Disappointed But Not Surprised
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builds castles in the cloud, occasionally lives in them. autodidact, neurodivergent weirdo, pretty decent cook.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
Accusations of hypocrisy have never once been successful against right wingers in any context but especially in this particular context of child abuse. This is a very cogent explanation as to why and I wish everyone understood it.
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Accusations of hypocrisy have never once been successful against right wingers in any context but especially in this particular context of child abuse. This is a very cogent explanation as to why and I wish everyone understood it.
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
the only thing that delivers disappointment more reliably than divorced dad cooking is the Democratic party
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
the only thing that delivers disappointment more reliably than divorced dad cooking is the Democratic party
Of all the dystopian futures I’ve read in fiction, I can’t tell you how upsetting it is that Transmetropolitan continues to be the most prophetic. Spider Jerusalem was talking about toilet cams almost 30 years ago and I am so mad that wasn’t just a bit.
Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda — a $599 camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl and take pictures of what’s inside.
Kohler unveils a camera for your toilet | TechCrunch
Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda — a $599 camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl and take pictures of what’s inside.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Of all the dystopian futures I’ve read in fiction, I can’t tell you how upsetting it is that Transmetropolitan continues to be the most prophetic. Spider Jerusalem was talking about toilet cams almost 30 years ago and I am so mad that wasn’t just a bit.
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"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
The Crime of Human Virtue
Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.
www.the-reframe.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
test it in prod
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
test it in prod
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I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
The Crime of Human Virtue
Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.
www.the-reframe.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
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Pundits 15 years ago: of course rich people don't want us all ground into nutritional paste for their pets
Pundits today: it's time for us to have a serious conversation about whether we should be ground into nutritional paste for rich people's pets
Pundits today: it's time for us to have a serious conversation about whether we should be ground into nutritional paste for rich people's pets
October 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Pundits 15 years ago: of course rich people don't want us all ground into nutritional paste for their pets
Pundits today: it's time for us to have a serious conversation about whether we should be ground into nutritional paste for rich people's pets
Pundits today: it's time for us to have a serious conversation about whether we should be ground into nutritional paste for rich people's pets
All this rage was once hope
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
All this rage was once hope
"A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nations laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation."
- William Gibson, Zero History
- William Gibson, Zero History
October 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nations laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation."
- William Gibson, Zero History
- William Gibson, Zero History
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INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back?
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.
September 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back?
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.
In 1936, Walter Benjamin characterized Europe as a society whose “self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.” But he also warned that “all efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.”
September 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In 1936, Walter Benjamin characterized Europe as a society whose “self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.” But he also warned that “all efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.”
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Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.
September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.
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here's 17 year old incel thurston brandypimple to lecture you on the importance of traditional masculinity. in his spare time he collects doilies and lynching post cards. he just received a $2b endowment from peter thiel's committee to blow up schools with cruise missiles.
September 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
here's 17 year old incel thurston brandypimple to lecture you on the importance of traditional masculinity. in his spare time he collects doilies and lynching post cards. he just received a $2b endowment from peter thiel's committee to blow up schools with cruise missiles.
Democratic Senator Melchet has an inspirational message for us about the new DNC strategy.
September 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Democratic Senator Melchet has an inspirational message for us about the new DNC strategy.
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the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost
August 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost
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Whenever folks start talking to me about using AI in their films, I smile innocently and say "oh, theft?"
When they stammer about their low budget, I muse casually "have you considered robbing a bank? If you're gonna steal anyway, you might as well get your budget where you need it."
When they stammer about their low budget, I muse casually "have you considered robbing a bank? If you're gonna steal anyway, you might as well get your budget where you need it."
September 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Since the phrase “Banana Republic” is getting thrown around a lot lately, it seems worth pointing out that Banana Republics are literally created by America. They don’t just happen, they are the direct result of US fruit companies backed by US military and CIA. Colonialism always comes home to roost
We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
September 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Since the phrase “Banana Republic” is getting thrown around a lot lately, it seems worth pointing out that Banana Republics are literally created by America. They don’t just happen, they are the direct result of US fruit companies backed by US military and CIA. Colonialism always comes home to roost
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I’m spending this week with my godmother, who is a 94 year old Holocaust refugee.
She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”
She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”
September 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I’m spending this week with my godmother, who is a 94 year old Holocaust refugee.
She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”
She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”
Also:
Nazis are bad
The Earth is a sphere
Vaccines work
Nazis are bad
The Earth is a sphere
Vaccines work
So:
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
September 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Also:
Nazis are bad
The Earth is a sphere
Vaccines work
Nazis are bad
The Earth is a sphere
Vaccines work