Writer's cramp
@writerscramp.bsky.social
Writer, artist feminist, podcast addict, Lego fanatic, book lover, science believer, astronomy nerd, literal tree hugger.
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The Republic that is collapsing now is the Second Republic. The First Republic collapsed in the Civil War; the Reconstruction Amendments were needed to found the Second Republic. That is failing now. To recover the United States from the current collapse will require changes to the Constitution.
June 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The Republic that is collapsing now is the Second Republic. The First Republic collapsed in the Civil War; the Reconstruction Amendments were needed to found the Second Republic. That is failing now. To recover the United States from the current collapse will require changes to the Constitution.
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
This whole thread
We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden
May 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This whole thread
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So many bitter divorced dudes want to burn the world down.
For narcissists suffering from arrested development, it is *always* about them. Always.
March 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
So many bitter divorced dudes want to burn the world down.
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MapQuest and Firefox coming out of Gen X retirement to lead the charge against fascism is the most unexpected yet peak 2025 energy.
MySpace, your move.
MySpace, your move.
February 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
MapQuest and Firefox coming out of Gen X retirement to lead the charge against fascism is the most unexpected yet peak 2025 energy.
MySpace, your move.
MySpace, your move.
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I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...
Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | Defector
The most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields gnawing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care....
defector.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...
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If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…
www.techdirt.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
This thread is the definition of malicious compliance AND proof that librarians are legit badasses.
When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
January 31, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This thread is the definition of malicious compliance AND proof that librarians are legit badasses.
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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I think about this joke a lot these days.
January 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I think about this joke a lot these days.
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The important thing to keep in mind when assessing Mark Zuckerberg is that at the end of the day, he will always be a snotty rich kid who has never been held accountable for anything in his life and he isn’t going to start now. Even when he becomes an old man.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2021...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2021...
Zuckerberg squirms out of acknowledging Facebook’s central role in the Capitol insurrection
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed scarcely able to contain his annoyance Thursday as he bobbed, weaved, and otherwise mostly evaded House Energy and Committee members’ questions in a hearing on soci...
www.dailykos.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The important thing to keep in mind when assessing Mark Zuckerberg is that at the end of the day, he will always be a snotty rich kid who has never been held accountable for anything in his life and he isn’t going to start now. Even when he becomes an old man.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2021...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2021...
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Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.
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November 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
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Interesting piece by @crampell.bsky.social on office mandates as an invisible pay cut
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Return-to-work mandates are an invisible pay cut
They also might signal a weakening economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Interesting piece by @crampell.bsky.social on office mandates as an invisible pay cut
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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This— and he’s a whiny little boy. So much of the world is run— and ruined— by whiny little boys wearing men’s sizes.
“Dont like Elon”
I’m leaving because Elon doesn’t like reason, fact based inquiry, science, democracy, fair play, and most of all because he is behaving in the same tradition as dictatorial leaders
I’m leaving because Elon doesn’t like reason, fact based inquiry, science, democracy, fair play, and most of all because he is behaving in the same tradition as dictatorial leaders
“Leaving X because you don’t like Elon is the kind of purity politics that landed Democrats in this mess to begin with.”
December 1, 2024 at 6:15 PM
This— and he’s a whiny little boy. So much of the world is run— and ruined— by whiny little boys wearing men’s sizes.
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I must say this as clearly as possible: if you have, in the last ten years, thought "I just don't get tech" or that you're "getting old" or "you're not technical," you are the victim - so much of the tech industry is now oriented around making you do stuff rather than doing stuff for you.
I was seriously relieved when I started listening to your podcast and realized my increasing levels of frustration with modern tech are not because I'm getting older (I'm only 40 for gods's sake!) but because everything is actively getting worse. 🫠
November 29, 2024 at 7:34 PM
I must say this as clearly as possible: if you have, in the last ten years, thought "I just don't get tech" or that you're "getting old" or "you're not technical," you are the victim - so much of the tech industry is now oriented around making you do stuff rather than doing stuff for you.
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This was the funniest thing I saw online today. 😂
November 27, 2024 at 5:39 AM
This was the funniest thing I saw online today. 😂
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Right-wingers are social parasites - they feed on healthy liberal hosts. Without liberals to hate and troll they have nothing and the platforms fail. They made Twitter a sick, toxic place - and Twitter is dying - that's why they attempt to infect #Bluesky. Block them at first sight - no mercy!
November 23, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Right-wingers are social parasites - they feed on healthy liberal hosts. Without liberals to hate and troll they have nothing and the platforms fail. They made Twitter a sick, toxic place - and Twitter is dying - that's why they attempt to infect #Bluesky. Block them at first sight - no mercy!
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the difference between Harris and Trump’s popular vote totals is less than 2%, largely concentrated in TX and FL.
you are not wildly outnumbered, you are not powerless, you are not in a different country than you were in last month, you are being DDOSed by organized bad actors.
you are not wildly outnumbered, you are not powerless, you are not in a different country than you were in last month, you are being DDOSed by organized bad actors.
November 20, 2024 at 3:29 AM
the difference between Harris and Trump’s popular vote totals is less than 2%, largely concentrated in TX and FL.
you are not wildly outnumbered, you are not powerless, you are not in a different country than you were in last month, you are being DDOSed by organized bad actors.
you are not wildly outnumbered, you are not powerless, you are not in a different country than you were in last month, you are being DDOSed by organized bad actors.
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I want to introduce you to Next Comes What by Andrea Pitzer because I will going on about it a lot!
It's worth your time. I know it's worth mine.
It's about what we can learn from the rise of strongmen to thwart Trump.
The first ep is "How We Survive This Mess." And people are digging it.
It's worth your time. I know it's worth mine.
It's about what we can learn from the rise of strongmen to thwart Trump.
The first ep is "How We Survive This Mess." And people are digging it.
How to Survive this Mess | by Andrea Pitzer | Episode 1 | Next Comes What
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:19 PM
I want to introduce you to Next Comes What by Andrea Pitzer because I will going on about it a lot!
It's worth your time. I know it's worth mine.
It's about what we can learn from the rise of strongmen to thwart Trump.
The first ep is "How We Survive This Mess." And people are digging it.
It's worth your time. I know it's worth mine.
It's about what we can learn from the rise of strongmen to thwart Trump.
The first ep is "How We Survive This Mess." And people are digging it.
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Those facist fucks are the most miserable people in America, even in victory. We can’t be like them.
We will fight tooth and nail where we can but also laughing at them and calling them weirdos is their worst nightmare because they know it’s true.
We will fight tooth and nail where we can but also laughing at them and calling them weirdos is their worst nightmare because they know it’s true.
Congratulations to everybody on surviving the last week. It was fucking horrible but we did it.
We have to find little rays of joy and silly stuff we just have to. And we will!
We have to find little rays of joy and silly stuff we just have to. And we will!
November 13, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Those facist fucks are the most miserable people in America, even in victory. We can’t be like them.
We will fight tooth and nail where we can but also laughing at them and calling them weirdos is their worst nightmare because they know it’s true.
We will fight tooth and nail where we can but also laughing at them and calling them weirdos is their worst nightmare because they know it’s true.
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There's a bunch of different lists, this is the one I've blocked and it's been good so far:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 8, 2024 at 2:08 PM
There's a bunch of different lists, this is the one I've blocked and it's been good so far:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...