NuclearVampire

US police are allowed to do things to American citizens which would be considered war crimes if a soldier did them to civilians in a war zone. This includes the use of chemical weapons like tear gas. This includes the use of torture methods like solitary confinement. This includes murder.

Describing young men, especially young white men, as "disaffected" is annoying but I won't quibble with it on substance, but calling them "politically alienated" when there's an entire Republican party that exists to cater to their every whim, bigotry, and bias is just really beyond

Thinking about the children whose families were subject to police raids because they had pirated the wrong songs

On X, most of my replies are blue check neo-Nazi repeating insane right wing conspiracy theories. But it’s still better than Bluesky where people sometimes give me a hard time about not using alt text.

If we employed more to make sure shit works, make sure people get what they need, make sure easy access to necessities was guaranteed, we'd both have significantly more jobs and all be significantly better off as a society.

fucking cowards

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

Just loafing around

Been having a real rough time. It's hard to interact with people and things when it feels like I'm living in free fall, and just waiting for the fall to end.

I don’t want to “streamline” my writing. I don’t want to “increase my output.” I don’t want to “write a novel with one click.” I want to write stuff only I can write. I want to read and write novels with soul and heart and a unique voice. Fuck AI. Long live real writers.

They are charging a sitting congresswoman with a crime for performing her lawfully required oversight of ICE. This is an incredibly undemocratic step that should make people painfully aware of where we are at.

A woman I know was charged with a felony for accidentally bumping a cop's shin with her foot during a domestic. She can't vote because she bumped a cop's shin and didn't even leave a red mark.

The Dark will always rise as long as the seeds of it are watered in humanity's mind.

If you can blame the sick for being sick, you never have to worry that one day you'll be sick. You can justify not caring for them as a just punishment for getting ill. Did wonders during the bubonic plague waves, lemme tell you.

"nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny" applies to my big fat hairy masc looking bear ass as much as it applies to nonbinary people with long hair and makeup and it is impossible to meaningfully liberate gendee marginalized people without confronting gender essentialism in the process

this painted stork looks like a trenchcoat flasher

once again my full throated support and endorsement for any democrat who pursues criminal legal accountability for the DOGE boys. and i’d be fine with shipping these guys to the Hague

I love living in the era of the business idiot. Multiple 3 trillion market cap companies forcing software down people's throats that they hate that has grown a near-cultural level of ridicule about its propensity for errors, all because they forgot how to do anything but chase quarterly growth

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

applying for jobs again

a) we. told. you. b) Now slice and dice the stats by race. I dare you.

Oh! Also acceptable extra credit essay: Why "Genetically Modified" Is A Useless Label In A World Where We Gave Brassica Oleracea An Identity Crisis All By Ourselves For The Last Four Thousand Years

If you can stock up on masks/respirators, I highly recommend you do so. Between supply chain issues and RFK Jr completely dismantling public health, masks are more important than ever. If you have the means, donate to a local mask bloc as well. Help them stock up & help others

Congrats, caving law firms. You just got press-ganged to handle the next Derek Chauvin, of which this EO hopes there will be many.

ALL ART COPS ARE BASTARDS jdriley.itch.io/all-art-cops...

it couldn't be more obvious they are preparing for eruptions this summer and a subsequent crackdown

We need to give up the framing that they imprisoned a man in El Salvador “mistakenly.” Their actions prove this is intentional. Did they mean for this to be the trial run? Don’t know. But they’re running hard with it. That’s not a “mistake.” That’s fascism.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?