Also, and I say this with my whole chest: do not give establishment Dems a dime of your money. Not a CENT. Give that money to mutual aid, to food pantries, to your library, to the guy on your street corner. All of them will put that money to better use.

Do not give politicians your money.

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

[with great gravity, aware that, when I speak, my words, like Black Bolt, will cause widespread devastation, but not of physical structures but of an entire burgeoning economic sector which will never recover] ...oh yeah? more like fartificial intelligence

Seriously train yourself to stop engaging fascists in earnest! It’s not your job to educate them, it won’t work, and it squanders your effort! Use the block button so much your thumb gets bruised. Be vigilant young squadron

never feel more second-hand embarrassment than when someone who calls themselves a writer shamelessly talks about using ChatGPT.

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”

HUMANS!

screaming into the void to get a library card, and check anything out. a book. a movie. a cd. utilize the resources your local library offers. get discounted museum tickets. attend an event. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!