Ross
@rossritchell.bsky.social
Author of The Knife. PhDropout. Father to 6. Forever a PFC.
Sorry for your loss, Wes. He sounded like a great guy. Glad he was in your life and he must’ve been proud of you.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sorry for your loss, Wes. He sounded like a great guy. Glad he was in your life and he must’ve been proud of you.
Much appreciated—thank you for reading and for all the kind words. Take care and be well.
August 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Much appreciated—thank you for reading and for all the kind words. Take care and be well.
After I got back from Iraq/out of the service I figured it was my moral duty to witness any/all atrocities. Great way to give yourself/amplify PTSD. Perspective is great, yes, but the little lighter moments are usually the only thing keeping you grounded/around. Especially when a parent.
the worst thing about people like this is they think they’re morally superior to the rest of us when in fact they’re just sanctimonious scolds
Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be.
July 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
After I got back from Iraq/out of the service I figured it was my moral duty to witness any/all atrocities. Great way to give yourself/amplify PTSD. Perspective is great, yes, but the little lighter moments are usually the only thing keeping you grounded/around. Especially when a parent.
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the worst thing about people like this is they think they’re morally superior to the rest of us when in fact they’re just sanctimonious scolds
Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be.
July 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
the worst thing about people like this is they think they’re morally superior to the rest of us when in fact they’re just sanctimonious scolds
Thanks for reading—hope it messes with you in the right ways. Or the wrong ones. Potato, potatoh.
July 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Thanks for reading—hope it messes with you in the right ways. Or the wrong ones. Potato, potatoh.
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Holy christ
April 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Holy christ
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‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.
March 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.
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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
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1. Messed around and got a triple-double
2. Saw the police and they rolled right past me
3. Two in the morning, got the Fatburger
4. Took another sip of the potion, hit the three-wheel motion
5. I didn't even have to use my AK
2. Saw the police and they rolled right past me
3. Two in the morning, got the Fatburger
4. Took another sip of the potion, hit the three-wheel motion
5. I didn't even have to use my AK
This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).
February 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
1. Messed around and got a triple-double
2. Saw the police and they rolled right past me
3. Two in the morning, got the Fatburger
4. Took another sip of the potion, hit the three-wheel motion
5. I didn't even have to use my AK
2. Saw the police and they rolled right past me
3. Two in the morning, got the Fatburger
4. Took another sip of the potion, hit the three-wheel motion
5. I didn't even have to use my AK
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This is how Lewis describes the fascist President-to-be. He "was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture."
November 28, 2024 at 11:26 PM
This is how Lewis describes the fascist President-to-be. He "was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture."
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In Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here," (1935) the fascist who got elected President of the United States writes in his autobiography about his realization, early in life, that being an obnoxious dunce got him far more attention than being a smart and decent person.
November 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
In Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here," (1935) the fascist who got elected President of the United States writes in his autobiography about his realization, early in life, that being an obnoxious dunce got him far more attention than being a smart and decent person.
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Reading Gary Indiana’s Do Everything In The Dark and after just a few pages I’m looking in a cracked mirror; on the nose, as they say
January 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reading Gary Indiana’s Do Everything In The Dark and after just a few pages I’m looking in a cracked mirror; on the nose, as they say
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January 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I think of this poem every time I go to visit my kin’s stones in the boneyard.
January 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I think of this poem every time I go to visit my kin’s stones in the boneyard.
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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
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The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration.
It’s fucking brilliant.
It’s fucking brilliant.
January 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration.
It’s fucking brilliant.
It’s fucking brilliant.
Yep. When you feel weak and victimized and helpless you can feel empowered fighting back or taking physical pain to numb the emotional pain. Nuance can get lost in the affect pretty quick (political stumping as a huge example).
rewatching FIGHT CLUB this week i was very struck by how a movie that is very plainly a critique of this vision of masculinity was taken up as a valorization of it
It's grim thinking about how many men and women in society have mental models of valorous male behavior that primarily consist of being abusive and violent.
January 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yep. When you feel weak and victimized and helpless you can feel empowered fighting back or taking physical pain to numb the emotional pain. Nuance can get lost in the affect pretty quick (political stumping as a huge example).
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Borrowing this from @rboomhower.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1:
December 29, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Borrowing this from @rboomhower.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1:
