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Kakistocracy (Jay)
@crankypacifist.bsky.social
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he/them/y'all

abolish ice
free palestine
e pluribus unum
borders are violence
inherent dignity for all

adhd working-class academic, nc, us
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i write crap for fun. jayparr.wordpress.com

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crankypacifist.bsky.social
Skoden, stoodis.
The four central teenage characters in the pilot episode of Reservation Dogs, dressed in black suits and white shirts for the funeral and walking toward the camera
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Saving this image to explore how meta it is—in that the image itself displays so many undesirable traits of the "AI"(sic) it lionizes.
the time person of the year cover honoring "the architects of AI", with an AI-slop imitation of the canonical depression-era photo of the workers sitting on the beam, eating lunch high above manhattan, only those working-class heroes have been, poorly, replaced with a bunch of tech oligarchs. i immediately recognize zuckerberg, musk, and sam altman, and there are 5 others
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Oh that's right it's #FlannelForearmFriday
my left forearm, in a rolled up flannel shirt of a heather plaid, resting on my thigh in the driver's seat of a car with light gray interior. The text of my tattoo, which is rendered in the original type from the First Folio of Shakespeare, reads "If by your Art (my deerest father) you have / Put the wild waters in this Rore; alay them"
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Aw man, dead link.
Screenshot This suite can't be reached Check if there is a typo in kingdom.is DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
December 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
3 of 'em, out of 29.
10% of the class.
Macro photo of a computer screen, centered on the line "…heat and toxic conditions of Venus, banned books…" There's more fragments of text, but none of it matters, because it's all LLM slop
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Probably a better question for an editor, but M-W seems to suggest that "dove" is mostly a North American usage anyway?

@stellagarp.bsky.social —wanna weigh in?
Screenshot from Merriam-Webster "dived" lookup. Text as follows: Dived vs. Dove: Usage Guide The original past tense of dive is dived; dove developed as an alternate form in the 1800s, probably by analogy with forms like drive and drove. Dove is now more common in English as spoken in North America, "so we dove right in" while dived remains the preferred form elsewhere. As for the past participle form, dived is more common everywhere. "We're not hesitating; we have dived right in."
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Called it.
Labels on your content You may appeal these labels if you feel they were placed in error. Sexually Suggestive Does not include nudity. Source: moderation dot bsky dot app
December 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
At first I was sad they didn't use the sculpture as the featured image, but then I realized bsky would probably flag it as porn or something.
bronze sculpture of Constance Wilde, naked and pregnant and smaller than life in the Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue park
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
I didn't deserve it.
skinny white guy with rock-star hair
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Foggeh.
Night photo of a foggy landscape
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Kicking myself for not getting a Reservation Dogs shot of the Disney Princesses™ when we were all staging for the parade.
The main cast of Reservation Dogs in the Reservoir Dogs quote shot from the pilot episode.
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
I talk a lot of shit for a guy who cries at dance performances
Modern dancers in a dense tableau with dramatic, shadowy lighting
December 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
This looks more accurate (from 2020).
www.cdc.gov/nchs/product...
screenshot of a graph suggesting that roughly one fifth of kids are sexually active at age 15, roughly one third at age 16, roughly half at age 17, roughly two thirds at age 18, not quite three quarters at age 19, and not quite four fifths at age 20. The image is labeled "Figure 2. Probability of having had sex by age 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20 for females and males, United States, 2015–2017." The graph shows two ascending lines, in close proximity and slightly curved toward a plateau, with female being slightly above male. The numbers on the graph are as follows, in order of age, female, male: at 15, 0.21 & 0.20, at 16, 0.37 & 0.34, at 17, 0.53 & 0.48, at 18, 0.65 & 0.62, at 19, 0.74 & 0.70, at 20, 0.79 & 0.77.
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Heh.
screenshot of an illustration of der krampus, with his tongue hanging down to his chest. he has switches in his hand and a basket full of very unhappy children slung over his shoulder
December 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
We could hang this sign out front to dissuade the daft tourists.
DINNING ROOM CLOSED shutterstock image, and it was the only one I could find despite trying half a dozen different search terms because fucking google is fucking convinced it's fucking smarter than me now, and even when I told it multiple fucking times that I was intentionally looking for the misspelling, the motherfucking thing still thought it was smarter than me or I was illiterate or some bullshit. No, seriously, fuck google. Fucking shit used to work, and they goddamn wrecked it. Mother fuckers.
December 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Pun dog. The classic meme photo of the husky side-eyeing at the camera with a big expectant smile
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
I get that we're well into The Enshittification of All Things™ but if the platform monopolizing our class materials could not crap out when grades are due, that'd be great.
spinning circle gif thingy going round and round because shit's borked
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
With alt text
Image text: Mom and I walking past a woman in a shirt that says "Feminist AF" Mom: I didn't realize they have an air force. Me: Yes, yes they do. Mom (to woman): Thank you for your service. Woman: You're welcome. Meme image is what looks like probably a 19th century painting of two women, perhaps a mother and adult daughter, in expensive looking winter coats and carefully styled hair
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
NC has been doing this for a long time. See NC 12, ca 1992–99.
a black shape that looks like a river system, meandering through parts of Charlotte, Statesville, Lexington, High Point, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and hooking over the north side of Durham to its east, some 175 miles away. This district was something like a mile wide in places.
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Ooh, with a cicada shell on the cover

Wan Little Husks
An empty cicada shell hanging on the side of a tree, the background out of focus
December 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
I ride this bike now, because my old deformed neck won't let me ride a road bike anymore.
Weird ass bike. It's a Haluzak recumbent, kinda looks like somebody made a bike by perching a lawn chair on a witch's broomstick and tacked the pedals on out front
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
I mean, look at this shit.
A view of the Roanoke River from the Blue Ridge Parkway. The river cuts through a small, steep, wooded valley, with foggy spots in the low areas and overlapping ridges in the background. This is a bridge I stood on more than one night when I was probably at my most suicidal, which I wrote about in the little micro memoir Parkway Bridge.
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Happy Buy Nothing Day!
#FlannelForearmFriday
Mirror selfie with flannel and forearms. The flannel is in reds and greens, and my daughter gave me shit for it, said I was being all Mariah Carey and shit
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
One dishwasher load is running.
a double kitchen sink and the counter beyond it, all laden with dirty dishes from the preparation of our Indigenous people's feast (for my little family of 3)
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
crankypacifist.bsky.social
Me: (slapping shit together ADHD style)

My partner:
A spreadsheet with all the preps and cooking detailed out and reverse-scheduled so that everything will be ready at the same time. It's printed out and taped to the cabinet door above our main prep area.
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM