David Dixon

My debut poetry collection, alongside the wonderful @quotidianwriter.bsky.social releases in September! THE SHIP AND THE STORM is a conversation in poetry, as we delve into subjects ranging from loss and memory to war and nature, and I really hope you'll give it a read.

"The signal is interpreted as so strong as to be an emergency, a crisis. But it's a crisis that doesn't abate, because it keeps blaring even after steps have been taken towards meeting its demands."-- @tupped.bsky.social on the dangers and chaos of setting policy by social media. A great piece.

Under what appropriation?

People need to go to prison. There have to be penalties--real ones, not some minor fines or administrative judgements--for wrecking the State and turning the US into a personalist regime. The punishment need to be draconian; Trump and his enablers need to be made examples of.

Real "asking for a friend" energy from the Post here.

X: But it wasn't OUR fault, really! Me: *skeptical raised eyebrow* X: *explanation which makes it clear it was solely X's fault* Me: So when you said "it wasn't our fault" collectively you mean to say it was your fault, specifically? X: Uh... well... yeah, pretty much. Me:

People keep pointing out the racism here, and that makes sense given the context, but don't think for a minute that it's ONLY racism. These people would, if given the chance, undo citizenship based on sexuality, political ideology, party identification--you name it.

Y'all remember when all it took to end someone's political career was misspelling potato or an a weird yell? Good times.

Matty, I'm afraid people have already decided you're wrong, so according to you I think that means you just nod and agree since everyone's mind is made up already. I know this is an issue that's probably important to you, but values aren't our concern right now--you gotta win first!

BREAKING NEWS: Sting has been kidnapped. The Police have no lead.

Gay rights. Televisions. Food flavor. Ethnic food options. Bourbon. Car safety. Airplane safety. Trauma medicine. Weather modeling. Computers.

"Trump: Inquiry Into Top Advisers Is Dead After Presidential Library Donation" Because of course it is.

Clippy may be dead, but his spirit lives on in MS Word: "It looks like you're trying to type a document with some sort of formatting, would you like totally and repeatedly fuck it up for you?"

What is this "we" shit? Is there a mouse in your pocket?

Put bluntly: this is not good.

There's a land that's fair and bright Where the handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out every night Where the boxcars all are empty And the sun shines every day On the birds and the bees And the cigarette trees The lemonade springs Where the bluebird sings, The White House says

During DADT my supply NCO had a spat with their same-sex spouse who sent in their state marriage license in an attempt to get the NCO kicked out. I reasoned that if the Army said gay marriage didn't exist, no state document could prove it did. So there was no evidence, and since I couldn't ask...

Thursday night soundtrack:

Every day this website exposes me to someone I think must be the stupidest person alive--and then the next day, along comes someone *even stupider* than the previous day's idiot. It's astonishing, really.

"Stealing from ME" is quite the tell.

One of my favorite things is that Hegseth kept on saying "decimated" without seeming to realize that a literal decimation of Iranian capability would mean... 10% losses.

Ao3 NFL slashfic here we come

Whenever I read a series of finance acronyms, concepts, and numbers of which I have no understanding, my brain just goes here:

Police Chief JD Vance at a bank robbery: Sometimes we find the hostages being a little bit more intransigent. Sometimes we find the hostage-takers are a little more intransigent. But that's the job of diplomacy, to engage in these things and try to solve problems!

This only increases the chances he does something else dumb in Iran, to give him a war to point to as a reason why he's too busy.

So this is the play.

Turns out, there's a reason why evangelicals call themselves American Christians and not Christian Americans.

Dudes rock

I was wondering when this story would come out. I'd heard it from friends but I hadn't seen the pictures.

One of the ways LLMs have made my life worse is that I used to look forward to emails with one of my titles as the subject, because I do occasionally get mail from readers! Now, though? Every week a new LLM emails me pretending to have read and loved my book to try to scam me into something.

Antonius Felix to Paul:

RETVRN

*Trent Reznor voice* I DO NOT WANT THIS.

Evergreen.

THE VALUE OF EVERYTHING (Mazzucato, 2018)

Do Su-30 navigation systems run on PHP?

Hey, y'all want some good news for a change?