Arken Wheeler

Arken Wheeler

@arkwheel.bsky.social

International educator, published poet, award-winning screenwriter and indie filmmaker from Tampa, Florida, now based... Somewhere else. Catch me if you can, butches!

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How do I work this thing? -Sincerely, an awkward hermit writer, who all but skipped the entire existence of Twitter/X despite everyone's professional advice, but now not feeling too bad about that decision for obvious reasons. I hope all are A-OK on this bumpy ass ride of bizarre life on 🌍

Do I really have ADHD, or is the world we've built around us one big ADHD factory of distractions? Told my therapist about this conspiracy to distract all of us constantly by design to prevent as many as people from achieving greatness and freedom and caught a BPD diagnosis. He didn't like my tone.

Finally watched the Sopranos during the writer's strike and it really ruined my aspirations to get therapy. #thesopranos #writing #writer #writers #therapy #gethelp #justkidding #fetish #mafia #forlife #wtf #usa #nwo #why #amiusing #hashtags #like #this #sendhelp #betterhelp #ad #promo #professional

The world is still burning and chaos is ensuing through the fascist trends of the western world, but I'm just over here in Madagascar, creating 3rd quarter report cards for all the students in my 25 student school 😂 I still love life, but love it more when I'm not living out of car in Florida lol

My scripts for a feature (The Fifth Ring AKA Vagabond Samurai) and my drama series pilot (The Underground) were both just selected by FESTIVAL ANGAELICA via FilmFreeway.com! It's always a validation when that special email in your inbox announces you made the cut, even for smaller indie festivals.

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Can't tell me this guy's not an alien when even AI-guided algorithms in my phone's news feed are alluding to the obvious. ET was so much cooler though, and what a chill guy. He'd want to eject Elon to Mars more than anyone.

The witches here in Madagascar are on another level. They run around naked at night and sometimes in the day. If they see you before you see them, somehow they put a spell on you so you can't move, then proceed to poop in your mouth to turn you into their horse and ride you to where they need to go.

Over six months in a developing country with a crumbling post-colonial infrastructure is just preparing me for the US in ten years if I ever overcome my paranoia to try and get through customs interrogating me for hours and scanning my militantly anti-billionaire digital footprint.

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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

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delighted to inform everyone that despite all the super liberated sex/drugs/rock&roll ideology flying around in the *edgier* parts of the 1960s popular music scene, when all was said and done the only one of those guys who had the balls to actually come out as bisexual was Arthur goddamned Garfunkel

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I miss John Lewis. I even miss John McCain. Fighters on opposing sides. ...but both lions who would crawl through a mile of broken glass to defend our nation against fascism.

With a small but solid cast and crew (most crew members also actors) and three of my high schoolers helping in a paid internship, we shot 95% of my feature film Insulation in four efficient consecutive days, entirely in my apartment building in Antananarivo. I already know that this is my best work

Shit ain't nothing but a g thang baby. Fuck it. And fuck Snoop Dogg too. How do you go from one of the realest ones alive to total poser in one lifetime? Money. That's the square root of all our disappointing discombobulated conundrums. But its still beyond F, ain't nothing but a G thang baby.

Y'all trippin But IDC But I also care so much my heart breaks We're all going crazy But I also hope it's the best type of crazy that we can collectively categorize as eccentric and functional to the point of enjoyable purpose. We are here for some wild reason so let's get it.

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⚡️'No point trying to negotiate' with Putin, Yulia Navalnaya says. "Even if you decided to negotiate with Putin, just remember he will lie," Navalnaya, widow of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, said at the Munich Security Conference two days before the anniversary of her husband's death.

kyivindependent.com'No point trying to negotiate' with Putin, Yulia Navalnaya says"Even if you decided to negotiate with Putin, just remember he will lie," Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, said at the Munich Security Conference two days before th...

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

One week from today and we start our rigorous four day shoot of my first feature film in Madagascar, a contained political thriller titled: The Weight. Can't wait lol But also yes, super nervous to shoot in a new country on a tight schedule, even if it is all mostly in my apartment lol

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This says it all

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

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Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

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Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours. More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

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Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted. This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:

My very special friend who I spend most of my rare free time with here in Madagascar said she liked my green eyes because she could see the world. I said I love her dark eyes (which she said was boring bc most people here have them) bc in them I see all that ever existed beyond our temporary world.