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(Almost) Hopeless

  • Posted September 24, 2020
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Content Warning: This article discusses police brutality, internet censorship, and near-term human extinction. Not sure where to begin after a day like yesterday. The onslaught of news was overwhelming. Later in the day, it became apparent to me at last that our internet is being censored. The omissions were eerie.…Continue Reading

Everything (Sucks)

  • Posted September 20, 2020September 20, 2020
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How do I sit still while the planet is dying?The bees are deadThe big boss is up in his towerMy face is redYelling, but there’s soundproof glass around himHe’s counting all the mountains of money around himHow would you feel if you got cheated out ofGrowing up?You’re born into a…Continue Reading

The Logistics of Staying Housed

  • Posted August 11, 2020
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Every month, I get one paycheck for my creative work through Patreon. I write 6 or 7 days a week, usually about 500-2,000 words per day. This has been my habit for over a decade. I have written several books, none of which I found worth pitching to agents or…Continue Reading

Slow Progress

  • Posted May 21, 2019May 21, 2019
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When you report symptoms of depression and anxiety, the doctors give you a chart to fill out. Rating on a scale of frequency, it asks questions like how often you feel like you’d be better off dead, or take little interest in doing things. Though I caved to trying psychiatric…Continue Reading

Cultivating Intelligent Disobedience

  • Posted September 19, 2018September 19, 2018
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“Loyal dogs, unfailing tool They do what they have been trained to With the eidolons, the minds are full The evil ghosts of old The evil ghosts of old Insanity turns back at last As soon as their food is done And dog will raven dog The claws crush bones,…Continue Reading

Living with Injustice

  • Posted September 16, 2018
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It is not possible to discuss real solutions without talking about some difficult, painful things. Those things include genocide, slavery, oppression, exploitation, and labor camps. I was taught that America had done none of these things. Even slavery was not really something America did, it was the Confederacy, and the…Continue Reading

Surrendering to Science

  • Posted September 13, 2018
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My faith in God was not lost in a day. It took many years of questioning, and it all started with competitive Apologetics speaking when I was a teenager. Later my journey included many friends made and lost who helped me learn about science, or who gave me the same…Continue Reading

What Happened

  • Posted September 3, 2018September 1, 2018
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Content warnings: gaslighting, child abuse, mental illness, suicide, eating disorders, poverty Now is as good a time as any to explain why exactly my blog was so choppy over the past four years. I don’t trust people like I used to. I don’t believe the world is full of sunshine…Continue Reading

This isn’t a gig economy, it’s a scam economy

  • Posted September 1, 2018September 8, 2018
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This is part of a series on economic injustice. Click here to read from the beginning. Stop, wait, this ain’t right! This is fraudulent This is counterfeit You’re a hoodwinker, sir! –Enter Shikari, Hoodwinker The building is overly futuristic in its design, as if these people want us to think they…Continue Reading

Podcast Transcript: The Deleted Confession

  • Posted August 26, 2018May 8, 2019
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Updated 5/6/2019: Below is a commentary I wrote in August 2018 about the events leading up to my family’s first response to my blog posts in 2014, a podcast. My parents claim that they never gave any kind of response until March of 2019. The podcast was re-uploaded to YouTube,…Continue Reading

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