Lesser A'Tuin
@lesseratuin.bsky.social
“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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Death at a Funeral: a masterclass in how to produce a delightful madcap dark comedy with a dead body and starring Alan Tudyk.
The Trouble With Jessica: how not to produce a delightful madcap dark comedy with a dead body and starring Alan Tudyk.
The Trouble With Jessica: how not to produce a delightful madcap dark comedy with a dead body and starring Alan Tudyk.
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Death at a Funeral: a masterclass in how to produce a delightful madcap dark comedy with a dead body and starring Alan Tudyk.
The Trouble With Jessica: how not to produce a delightful madcap dark comedy with a dead body and starring Alan Tudyk.
The Trouble With Jessica: how not to produce a delightful madcap dark comedy with a dead body and starring Alan Tudyk.
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ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
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“We won because we insisted that politics is no longer something that is done to us. Now it is something we do.”
Every single word of this Mamdani speech is fucking fire.
Every single word of this Mamdani speech is fucking fire.
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
“We won because we insisted that politics is no longer something that is done to us. Now it is something we do.”
Every single word of this Mamdani speech is fucking fire.
Every single word of this Mamdani speech is fucking fire.
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I honestly miss posting about fun and ridiculous things, but with the news lately, I feel like Captain America from that one "Texts from Superheroes" comic. 😠
I've also been cutting back on bottomless brunch, which means no more dedicated 2-4 hours of inebriated weekend shit posting, sorry. 💖
I've also been cutting back on bottomless brunch, which means no more dedicated 2-4 hours of inebriated weekend shit posting, sorry. 💖
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I honestly miss posting about fun and ridiculous things, but with the news lately, I feel like Captain America from that one "Texts from Superheroes" comic. 😠
I've also been cutting back on bottomless brunch, which means no more dedicated 2-4 hours of inebriated weekend shit posting, sorry. 💖
I've also been cutting back on bottomless brunch, which means no more dedicated 2-4 hours of inebriated weekend shit posting, sorry. 💖
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My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
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My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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what we’re losing faith in is the systems. in the rulers. in the structures. in the lies we’ve been told and fed and propagandized to believe.
what I am not losing faith in is you.
we can do this. we shall overcome.
what I am not losing faith in is you.
we can do this. we shall overcome.
September 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
what we’re losing faith in is the systems. in the rulers. in the structures. in the lies we’ve been told and fed and propagandized to believe.
what I am not losing faith in is you.
we can do this. we shall overcome.
what I am not losing faith in is you.
we can do this. we shall overcome.
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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With regards to marriage equality, remember:
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics.
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
(not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society.
It’s on us.
A few skeets here with resources: 1/x
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
With regards to marriage equality, remember:
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
They have already overturned Roe.
They're coming for Obergefell.
They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.
They're coming for contraception.
They're coming for no-fault divorce.
The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.
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I've been writing down some notes on my current approach to making Horror TTRPGs, and wanted to share some thoughts while I'm waiting on something.
My current model for making Horror TTRPGs is based on the profound amount of haunted houses I go to with @jenmiller00.bsky.social every year.
My current model for making Horror TTRPGs is based on the profound amount of haunted houses I go to with @jenmiller00.bsky.social every year.
August 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I've been writing down some notes on my current approach to making Horror TTRPGs, and wanted to share some thoughts while I'm waiting on something.
My current model for making Horror TTRPGs is based on the profound amount of haunted houses I go to with @jenmiller00.bsky.social every year.
My current model for making Horror TTRPGs is based on the profound amount of haunted houses I go to with @jenmiller00.bsky.social every year.
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The text below is from Kate DiCamillo's 2014 Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech (for her children's book Flora & Ulysses). The full speech -- about language and grief and paying attention to the world around us -- is beautiful and well worth reading:
www.ala.org/sites/defaul...
Art by Inga Moore.
www.ala.org/sites/defaul...
Art by Inga Moore.
August 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The text below is from Kate DiCamillo's 2014 Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech (for her children's book Flora & Ulysses). The full speech -- about language and grief and paying attention to the world around us -- is beautiful and well worth reading:
www.ala.org/sites/defaul...
Art by Inga Moore.
www.ala.org/sites/defaul...
Art by Inga Moore.
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Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.
This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.
This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.
July 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.
This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.
This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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imagine laws, but for rich people.
March 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
imagine laws, but for rich people.
Credit Black Liturgies by @colearthurriley.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Credit Black Liturgies by @colearthurriley.bsky.social
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It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017
This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up
A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.
www.popsci.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017
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Tough not to see a stark contrast between the amount of state sanctioned violence levied at anybody making a peep in recent history since at least Occupy Wall Street with the number of elected officials just going 'what are ya gonna do?' while the government is hijacked by people who Jan 6th'd them.
February 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Tough not to see a stark contrast between the amount of state sanctioned violence levied at anybody making a peep in recent history since at least Occupy Wall Street with the number of elected officials just going 'what are ya gonna do?' while the government is hijacked by people who Jan 6th'd them.
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Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
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Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.