Shard (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent)
@mkfshard.bsky.social
Joseph Hartman (he/they)
Writer of upcoming fantasy novel
THE SIGIL AND THE SERPENT
Developer of soulslike RPG Deadbeat!
https://linktr.ee/jahartman
Writer of upcoming fantasy novel
THE SIGIL AND THE SERPENT
Developer of soulslike RPG Deadbeat!
https://linktr.ee/jahartman
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every leftist i know is very excited about technology but unfortunately they want tech that improves society and makes people's lives easier and that's harder for wealthy prdophiles to build a trillion dollar industry bubble around
February 18, 2026 at 4:14 PM
every leftist i know is very excited about technology but unfortunately they want tech that improves society and makes people's lives easier and that's harder for wealthy prdophiles to build a trillion dollar industry bubble around
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Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
February 19, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
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you should write because you love your story so much that it's all you can think about, and you should also get so pissed off at a video game that it makes you write a novel
February 17, 2026 at 1:33 PM
you should write because you love your story so much that it's all you can think about, and you should also get so pissed off at a video game that it makes you write a novel
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if you’re not a creative i think you likely don’t know how much almost all of us in the US are constantly struggling
or how much MORE GREAT ART you would get if most of us weren’t constantly worried about not being able to eat or pay the bills
imagine valuing art and artists!
IMAGINE
or how much MORE GREAT ART you would get if most of us weren’t constantly worried about not being able to eat or pay the bills
imagine valuing art and artists!
IMAGINE
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 8:51 PM
if you’re not a creative i think you likely don’t know how much almost all of us in the US are constantly struggling
or how much MORE GREAT ART you would get if most of us weren’t constantly worried about not being able to eat or pay the bills
imagine valuing art and artists!
IMAGINE
or how much MORE GREAT ART you would get if most of us weren’t constantly worried about not being able to eat or pay the bills
imagine valuing art and artists!
IMAGINE
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I wish on every TERF what they wish on trans people
February 18, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I wish on every TERF what they wish on trans people
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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It’s making people insane, stupid, violent against themselves and others. It’s eroding any remaining broad social consensus about empirical reality. It’s weakening already wobbly democracies. It’s poisoning people. It’s impoverishing people. It’s traumatizing people. It’s dehumanizing people
February 18, 2026 at 5:26 AM
It’s making people insane, stupid, violent against themselves and others. It’s eroding any remaining broad social consensus about empirical reality. It’s weakening already wobbly democracies. It’s poisoning people. It’s impoverishing people. It’s traumatizing people. It’s dehumanizing people
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I want to live in a world where it is as common to challenge bigotry as it is to say bless you after someone sneezes.
February 18, 2026 at 3:59 AM
I want to live in a world where it is as common to challenge bigotry as it is to say bless you after someone sneezes.
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i really am so sick of this whole “fascists are just poorly educated and we can win by showing them our humanity.” shit.
here’s the thing, right? it shouldn’t matter if some asshole is transphobic because they have been brainwashed by the media… the levers of power shouldn’t exist to enable them
here’s the thing, right? it shouldn’t matter if some asshole is transphobic because they have been brainwashed by the media… the levers of power shouldn’t exist to enable them
February 18, 2026 at 1:27 AM
i really am so sick of this whole “fascists are just poorly educated and we can win by showing them our humanity.” shit.
here’s the thing, right? it shouldn’t matter if some asshole is transphobic because they have been brainwashed by the media… the levers of power shouldn’t exist to enable them
here’s the thing, right? it shouldn’t matter if some asshole is transphobic because they have been brainwashed by the media… the levers of power shouldn’t exist to enable them
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Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
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Trying to remember if there was another time in US history where a group of people were punished for the act of writing
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Trying to remember if there was another time in US history where a group of people were punished for the act of writing
Part of why I wrote my current main novel was frustration at seeing so many different games/anime/what have you where a character got a power-up that transformed them...
And they just... don't really address it?? They don't think about how weird it is!
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #Writers
And they just... don't really address it?? They don't think about how weird it is!
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #Writers
Confession time…
Promote your story by confessing something about writing it!
Or make your characters admit something embarrassing!
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #Writers
Promote your story by confessing something about writing it!
Or make your characters admit something embarrassing!
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #Writers
February 17, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Part of why I wrote my current main novel was frustration at seeing so many different games/anime/what have you where a character got a power-up that transformed them...
And they just... don't really address it?? They don't think about how weird it is!
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #Writers
And they just... don't really address it?? They don't think about how weird it is!
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingQ #Writers
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The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
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One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
February 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children.
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles.
Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
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I'm tired of the lesser evil. These hoes wanna live in Omelas or something? Can't we just have a good candidate who doesn't have a forsaken basement child to prop them up? I just want someone who doesn't chum up to types like Charlie Kirkn't, and wants people to be able to live somewhere.
February 17, 2026 at 12:42 AM
I'm tired of the lesser evil. These hoes wanna live in Omelas or something? Can't we just have a good candidate who doesn't have a forsaken basement child to prop them up? I just want someone who doesn't chum up to types like Charlie Kirkn't, and wants people to be able to live somewhere.
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Transphobia is recycled 90s homophobia.
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Transphobia is recycled 90s homophobia.
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New Kickstarter coming in hot!
GUN NOSE by Addy Valentine
Music arrangement by Scruffy, Written & Performed by Addy Valentine.
SUPPORT THE KICKSTARTER BELOW!
GUN NOSE by Addy Valentine
Music arrangement by Scruffy, Written & Performed by Addy Valentine.
SUPPORT THE KICKSTARTER BELOW!
February 15, 2026 at 12:09 AM
New Kickstarter coming in hot!
GUN NOSE by Addy Valentine
Music arrangement by Scruffy, Written & Performed by Addy Valentine.
SUPPORT THE KICKSTARTER BELOW!
GUN NOSE by Addy Valentine
Music arrangement by Scruffy, Written & Performed by Addy Valentine.
SUPPORT THE KICKSTARTER BELOW!
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This is pretty much the foundational reason for a LOT of things.
Why don't we have as many cool music scenes anymore?
Why does art and creativity in general suffer?
Why is everyone so depressed an anxious?
An economy based on asset appreciation is inimical to the things that make us human.
Why don't we have as many cool music scenes anymore?
Why does art and creativity in general suffer?
Why is everyone so depressed an anxious?
An economy based on asset appreciation is inimical to the things that make us human.
if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"
February 15, 2026 at 11:47 PM
This is pretty much the foundational reason for a LOT of things.
Why don't we have as many cool music scenes anymore?
Why does art and creativity in general suffer?
Why is everyone so depressed an anxious?
An economy based on asset appreciation is inimical to the things that make us human.
Why don't we have as many cool music scenes anymore?
Why does art and creativity in general suffer?
Why is everyone so depressed an anxious?
An economy based on asset appreciation is inimical to the things that make us human.
I love dragon posting!
My dragon lad here was drawn by @droolingdemon.bsky.social! Top notch action poses :D
My dragon lad here was drawn by @droolingdemon.bsky.social! Top notch action poses :D
February 16, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I love dragon posting!
My dragon lad here was drawn by @droolingdemon.bsky.social! Top notch action poses :D
My dragon lad here was drawn by @droolingdemon.bsky.social! Top notch action poses :D
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
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I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
February 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
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This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 AM
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
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slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur
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I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.
February 14, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.