@psychopompus.bsky.social
Human. Autistic. Writer. Lover of cats and video games.
The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.
Pathetic.
29.10.2025 21:42 — 👍 4508 🔁 1987 💬 407 📌 173
um. you ok?
30.10.2025 03:32 — 👍 6144 🔁 1149 💬 799 📌 107Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"
29.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 13978 🔁 4549 💬 301 📌 130That’s fair. His recommendations and boosting of other artists was always a good thing. Hell, once upon a time I had a writing blog he retweeted. I was a huge fan. Like, drove 12 hours for his book tour huge.
I wish now it didn’t feel like he was prepping new potential victims in the process.
Oh he’s never dream of recommending something bad. He only wants his mark on good things so he can take credit.
29.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
One of my machine-gunners spoke Cambodian. One of my rifleman spoke Laotian and another spoke Cajun almost exclusively. No Marine I know gave AF because they all swore an Oath to our Nation that including "Up to and including my life." F*ck JD Vance and his prissy Yale Imperialistic view of America.
29.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 1069 🔁 316 💬 117 📌 18
Vance in drag!
JD Vance changed his name, dressed in drag, married an immigrant, benefited from food stamps and was groomed by a neurotic, gay elitist.
None of this matters except he’s a dick who attacks everyone for all the same stuff he’s done. Hypocrites!
This might be an #UrsulaKLeGuin stan account from now on #NationalBookAwards #TruthToPower #SpeakingTruthToPower #Confrontation #Capitalism #PeopleOverProfit #Libraries #Resistance aspiringwarriorlibrarian ® Follow Aug 22, 2019 I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going aroun but to really appreciate it you have to know the context. The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement awar from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck ir front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it's t to make a standard "thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah" speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives d in the eye, and says "Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship." She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity producer only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries their products and censor writers in favor of something "more profitable". She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazor employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: "We live in capitalis Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the of words." Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the mos powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly "Your empire will fall. And I will help it along."
This might be an #UrsulaKLeGuin stan account from now on
via @aspiringlibrarian.bsky.social
#NationalBookAwards #TruthToPower #SpeakingTruthToPower #Confrontation #Capitalism #PeopleOverProfit #Libraries #Resistance
Neil Gaiman was always the fuckboi of blurbs, I swear.
His narcissism makes him want his name on every book possible - even if it wasn’t his work. Marking his territory like some demented dog.
For the love of all that’s good in this crappy little world, do not ask ChatGPT for medical diagnosis, mental health support, or anything that’s crucial. I am begging you
28.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is where I work. AI has been introduced and integrated everywhere possible, and everyone is being told we have to “adapt or die.”
I’m the only person in my department with AI training, and also the only one who doesn’t use it because I know how fallible it is. It’s upsetting.
I have a very bad feeling about this...
27.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 54269 🔁 10170 💬 1878 📌 652🚨Resources 🚨a thread I’ll be updating a lot. 🧵🧵🧵
Verizon Wireless will work with furloughed federal employees to either split your payment or move the due date forward 30 days if you call them.
A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states: “FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine. They do not have large cocaine factories. They do not produce fentanyl either. What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”
Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.
27.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 23295 🔁 8335 💬 699 📌 339Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom
23.10.2025 22:36 — 👍 32203 🔁 11017 💬 1870 📌 632
You can watch Andrew Weissmann's interview with Jack Smith, that Jen was recommending in that last segment here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR79...
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
23.10.2025 21:42 — 👍 12715 🔁 4608 💬 516 📌 420
Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
23.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 25518 🔁 10461 💬 2721 📌 1088🖋️ “Remove Speaker Johnson. File a motion to vacate the chair” hit 250 signers!
💬 Text SIGN PPSQYP to 50409
Farm bankruptcies are up 56% from last year.
More than half of U.S. farms are losing money, threatening small towns and rural economies.
Trump's focus? Using U.S. taxpayer dollars for a $40 BILLION bailout to Argentina.
www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
😕
22.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 10690 🔁 3401 💬 364 📌 160It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House
20.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 5558 🔁 1456 💬 141 📌 73BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
Noem’s twin luxury jets cost taxpayers $170mil. What else could we have bought for that kind of cash?
💰The entire FY22 salary and benefits budget request for the Coast Guard (1)
💰Guaranteed loans for small businesses that are inaccessible during the shutdown. (2)
