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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Civil War

During the Trump years, there was a popular Twitter joke format that involved linking to a news story about events in the US and imagining how the headline would be written if the same events had happened in a third world country. This was used to demonstrate how differently newspapers

The "Old Man Yells At Cloud" meme from the Simpsons but edited to read old TRan yells at cloud

The Zone of Totality

I have felt over the past few weeks that attention, coverage and hype for today's total solar eclipse has been more noticeable and consistent than it has previously in my life. But as the last one was in 2017, aka infinite time ago emotionally-speaking, this feeling is at

Sophie makes a kissy face at our terrible cat, Barnacle

Happy Birthday Sophie

A picture of the container ship the Dali floating amongst the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key bridge

Flexible Labor, Rigid Capital

At around 1:45 AM this morning, March 26th, a container ship, the Dali, flagged out of Singapore, was leaving the port of Baltimore when it briefly lost power and control. That brief loss of power - in the video of the incident it appears to occur for only a

Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brien posing on the truck they spend much of Love Lies Bleeding driving around

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Pain and Gay-n

Sometimes the girlies deserve a little toxic crime romance, as a treat. Going to the movies: sometimes it's just good clean fun. Although sometimes it's filthy pervert madness. And if you're a chaotic queer freak, well, those times are the same time. Love Lies

Pod Person

I was incredibly honored to be asked by my dear comrades at Death Panel Podcast to come on and talk about a piece I wrote for this newsletter, Remembering as an Act of Revolt. We discussed the Biden administration's counterinsurgent use of denial and forgetting, and how powerful

A black and white image of moviegoers with 3D glasses from the 50s, but their eyes glow blue ala the Dune franchise.

Image Without Metaphor

Dune Part Two and the Return of Socialist Realism We are living through an era of thudding cultural literalism. In our narrative products (movies, TV and to a lesser but noticeable extent, novels) that has meant that instead of story we get plot, premise and lore, dialogue is replaced by

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Remembering As an Act of Revolt

Critiques of Biden for his age and memory have been all the rage this year. The shocking success of eugenic ableism about the pandemic has taught the media and political classes a valuable lesson: if you want to do a fascism, attack the old, disabled and physically vulnerable. Going after

Queen's Last Interview

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Queen's Last Interview

Here's a small piece of speculative fiction about a group of lesbian space-pirate revolutionaries, available in full for all paying members. Enjoy! The thing that had really made Nova angry was space junk. Space junk. It wasn't enough to destroy the wonder and mystery of the

What if Teddy Bear was creepy?

What if Teddy Bear was creepy?

What if Teddy Bear Was Creepy!?!?! An important thing to know is that movies are bad. If, like me, you spend more time watching, thinking, writing and talking about movies than almost anything else, you end up in one of two places. You either believe movies are good, one of

Vote for Fascism, or Face Fascism

Vote for Fascism, or Face Fascism

Today, in the lead up to the State of the Union address, the White House leaked that Biden would announce they’d be building a floating rig in the Mediterranean to provide aide to Palestinians in Gaza. This floating aide platform will take weeks to build, weeks during which more

Revamped, Relaunched, De-Nazified

Revamped, Relaunched, De-Nazified

Hi Everyone! You may notice that this is coming to you from a different domain: I have (I hope successfully? I'm bad at computers, part of my struggle to tear down trans girl stereotypes) moved my newsletter over to Ghost. The last few months I have felt very