Caracabe
@caracabe.bsky.social
Bookworm, poet, anti-fascist, all-around nerd.
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
These “Urgent! We’re not on track to reach our fundraising goals!” emails make me remember when I worked at a company where we never got raises because, record year after record year, company revenue “didn’t meet our goals.” Goals aren’t always set to be met. Sometimes they’re just an excuse.
December 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
These “Urgent! We’re not on track to reach our fundraising goals!” emails make me remember when I worked at a company where we never got raises because, record year after record year, company revenue “didn’t meet our goals.” Goals aren’t always set to be met. Sometimes they’re just an excuse.
How I’m entering 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
How I’m entering 2026.
My most (not very) controversial food takes:
* Edamame is lima beans.
* Root beer and licorice are both taste bud abuse.
* Chocolate ain’t that great.
* Pie > cake.
* The best pie is pecan pie.
* Pecan pie with chocolate is like caviar with saltines.
* Edamame is lima beans.
* Root beer and licorice are both taste bud abuse.
* Chocolate ain’t that great.
* Pie > cake.
* The best pie is pecan pie.
* Pecan pie with chocolate is like caviar with saltines.
December 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
My most (not very) controversial food takes:
* Edamame is lima beans.
* Root beer and licorice are both taste bud abuse.
* Chocolate ain’t that great.
* Pie > cake.
* The best pie is pecan pie.
* Pecan pie with chocolate is like caviar with saltines.
* Edamame is lima beans.
* Root beer and licorice are both taste bud abuse.
* Chocolate ain’t that great.
* Pie > cake.
* The best pie is pecan pie.
* Pecan pie with chocolate is like caviar with saltines.
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Monstrously shitty Supreme Court rulings aren't new (Dred Scott v. Sandford). Breathtakingly stupid and corrupt presidencies aren't new, either (Harding/Teapot Dome). No one is saying things are great, but calling this shit unprecedented or unrecoverable is just factually wrong.
Suspiciously so.
Suspiciously so.
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Monstrously shitty Supreme Court rulings aren't new (Dred Scott v. Sandford). Breathtakingly stupid and corrupt presidencies aren't new, either (Harding/Teapot Dome). No one is saying things are great, but calling this shit unprecedented or unrecoverable is just factually wrong.
Suspiciously so.
Suspiciously so.
You, a foolish writer: (toils at crafting phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that express exactly what you want to say in a way only you can say it)
Me, a genius content creator: “Computer, give me the most average text possible.”
Me, a genius content creator: “Computer, give me the most average text possible.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
You, a foolish writer: (toils at crafting phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that express exactly what you want to say in a way only you can say it)
Me, a genius content creator: “Computer, give me the most average text possible.”
Me, a genius content creator: “Computer, give me the most average text possible.”
You, a foolish writer: (toils at crafting phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that express exactly what you want to say in a way only you can say it)
Me, a genius content creator: “Computer, give me the most average text possible on this topic.”
Me, a genius content creator: “Computer, give me the most average text possible on this topic.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
You, a foolish writer: (toils at crafting phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that express exactly what you want to say in a way only you can say it)
Me, a genius content creator: “Computer, give me the most average text possible on this topic.”
Me, a genius content creator: “Computer, give me the most average text possible on this topic.”
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.
We should amend the U.S. constitution to eliminate the presidential pardon. Its potential for abuse is far greater than its power to redress wrongs.
December 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We should amend the U.S. constitution to eliminate the presidential pardon. Its potential for abuse is far greater than its power to redress wrongs.
Weak men mistake brutality for masculinity.
December 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Weak men mistake brutality for masculinity.
I call myself expuritan rather than exvangelical (following Sarah Vowell’s distinction in The Wordy Shipmates). Evangelical Christianity is, as I understand it, emotional. Puritan Christianity emphasizes a rational relationship with the divine. 1/2
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I call myself expuritan rather than exvangelical (following Sarah Vowell’s distinction in The Wordy Shipmates). Evangelical Christianity is, as I understand it, emotional. Puritan Christianity emphasizes a rational relationship with the divine. 1/2
I remember a time when the phrase “The Supreme Court has agreed to hear…” did not fill me with dread.
December 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I remember a time when the phrase “The Supreme Court has agreed to hear…” did not fill me with dread.
If you’re an artist (in whatever media), what book from childhood shaped your art? For me it would be two, one forced on me and one chosen: the King James Bible, and Charles Finger’s Tales from Silver Lands. I have quarrels with both now, but they made my writing what it is.
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you’re an artist (in whatever media), what book from childhood shaped your art? For me it would be two, one forced on me and one chosen: the King James Bible, and Charles Finger’s Tales from Silver Lands. I have quarrels with both now, but they made my writing what it is.
Bookmail is the best mail.
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Bookmail is the best mail.
Blog post: 2026 reading in preview: bedriegerjunction.com/blog/2025/12...
2026 reading in preview – Humid Light
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December 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Blog post: 2026 reading in preview: bedriegerjunction.com/blog/2025/12...
So it snowed and I let our new husky mix pup out to play in the backyard for 15 minutes then spent the next 15 minutes calling him back inside.
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
So it snowed and I let our new husky mix pup out to play in the backyard for 15 minutes then spent the next 15 minutes calling him back inside.
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The Munsters poses the chilling question, what if your parents were a vampire and a Frankenstein? The Addams Family poses the chilling question, what if your parents were openly sexual?
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The Munsters poses the chilling question, what if your parents were a vampire and a Frankenstein? The Addams Family poses the chilling question, what if your parents were openly sexual?
My best creativity hack: start thinking about what you’re going to write as soon as you get the assignment, then start writing a few hours before the deadline.
I said it’s my best. I didn’t say it’s good.
I said it’s my best. I didn’t say it’s good.
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My best creativity hack: start thinking about what you’re going to write as soon as you get the assignment, then start writing a few hours before the deadline.
I said it’s my best. I didn’t say it’s good.
I said it’s my best. I didn’t say it’s good.
Just watched the movie Eddington. It reminds me of Class of 1984, in being an overwrought and ludicrous “this is what America’s come to” story that shows no understanding of the actual issues it pretends to address or of how people work. Even Pedro Pascal can’t save it.
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Just watched the movie Eddington. It reminds me of Class of 1984, in being an overwrought and ludicrous “this is what America’s come to” story that shows no understanding of the actual issues it pretends to address or of how people work. Even Pedro Pascal can’t save it.
I like predictive text. It tells me when I’m being cliched.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I like predictive text. It tells me when I’m being cliched.
Mice have at least one nest in our back yard. Unexpectedly, Teddy (the not-quite-year-old husky mix we just adopted) turns out to be quite the mouser. We have to check his mouth before we let him back in the house.
On the downside, he’s chewed up a book and a power cord in the last two days.
On the downside, he’s chewed up a book and a power cord in the last two days.
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Mice have at least one nest in our back yard. Unexpectedly, Teddy (the not-quite-year-old husky mix we just adopted) turns out to be quite the mouser. We have to check his mouth before we let him back in the house.
On the downside, he’s chewed up a book and a power cord in the last two days.
On the downside, he’s chewed up a book and a power cord in the last two days.
When I call our usual pizza place, I now get an AI order taker that doesn’t identify itself as such. Fortunately it will let me talk to a person if I ask (which I do), but it still ticks me off.
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
When I call our usual pizza place, I now get an AI order taker that doesn’t identify itself as such. Fortunately it will let me talk to a person if I ask (which I do), but it still ticks me off.
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A scene from 'Penelope', a play by Leonora Carrington staged by Alejandro Jodorowsky, in 1957. Set designs and costumes by Leonora Carrington.
#LeonoraCarrington #AlejandroJodorowsky
#LeonoraCarrington #AlejandroJodorowsky
June 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A scene from 'Penelope', a play by Leonora Carrington staged by Alejandro Jodorowsky, in 1957. Set designs and costumes by Leonora Carrington.
#LeonoraCarrington #AlejandroJodorowsky
#LeonoraCarrington #AlejandroJodorowsky