Normal Human Despair

Normal Human Despair

@bairfanx.com

poet. writer. educator. queer. Display name and tag are both references to old forgotten jokes.

179 Followers 346 Following 1,385 Posts Joined Oct 2023
4 days ago

If I think about this too much longer, I’m just gonna be a mess again.

So I sat again, fuck chilis. And I hope the IDHR or anyone this was reported to actually does their fucking jobs

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4 days ago

Maybe those groups would’ve followed the rules if I had the energy to repeatedly harass them to DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS.

But I did not. Because I was having panic attacks thinking of going to work under someone who was committed to forcing me to reconcile with a harasser who threatened me.

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4 days ago

Like, it’s been so long that I’m absolutely going to get re-traumatized going over it again if they ever contact me.

The school district had rules no one followed.

The union had rules they didn’t follow.

How can you live in Trump’s America and think that rules actually mean anything?

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4 days ago

1. Fuck Chilis
2. Lotta comments talking about Illinois protections. I filed with the IDHR months and months ago and was told to expect a massive delay in any kind of response.

Protections don’t mean jack shit if no one makes them stick.

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5 days ago
Heater being a perfect loaf (no feet) on my orange desk chair that she was scratched up and vomited on (it’s her favorite place bc it smells like mom)

AIPAC IS DROPPING $1 MILLION AGAINST US SO HEATER IS ASKING YOU TO JOIN OUR LIVESTREAM IN AN HOUR!!!

twitch.tv/katabughazaleh

youtube.com/@katmabu

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5 days ago

I didn’t have to use ChatGPT to know it tells you that you’re right even when you’re wrong. I’ve talked to people about their LLM usage, read reporting and studies about it, and seen what people have shared online. The idea that you HAVE to use something yourself to critique it is not always true

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5 days ago

It is astonishing to me just how much shit kids get away with without meaningful consequences and the impact it has on the entire learning environment for other kids.

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5 days ago

This is so cool!

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5 days ago

Honestly we need to just build the fucking gallows. Any one of these fucks committing massive crimes and thinking they’ll be pardoned don’t deserve to keep on breathing the air of decent humans.

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5 days ago

If she's not winning, why is AIPAC acting like it?

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5 days ago
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’
- Shigeru Miyamoto

Happy Mario day!

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1 week ago
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Chicago.

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1 week ago

re: upcoming book promo gauntlet: TAZGN7 is a real end-of-an-era book!! big finale!! end of a huge chapter of my professional work life!! I want to give it the best chance it has of reaching its readers, so I'm gonna be posting about it a LOT between now and 7/14. thank you for bearing with me!

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1 week ago

Bad headline. Real headline: mumps is back because you stopped vaccinating your fucking kids you stupid fucks

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1 week ago

It was three statements on some generic ass background, idk why they couldn’t just type or paste those statements over a template.

I clocked it from the doorway.

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1 week ago

Last week saw a teacher’s slides were AI slop and just kinda noted it but then not five minutes later they said so proudly.

I wonder if kids can tell. I wonder what this teacher is doing to their ability to discern slop from human-created anything, if they can’t tell yet.

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1 week ago

Like, fun is good. Have fun. I just wish I had an option to not have my entire feed filled with it since I don’t follow a thousand people here.

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1 week ago

Me, in a month, after seeing an rt from someone I follow: I thought I was following this guy, what’s going on?

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1 week ago

Couldn’t remember why I wasn’t following someone and now I’m seeing an entire feed of RTs and QTs screaming “person’s media adaptation” and I now remember.

Wish there were an easy way to just nope out of a format so I don’t just go through this cycle forever, but such is life

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1 week ago

Ah fuck, next time I’m saying Twin Peaks.

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1 week ago

Also feel like they’re maybe too young for the Dandadan volumes I’m seeing them carry around, but not my problem

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1 week ago

I’ve got 11/12 year old girls asking me my favorite anime and I didn’t anticipate needing to lie to the children about this.

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1 week ago

Quick update: it appears the tapes have been shared exceptionally well.

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1 week ago

Shit, remember Teen Dog?

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1 week ago

Guess I’m just gonna have to write it or something.

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1 week ago

Audrey hanging out with the mothers of her not-friends was wild to me. Perfectly in line with her character I think, but when I realized it, just absurd.

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1 week ago

I will, thank you. Do YOU have any recommendations for reading on panel breaks/creative gutter use?

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1 week ago
Preview
It's What You Leave Out: David Fairbanks on The Poetry of Absence in CHANGE by Ales Kot, Morgan Jeske, and Sloane Leong A Site Dedicated to Small Press and Self-Published Comics Reviews and News.

For reference. I’d probably reword some stuff, but I somehow still like most of this 8 years later www.yourchickenenemy.com/2018/04/its-...

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1 week ago

I’m gonna poke my thesis advisor for the poetry side of things, but I’m open there as well

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1 week ago

Had a stupidly long drive home today and got to thinking that I must have more to say about comics gutters/panel breaks and poetry stanza/line stuff beyond what I wrote for @danielelkin.bsky.social ages ago.

Does anyone know of good writing on panel breaks and page composition?

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