Ash Higgins
@ashhiggins.bsky.social
“From the ground, we stand; From our ships, we live; By the stars, we hope."
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Ash Higgins
@ashhiggins.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Just posting this again because I can: a new humanity, forged in the crucible of intergalactic war has spread throughout the galaxy; among them are millions of Muslims who must return to Earth for Hajj. Meet the crew: 🧵
I shouldn’t be surprised as a seasonal hire that my hours evaporated entirely after January 1 but after all the working hard to actually learn the job - no single aspect of retail is difficult per se it’s doing ALL of those moment to moment with equal skill - is pretty demoralizing.
January 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I shouldn’t be surprised as a seasonal hire that my hours evaporated entirely after January 1 but after all the working hard to actually learn the job - no single aspect of retail is difficult per se it’s doing ALL of those moment to moment with equal skill - is pretty demoralizing.
I found myself wishing works leaders would attack each other way more directly and leave the rest of us out of it.
January 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I found myself wishing works leaders would attack each other way more directly and leave the rest of us out of it.
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"🇨🇦, give us your sovereignty"
"Sir, help us understand why dictators are good"
"Lebensraum, how could we finance it?"
Again, one of the things I was very wrong & naive about was that I believed there was a baseline floor below which professional journalists & publications would not sink. Alas.
"Sir, help us understand why dictators are good"
"Lebensraum, how could we finance it?"
Again, one of the things I was very wrong & naive about was that I believed there was a baseline floor below which professional journalists & publications would not sink. Alas.
January 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"🇨🇦, give us your sovereignty"
"Sir, help us understand why dictators are good"
"Lebensraum, how could we finance it?"
Again, one of the things I was very wrong & naive about was that I believed there was a baseline floor below which professional journalists & publications would not sink. Alas.
"Sir, help us understand why dictators are good"
"Lebensraum, how could we finance it?"
Again, one of the things I was very wrong & naive about was that I believed there was a baseline floor below which professional journalists & publications would not sink. Alas.
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One month ago, I warned that there was no rational case for invading Venezuela. But I also said that just because something is really stupid doesn’t mean a country won’t do it. We are deep in stupidity now. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...
Looking for Wars in All the Wrong Places
Ukraine, Venezuela and Gaza, Oh My!
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
One month ago, I warned that there was no rational case for invading Venezuela. But I also said that just because something is really stupid doesn’t mean a country won’t do it. We are deep in stupidity now. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...
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Lewis Goodall grills Labour’s Darren Jones on the UK’s repsonse to the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.
January 4, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Lewis Goodall grills Labour’s Darren Jones on the UK’s repsonse to the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.
How to blend in with right wingers. Hopefully. If you don’t hear from me? I likely failed.
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
How to blend in with right wingers. Hopefully. If you don’t hear from me? I likely failed.
Can’t leave other people alone.
From Riley Gaines to OU, conservatives are making their failures everyone else's problem
<p>Opinion: Never before have people become so famous for coming in fifth place or failing a homework assignment.</p>
www.advocate.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Can’t leave other people alone.
NO, THE FUCK IT ISN’T. Take my money and leave me the fuck alone.
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
NO, THE FUCK IT ISN’T. Take my money and leave me the fuck alone.
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The RICO is dismissed—one charge down, one to go.
Stop Cop City RICO Charges Dismissed
What this win means—and why support is still urgently needed.
mailchi.mp
December 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The RICO is dismissed—one charge down, one to go.
I legit thought D. H. Lawrence and T. E. Lawrence were some kind of relatives and D.H. was definitely making fun of his sour old veteran cousin or something in Lady Chatterley's Lover. I clearly need to read more. Not opposed to that but I need to find the time…
January 1, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I legit thought D. H. Lawrence and T. E. Lawrence were some kind of relatives and D.H. was definitely making fun of his sour old veteran cousin or something in Lady Chatterley's Lover. I clearly need to read more. Not opposed to that but I need to find the time…
Just read A/S/L and Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal girl and the ANXIETY of being queer and just being a fucking mess and not connecting to people in “the community,” is on full display so at least it’s not just me.
December 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just read A/S/L and Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal girl and the ANXIETY of being queer and just being a fucking mess and not connecting to people in “the community,” is on full display so at least it’s not just me.
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made it another year without a single typi
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
made it another year without a single typi
“…in this essay I will…”
In the Incredibles (2004), Elastigirl is worried her big butt is a turn off for her mediocre husband. This is a reference to the movie taking place in the early 2000s & also how cishet men hate eating ass.
December 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“…in this essay I will…”
It honestly really does suck to be cast as “the villain in someone else’s story” and you can’t understand why and of course they won’t tell you because you broke an “unwritten rule” that if they explained out loud would make them sound kind of insane at best but like some weird villain at worst.
December 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It honestly really does suck to be cast as “the villain in someone else’s story” and you can’t understand why and of course they won’t tell you because you broke an “unwritten rule” that if they explained out loud would make them sound kind of insane at best but like some weird villain at worst.
An excuse to play MTG and get sweaty with someone is something I’m SURE will appeal to some of you horny nerds.
Introduction to Magi-Tsu
YouTube video by The Tranquil Domain
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December 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
An excuse to play MTG and get sweaty with someone is something I’m SURE will appeal to some of you horny nerds.
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“elections & polling data bear out that almost everything this woman stands for—especially the crazily anti trans stuff—is an electoral loser for democrats & everything in life is about elections. so here’s why we should expand the tent for specifically her *and* why you should smile as we do it.”
she 👏 just 👏 got 👏 a bill 👏 passed 👏 to make 👏 medical 👏 care 👏 for a whole kind of people 👏 illegal
providing 👏 care 👏 to them 👏 would be a 👏 JAILABLE OFFENSE
YOU DON’T GOTTA HAND IT TO HER, PROFILE HER, LET HER PET YOUR DOG
providing 👏 care 👏 to them 👏 would be a 👏 JAILABLE OFFENSE
YOU DON’T GOTTA HAND IT TO HER, PROFILE HER, LET HER PET YOUR DOG
“I used to think fascists were bad, but then one of them got through a whole interview without unhinging their jaw and swallowing me like a snake”
December 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“elections & polling data bear out that almost everything this woman stands for—especially the crazily anti trans stuff—is an electoral loser for democrats & everything in life is about elections. so here’s why we should expand the tent for specifically her *and* why you should smile as we do it.”
I'll be real with y'all: it was Gremlins. It scared the hell outta me.
Name 1 movie from your childhood you were way too young to watch.
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I'll be real with y'all: it was Gremlins. It scared the hell outta me.
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Hey! I have to eat meat to live! Block me! Feel better!
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Hey! I have to eat meat to live! Block me! Feel better!
There are times when I get more than little frustrated hearing terms like "the West," "the Middle East," and "the Far East" when we live ON A GIANT FUCKING SPHERE.
December 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There are times when I get more than little frustrated hearing terms like "the West," "the Middle East," and "the Far East" when we live ON A GIANT FUCKING SPHERE.
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Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
n.pr
December 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.
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Danes lost the most per capita in America's war in Afghanistan. Canada lost the second most per capita (if we discount the tiny Baltics).
Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.
Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.
Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
December 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Danes lost the most per capita in America's war in Afghanistan. Canada lost the second most per capita (if we discount the tiny Baltics).
Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.
Allies bled for the US after 9/11, and this is the thanks they get.
Once again venting my frustration about how people use the block on this site: never engaged with and it’s the first (and last) time I see their username when they show up on listigication as blocking me. Is it the fuck profile pic? My face that bad?!
December 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Once again venting my frustration about how people use the block on this site: never engaged with and it’s the first (and last) time I see their username when they show up on listigication as blocking me. Is it the fuck profile pic? My face that bad?!
Mother fucking THIS. Majoring in film I could justify learning or studying *anything* because film can be *about* anything.
December 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Mother fucking THIS. Majoring in film I could justify learning or studying *anything* because film can be *about* anything.