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Adam S. Twitchell

@adamstwitchell.bsky.social

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Worker. Writer. Former teacher. Solders well. Socialist, but the joyful kind. Trans rights are human rights, and reproductive rights are essential. Michigan. Low-fi Sci-fi. Episodically Odd and free to read from the End of Time: www.writteninexile.com

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Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · May 31

I'm Adam and I'm an author. Exile is my baby. Plague tales I started as a 'one draft and go' exercise during the pandemic. It's my Kilgore Trout bad idea Decameron. Now I write episodic lowfi scifi novelas. Free to read. Would like to make money. Asking after audience first. www.writteninexile.com

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Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 8m

By "stared down" they mean dissociated. And what she was thinking in the moment? Who knows. It's hard to tell where the bo-tox paralysis ends and the sociopathy begins on such a mug. Becky Hitler, melted-barbie monster who can't read good.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 12m

That's a baby.

Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 21h

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”

- H.P. Lovecraft

A hand holding a dripping wet, bulging-eyed, flat-faced cat looking sadly at the camera.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 13m

Oh absolutely. He's that rich frat dude who will share his overpriced weed w you, but the price is pretend friendship w someone who thinks Jordan Peterson "has some good ideas bro... you gotta admit..." No. No I don't. Funny part is Thiel really believes some transhumanist vampire bullshit.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 20m

I mean...he's also that anti-intellectual that was like "I don't need philosophy..." (invents shitty philosophy because he can't be bothered to read). Lotta stoners reading/thinking deep. Lotta biz majors takin fat doinks. Don't blame the weed for user error.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 23m

Hell yes.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 23m

No. No no. Baseball is heartbreak. It absolutely is, and it is still all the beautiful stuff too. Fuck this "eat pray love" shit. Embrace the abject: "shit and death" of life, the corpse note that makes the perfume pop. Get your heart broke every year. let it re-grow next spring (not fresh, ready)

Joe Posnanski @joeposnanski.com · 21h

Baseball isn’t all heartbreak!

Sometimes it’s beautiful and reminds us that a game can instantly tie us back to the past.

Baseball is Always Old and Always New

Fifteen innings. A million butterflies. One night reminds us again that Baseball is the Best.

www.joeposnanski.com

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 28m

I read "leggings" and I'm keeping it. Lil' spider long johns for the upcoming crisp weather. Bless you. That's a public service.

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Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 34m

But it's a 65 year old from the upper midwest with a deep and spiritual relationship to truckstop biscuits and gravy. Rot faster, fascist.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 34m

Sure he does.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

Oh yeah. Early 2000's there was a phenomenon: suburban mall punk who wants to proselytize about conserva-punk. That was a thing. A whole stupid ideologically incoherent thing.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

I dunno why, but every time I see something referencing hunger on military bases? I think of the Battleship Potemkin, the Czarists feeding sailors maggot ridden meat, and how history rhymes.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

Dude. Do you hear that? It's the ghost of Valentina Tereshkova begging you not to do that.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

Like, my cats and my snacks and my bed are there. Fuck yeah I wanna go home.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

Cancri: "Who the fuck are you?" to ... play god. To fuck with the fate of an entire people. "Who are you?" to play god (hell, ask the question to god). I think enormous question in tiny sketched frame is a fun way to work. More writing coming. Episodic. Free to read. Quite blasphemous and socialist.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

Burnout weekends are nice. Got my baseball heart broke, but that's what you sign on for w that game (congrats to the Aquamen). Didn't write, but I schemed. I'm uh go back to my delightfully boring job and advance the plot in my little science fictions. Mad Archivist. Hubris parable.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

that's the breed of cat that is the first item on my "let's agree to always be super specific about what we're talking about" list.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

Be the light you wish to see...

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

"Teacher trap" you sound like those old hippie narcs that voted for Reagan Twice.

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Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1h

You're doing the sophist dance. You're making it really obvious because you're only taking issue with the formal features of her arg (and implying some ephemeral "voice" or "tone" shit that aint there). You're doin' the sophistry. Stop or don't. I don't teach rhetoric anymore, not my problem.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 2h

The Salvation Army is a trash-can full of bigots and always has been. Labor lore, the Starvation Army band used to try to drown out labor organizers (hence the lil' red song book). They have a long history of being in bed with authoritarian trash.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to the Seattle Aquamen.

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Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1d

*SOBBING* 14 INNINGS OF BEER ON THE WALL

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1d

BEISBOLCATS. COME ON MAN. IM SUPER SLEEPY.

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1d

HOW YOU LIKE THAT DOUBLE PLAY?

Adam S. Twitchell @adamstwitchell.bsky.social · 1d

BEISBOLCATS PLEASE WIN BECAUSE I AM SLEEPY AND THIS IS STRESSFUL. GO BEISBOLCATS.