Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!)

They look like anthropomorphic melons

And that was when Donald John Trump became presidential

Thank you, hype man

Look at their little faces!!! And they can’t fly!

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was) How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)

I have a book about that, kinda bookshop.org/p/books/y2k-...

Wow, I actually haven’t! This is amazing.

Obviously I am extremely horrified by the war crimes, but I am happy about the parrots.

This is the biggest news story of the day for me, world’s biggest kakapo fan

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was) How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)

Many are saying!! bookshop.org/p/books/y2k-...

They should really make @coletteshade.bsky.social's book mandatory reading at this point

It was bad that we decimated the foreign service in part because it was a way of life that forced Americans to be uncomfortable and imagine how other people might live.

Thank you Sam 💕

We are the consequences We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

I have a new essay out today. For Welcome To Hellworld I wrote about my home, Minneapolis, again; I worked through some thoughts on why the concept of "victory" feels so hollow right now but why it might signal something far more important in the future.
www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

The destruction of USAID and my grandfather's legacy by Colette Shade This piece will go out in the next edition of the Hell World newsletter. Consider a free or paid subscription to support our work. Support independent media Read Kim Kelly on the m...

Since we’re now 100% ignoring international law, here’s a piece I wrote for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social about how we fucking got here www.welcometohellworld.com/the-destruct...

The respective grandmas were a computer programmer and a teen fashion model

We have a coffee mug that says “Operation Ranch Hand” and it’s not from the grandpa who worked at USAID

Economist and possible spy, chemist and definite war criminal

Economist and possible spy, chemist and definite war criminal

It was bad that we decimated the foreign service in part because it was a way of life that forced Americans to be uncomfortable and imagine how other people might live.

“Because of WAR,” my mom emphasizes.

The destruction of USAID and my grandfather's legacy by Colette Shade This piece will go out in the next edition of the Hell World newsletter. Consider a free or paid subscription to support our work. Support independent media Read Kim Kelly on the m...

Since we’re now 100% ignoring international law, here’s a piece I wrote for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social about how we fucking got here www.welcometohellworld.com/the-destruct...

Hello afternoon crowd,

For everyone who follows me for my Y2K-based takes, I have a day job in healthcare.

I love having to declare my credentials for the Dr. Oz-run CMS. What are we doing here!!!

It’s so wild how the paths we take are often due to a combination of the time/place we were born and other sorts of chance

Dudes rock

Love em

I also looked askance at the second-wave feminism of my mom, finding it to be riven with contradictions. I remember thinking that it would be so much easier to be a stay at home mom than have a career (given America’s workplace culture). Glad I learned about a secret third thing (social democracy).

Anyway, when I was in college, I found the affect and terminology of academia to be off-putting, hypocritical, and teleological. I resented it at first! I still resent it, actually. This resentment would have been channeled nicely into an anti-woke grift.