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Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it
@zaraza.bsky.social
580 followers 330 following 900 posts
California chaos magick queer autist artist, heretical Jew, compassion with teeth.

You might know me elsewhere as a georg of outliers, an angel of infestors, or a tatterdemalion denizen of the One True City.

yes, I write that Homestuck fanfic too.
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The Discordian Temptation, Or, How D'ya Like Them Apples.
Rollerball on watercolor paper, 2025.
A nerdy-looking middle-aged person with a beard, a ponytail and round glasses, seen from 3/4 rear view. They somewhat resemble the artist. On the back of their shirt there's an apple with the inscription KALLISTI, in Greek letters. The miniature angel standing on their left shoulder says, in cursive writing, "disinformation is deontologically bad." The devil standing on their right shoulder in a haze of soot says, "Do you know how easy it would be to generate a realistic hidden camera video of Epstein getting murked?" (smaller print) "... And if people believed it, it would be bad for Trump. And if they DIDN'T believe it, it would teach them to be skeptical."
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Just like human racism can be found coming back out of the bots we've fed on our communications, so can the "you never owe anyone anything, haha what social contract" strain of pop psychology. And it's real bad.
As Zane's use of ChatGPT grew heavier, the service repeatedly encouraged him to break off contact with his family, the logs show. The day after police came to his apartment in June to check on him, Zane told ChatGPT that he awoke to texts from his parents and wondered how quickly he should respond. ChatGPT's answer: "You don't owe them immediacy," according to the suit.
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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I'm having a lot of least favorite told-you-sos I've ever been right about, this year.
"On October 10th, the ‘Pink Pony Club’ singer performed at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and used the performance as an opportunity to share her disapproval over the ongoing ICE raids in the United States, telling fans, “Fuck ICE forever”. Footage of the comment by Roan quickly circulated on social media, which has led to the Department of Homeland Security responding to the matter. In a statement to TMZ, the Department of Homeland Security’s Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, said: “‘Pink Pony Club’ is good. Pedophiles are bad. That’s who we’re getting off of our streets. Get a grip.”
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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This doesn't make me want to subscribe to the Guardian, it makes me want to tell the Guardian about DBT
Nag letter from the Guardian: "You've read 42 articles in the last year We know. You’ve seen these notes to support us – 42 times so far this year – but you haven't responded. It’s a little awkward for both of us. But wait:"
October 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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POV you just ordered a jockstrap for a packing harness and Temu is now going "Ooohhh you're into ✨gay shit✨ dw bro I gotchu" and feeding you the algorithmic equivalent of the review Liberace sued over 😭
A pillow that says "TWO HITS AND ANYTHING FITS" Products including rainbow bracelets, progress pride flags and a t-shirt with a pup hood design in rainbow colors Products including a fishnet garment, what appears to be cock rings and a tank top reading "VERS" Products including bear flag boxer briefs, a tank top reading "WOOF" with a paw design, and a rainbow flag "LOVE" hat
August 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Me reading the news:
Old IBM sign, "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE - THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER", originally ending in the words, "MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION", edited to say "BE ALLOWED TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD Y'ALL, WHAT ARE WE DOING"
August 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Ceci n'est pas my beautiful house, ceci n'est pas my beautiful wife
August 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Can't believe no one has posted this here yet
Tumblr user personsonable: me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU Tumblr user miaislying: Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean? Tumblr user personsonable: decay exists as an extant form of life Tumblr user miaislying: That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day
August 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Like this is the stuff crossing my dash from her rn and I think it's worth boosting, or linking to the Neocities url even if you don't want to engage with her for other reasons.
August 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Oh, this is neat, a sticker book from when I was in elementary school. I wonder what I put in - OK yeah that's about what I was expecting...
Lisa Frank "Sticker Collection" blank book cover, two kittens, one of which is sitting in a brightly colored sneaker. An open page spread from the sticker book. One side says "RAINBOW" in rainbow letters. The stickers on this page are usual brightly colored 90s themes: unicorns, koalas, kittens, musical instruments, ballet shoes, people in sunglasses. The other side says "LEFTOVERS" and contains some typical stuff - flowers, sneakers, hearts, money, a boombox - but also prominently displays several anatomical diagrams (heart, brain, ear, eyeball) and a black and white sticker with a clipart gas mask and a quote attributed to Albert Einstein, "You Cannot Simultaneously Prevent and Prepare For War."
July 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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HOW DID THIS MAKE IT THROUGH CORPORATE APPROVAL LMFAO

Feel free to guess what it is. Actual answer is at the bottom of the alt text.
A picture of two well-dressed twentysomething-to-thirtysomething white women walking down a hallway in a fancy modern corporate space, holding their phones and chatting and smiling, under the caption, "SPEED. It's what we do." . . . . . . . . It is from an AT&T ad. 😭
April 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Calvin's dad binary meme in which Calvin's dad explains that there are two types of postmodern comics, "Calvin's dad binary" and "Loss". He concludes, "Despite being a Calvin & Hobbes comic, this comic is Loss." The last panel features the geometric Loss format, with Calvin's dad perpendicular to an insomniac Calvin, holding a baseball bat over his shoulder and looking offscreen as he says "Baseball"
March 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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This show went hard in ways that have not been possible in any other era of television. To say nothing of the modeling shoots!
David Duchovny with a teacup over his junk, declining a teapot pour from someone out of frame
March 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Alas, fork found in kitchen.
Screencap noting that antman013 follows Jesse Singal.
March 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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I'm wondering if this is targeted.
Screencap from one of the fundraiser screenshots with a highlighted section showing that one of their adult children works for a civil rights nonprofit.
February 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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hey brats I heard the discount store in crenshaw has some clothes for you
a sign reading "active bottoms"
February 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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End the Great Man and his empires. The people who direct and produce and manage and administrate should be there on the strength of the other workers WANTING them there, nothing more and nothing less.
David Lynch, who was famously loved by everyone he worked with, flashing a peace sign.
February 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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I said a while back that I don't really do flags, but I'll make an exception for this one. If I have a country, it's California.

Two designs so far, more may follow. Go get yourself a sticker & remind them what we're worth!

www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1684...

www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1684...
A California flag edit on a rainbow gradient. It reads, "Because entertainment is nothing without us." A California flag edit on a trans flag gradient. It reads, "Because catgirls built your tech economy."
February 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Reddit, as always, the source of great truths.
Redditor sadbabyrabbit: it is funny to pronounce the word “doing” like it rhymes with “boing”
February 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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None of the people who have been trying to push adulthood later and later deserve any peace either. THIS is what folks were buying with their stupid Voltron fandom war and I've been calling it out since 2017

OTOH, you can go sue military recruiters for child trafficking now, it'll be funny.
(a) The term "child" or "children" means an individual or individuals under 19 years of age.
January 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Update: I just found this on Reddit, so that's some more information. (Skipped last line of the post but it's in the alt text.)
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Subject line: Passport Adjudicator here. The gender changes have thrown our offices in chaos. Text: I work in a passport office and the gender changes stemming from Trump's executive orders have been chaos. The State Department is struggling to put together a coherent policy and things are changing literally by the hour in some cases. Basically the situation right now is this: Renewals asking for a gender change are now suspended. We're forced into just letting the applications pile up because we're not sure whether to deny them outright or approve the applications but issue the passports without the requested gender change Applications with an "X" gender marker are no longer accepted If you are a trans first time applicant and have been able to get an amended birth certificate in your state, we'll have no way of knowing the amended BC doesn't match your assigned sex as birth. So if you have your documents in your current name and gender identity, I would apply ASAP For those that previously requested a gender change and hold a valid book and are looking to renew.... it's unclear how that's going to work. The White House is saying we need to determine and verify which gender you were assigned at birth. In theory this is possible but it will slow down processing. We hope to get more clarification on this in the coming weeks. There has been an enormous chilling effect and dip in morale this week. There are other contributing factors to that (telework is ending across the entire government, for example) but I can safely say the majority of us are upset with these changes. I might be able to answer some questions if you have them....but be aware everything I tell you comes with a giant asterisk. We don't even know what things will look like next week.
January 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The "the more you know" star except it has a freaked-out teary grimace and the caption says "I know too much"
January 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I got so hopeful but Costco doesn't have the food products that meet my household's special dietary needs. It's such a bummer. It would cost us something like an extra $75 a month to get our breakfast staples from not-Amazon.
Costco search displaying "We were not able to find a match."
January 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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It's a good day to repost the most important @kcg.bsky.social comic.
The dog that got famous for sitting in a burning room saying "This is fine", in a follow-up comic: description yoinked from Vox - This time around, the dog begins to say his famous line, only to stop short, look around at his burning house, and freak the fuck out. “THIS IS NOT FINE!” he screams, tearing at his face in agony. “Oh my god, everything’s on fire! What the hell’s my problem…” he wails, desperately trying to put out the flames. “There was no reason to let it last this long and get this bad!”
January 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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"Same hat!!" meme but it's edited so the speech bubbles say "Same bork wuff wagwagwag!!"
January 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM