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Fighting by The Rules

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me.

The world right now is like a dystopian 1970s SF novel

In which two-fisted billionaires colonize space in order to get away from the degenerate second-hander rabble downstairs.

U.S. Threatens to Invade Greenland

How will we be talking about this in a week? In a month? In a year? Nothing seems predictable anymore, as Anthony says in this clip. The U.S….

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

An absolutely lovely short film by Konstantin Bronzit (2015). Read more about it on Wikipedia.

Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like

In a functional society, basic human milestones are incentivized. You want to form relationships, get married, buy a home, and plan for the future. In late-stage capitalism these…

Fuck AI

“Everything that made creators matter—the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked—is now suddenly accessible to anyone with the right tools,”…

Eternal Fascism

“Freedom and liberation are an unending task.”— Umberto Eco, 1995, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

The final, chaotic days of a political era

The second Trump administration has exposed the lie of Reaganomics, as well as the rot at the heart of an administration dedicated to the idea that some people…

Aaand Stay Out!

— Olivia of Troye, I’ve Sat in the Rooms Where These Are Written. This One Stunned Me. “Statue of Perfidy” illustration by David Rowe, 2025

We Lived Happily During the War

…in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.