Joe bielecki
@noisemakerjoe.bsky.social
Host of Writing The Rapids. Author of Tired. Fatherhood enjoyer.
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If *I* were a political consultant I'd talk numbers like this too. I understand dems don't care about immigrants, refugees, the homeless, but if someone wanted to style themselves as a modern FDR without raising taxes, this would be a good place to start. But what do I know?
Imagine if instead of guns and pepper spray they all had blankets and boxes of food and medicine? Imagine the government sending a thousand social workers and construction workers to a city with a large homeless population building modular homes and providing healthcare. Prolly cost about the same.
January 14, 2026 at 3:54 PM
If *I* were a political consultant I'd talk numbers like this too. I understand dems don't care about immigrants, refugees, the homeless, but if someone wanted to style themselves as a modern FDR without raising taxes, this would be a good place to start. But what do I know?
Imagine if instead of guns and pepper spray they all had blankets and boxes of food and medicine? Imagine the government sending a thousand social workers and construction workers to a city with a large homeless population building modular homes and providing healthcare. Prolly cost about the same.
January 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Imagine if instead of guns and pepper spray they all had blankets and boxes of food and medicine? Imagine the government sending a thousand social workers and construction workers to a city with a large homeless population building modular homes and providing healthcare. Prolly cost about the same.
idk dude, maybe I'll do a writing the rapids meet up in chicago this year, why not?
January 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
idk dude, maybe I'll do a writing the rapids meet up in chicago this year, why not?
shout out to my wife for holding things down today and enforcing my rest. The child was particularly sweet as well.
writhing around moaning in agony: got my flu shot and covid booster yesterday
January 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
shout out to my wife for holding things down today and enforcing my rest. The child was particularly sweet as well.
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text is the last refuge of the avant garde in 2026 because our psychotic overlords can't read and fry themselves with short form video
January 11, 2026 at 6:23 PM
text is the last refuge of the avant garde in 2026 because our psychotic overlords can't read and fry themselves with short form video
writhing around moaning in agony: got my flu shot and covid booster yesterday
January 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
writhing around moaning in agony: got my flu shot and covid booster yesterday
Bartleby, the Scrivener
January 10, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Bartleby, the Scrivener
doomscrolling so bad today I typed in reddit dot com
January 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
doomscrolling so bad today I typed in reddit dot com
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When you've fired a trans writer for not being sad about the death of a fascist, this is clearly the next move if you wanna double down on your bullshit.
Featherweight, a new trans character for the DC Comics Universe, revealed as the grand daughter of Ra's Al Ghul #lgbtq
Featherweight, a new trans character for the DC Comics Universe, revealed as the grand daughter of Ra's Al Ghul #lgbtq
Featherweight, a new trans character for the DC Comics Universe, revealed as the grand daughter of Ra's Al Ghul
dlvr.it
January 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
When you've fired a trans writer for not being sad about the death of a fascist, this is clearly the next move if you wanna double down on your bullshit.
My kid often gives me one of her toys in the morning as I head out to work to keep my company. We need to build a world worthy of her.
January 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
My kid often gives me one of her toys in the morning as I head out to work to keep my company. We need to build a world worthy of her.
I love you. You deserve better.
January 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I love you. You deserve better.
I might not be a big tough alpha manly man, but at least a woman in a car doesn't make me fear for my life
January 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I might not be a big tough alpha manly man, but at least a woman in a car doesn't make me fear for my life
I don't feel like a whole lot has changed about me in my fatherhood, but movies like Cobweb certainly hit way different.
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I don't feel like a whole lot has changed about me in my fatherhood, but movies like Cobweb certainly hit way different.
I intend to teach my child compassion above all else
January 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I intend to teach my child compassion above all else
my litmus for being upset about something I see on the internet is if I can explain it to my wife in under two minutes. I rarely can
January 5, 2026 at 10:57 PM
my litmus for being upset about something I see on the internet is if I can explain it to my wife in under two minutes. I rarely can
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A classic. Essential.
#sludgepit NO TIGER is a collection of poetry from the underworld of Another place. it thrums with filthy anger:hot lyrics & prose poetry with ample destruction of body, sex after apocalypse, eradication of self w/n the hellscape of digitized warfare spectacle
flakwolves.su/NoTigerbyMIK...
flakwolves.su/NoTigerbyMIK...
February 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A classic. Essential.
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shorts make no money and generate no real channel growth but everyone feels like they gotta make 'em anyway. You don't! It's fine!
My YouTube shorts got 662,000 views last year and the ad revenue from them was $140 lol
A couple of Youtubers I watch have done videos now about how their views are way down, and how Youtube is prioritizing short form, clickbait titles/thumbnails, and "videos that start in the midst of the action" and *my god* all I hate all three of these.
This is the opposite of what I like.
This is the opposite of what I like.
January 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
shorts make no money and generate no real channel growth but everyone feels like they gotta make 'em anyway. You don't! It's fine!
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Remember software UIs before minimalism?
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Remember software UIs before minimalism?
in 2026 no more watching youtube videos in the "look at this fuckin awful guy" genre
December 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
in 2026 no more watching youtube videos in the "look at this fuckin awful guy" genre
The internet has made everyone weird, but the same kind of weird. We gotta spend more time alone.
December 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The internet has made everyone weird, but the same kind of weird. We gotta spend more time alone.
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Never Angeline North, perhaps
in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake
December 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Never Angeline North, perhaps
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oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
December 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
so we watched this last night and it occurred to me that Iron Giant and The Incredibles are all "about" masculinity. which makes their mid century aesthetics pretty perfect for the theme.
my wife and I have been together for sixteen years including dating, and this christmas for the first time we got each other the same gift: the Iron Giant on bluray. merry xmas fellow weirdos.
December 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
so we watched this last night and it occurred to me that Iron Giant and The Incredibles are all "about" masculinity. which makes their mid century aesthetics pretty perfect for the theme.
my wife and I have been together for sixteen years including dating, and this christmas for the first time we got each other the same gift: the Iron Giant on bluray. merry xmas fellow weirdos.
December 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
my wife and I have been together for sixteen years including dating, and this christmas for the first time we got each other the same gift: the Iron Giant on bluray. merry xmas fellow weirdos.
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I make film zines. It used to be my job to write about weird movies, it's not my job now but it's still good to do. I put lots of work into the zines because I don't like essays to be basic. Below, covers for zines about Hitchcock, lesbian vampires, and Scream, all handmade. sara-century.square.site
December 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I make film zines. It used to be my job to write about weird movies, it's not my job now but it's still good to do. I put lots of work into the zines because I don't like essays to be basic. Below, covers for zines about Hitchcock, lesbian vampires, and Scream, all handmade. sara-century.square.site