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a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
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The Creature to Victor, Frankenstein (1818), the modern Prometheus by bisexual polyamorous Capital R Romantic literary legend Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:
January 27, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The Creature to Victor, Frankenstein (1818), the modern Prometheus by bisexual polyamorous Capital R Romantic literary legend Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:
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They're insisting that mutual aid is a sign of some large dark money network because a lot of them cannot imagine giving something to strangers for free
January 26, 2026 at 8:40 PM
They're insisting that mutual aid is a sign of some large dark money network because a lot of them cannot imagine giving something to strangers for free
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Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."
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Ear protection can't save you from your government aiming a brain melter at your skull but it CAN help so please, be as safe as you can be in the streets of your own cities in which you and your neighbors are simply trying to live
This is such evil technology
Hearing protection can't save you but it CAN reduce some harm, but above all, resist panic, resist running, resist the crushing deaths the police aiming the LRAD at you desire
pitchfork.com/thepitch/und...
Hearing protection can't save you but it CAN reduce some harm, but above all, resist panic, resist running, resist the crushing deaths the police aiming the LRAD at you desire
pitchfork.com/thepitch/und...
Understanding the LRAD, the “Sound Cannon” Police Are Using at Protests, and How to Protect Yourself From It
Usage of LRADs, which can be loud enough to induce vomiting and cause ear damage, has been documented at protests across the country.
pitchfork.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Ear protection can't save you from your government aiming a brain melter at your skull but it CAN help so please, be as safe as you can be in the streets of your own cities in which you and your neighbors are simply trying to live
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Nah.
Abolish is the only acceptable response to what we've already seen.
Abolish is the only acceptable response to what we've already seen.
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Nah.
Abolish is the only acceptable response to what we've already seen.
Abolish is the only acceptable response to what we've already seen.
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My sister’s orphaned children couldn’t sleep all night because of the severe cold after their tent was destroyed.💔
We urgently need only $300 to buy a tent, blankets, and clothes before the storm comes
Please, help us before it’s too late.
Verified @mommunism.bsky.social✅
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We urgently need only $300 to buy a tent, blankets, and clothes before the storm comes
Please, help us before it’s too late.
Verified @mommunism.bsky.social✅
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
January 27, 2026 at 12:49 PM
My sister’s orphaned children couldn’t sleep all night because of the severe cold after their tent was destroyed.💔
We urgently need only $300 to buy a tent, blankets, and clothes before the storm comes
Please, help us before it’s too late.
Verified @mommunism.bsky.social✅
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
We urgently need only $300 to buy a tent, blankets, and clothes before the storm comes
Please, help us before it’s too late.
Verified @mommunism.bsky.social✅
chuffed.org/project/mahm...
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"tensions"
surely the main practical reason for never forgetting is to prevent it happening again? are people not being targeted simply for being brown and/or being immigrants?
surely the main practical reason for never forgetting is to prevent it happening again? are people not being targeted simply for being brown and/or being immigrants?
The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"tensions"
surely the main practical reason for never forgetting is to prevent it happening again? are people not being targeted simply for being brown and/or being immigrants?
surely the main practical reason for never forgetting is to prevent it happening again? are people not being targeted simply for being brown and/or being immigrants?
Also shamanism, possession and cosmic horror
You watched The Shining (1980), Thing from Another World (1951), & The Thing(s) (1982, 2011). Need more Arctic entertainment? How bout a crime drama set in polar bear mating season so everyone’s drunk, depressed, armed, & full of interpersonal angst? Not enough? It co-stars Stanley Tucci (1 season).
Fortitude (TV Series 2015–2018) ⭐ 7.3 | Drama, Horror, Mystery
1h | TV-MA
www.imdb.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Also shamanism, possession and cosmic horror
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My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 27, 2026 at 2:18 PM
My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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Not a sinister job title www.wired.com/story/palant...
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Not a sinister job title www.wired.com/story/palant...
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They have never been interested in communication, or creating meaning, only in taking power. Language and their simulacrum of reasoning is only used in the service of gaining more power. Domination is their only value, and their only message is that they will take everything we let them take
January 24, 2026 at 8:01 PM
They have never been interested in communication, or creating meaning, only in taking power. Language and their simulacrum of reasoning is only used in the service of gaining more power. Domination is their only value, and their only message is that they will take everything we let them take
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2016: You're overreacting
2017: You're overreacting
2018: You're overreacting
2019: You're overreacting
2020: You're overreacting
2021: Ok, Jan 6 was bad but it's all over now
2025: You're overreacting
2026: Hey, I think something is seriously wrong. Please clap.
2017: You're overreacting
2018: You're overreacting
2019: You're overreacting
2020: You're overreacting
2021: Ok, Jan 6 was bad but it's all over now
2025: You're overreacting
2026: Hey, I think something is seriously wrong. Please clap.
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 12:24 PM
2016: You're overreacting
2017: You're overreacting
2018: You're overreacting
2019: You're overreacting
2020: You're overreacting
2021: Ok, Jan 6 was bad but it's all over now
2025: You're overreacting
2026: Hey, I think something is seriously wrong. Please clap.
2017: You're overreacting
2018: You're overreacting
2019: You're overreacting
2020: You're overreacting
2021: Ok, Jan 6 was bad but it's all over now
2025: You're overreacting
2026: Hey, I think something is seriously wrong. Please clap.
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Just adjusting to life in the asylum www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Just adjusting to life in the asylum www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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I don't want Trump to resign. I want him drug from the White House kicking and screaming. I want him forcibly removed and taken before a tribunal. He doesn't get to slink away on his terms. Fuck that shit.
Demand his impeachment, arrest, and incarceration.
Take his presidency from him.
Demand his impeachment, arrest, and incarceration.
Take his presidency from him.
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 AM
I don't want Trump to resign. I want him drug from the White House kicking and screaming. I want him forcibly removed and taken before a tribunal. He doesn't get to slink away on his terms. Fuck that shit.
Demand his impeachment, arrest, and incarceration.
Take his presidency from him.
Demand his impeachment, arrest, and incarceration.
Take his presidency from him.
Went to see The Testament of Ann Lee tonight with my mom and a friend; I enjoyed it a lot. Mom: “I kept falling asleep.” Me: “That’d be the hypnagogic repetition, probably.” Mom: “And all the singing.”
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Went to see The Testament of Ann Lee tonight with my mom and a friend; I enjoyed it a lot. Mom: “I kept falling asleep.” Me: “That’d be the hypnagogic repetition, probably.” Mom: “And all the singing.”
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Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
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A friend shared this picture of someone holding this sign as part of yesterday's Chicago protests. I'm always humbled when people bring my ideas along with them.
January 27, 2026 at 3:57 AM
A friend shared this picture of someone holding this sign as part of yesterday's Chicago protests. I'm always humbled when people bring my ideas along with them.
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They aren’t backing down. They’re just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they haven’t yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:24 PM
They aren’t backing down. They’re just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they haven’t yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.
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Filmed on Super 8. Breathtakingly beautiful. This film’s got atmosphere. It’s also a very accurate portrayal of the cult of Christianity. 📽️🩸
January 27, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Filmed on Super 8. Breathtakingly beautiful. This film’s got atmosphere. It’s also a very accurate portrayal of the cult of Christianity. 📽️🩸
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minnesotans are, right now, protesting at the hotel where ice is known to be staying
LIVE: Demonstration in Minnesota after fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:48 AM
minnesotans are, right now, protesting at the hotel where ice is known to be staying
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“We lost all trust,” a current ICE official added. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.”
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 PM
“We lost all trust,” a current ICE official added. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.”
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Buy Gemma's book!
January 26, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Buy Gemma's book!
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Chat, is that a good firearms safety practice?
January 26, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Chat, is that a good firearms safety practice?