rosy maple mothman

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

www.scmp.com/week-asia/li... Many things about this pisses me off, obviously. The astounding number of Singaporeans from the majority race defending or whatabouting or brushing off instances of black and brown face. [...]

I just leave this here.....

If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then how come Netflix are making a 3-part documentary about me called "SLICED DEAD: The Cardiac Surgeon Who F**ked Up A Bunch"?

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.

His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

Despite the obvious flaws i think I had a decent time at this year’s Singapore writers fest?

But it was also the first festival where I actually walked out of an event in a rage.

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

I want to try combatting casual fatphobia with casual obesity glorification it’s only fair

Screenshot of a tweet from John Hudson, who covers cover diplomacy and national security for The Washington Post. The tweet says: "New: Michael Anton was a leading candidate to become deputy national security adviser but pulled himself out of contention when he was told he would have to work with Sebastian Gorka at the NSC, per sources. Last year, Anton wrote about his strained relationship with Gorka, which in Anton’s account stemmed from Gorka irritating senior White House staff by exaggerating his own role in writing a speech Trump delivered in his first term. Anton said he was charged with clarifying to the media that Gorka did not draft the speech, an act that culminated in Gorka calling Anton a “coward” and scolding him in a Fox News green room, according to his account. Anton did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while Gorka told The Post: “I don’t comment to the fake failing news." Anton expected to be in contention for other administration jobs."

I was on a menswear forum with Michael Anton for many years. If you plan to work in the Trump White House and have a petty rivalry with him, let me know. I can help you say things around him that will get under his skin. @sebgorka.bsky.social

i can't get over the fact that a journalist met the woman cormac mccarthy molested when she was a teenager and then wrote an article about her (honestly amazing) life story in the style of a Cormac McCarthy, as a fan tribute.

I know afab bisexuals are single-handedly destroying queer spaces by bringing their straight partners there but the last time mine came to a drag show someone thought he was the dad of one of the drag kings

so if u hate bisexuals in queer spaces ur also hating some queer kid’s supportive father

trying to describe myself and my relationship to running in a running group I just joined and it is occurring to me that I do not have a normal relationship with running

I'm going to rewatch Everything Everywhere All at Once so I can laugh and cry at the same time and then laugh again that I'm crying over an emotional story about a raccoon piloting a man at a teppanyaki restaurant 🦝

sometimes I think about how if I travelled back to Singapore 50 years ago I wouldn’t be able to talk to most people there

You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. You have never made a film before and it would take a long time to figure out.

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Assembling a cabinet from the people in your group chat is certainly a choice.

One thing that the empire does that bothers me is the way they make slavery genocide & fascism seem antiquated so they can continue to get away with doing it

thinking about the time this Australian slam champion at a writers fest got a 200 strong audience to do a call and response and when they responded he sneered “you’re all [r-slur]”

2014 was a bad time

Taking my Dune worm popcorn bucket into the Wicked screening and telling everyone it’s in the movie

lowkey want to put something like “to Ma, I would have been a terrible vet, pets would have died” in my next book

had a dream I was swimming in the deep sea with chapell roan & my family and made the terrible mistake of swimming with a bunch of my keys and accidentally let my keys sink to the bottom of the ocean

this is a cow

Me reading a lesbian romance novel:
"These bitches are gaaay"

So I'd like to talk a little bit about the consumerism and anti-intellectualism that results in the cultural obsession with "cozy" fiction and YA, and how that impacts other forms of art, as someone in the business of writing challenging adult fiction

this will be a long thread, strap in