Normal Human Despair
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poet. writer. educator. queer.
Display name and tag are both references to old forgotten jokes.
Display name and tag are both references to old forgotten jokes.
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Bluesky yet again showing me a post I was working on upon opening the app, eating it immediately afterward.
Anyway, there was a 4 mech thing going around, so have at them. Yes I know Eva technically aren’t mechs.
Anyway, there was a 4 mech thing going around, so have at them. Yes I know Eva technically aren’t mechs.
January 8, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Bluesky yet again showing me a post I was working on upon opening the app, eating it immediately afterward.
Anyway, there was a 4 mech thing going around, so have at them. Yes I know Eva technically aren’t mechs.
Anyway, there was a 4 mech thing going around, so have at them. Yes I know Eva technically aren’t mechs.
Sorry folks, tried to think of a positive one, but this is the one that jumps in when I feel hollow, like the world is torturing me, and that’s unfortunately been “often” this past year.
January 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Sorry folks, tried to think of a positive one, but this is the one that jumps in when I feel hollow, like the world is torturing me, and that’s unfortunately been “often” this past year.
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They got mad at me last time I posted this image but this has been American political reality my whole life
January 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
They got mad at me last time I posted this image but this has been American political reality my whole life
You’ll deploy the national guard against your people but you won’t deploy them to stop ICE?
Come the fuck on, man
Come the fuck on, man
Governor Walz says he's prepared to deploy the Minnesota National Guard if protests become violent in reaction to ICE fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis.
"We will not take the bait," adds Walz, saying he's also angry but demonstrations should remain lawful.
"We will not take the bait," adds Walz, saying he's also angry but demonstrations should remain lawful.
January 8, 2026 at 2:49 AM
You’ll deploy the national guard against your people but you won’t deploy them to stop ICE?
Come the fuck on, man
Come the fuck on, man
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Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
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You do not need to "bear witness" to it, and you do not need to show it to other people. It is enough to report the facts and testimonies of the case
This is probably a much better place than Twitter was during Black Lives Matter. But just in case, do NOT post people being murdered on the timeline.
January 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM
You do not need to "bear witness" to it, and you do not need to show it to other people. It is enough to report the facts and testimonies of the case
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I don't know that they plan on saying anything publicly or speaking officially to industry press, but it has come to my attention that someone at DC Comics is back-channeling that I've already been paid. I haven't been paid a cent since July of last year, and that was for old work.
January 7, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I don't know that they plan on saying anything publicly or speaking officially to industry press, but it has come to my attention that someone at DC Comics is back-channeling that I've already been paid. I haven't been paid a cent since July of last year, and that was for old work.
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I'm not going to quote tweet, but I promise you that people do not "need" to see the video. I don't want to tell people what to post now that I know we have the tools for disabling videos. However, you don't need to see someone dehumanized to care for them if you already believe in their humanity.
January 7, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I'm not going to quote tweet, but I promise you that people do not "need" to see the video. I don't want to tell people what to post now that I know we have the tools for disabling videos. However, you don't need to see someone dehumanized to care for them if you already believe in their humanity.
This thought brought to you by my immediate response to the murder in Minneapolis being “he should hang,” thinking about it for a few minutes and having no remorse.
The reason I’ll never be fully prison abolitionist or fully anti-corporal punishment: people who put themselves into the workings of our society who then actively undermine it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:24 PM
This thought brought to you by my immediate response to the murder in Minneapolis being “he should hang,” thinking about it for a few minutes and having no remorse.
The reason I’ll never be fully prison abolitionist or fully anti-corporal punishment: people who put themselves into the workings of our society who then actively undermine it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The reason I’ll never be fully prison abolitionist or fully anti-corporal punishment: people who put themselves into the workings of our society who then actively undermine it.
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no way a show would release a secret twist bonus episode after the finale had already aired
Stranger Things fans have concocted a theory that suggests a true, secret ending episode to the series is coming out this week — and now the community is having to issue a warning not to get upset when it turns out to be false. https://bit.ly/4qe0bHW
January 7, 2026 at 3:55 PM
no way a show would release a secret twist bonus episode after the finale had already aired
God, am I gonna keep a Crunchyroll subscription for Ronin Warriors?
I know there’s other stuff there, but I’m also pretty sure it’s all I’d be watching with any consistency.
I know there’s other stuff there, but I’m also pretty sure it’s all I’d be watching with any consistency.
January 7, 2026 at 3:17 PM
God, am I gonna keep a Crunchyroll subscription for Ronin Warriors?
I know there’s other stuff there, but I’m also pretty sure it’s all I’d be watching with any consistency.
I know there’s other stuff there, but I’m also pretty sure it’s all I’d be watching with any consistency.
Rahm is a piece of human shit who fucked Chicago in a dozen different ways, don’t you dare give him any attention, let alone power.
I have nothing but contempt for this kind of thinking or political advocacy; anyone who joins this man's campaign is taking up with the opposition.
He waves no battle standard, his white flag is ironed, clean, unimprovised, and ready to be unfurled.
He waves no battle standard, his white flag is ironed, clean, unimprovised, and ready to be unfurled.
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Rahm is a piece of human shit who fucked Chicago in a dozen different ways, don’t you dare give him any attention, let alone power.
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GET BACK IN YOUR HOLE RAHM WE DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT
I have nothing but contempt for this kind of thinking or political advocacy; anyone who joins this man's campaign is taking up with the opposition.
He waves no battle standard, his white flag is ironed, clean, unimprovised, and ready to be unfurled.
He waves no battle standard, his white flag is ironed, clean, unimprovised, and ready to be unfurled.
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
GET BACK IN YOUR HOLE RAHM WE DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT
I wasn’t even that big into Bowie but I have the most vivid memory of the night he died.
Tom Petty was rough. Adam Schlesinger still hurts when I think about i. When I learned Elliott Smith was dead, years after the fact, it broke off a piece of something in me.
Tom Petty was rough. Adam Schlesinger still hurts when I think about i. When I learned Elliott Smith was dead, years after the fact, it broke off a piece of something in me.
What music artist’s death hurt the most?
January 7, 2026 at 5:08 AM
I wasn’t even that big into Bowie but I have the most vivid memory of the night he died.
Tom Petty was rough. Adam Schlesinger still hurts when I think about i. When I learned Elliott Smith was dead, years after the fact, it broke off a piece of something in me.
Tom Petty was rough. Adam Schlesinger still hurts when I think about i. When I learned Elliott Smith was dead, years after the fact, it broke off a piece of something in me.
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I don't want to toot my own horn, but me calling him a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin was frighteningly accurate on my part.
“Remember: be vulgar, be trivial, be offensive. Just don’t be weak.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Front-Runner
California’s Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:56 AM
I don't want to toot my own horn, but me calling him a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin was frighteningly accurate on my part.
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All the pitches for AI stuff sound like, “hey buddy, need someone to help your wife finish for you tonight??”
January 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
All the pitches for AI stuff sound like, “hey buddy, need someone to help your wife finish for you tonight??”
It’s wild to love a series so much and also forget that your favorite character died in it.
Anyway, there’s a moment in the new Samurai Troopers that made me go “I wonder what the old Troopers are up to, I hope we see Anubis.”
Anyway, there’s a moment in the new Samurai Troopers that made me go “I wonder what the old Troopers are up to, I hope we see Anubis.”
January 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
It’s wild to love a series so much and also forget that your favorite character died in it.
Anyway, there’s a moment in the new Samurai Troopers that made me go “I wonder what the old Troopers are up to, I hope we see Anubis.”
Anyway, there’s a moment in the new Samurai Troopers that made me go “I wonder what the old Troopers are up to, I hope we see Anubis.”
Evangelion, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: The Return.
It’s been a while, but I remember really liking the end to Better Call Saul.
It’s been a while, but I remember really liking the end to Better Call Saul.
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 7, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Evangelion, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: The Return.
It’s been a while, but I remember really liking the end to Better Call Saul.
It’s been a while, but I remember really liking the end to Better Call Saul.
At some point, I became convinced that Leo fucked the bear in The Revenant and I refuse to believe otherwise now
January 7, 2026 at 2:23 AM
At some point, I became convinced that Leo fucked the bear in The Revenant and I refuse to believe otherwise now
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Oh no, the Ronin Warriors sequel series is… good… maybe?
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Oh no, the Ronin Warriors sequel series is… good… maybe?
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It's foolish to expect every voter
to be as tuned-in to politics as the median poster here and it's perfectly reasonable to have expected the previous administration to treat insurrection against democracy as a live threat that demanded high-profile punishment and sanction for its leaders.
to be as tuned-in to politics as the median poster here and it's perfectly reasonable to have expected the previous administration to treat insurrection against democracy as a live threat that demanded high-profile punishment and sanction for its leaders.
January 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
It's foolish to expect every voter
to be as tuned-in to politics as the median poster here and it's perfectly reasonable to have expected the previous administration to treat insurrection against democracy as a live threat that demanded high-profile punishment and sanction for its leaders.
to be as tuned-in to politics as the median poster here and it's perfectly reasonable to have expected the previous administration to treat insurrection against democracy as a live threat that demanded high-profile punishment and sanction for its leaders.
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heathcliff is gonna get the chair because his lawyer didn't pay attention during jury selection
January 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
heathcliff is gonna get the chair because his lawyer didn't pay attention during jury selection