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A writer of fiction, like yourself...And occasional movie & video game reviews. | https://www.youtube.com/c/Aytiws | Portland, OR, USA, C-53.

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Let's just say I believe in it as much as I believe Darkseid is real & all this is just the triumph of Anti-Life.

My roommate: "So Trump's next disclosure event is just gonna be--"

Glorious Godfrey, God of Fascist Propaganda, next to him at the desk, in a suit that looks flashy but somehow cheap.

15.02.2026 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me: Look, I don't actually believe the Swedish CIA killed Stieg Larsson with the heart attack gun...but...

My roommate: "If it came out, you wouldn't be surprised."

15.02.2026 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sisko with a "told-you-so" expression after decking Q.

Sisko with a "told-you-so" expression after decking Q.

"You're gonna punch me?"

"Yeah."

"Then you're gonna get in trouble for that."

"Okay."

14.02.2026 06:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 569    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldnโ€™t be to yell at the roaches

03.01.2026 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11525    ๐Ÿ” 3630    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 184    ๐Ÿ“Œ 331
From @sw_holocron on Twitter:

George Lucas has been named as the 4th Greatest American Innovator in a list by Forbes of the top 250 living innovators in celebration of Americaโ€™s 250th birthday.

Lucas is only being beaten by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

From @sw_holocron on Twitter: George Lucas has been named as the 4th Greatest American Innovator in a list by Forbes of the top 250 living innovators in celebration of Americaโ€™s 250th birthday. Lucas is only being beaten by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

WTF do you mean, three billionaire narcissists, at least two of whom were accused of sexual assualt, and all three of them having abused their workers, beat out George Lucas, @forbes.com !?

14.02.2026 21:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
5 MINUTES AFTER INVENTION OF WHEEL
bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a wheel, turning round and round, an endless cycle of seasons and lives and realms--it all keeps turning, and it all keeps coming back around

5 MINUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF BOOKS
bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a book, God is The Author of Being and he writes our names in the Book of Life. In the beginning was THE WORD, bro. You see bro??

5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPLEX
GEARS
bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is mechanical, God is The Divine Watchmaker, and the planets spin along predetermined paths according to the turning of cosmic gears! It's all just predictable mechanical paths from creation to here!

5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPUTERS
bro, i think i just figured something out-

5 MINUTES AFTER INVENTION OF WHEEL bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a wheel, turning round and round, an endless cycle of seasons and lives and realms--it all keeps turning, and it all keeps coming back around 5 MINUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF BOOKS bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a book, God is The Author of Being and he writes our names in the Book of Life. In the beginning was THE WORD, bro. You see bro?? 5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPLEX GEARS bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is mechanical, God is The Divine Watchmaker, and the planets spin along predetermined paths according to the turning of cosmic gears! It's all just predictable mechanical paths from creation to here! 5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPUTERS bro, i think i just figured something out-

12.06.2024 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

fellas is it gay to bring a woman to orgasm

14.02.2026 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Newspaper ad for THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) with a pull quote that reads โ€œThe perfect Valentineโ€™s Day date movieโ€ฆโ€

Newspaper ad for THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) with a pull quote that reads โ€œThe perfect Valentineโ€™s Day date movieโ€ฆโ€

35 years ago today THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was released in theaters and the pull quote it received on this newspaper ad has never been topped.

14.02.2026 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 590    ๐Ÿ” 168    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

GF's in Eugene so nothing to do but finish Steig Larsson's (Swedish) Millennium Trilogy...and the peanut butter bread she made before she had to go back to her folk's place.

14.02.2026 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So where the lawsuits at? We both know that's the only language they understand.

14.02.2026 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
1970s paperback edition of ayn randโ€™s the fountainhead with a photograph of an attractive woman leaning back seductively on a drafting board

1970s paperback edition of ayn randโ€™s the fountainhead with a photograph of an attractive woman leaning back seductively on a drafting board

can you imagine how disappointed youโ€™d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover

14.02.2026 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2965    ๐Ÿ” 506    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 120    ๐Ÿ“Œ 88
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

14.02.2026 03:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11804    ๐Ÿ” 3188    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 117    ๐Ÿ“Œ 217

Whenever It does finally Happen I hope the fascist freaks around him start to panic/torture him to death like Washington on his deathbed. Miller applying leeches while RFK Jr pours methylene blue down his throat with a funnel, just puking and shitting all over himself until this nightmare is over

14.02.2026 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

13.02.2026 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4826    ๐Ÿ” 1183    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Roses are red
Thistles are slender

14.02.2024 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 485    ๐Ÿ” 161    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Bee Mine! ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ๐Ÿ˜

14.02.2026 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
I SQUALOve you!

I SQUALOve you!

buon San Valentino ๐Ÿ˜˜

14.02.2026 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan

14.02.2026 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2704    ๐Ÿ” 1228    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Happy Valentineโ€™s Day!

14.02.2026 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A tuxedo cat with a white stripe down her nose loafs on top of my garbage can.

A tuxedo cat with a white stripe down her nose loafs on top of my garbage can.

Trash guardian #Caturday

14.02.2026 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Heroic actions are a natural tendencyโ€™: why bystander apathy is a myth Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help

โ€˜Heroic actions are a natural tendencyโ€™: why bystander apathy is a myth

A MYTH MADE UP BY COPS TO HIDE THE FACT THAT THEY STOOD BY AND LET KITTY GENOVESE DIE BECAUSE SHE WAS QUEER

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

14.02.2026 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 216    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

This is the difference between liberals and neocons: Liberal social-fascists simply put a mask over barbaric imperialism, and sometimes it slips. Neocons donโ€™t bother with the mask at all.

14.02.2026 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney

failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney

future failed presidential candidate Gavin Newsom

future failed presidential candidate Gavin Newsom

corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture

14.02.2026 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 130    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
"I do think George Lucas has done something of sensational importance and value for man in STAR WARS: 1 honestly believe that the Word and Hand of God guided and informed him, whether Lucas is aware of it or not.
What I myself have done is a mere tittle in comparison to what Lucas has done โ€” and my audience is a tittle compared to the audience he is reaching, for which I also thank our God, and I realize that our God knows how to reach into the mass of mankind, that mass of mankind being secular now and drawn away from religion."
โ€”Philip K. Dick, letter to a friend, 1977

"I do think George Lucas has done something of sensational importance and value for man in STAR WARS: 1 honestly believe that the Word and Hand of God guided and informed him, whether Lucas is aware of it or not. What I myself have done is a mere tittle in comparison to what Lucas has done โ€” and my audience is a tittle compared to the audience he is reaching, for which I also thank our God, and I realize that our God knows how to reach into the mass of mankind, that mass of mankind being secular now and drawn away from religion." โ€”Philip K. Dick, letter to a friend, 1977

I canโ€™t get over this wild quote

It basically sums up my entire writing career so far

PKD, you truly are my problematic fave of all time

runkbaset.blogspot.com/2009/06/phil...

02.09.2024 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 99    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

donโ€™t really think it was there to prevent terrorist attacks either

14.02.2026 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ahaha all our enemies crumble because they suck

14.02.2026 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 433    ๐Ÿ” 73    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Harry & Helen Tasker, hands down. (Haven't seen Avatar 3 yet, but I doubt the Sullys are gonna get another Date Night any time soon.)

14.02.2026 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Transit-priority lane decision keeps 82nd Avenue Transit Project moving forward but funding questions remain - TriMet News The decision advances the design of the project but millions of dollars in additional funding must be identified to determine [โ€ฆ]

gotta say, after a wretched long week in the sausage-making of legislating and government, i'm getting all the warm fuzzy feelings seeing that the organized community voices who demanded state-of-the-art bus service on East Portland's main street are gonna get it

news.trimet.org/2026/02/tran...

13.02.2026 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie
I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone,  including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and Iโ€™m a pretty good swimmer.
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Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and Iโ€™m a pretty good swimmer. 2:53 PM ยท Feb 13, 2026 ยท 1.5M Views

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (ไธ่‡ชๆฎบ่ฒๆ˜Ž), a sign of extreme distress.

13.02.2026 23:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4320    ๐Ÿ” 1277    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62    ๐Ÿ“Œ 154
itโ€™s raymond burr as the journalist steve martin from 1956โ€™s godzilla, king of the monsters. heโ€™s a white man dressed in a suit and tie siting at a desk with a mid-20th century typewriter on it. heโ€™s looking up at the corner of the frame while holding a telephone handset to his ear. the caption says โ€œFukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothersโ€

itโ€™s raymond burr as the journalist steve martin from 1956โ€™s godzilla, king of the monsters. heโ€™s a white man dressed in a suit and tie siting at a desk with a mid-20th century typewriter on it. heโ€™s looking up at the corner of the frame while holding a telephone handset to his ear. the caption says โ€œFukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothersโ€

13.02.2026 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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