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life is so hard when you love being competent and knowledgeable and helpful but you also love slacking off
"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."
Last night, I read through old poems and found one I wrote back in February about someone I love.
This morning, I had a conversation with a friend about their upcoming slam poetry competition and the bravery of not just performing our writing but sharing it.
This afternoon, I decided to be brave and share my love poem with the person who inspired it.
not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!
Here's something from Margaret Killjoy. Not cropped to annoy those of you that loved cropped screengrabs. Also not cropped because I have better things to do and found all of this on Facebook, where someone other industrious soul copied it from Bluesky. If you haven't listened to Margaret Killjoy's podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, I recommend it.
January 21, 2026
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it.
Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
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Half the street corners around here have people-- from every walk of life, including republicans-- standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did was bring more people, from more walks of life.
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It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
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Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."
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Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear I bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself).
She didn't even have a hat on.
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Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get our real winter gear out of the box for the year."
He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch.
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in winter."
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But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
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I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
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I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
The thing in my life that I'm the most proud of and the most grateful for is Iz and my child.
Brennan Lee Mulligan Eats His Last Meal
This has to be the most beautiful thing one can say about a person
repeating this in my head since i heard it. brennan lee mulligan your love for the things you care about so important to me
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i love the way zac ends interactions with NPCs
the fuck you lookin at keep scrolling
My grandma often used the “royal we” when speaking about herself, an affectation I had never encountered in anyone else.
When I was young, I asked her why she referred to herself as “we” and she told me that she always carried a tiny mouse in her pocket, so she was never alone. Of course she couldn’t actually show me the mouse, because it was “very shy”.
Anyway, this is now how I visualize the Royal We Mouse.
okay but "the symbolism is Real and Trying to Kill You" is my favorite kind of symbolism
like yeah the monster is a representation of your unresolved trauma and guilt and a manifestation of the sins of your past but it's also a real creature and it's going to fucking Get you
Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest
Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind
Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone
can't keep that in the tags
like. yes, I want MAGA types to also have shelter and food and healthcare and childcare. what part of "everyone" was unclear?
I feel like many of them are so used to wanting good things only for the Right People that they can't fathom that most people on the left want what we want for them, too
to be honest there has never been a fictional character i’ve actually wanted to date. like. i want them to date each other. i don’t want myself as a person to be involved in this scenario whatsoever. what would i add to this narratively? what’s my thematic purpose in the narrative? immersion breaking.