Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin
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Writer. Editor. Recovering doomscroller. Incurable optimist with hopefully-curable burnout. She/her. Most of my writing is sexy.
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All formal language should be in gender-neutral plural, and in keeping with this we absolutely need a gender neutral title — Mx. is okay but personally I think we should steal Hon. from the judges — and a gender neutral honorific to replace sir/ma’am, on which I’m open to suggestions.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
All formal language should be in gender-neutral plural, and in keeping with this we absolutely need a gender neutral title — Mx. is okay but personally I think we should steal Hon. from the judges — and a gender neutral honorific to replace sir/ma’am, on which I’m open to suggestions.
In the past 24 hours, I just learned of two different public goods and services that my county is cutting or thinking of cutting for budgetary reasons.
Fun times.
Fun times.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In the past 24 hours, I just learned of two different public goods and services that my county is cutting or thinking of cutting for budgetary reasons.
Fun times.
Fun times.
It’s humbling to realize everyone who’s read a Kindle edition of Oscar Wilde's* gay erotica is doing so because I wanted to read it myself. With the help of a professional proofreader, I've cleared up odd characters (typographical, not literary) and now the improved text is available.
*Allegedly
*Allegedly
Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal, by an anonymous author (or authors, and possibly Oscar Wilde) - T.C. Mill
It’s humbling to realize everyone who’s read a Kindle edition of Teleny over the past five years is doing so because I wanted to read it myself. In 2019 (so-called precedented times), I read an excerp...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It’s humbling to realize everyone who’s read a Kindle edition of Oscar Wilde's* gay erotica is doing so because I wanted to read it myself. With the help of a professional proofreader, I've cleared up odd characters (typographical, not literary) and now the improved text is available.
*Allegedly
*Allegedly
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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ouroboreos
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ouroboreos
The New York mayor's race just taught us that if you jettison the predator, a great candidate might come out of the wilderness of 6% in the polls.
A gamble I'd take every time. Cannot emphasis enough how happy I am at the prospect of a ballot with no sex offenders on it.
A gamble I'd take every time. Cannot emphasis enough how happy I am at the prospect of a ballot with no sex offenders on it.
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The New York mayor's race just taught us that if you jettison the predator, a great candidate might come out of the wilderness of 6% in the polls.
A gamble I'd take every time. Cannot emphasis enough how happy I am at the prospect of a ballot with no sex offenders on it.
A gamble I'd take every time. Cannot emphasis enough how happy I am at the prospect of a ballot with no sex offenders on it.
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it's not entirely a coincidence that people who took evo psych seriously adopted generally regressive political views, given that it was sponsored in part for that reason
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
it's not entirely a coincidence that people who took evo psych seriously adopted generally regressive political views, given that it was sponsored in part for that reason
Okay, whew, having feelings I should not articulate in public. I'm going to peace out for the evening and dip into this news cycle in measured amounts. Hugs to anyone reading this who could use one. This is rough.
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Okay, whew, having feelings I should not articulate in public. I'm going to peace out for the evening and dip into this news cycle in measured amounts. Hugs to anyone reading this who could use one. This is rough.
Surely you can think of a better use for the money.
hey so if you're still subbed to the NYT...
why
why
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Surely you can think of a better use for the money.
The author was a committed anti fascist journalist who wrote some incredibly successful pulp for fun! (Died just as it was getting successful, more's the pity.)
Me in 2008, reading the GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO books: entertaining pulp, but a wide-ranging conspiracy of white supremacists who infiltrated multiple gov't & social institutions to commit sex crimes and other felonies seems rather far-fetched.
Me, now: well fuck me runnin'
Me, now: well fuck me runnin'
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The author was a committed anti fascist journalist who wrote some incredibly successful pulp for fun! (Died just as it was getting successful, more's the pity.)
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This is a really astute point, I think: the firehose of shit is actually ensuring that as long as you're not a Trump dead-ender, no matter *what* you care about, they're likely doing *something* that pisses you off
what if the firehose of fascist shit isn't wiping out the memory of the electorate? what if it's just hitting different things? and idk it seems like a persisting problem to me that dems aren't in lockstep with and fully tied to no kings, possibly the biggest social movement in american history
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is a really astute point, I think: the firehose of shit is actually ensuring that as long as you're not a Trump dead-ender, no matter *what* you care about, they're likely doing *something* that pisses you off
I'm so bad at being a video audience that my celebrity crush, who I like because he's fun to watch in moving pictures, has a flood of new book promotion videos out and I've watched none of them.
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I'm so bad at being a video audience that my celebrity crush, who I like because he's fun to watch in moving pictures, has a flood of new book promotion videos out and I've watched none of them.
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If you're looking to reach the public the best way to do it is with short form video. No one can read anymore; only old people use microblogging platforms. Etc. But have you considered that I hate to be Seen.
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you're looking to reach the public the best way to do it is with short form video. No one can read anymore; only old people use microblogging platforms. Etc. But have you considered that I hate to be Seen.
A followup on the donation of royalties from my late partner's short story collection to Trans Lifeline. "Kinky, Queer Love" is
available as a pay-what-you-want ebook from Smashwords or for 99 cents on Amazon (plus a nearly at-cost paperback). Please know you’re welcome to read for free!
available as a pay-what-you-want ebook from Smashwords or for 99 cents on Amazon (plus a nearly at-cost paperback). Please know you’re welcome to read for free!
On Kinky, Queer Love – Thank You - T.C. Mill
Earlier this month (November 2), I posted about a book that means a lot to me. It’s a small one – just 44 pages in paperback, less than 6,000 words long – and I wish it were longer because it would ha...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A followup on the donation of royalties from my late partner's short story collection to Trans Lifeline. "Kinky, Queer Love" is
available as a pay-what-you-want ebook from Smashwords or for 99 cents on Amazon (plus a nearly at-cost paperback). Please know you’re welcome to read for free!
available as a pay-what-you-want ebook from Smashwords or for 99 cents on Amazon (plus a nearly at-cost paperback). Please know you’re welcome to read for free!
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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if we’re talking Joyce please remember one of her greatest works of posting
Evergreen message from Joyce Carol Oates about Curtis Yarvin...
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
if we’re talking Joyce please remember one of her greatest works of posting
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"truly it was out of curiosity"
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"truly it was out of curiosity"
I was robbed of this experience by getting the full backstory when I was introduced to the song as a middle schooler. Still a banger, though.
(The parody I made of it for Spanish class was...less of a banger and luckily lost to time.)
(The parody I made of it for Spanish class was...less of a banger and luckily lost to time.)
I remember it blowing my mind when I learned that Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sounds for all the world like a baleful 19th-century shanty at least tonally and lyrically, was about something that happened the year before
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I was robbed of this experience by getting the full backstory when I was introduced to the song as a middle schooler. Still a banger, though.
(The parody I made of it for Spanish class was...less of a banger and luckily lost to time.)
(The parody I made of it for Spanish class was...less of a banger and luckily lost to time.)
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November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I've found the best way to approximate this is to put my phone in another room and sit down with a book, then drop in Bsky to see what everyone's (justifiably) rage-scrolling about after a few hours.
We were never meant to hear and respond to any of this at the speed of sound, and I genuinely don't think doing this makes it better.
Like, I'm mad, but I kinda prefer the world where I would get detached journalistic highlights from the morning paper.
Like, I'm mad, but I kinda prefer the world where I would get detached journalistic highlights from the morning paper.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I've found the best way to approximate this is to put my phone in another room and sit down with a book, then drop in Bsky to see what everyone's (justifiably) rage-scrolling about after a few hours.
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Another case of headline sabotage
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Another case of headline sabotage
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worth reflecting also on tracinski's point about fighting--fighting as an information-gathering exercise--fighting as revealing who fights and who doesn't--and what tactics WORK and what don't
www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
Fight On Everything
"This dictatorship has been asserted but not yet consolidated. We must therefore 'fight on everything,'" according to Rob Tracinski's "Dictator From Day One."
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
worth reflecting also on tracinski's point about fighting--fighting as an information-gathering exercise--fighting as revealing who fights and who doesn't--and what tactics WORK and what don't
www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
On Kinky, Queer Love – Thank You
Earlier this month (November 2), I posted about a book that means a lot to me. It’s a small one – just 44 pages in paperback, less than 6,000 words long – and I wish it were longer because it would have meant John Theriac had been able to write more. Kinky, Queer…
Earlier this month (November 2), I posted about a book that means a lot to me. It’s a small one – just 44 pages in paperback, less than 6,000 words long – and I wish it were longer because it would have meant John Theriac had been able to write more. Kinky, Queer…
On Kinky, Queer Love – Thank You
Earlier this month (November 2), I posted about a book that means a lot to me. It’s a small one – just 44 pages in paperback, less than 6,000 words long – and I wish it were longer because it would have meant John Theriac had been able to write more. Kinky, Queer Love collects the stories my partner John wrote during the time I knew him (not counting his science fiction and fantasy, published under another name I’m not ready to link to this one) before his death in 2020.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
On Kinky, Queer Love – Thank You
Earlier this month (November 2), I posted about a book that means a lot to me. It’s a small one – just 44 pages in paperback, less than 6,000 words long – and I wish it were longer because it would have meant John Theriac had been able to write more. Kinky, Queer…
Earlier this month (November 2), I posted about a book that means a lot to me. It’s a small one – just 44 pages in paperback, less than 6,000 words long – and I wish it were longer because it would have meant John Theriac had been able to write more. Kinky, Queer…
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Copyediting FAQ
Q. Should the word “too” at the end of a sentence be preceded by a comma, or no?
A. Whichever way you choose to go, the other way will immediately seem better.
Q. Should the word “too” at the end of a sentence be preceded by a comma, or no?
A. Whichever way you choose to go, the other way will immediately seem better.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Copyediting FAQ
Q. Should the word “too” at the end of a sentence be preceded by a comma, or no?
A. Whichever way you choose to go, the other way will immediately seem better.
Q. Should the word “too” at the end of a sentence be preceded by a comma, or no?
A. Whichever way you choose to go, the other way will immediately seem better.
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100% deadass serious: get your friends together, get your various clubs/trivia teams/groups of running friends together, whoever it is, map out who's got the next primary in 2026 that represents you, and have a weekly groupchat where everyone checks in on a HAVE YOU YELLED AT YOUR DEMOCRAT LATELY?
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
100% deadass serious: get your friends together, get your various clubs/trivia teams/groups of running friends together, whoever it is, map out who's got the next primary in 2026 that represents you, and have a weekly groupchat where everyone checks in on a HAVE YOU YELLED AT YOUR DEMOCRAT LATELY?