sound of "reeducation camps" but a lot of Americans could really benefit from "A Billy Madison Experience."

wow i hate this

congrats to the Brits on whatever your elections are about

just dawned on me that Harry Harlow tortured all those monkeys to discover "babies love their mommies." Real genius shit.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Kasparian is left wing except on trans issues, ‘law & order’, and now weird antisemitic catch phrases? Gee golly it’s starting to seem like she’s not actually left wing

This is the Executive Producer of the (at least nominally) left-wing news program The Young Turks, with almost a million followers. Really does feel like we're headed down a bad road with this growing Red-Brown alliance.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Don't just look at Kansas, this type of bill will soon sweep through every other red state. We have a chance now to organize everywhere else too.

We all learn from a young age that there’s enough food for everyone but millions of people starve anyway, that millions die from diseases for which cheap medicines exist, that there are many more houses than houseless, and so we learn exactly how much our lives are worth if we’re ever in the way.

If you want to help trans folks in need of resources in Kansas, consider supporting the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas: lgbtqks.org/donate/

touching graham platner's hand at a campaign stop and you immediately get the Dead Zone glimpse of armageddon

the right's propaganda against trans people has been one of their most successful campaigns as of late. it's been so obviously astroturfed, so clearly manufactured. but they have useful toadies like singal who gets opinion pieces in the NYT to convince the liberals it's okay