Wes Downing
@storygeek17.bsky.social
Storyteller, Stage Manger, Director, Designer, Playwright, Disabled, Neurodivergent, Queer, Gamer, Explorer of Worlds, Seeker of Knowledge, They/Xe
@scalzi.com Just finished "When the Moon Hits Your Eye." Thoroughly enjoyed it, as always. Thank you for your words.
April 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
@scalzi.com Just finished "When the Moon Hits Your Eye." Thoroughly enjoyed it, as always. Thank you for your words.
If you support eliminating the Dept of Education then you probably have no idea how it will affect your children, grandchildren, their friends, or your neighbors. If all you see is money, you don't understand how our future is built.
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you support eliminating the Dept of Education then you probably have no idea how it will affect your children, grandchildren, their friends, or your neighbors. If all you see is money, you don't understand how our future is built.
News flash; World's biggest baby throws tantrum after whole world sees that he is, in fact, the world's biggest baby.
March 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
News flash; World's biggest baby throws tantrum after whole world sees that he is, in fact, the world's biggest baby.
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If you are looking at the current admin and calling out red flags; you missed them. The red flags came a decade ago when he ran the first time. What you are seeing now is the establishment of a fascist regime.
February 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you are looking at the current admin and calling out red flags; you missed them. The red flags came a decade ago when he ran the first time. What you are seeing now is the establishment of a fascist regime.
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Hey, look, here’s @chriswarcraft.bsky.social out there walking the walk
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested after attacking ‘corrupt’ Maga movement
Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested in California on Tuesday after protesting against what he said was a tribute to the Maga movement
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Hey, look, here’s @chriswarcraft.bsky.social out there walking the walk
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
Your silence and inaction in the face of what the orange dumpster and his billionaire bros are doing to our country and its people is you willingly participating.
History also remembers those who stood silent and did nothing while those in power endanger and kill your neighbors.
History also remembers those who stood silent and did nothing while those in power endanger and kill your neighbors.
February 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Your silence and inaction in the face of what the orange dumpster and his billionaire bros are doing to our country and its people is you willingly participating.
History also remembers those who stood silent and did nothing while those in power endanger and kill your neighbors.
History also remembers those who stood silent and did nothing while those in power endanger and kill your neighbors.
My kiddo asked me the other day what they could do to help in the fight against the orange dumpster and Muskolini. I told them the biggest and most important thing they could do right now is pursue their education. Be well read, be informed, learn about every subject. 1/
February 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My kiddo asked me the other day what they could do to help in the fight against the orange dumpster and Muskolini. I told them the biggest and most important thing they could do right now is pursue their education. Be well read, be informed, learn about every subject. 1/
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I personally will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" because our president is a wrathful felonious nincompoop with the intellect of paramecium and I do not consent to his cartographic buffoonery
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I personally will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" because our president is a wrathful felonious nincompoop with the intellect of paramecium and I do not consent to his cartographic buffoonery
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1. Some years back I was taking a cab in Chicago and the taxi driver, discovering I was a writer, complained that all his young son wanted to read was comics. I made the point to him that reading comics was reading, and that his kid was taking pleasure in reading and at his age, that's important.
February 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
1. Some years back I was taking a cab in Chicago and the taxi driver, discovering I was a writer, complained that all his young son wanted to read was comics. I made the point to him that reading comics was reading, and that his kid was taking pleasure in reading and at his age, that's important.
It's take so little for you to be kind.
Be kind to someone today.
Be kind to someone today.
February 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It's take so little for you to be kind.
Be kind to someone today.
Be kind to someone today.
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Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
February 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
Apparently stealing from children is now legal in the state of TN, as the fatuous gasbag Lee has managed to get his voucher program passed. This will literally let the state rob public school funds in favor of private schools. Lee has attacked public education since day 1.
January 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Apparently stealing from children is now legal in the state of TN, as the fatuous gasbag Lee has managed to get his voucher program passed. This will literally let the state rob public school funds in favor of private schools. Lee has attacked public education since day 1.
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When I was 25 I was sad I had not written The Great American Novel. At 55, I realize there's no Great American Novel, there are merely the stories I'm the best person to tell. Don't worry about how others see greatness. Work on being the best version of who you are and what you can do in the world.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
When I was 25 I was sad I had not written The Great American Novel. At 55, I realize there's no Great American Novel, there are merely the stories I'm the best person to tell. Don't worry about how others see greatness. Work on being the best version of who you are and what you can do in the world.
Wait! You mean the price of eggs has to continued to increase? And now gas too? But the orange dumpster said that couldn't happen on his watch.
It's almost as if local and global markets don't pay attention to his temper tantrums.
It's almost as if local and global markets don't pay attention to his temper tantrums.
January 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Wait! You mean the price of eggs has to continued to increase? And now gas too? But the orange dumpster said that couldn't happen on his watch.
It's almost as if local and global markets don't pay attention to his temper tantrums.
It's almost as if local and global markets don't pay attention to his temper tantrums.
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WATCH: “Instead of giving money to private schools that don’t take kids like me, please help public schools get better and fund them.”
A 6th grader with cerebral palsy speaks out against the TEXAS voucher scam. (cc: @GovBillLee)
A 6th grader with cerebral palsy speaks out against the TEXAS voucher scam. (cc: @GovBillLee)
January 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
WATCH: “Instead of giving money to private schools that don’t take kids like me, please help public schools get better and fund them.”
A 6th grader with cerebral palsy speaks out against the TEXAS voucher scam. (cc: @GovBillLee)
A 6th grader with cerebral palsy speaks out against the TEXAS voucher scam. (cc: @GovBillLee)
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I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users
Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, it said in an X post on Monday.
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...
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Feeling less depressed about the world and more pissed. I like this direction. Bring it on, bitches.
January 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Feeling less depressed about the world and more pissed. I like this direction. Bring it on, bitches.
Silence is complicity.
Do not obey in advance.
Do not obey in advance.
January 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Silence is complicity.
Do not obey in advance.
Do not obey in advance.
It's the Gulf of Mexico. You can try to rewrite anything you want, but we all recognize expansionist egoism when we see it.
No country owns the oceans and seas of our shared world. Your words are meaningless.
It's the Gulf of Mexico.
No country owns the oceans and seas of our shared world. Your words are meaningless.
It's the Gulf of Mexico.
January 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's the Gulf of Mexico. You can try to rewrite anything you want, but we all recognize expansionist egoism when we see it.
No country owns the oceans and seas of our shared world. Your words are meaningless.
It's the Gulf of Mexico.
No country owns the oceans and seas of our shared world. Your words are meaningless.
It's the Gulf of Mexico.
It was a N*zi salute. There is no debate, no deflection, no distraction.
Everyone who saw it knows what it was.
Everyone who saw it knows what it was.
January 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It was a N*zi salute. There is no debate, no deflection, no distraction.
Everyone who saw it knows what it was.
Everyone who saw it knows what it was.
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Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
January 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights
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Since a lot of folks aren't going to Facebook, a little something I wrote in 2014 that seems especially apropos at this moment. The Rules of the New Aristocracy.
January 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Since a lot of folks aren't going to Facebook, a little something I wrote in 2014 that seems especially apropos at this moment. The Rules of the New Aristocracy.
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Also, it was a fuckin Nazi salute come the fuck on
January 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Also, it was a fuckin Nazi salute come the fuck on