Richard Porter

Rejections come in. Submissions go out. We keep the line moving.

Ugh. The hits just keep coming. I could really, really use a win.

A Republican 'promise' is a meaningless gewgaw. We want Dem leadership that fights back. That's what last Tuesday showed.

It doesn’t matter if you say you believe in social justice or associate w/ the side that believes in it w/ you if you fail to stand up to defend it when the opposition confronts you w/ a scheme to rip it away.

You’re just a doormat w/ nice thots, holding a position a better man or woman ought to be

Gods, I could really use a win right about now. And my current state sure as shit isn’t helped by waking up to see the Dems caved like the cowards that they are.

Nothing quite like popping off hand to hand kettlebell swings to Taawa’s first light.

Felt so low and lonely when I finally found my way to bed last night, but I fell asleep to thunder and dreamed of mesas, katsinam, and dancing.

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

I’m pretty sure the abyss blocked my calls.

Creative expression is the essence of the human experience. Try making a new dish, or stabbing an ai slopper with a wooden stake.

One thing you must have to be an actual adult human is the understanding that everyone is a whole ass person.

You are only the main character in your own head. Everyone is just as real and important and full of life as you are.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Congratulations!

Huh. As it turns out I’m still capable of writing a love poem. It’s been a hot minute.

We cannibals must help these Christians.

Heh. I don’t know…I get that it can make us feel stuck but if we aren’t always emerging, if we think we’ve arrived, we kind of stop growing right?

Ha! Sounds like the dream though, right?

hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face.

We should never have normalized MAKING OUR ACTUAL LIVES *FREE CONTENT* for evil tech billionaire people to reel all of us into a scrolling addiction that alienates us from each other, wastes our time and energy, and diverts our attention from all of the fire situations that most need it immediately

A painting of a bird beside the text "it isn't slander if it's true, you rat-fucking piece of shit"

go forth & irritate everyone believing they hold power over you.

disrupt bullshit at every turn.

If any one of us called for Brian Kilmeade to be killed by lethal injection, for any reason, we'd be rightly excoriated.

Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.

Fuck this.

Ow…my heart.

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It’s your birthday and you can skank if you want to.

Popped off a short poem, yesterday. I’m usually suspicious of anything that comes so easily, but I think I’m ok with this one.

Rejections roll in. Submissions roll out.

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

Photograph the poster stuck to telephone pole which says IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE PEOPLE ON THE STREET HOUSE THEM I don't know who took the photograph I don't know where it was taken and I don't know who made the poster