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Just finished “Book and Dagger” by Elyse Graham. It might be a bit heavy handed but the lesson it tries to convey is pertinent. Nerds can save the world. Nerds can fight. And in this age of intellectual devastation maybe nerds can help us survive.
January 4, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Just finished “Book and Dagger” by Elyse Graham. It might be a bit heavy handed but the lesson it tries to convey is pertinent. Nerds can save the world. Nerds can fight. And in this age of intellectual devastation maybe nerds can help us survive.
We are there. I’m not stopping it. No one is stopping it. Our leaders are useless children. Now to try and figure out how to even keep food and roof for the next thirty days as a freelancer in a dying industry. Times are really really bad.
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
We are there. I’m not stopping it. No one is stopping it. Our leaders are useless children. Now to try and figure out how to even keep food and roof for the next thirty days as a freelancer in a dying industry. Times are really really bad.
I am not a New Yorker. I once dreamed of going to the big city to live but in reality that is not who I am. But I love the city. So I watched Mamdani’s inauguration speech. I don’t have a lot of hope. I’m a child of the 90’s. But goddamn is he good at this politics thing. I hope he’s real.
January 2, 2026 at 4:17 AM
I am not a New Yorker. I once dreamed of going to the big city to live but in reality that is not who I am. But I love the city. So I watched Mamdani’s inauguration speech. I don’t have a lot of hope. I’m a child of the 90’s. But goddamn is he good at this politics thing. I hope he’s real.
It’s the first day of a new stupid year. The weirdos in the other place are screaming about their love of genocide and a tax revolt we all know will not happen. Around here my discover feed is increasingly full of blueanon weirdos who have decided in their own stolen election story.
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
It’s the first day of a new stupid year. The weirdos in the other place are screaming about their love of genocide and a tax revolt we all know will not happen. Around here my discover feed is increasingly full of blueanon weirdos who have decided in their own stolen election story.
I truly do not understand why one would keep track of the number of books they read in the last year as if it’s some kind of competition. I read a good bit. And I could not tell you have many books I read last year. No clue. But then again I’m also usually not quite sure what year it is.
December 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I truly do not understand why one would keep track of the number of books they read in the last year as if it’s some kind of competition. I read a good bit. And I could not tell you have many books I read last year. No clue. But then again I’m also usually not quite sure what year it is.
People are doing year end book posting so here we go. This year I finally caught up with Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and it was as great as everyone says but I coupled it with The Dispossessed by Le Guin and damn did they make a mighty fine paring. Highly recommend.
December 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
People are doing year end book posting so here we go. This year I finally caught up with Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and it was as great as everyone says but I coupled it with The Dispossessed by Le Guin and damn did they make a mighty fine paring. Highly recommend.
Seeing the folks of NYC beat back the raid today is a small silver lining on the hurricane. I doom a lot. But that shit rocks.
November 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Seeing the folks of NYC beat back the raid today is a small silver lining on the hurricane. I doom a lot. But that shit rocks.
I did not have Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning on my bingo card. I’ll never win this stupid game.
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I did not have Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning on my bingo card. I’ll never win this stupid game.
I am away from home as ICE threatens my city. So far I don’t think they’ve taken anyone. I feel just as helpless as I did when Helene smashed her way through. Watching the place I have called home for most of my life be terrorized through a screen.
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I am away from home as ICE threatens my city. So far I don’t think they’ve taken anyone. I feel just as helpless as I did when Helene smashed her way through. Watching the place I have called home for most of my life be terrorized through a screen.
This cannot be tolerated. It shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere. But now it could come to my home. A home in which many of my friends of the past have been undocumented people.
This cannot be tolerated anywhere. But I have to stand up in my own back yard.
www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
This cannot be tolerated anywhere. But I have to stand up in my own back yard.
www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
Asheville 'may be a targeted city' as Border Patrol, ICE come to North Carolina, mayor says
Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer said that the city "may be targeted" in N.C. deployments by the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs.
www.citizen-times.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This cannot be tolerated. It shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere. But now it could come to my home. A home in which many of my friends of the past have been undocumented people.
This cannot be tolerated anywhere. But I have to stand up in my own back yard.
www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
This cannot be tolerated anywhere. But I have to stand up in my own back yard.
www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
I’m not against it…. I just wonder why Bluesky really wants me to see cute pictures of Corgis all the time. Why did it decide I am a huge fan of that particular breed of dog?
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’m not against it…. I just wonder why Bluesky really wants me to see cute pictures of Corgis all the time. Why did it decide I am a huge fan of that particular breed of dog?
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Pretty cool to have an election night that seemed hopeful but then remember that everyone else is a compromised feckless useless cog in the machine. Hell, the bright spots from election night will probably end up that way. I don’t really know what to do with that. And I don’t have insurance.
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Pretty cool to have an election night that seemed hopeful but then remember that everyone else is a compromised feckless useless cog in the machine. Hell, the bright spots from election night will probably end up that way. I don’t really know what to do with that. And I don’t have insurance.
Late in the night we met a man outside our hotel. His skin was clean but his clothing was filthy in that specific way clothing gets when one lives outside. The man was obviously in a manic state. But he was curious and wanted folks to talk to so we talked to him.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Late in the night we met a man outside our hotel. His skin was clean but his clothing was filthy in that specific way clothing gets when one lives outside. The man was obviously in a manic state. But he was curious and wanted folks to talk to so we talked to him.
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Early reports from the front lines of right-wing media tonight are starting to trickle in. We’re being told “hoes mad”
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Early reports from the front lines of right-wing media tonight are starting to trickle in. We’re being told “hoes mad”
The utter hysteria coming from the weirdos today is truly something to behold. I can’t imagine what it’s like to panic every moment of your life away.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The utter hysteria coming from the weirdos today is truly something to behold. I can’t imagine what it’s like to panic every moment of your life away.
Watching the clips of normie looking gray haired white dudes losing their minds at ICE agents is good for my soul. Hope is a fragile thing that I’m not accustomed to. But I sure would like to get more used to it.
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Watching the clips of normie looking gray haired white dudes losing their minds at ICE agents is good for my soul. Hope is a fragile thing that I’m not accustomed to. But I sure would like to get more used to it.
I’m the winner of the find stuff in the forest game today!
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’m the winner of the find stuff in the forest game today!
Kat might just really be a real one. They’ll come down on her with the full force of everything they’ve got because of it. There are way too few like her in the country, if she can hold strong.
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Kat might just really be a real one. They’ll come down on her with the full force of everything they’ve got because of it. There are way too few like her in the country, if she can hold strong.
I want to know how the story ends. But maybe don’t we all? Too bad none of us will live to see it. Too bad that anyone who does probably won’t like it much.
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I want to know how the story ends. But maybe don’t we all? Too bad none of us will live to see it. Too bad that anyone who does probably won’t like it much.
Nearing the end of Parable of the Talents and my heart is kind of breaking that Ms. Butler didn’t get the time she needed to finish her work. There are many tragedies in literature. But this one is vast.
October 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nearing the end of Parable of the Talents and my heart is kind of breaking that Ms. Butler didn’t get the time she needed to finish her work. There are many tragedies in literature. But this one is vast.
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I dunno, as a straight white cisgendered man, I personally think that treating my demographic like scared chipmunks who need constant pandering affirmations so that we don't dart over to fascism is actively detrimental to holding us to the standard of "you need to try to be a good person."
October 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I dunno, as a straight white cisgendered man, I personally think that treating my demographic like scared chipmunks who need constant pandering affirmations so that we don't dart over to fascism is actively detrimental to holding us to the standard of "you need to try to be a good person."
Woke up in a cold sweat thinking about the time I wrote that Ridley Scott directed Aliens in my final essay for a throwaway film appreciation class. I’ll never it down.
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Woke up in a cold sweat thinking about the time I wrote that Ridley Scott directed Aliens in my final essay for a throwaway film appreciation class. I’ll never it down.
On the one hand I watched the video of the middle aged chud falling on his face in a rage and bleeding all over the place and I laughed with everyone. On the other hand I can’t help but acknowledge that his bloody stupid face is making us numb to ever further violence.
October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
On the one hand I watched the video of the middle aged chud falling on his face in a rage and bleeding all over the place and I laughed with everyone. On the other hand I can’t help but acknowledge that his bloody stupid face is making us numb to ever further violence.
Asheville NC turned out in pretty crazy numbers. This is town where it’s historically been impossible to get people to gather for anything. But it left me feeling far less hopeless than the last no kings protest.
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Asheville NC turned out in pretty crazy numbers. This is town where it’s historically been impossible to get people to gather for anything. But it left me feeling far less hopeless than the last no kings protest.