Some people say “if you don’t like it, then leave,” while also doing their part to ensure that there are not better places to go to. Draining people of imagination, insisting the status quo is fine, & punishing them if they don’t fall in line, so that they are tired, afraid, and short on resources.

If you have a transactional relationship to other people's work, it can seep into your work too.

People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.

Many are weaponizing methodological individualism. It removes the social relations from the equation, thereby circumventing the social sciences.

“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.

i got my first ever story published in a literary magazine and think it would be cool if people wanted to read it!

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have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity

they know grievance is a great motivator

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.

a certain kind of liberal has a cycle of being confidently wrong, coming to the right conclusion way too late, forgetting all the people who told them they were wrong in the first place, never reflecting on it or learning any humility, and then being confidently wrong again to start the cycle anew

And these posts never come with a mea culpa like "I should have listened to the people I brushed off as hysterical"

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Magic, middle earth, cyborgs and cryptids / creatures are fun, but there’s certainly more to speculative fiction than that, past and present.