Show Me Your Thumbs

It’s a common herd management avenue, yes.

It feels very springlike today and I am fully aware that it is fool’s spring, but it still FEELS right.

this week's post makes the claim that all genuine revolutions are built on the same foundation: local councils that network or federate together to build a larger society.

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Heyyyy…anybody excited about audiobooks? How about the brand new audiobook for The Raven & The Reindeer? Available now!

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Anti-fatness is a load-bearing pillar of white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, and the human toll is immense - both on fat people who face medical bias, discrimination, etc, and on people of all sizes who develop eating disorders.

I don’t think a war is a distraction—I think once bombs start dropping, it’s now Another Horrible Thing Happening—but this is an interesting article nonetheless.

Look here Mr. Higgins, I’m a Gen-X leftist who lived under Reagan-era nuclear threat AND I have made quite a non-binary fuss (though I’m she/her myself), don’t you erase me!

A rough stick figure of a person in a hat with a wide curled brim, scowling at something to the viewer’s right. The arms are crossed and hands only scribbled dots possibly representing fists.

… those are LOADBEARING WEIRD HYPE-

Fuck.

GODSdamnit.

(Bonus StickTex)

Random Packs of Nineties Cartoons,

Random Packs of Nineties Cartoons,

Random Packs of Nineties Cartoons!

Nostalgia in a foil shell!

MtG PROFIT!

(Had to get it out, it *itched something fierce*!)

No. Fuck No, even.

We’re one step from Citizens United-ing the damn things, aware or not, and they’re gonna donate and vote and WE’LL NEVER FIX ANYTHING AGAIN UNTIL WE EMP THEM
ALL.

Cat Proximity

xkcd.com/231/

Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.

A godsdamn treasure, that Dolly.

Well, today has certainly been Full of Things.

Be safe and remember you are not alone.

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Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

AND THEY’RE FUNDAMENTALIST MORONS FOR IT.

THEIR OWN FUCKING BOOK SAYS NO ONE FUCKING KNOWS WHEN BUT THEIR GOD, SO WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WORH THEM?!?!?

THE ARROGANCE OF BELIEVING THEY CAN FORCE GOD’S HAND?

AND FUCKING ALL OF US OVER TRYING?

I’m sorry, today is a Shouty Day.

I’m so tired…

Finding less and less joy in my Good Things as the Shadow of Evil looms.

It’s terrible.

HURON LIVES.

Ah shoot, I woulda said if I’d known/remembered you were.

Or was that longer ago?

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Heads up: as noted by the author, @ajcalvin.bsky.social's Serpentus (The Relics of War) is on US Kindle sale for $2. And unlike the other US Kindle books on sale today, it's not limiting me to 4 copies, so I got some for random giveaway. I've given it out before, as well.

Kansas is a voter ID state. Overnight, an entire class of people not only lost their legal avenue to driving and jobs, but they were also forcefully disenfranchised- they cannot vote. I realize everything is a five-alarm fire right now, but I cannot stress enough how dire this is

The fact that it takes *constant conscious effort* to retain hold of the truth when you’re passively immersed in an epistemic landscape made almost entirely of lies

How many people are equipped to put in that kind of effort? To even understand that they need to?

My inexpert $0.02:

“OH SHIT!”

🤪😉🫡

We all know, if you hadn’t realized, Dear Reader.

Succinctly:

Together, we rise.

Seprately, we fall.

Join me… join US.

Let us put things on a better path.

One group action at a time.

The Sunset Shadow, on the other hand… It holds all you will do, in the new day to come and the ripples of that beyond and beyond and beyond.

If you have a certain type of bravery (and masochism), you can look in just the right way.

But always remember: the Shadow only shows the truth that may be.

Oh, I wish.

I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass.

You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...