A Miserable Pile Of Words

Universal and unconditional *housing,* motherfuckers.
Universal and unconditional *healthcare.*
Universal and unconditional *food.*

Now we can talk about a universal stipend *on top* of that

I do not advocate for UBI, because UBI as a position is "capitalists can continue to hold everyone's survival needs hostage, but uhhhh the role of government in all this should be to meekly subsidise them in a lightly obscured fashion by paying a stipend to people to immediately pay the rentiers"

yes look "world run by a clique of rich fash kiddiefuckers 😠", "payment companies enacting worldwide extrajudicial porn bans 😠"

and—? the people sitting on the boards of the payment companies are—? you're so nearly, very nearly at the crux, here

None of that alluring but cold-as-hell diaphanous gown shit for *this* girl, no ma'am

My therapist said it could be good for me to try making a really small game (since I often get totally overwhelmed with overscoping) so I started an itty bitty game about Fig. (This is the first test)

The house is threatened by an older generation. The girl will only render more cruel its downfall.

I wonder if Labour have really thought through the implications of creating multiple desperate, persecuted underclasses whilst making it clear the courts will not provide justice and there is no peaceful route to change they will accept.

we shouldn't listen to our brains, what do *they* know

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

American foreign policy rn like "he chadded chaddishly to the stairs and manlied downwards" with absolutely nothing else in the chamber

Same energy.

The replacement of as much shared public space as possible with corporate sales venues implies a corresponding unintentional replacement of public manners with "how it's acceptable to treat service staff"

and corporations will let customers do anything to their staff they can't be sued for allowing

"To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response"

You Are Banned For Life

...Tell me it wouldn't instantly train a lot of people into behaving better, if corporations didn't gift them their frontline staff as crumple zones deliberately intended to Fucking Take It

"treating the need for ADHD meds as 'addiction' is like treating insulin-dependant diabetics as 'addicted'—"

Good news! The fascists *do* also think diabetics should die as Lebensunwerten Leben! They just know ADHD is a softer target to start with. You know? "First they—"

Once on a panel for a professional conference, someone asked me if technology gives me hope for access.

I said let’s get ramps on every building first, and the tech bro manager was PISSED. People want to believe that they invented the answer to systemic issues…without understanding the issues.

shot, chaser (III) The place is a big box warehouse, raw concrete floor and metal panel walls and nothing else except banks of lockers; it is, somehow, colder than outdoors.

shot, chaser (III) #writing #ScienceFiction #Cyberpunk #Criminals

big timeskip
party never disbanded 😌

shot, chaser (II) “Cleaners,” Kandi says smoothly. “Sym phoned us a rush job?”

shot, chaser (II) #writing #ScienceFiction #Cyberpunk #Criminals

For International Women Day you should read Maria Ying books since we're a team of 3 women, so that's 300% women in the bargain.

mariaying.itch.io

The domestic propaganda myth that all the fascism was Those Specific Awful Foreigners, and therefore ended when We Gave Them What For, was and continues to be spectacular cover for the character and actions of European government

I think this thread has the right of it, and captures conversations I’ve had with @byzantienne.bsky.social some time ago

Second Down on Scribble Hub Synopsis John Football is the most powerful man in Texas. He owns every football field in the Lone Star State, drives a big truck, and raised five strong sons to carry on the Football legacy. Except now he has four daughters. Because in the Football household, there is only one rule: WIN. And if you can't win at football? Well. John Football has pink paint for your bedroom waiting. And a very understanding family therapist. And apparently a remarkable relationship with a very discreet endocrinologist. Now it's Brandon Football's turn. Brandon is fifteen, the last Football son, his father's final hope. He's decent at football. Not great. Definitely not Football great. And when Brandon fumbles the championship game in front of the entire state of Texas, John Football does what any reasonable MAGA patriarch would do. He makes a phone call. Suddenly Brandon has four very supportive sisters, a closet full of sundresses, and a new name his father chose from a baby book he's apparently had ready since 2019.

this is the best story summary that has ever existed

Oh, looks like she was waiting for you.

being a “muse” is having your life and your story and your thoughts mined for the success and acclaim of someone else, usually a man

if yr interesting enough to be a muse, i promise you, yr interesting enough to use it for yr own art instead

no, seriously, what are you supposed to do with that?
"... Okay? Then... go read someone else's books that are more to your tastes? Why are you bothering me with this at an event structured around *my* book? There's millions of other books out there. glhf"

"the fuck are you doing at my book signing then"

hey look a fun history lesson!

Yep.

"Oh so you just want to be a new kind of slave owner?"

Post by @anniesated 💬 3  🔁 20  ❤️ 34 · Binding your swornsister's soul to your blade, that she may stay with you even after her death to revel in your joint battles, is all fine and good until it's been a decade since…

New short story up on tumblr!
~A former Swordswoman whose lover's soul is inside her sword looks for ever more targets to sate her bloodlust~