Category: Microblog

Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhat (book cover)
Categories: LifeMicroblog

I hold no reverence for your idols. I declare no allegiance to your priests. I do not honor the sanctity of your temples. I am not a shield for excusing the violence of men, nor a convenient scapegoat to butcher in their stead. I am neither an excuse to prop up anti-feminist sentiment, nor am […]

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Bethany and Corry with a grande margarita
Categories: LifeMicroblog

Bethany and I were feeling really down last November (for some reason) and we felt desperately in need of something to look forward to. So for her birthday weekend, we tried to make it happen within our means. I started this draft shortly after we got home, and have since been unable to finish it. […]

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Onion headline: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible from satirical article published February 17, 2023
Categories: MicroblogPolitics

I sent the following email to my parents because I know they read The New York Times regularly and while it’s not Fox News, I just wanted to reassure myself that they aren’t absorbing the editorial content there. (They both replied that they’re not.) Here’s my letter: Hi Parents! I’ve come to explain why I […]

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Illustration of an ugly rat wearing a hat that says bastard
Categories: MicroblogWork

I was deleting all my Facebook data and stumbled upon some status updates from May 2014 where I had to delete all my coworkers from my friend list because one of them tattled on me to our moron executive boss. This dude was 100% a random MBA networking hire who added absolutely nothing but waste […]

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Jesus Christ flipping tables
Categories: MicroblogPhilosophy

It’s difficult to name real people as role models, because they always eventually find ways to disappoint us. New information will continue to come forward about them, sometimes even after they’re dead, and sully the good things we took from them. That’s why I prefer mine to be fictional, and have clear beginnings and endings […]

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