Going to see Passenger and Backrooms tonight. In that order since I have higher expectations for the second. #Horror

Going to my 10th funeral today. I think it's 10. This time for my daughter's other grandfather. I think I'd be well-qualified as a funeral speaker if that was a real volunteer role.

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Saw Obsession again and it was good again.

I'm not a fan of Hasan Piker or his community, but Trump, his administration, and the GOP are far worse. If it was a race to see who's most terrible, they would have lapped Piker several times. There's no good reason to celebrate him being targeted by the feds unless you're a conservative, I guess.

We were gonna go rewatch Obsession today (haven't watched many films twice in theaters, honestly), but all the shows were sold out. Never seen that happen for a horror movie here after the first week. Almost sold out tomorrow except two seats. Poor Passenger has a handful of people in it. #Movies

“What’s So Bad About Being With Me?”: On Obsession (2026) medium.com/@PlanarLo... Just a little blog. #Horror

Sadly, it seems most people won't advocate for those living with schizophrenia unless they know someone diagnosed. I've even seen people get angry researchers bother to examine schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is used as an insult, a scapegoat, a bogeyman. It must end. Support:

Today is World Schizophrenia Day. Schizophrenia affects ~1 in 100 people and is one of the most misunderstood, maligned psychiatric conditions. People with schizophrenia are among the most vulnerable in society and need any advocacy possible. Please consider supporting:

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 – 1799) was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university. #CelebratingWomen

My current projects!!!! Need one more round of revision/editor review: Planar Lost Prequel (Kravae) Planar Lost: Book Three (The Faceless Man) 2/3 drafted, needs editing/beta reading: Planar Lost: Book Four (The Vile God) Unrelated horror novel: Instructions for Breathing (~10 chapters) #Books

Watched Obsession last night. Thought it was fantastic. Very tense and unsettling.

I've had Obsession on my watch list for so long. These early reviews are making me really want to see it. 😩

It's a red flag to me when I see someone's community spend more time complaining about "wokescolds" than reactionary behavior like ableism, racism, misogyny. First thing it tells me is the community is mostly made up of White guys, probably American. Who are your favorite intersectional leftists?

Many conservatives still don't know a primary reason people get so-called "light sentences" is due to overincarceration caused by things like "tough-on-crime" policies including post-Broken Windows stop and frisk, 3-strike laws, and the failed War on Drugs. We need smart-on-crime. "Tough" failed.

Please do not support Marjorie Taylor Greene. We do not have to rehabilitate MTG or "give her room to grow." We do not have to see MTG as an advocate for Palestinians or an opponent of Israel. We do not have to accept MTG's apologies. We do not have to give MTG anything other than rejection. Stop!

Setting aside the moral atrocity being committed here: they're burning all of this political capital for one (1) additional Republican seat

Besides that conflating mental illness and bigotry further stigmatizes mental illness and partially absolves the bigot, it draws attention from the systemic and individual (macro, meso, micro) forces that produce/maintain bigotry. We should fight the blaming of mental illness for hate and violence.

Saw a quote from Hasan Piker saying transphobia is a mental illness. Terrible? Yes. Mental illness? No. Bigotry generally has little to do with mental illness. Most people rationalize themselves into hate and fear. Please stop blaming mental illness for every problem in society. Reactionaries do.

Discourse about Rachel Zegler was already grossly misogynistic. The new one about her jaw seems ableist. She may just have Tardive Dyskinesia or some other condition. (Plus, slight underbite, well-known.) I realize we're in post-Trump "Woke 2.0" and most -isms are "cool" again, but I'm not on board.

Watched The Drama last night. I liked it. Spoiler-adjacent ahead, I guess. I was wondering if I'm fucked up because I felt like they overreacted to "the story" of one person and underreacted to "the story" of another. Sure, the first was troubling, but I feel like I would've been less bothered.

I'm confused by the enduring narrative Kamala Harris lost to Trump over Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the Biden administration's complicity. The genocide is real, but there weren't enough third-party voters to make up the difference. The US is a center-right-leaning nation, sadly.

If conservatives like RFK Jr. truly wanted to curb SSRI use because they think it's so terrible, they'd be working tirelessly to make effective, evidence-based treatments like TMS more affordable and accessible. Plenty of people on SSRIs would go for alternatives to SSRIs that work if they could.

pspsps all about disability in writing, and I'm on one of the panels!

Drafted three chapters for the fourth book of my series this week. We're on it again. Apparently, the last time I wrote on it was also this month in 2025. Fourth book has three PoVs instead of two and the timeline is a little complicated, so I'm working that out. ✒️ #WritingCommunity

It's interesting how opposed to "Blue No Matter Who" Hasan and his fans are for nearly anyone most Dems/libs endorse. Except for Graham Platner, who gets a pass essentially by the "lesser evil" justification. What a man to overcome the Hasanite hatred of liberal electoral partisanship. Why is that?

Anyone else live in a place where so-called "school choice" and "vouchers" are looting public education? Dealing with the people who endorse state-sanctioned theft for religious private schools is truly infuriating and exhausting. And too few will care until public education is collapsing.

The Trump administration's war on the poor and mentally ill and disabled continues.

My aunt has schizophrenia, and rotates between my parents and other relatives. This is utterly monstrous.

A reminder: most shooters or people who commit violent crimes are not "mentally-ill." Political radicalization or incitement or persuasion or whatever != Mental illness. We don't need to blame mental illness every time someone tries to kill someone. Homicide is often a "rational" choice people make.

Trisha Paytas fans are like pop culture MAGA. Domestic abuse, sexualizing minors, not enough to lose their support. Now that she's exploiting her kids and posting from a channel that mainly has subscribers from her OnlyFans content, many're still just not sure if they can give her up. Utterly gross.

I've been perusing celebrity snark subreddits lately. The people in these spaces truly create alternative realities, always contrary to any conflicting proofs. Snarkers are the new tabloid magazine readers, only instead of gossiping in a living room it's online hate-mob and disinformation campaigns.

Also a reminder that school vouchers and charter schools, particularly those that use public funds, are a deliberate effort to starve and destroy public education. Only conservatives have wanted and tried to destroy public education for decades. Many people won't care until it's too late, sadly.

People who are disappointed in Trisha Paytas making a family channel and using her kids as content baffle me. She's a terrible person. Domestic abuser, sexualized minors, cosplayed as JonBenét Ramsey being sexually assaulted and murdered by her dad. Her exploiting her kids was expectably inevitable.

I successfully defended my dissertation proposal today. Now, I can move on to the actual data analysis and final chapters. My chair (who I thought hated me!) said the proposal was one of the best in the program. 🥹 Felt ill during though. Thankful to almost be done. (I do miss writing fiction!)

Just saw Lily Allen. She was very good!

I learned who Taylor Lorenz was last year from an article she wrote. I've been shocked since to see so many left-leaning people online love her. I assume it's because she promotes their favorite influencers. She does not hold a scientific worldview of social media, addiction, social interaction.

It would be interesting if what finally gets people to stop lauding Taylor Lorenz is her LLM/AI use. Never mind she promotes gossip from celebrity hate subreddits as fact and misrepresents or ignores evidence from psychology when she talks about social media addiction. Keep it up, anyway.

I haven't run books ads in about a year or more but I sold a lot of books randomly in mid-March. I wonder what happened? 😬

Do you prefer audiobooks where the narrator just reads with some inflection or where they try doing voices for all the characters? I prefer the former. I find voices very distracting, especially if some of them are worse. An older man doing a high-pitched voice has made me turn an audiobook off. 😅

Anyone else get kind of exhausted with large numbers of people who go out of their way to be negative about every new movie or show? There is more to being a critic than hating things. But it is easier to hate, I suppose.

The way The Federalist rag's author Helen Raleigh framed Noelia Castillo Ramos's medically assisted death makes me sick. So disgusting to misuse her story, trauma, physical pain to attack medical aid in dying. These are the same folk who often support the death penalty, which is actually harmful.

I have two completely opposite endings for my series in mind. I wrote one ending before I even finished the first book and it includes a very meaningful scene (to me). But the other ending is more unconventional. 😩 I'll have to write both and show my editor and beta readers. Struggling.

Ableism is among the most harmful prejudices imaginable. There are few other immutable characteristics as dually limiting and despised as a debilitating illness, physical or mental. Ableism is so pervasive and normalized that even many so-called progressives can't help but gleefully participate.

Hasan Piker's fans are saying he doesn't promote harmful ideology. At a time when the president of the US (Trump), a known fascist, is calling for the return of asylums to lock up undesirables, the guy I'm told to listen to (Hasan) regularly uses "schizo" as an insult, as does his audience.

My dissertation proposal defense is in a mere seven days. Then, if that goes well, the research. I think if I can get through the proposal defense, the rest (full data collection and analysis) will be smooth sailing. 😩 Maybe by next year, I can finally get back to fiction-writing.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Protesting helps. Calling/writing your reps helps. Sharing resources helps. Encouraging your comrades helps. Uplifting marginalized voices helps. It ALL helps. Don't let folks who don't understand that nothing is fixed INSTANTLY get you down. It's frustrating enough w/out them making it worse.

I replied to journalist Taylor Lorenz in November of 2025 when she claimed social media isn't harmful to young people. She deleted her post and carried on. I genuinely don't understand the extreme adoration for her. I saw someone saying she's "in her lane" about social media usage. No, she is not.

That is a very significant stat.