Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it

It is impossible to overstate how the US is being run and ruined by people steeped in stages of Poster's Madness that science has no name for.

People keep blaming AI for cognitive decline, but here's a population of college students taking Math 2 by year.

The red line I added on my phone from the toilet is when ChatGPT launched.

It's fucking COVID, guys.

So what im learning from this (more pro-social behavior happens when seeing something unexpected) is that it's a moral imperative to fursuit on the bus

THE TRANS AGENDA IS TO KEEP MY F*CKING FRIENDS ALIVE sol rios At 2pm and 2am. Sleep, I remember you. Please, wait for me. I send out 7 reminders to eat a day. Like little paper lifeboats. It's nothing. And it keeps me afloat. I forget to eat too. I need company for my shot. 3ml of Estradiol over facetime. I tell my friend I'm being a baby about it, she says woman up. Daylight savings swallows up the hour in question. I was going to sit in the bathtub until you responded. And I need you to keep you alive for me. Just until Thursday. Just through to 6 am. I can send you 14 dollars for soup. I can lend you my ears. You'll need both hands to hold a heart. Your razor clinking against the counter. In a dream I almost slip into, I reach through the phone and hide the blade in my open palm, before you notice. Text me, I say. In the morning. I love you. I need you alive. We can figure out the rest tomorrow. With or without sleep. With or without the light of the morning.

poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️

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The Wayback Machine continues to be the Jenga piece holding up the entire history of the Internet

I am shooting my shot.

I love writing op-eds.

@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.

Signed,

A Black woman who writes for the public

A screenshot of a tweet from Ludwig saying: a couple weeks ago I found out one of my oldest viewers passed away she started following when i had 100 viewers she was super active in chat, funny, and helped turn my goofy dream of being a streamer into a full fledged career she was also trans, and my community was one of the few places she felt comfortable expressing that in so today in her memory im doing a charity stream for the Trevor project ty to anyone who tunes in or donates rip kanabana

So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

But we can't talk about it - who can't? Victims aren't allowed because people don't want it around, writers and artists can't, survivors can't, everyone can't - except the people who do it apparently!

THEY can do it, and then we're told the emails, no big deal yeah? Not news.

Because it's common and it's common and you don't talk about it! And people pretend -- oooh it's a career ender, oooh it's a life ender - NO IT'S NOT. It's not, we just transfer them to a new church. We elect them president.

Okay.

Like one guy got sorta held accountable and they're still mad.

If anything depiction of wretched things in art - and I count violence among these, it should be wretched, it is - the entire spectrum is important because for a long time we just tiptoe around it. Because it's traumatizing for a lot of people.

WAIT WHY IS IT SO MANY PEOPLE ?
WHY SO MANY?

Anyway: pornographic art and performance is good, people have a right to the vast majority of their kinks, and it is ridiculous that consenting adults are finding those rights strangled by big tech and payment platforms

There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are

I'd say more "anything concealed by conspiracy is also floating around on the internet fully openly, but in a way where it's not easily distinguished from garbage."

The darker side of this is, abuse causes paranoia, so people who have been pressured to keep quiet about something sound unreliable.

It never ceases to amaze me how many journalists convince themselves that a "story" is a thing that exists completely independent of their input and choices. Like no, actually, you're not the *only* thing that makes something a story, but you definitely get a vote

A nerdy-looking middle-aged person with a beard, a ponytail and round glasses, seen from 3/4 rear view. They somewhat resemble the artist. On the back of their shirt there's an apple with the inscription KALLISTI, in Greek letters. The miniature angel standing on their left shoulder says, in cursive writing, "disinformation is deontologically bad." The devil standing on their right shoulder in a haze of soot says, "Do you know how easy it would be to generate a realistic hidden camera video of Epstein getting murked?" (smaller print) "... And if people believed it, it would be bad for Trump. And if they DIDN'T believe it, it would teach them to be skeptical."

The Discordian Temptation, Or, How D'ya Like Them Apples.
Rollerball on watercolor paper, 2025.

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This is also a difference, but yes, the number of different shades of nuance in this metaphor was why I picked it. Legal and ethical and social perception are three different layers.

There is even a case to be made that violent rhetoric concerning someone who deals in violent rhetoric professionally may be *ethically* different in its severity from the same rhetoric directed at someone else, for the same reason hitting a boxer is regarded differently from hitting a dancer.

thank you, friend. 🌭

How about you explain why you can't Google basic facts yourself, if you want me to do it for you?

A nerdy-looking middle-aged person with a beard, a ponytail and round glasses, seen from 3/4 rear view. They somewhat resemble the artist. On the back of their shirt there's an apple with the inscription KALLISTI, in Greek letters. The miniature angel standing on their left shoulder says, in cursive writing, "disinformation is deontologically bad." The devil standing on their right shoulder in a haze of soot says, "Do you know how easy it would be to generate a realistic hidden camera video of Epstein getting murked?" (smaller print) "... And if people believed it, it would be bad for Trump. And if they DIDN'T believe it, it would teach them to be skeptical."

The Discordian Temptation, Or, How D'ya Like Them Apples.
Rollerball on watercolor paper, 2025.

Maybe learn one thing about the demographics of the groups you're insulting before you fall all over yourself in your eagerness to look like a fool online?

Oh are we just making this the "fash with a woke coat of paint" platform now? Cool.

And yet you're standing here regurgitating right-wing buzzwords about a marginalized sector of the working poor, for some reason. Curious.

They absolutely cannot get competence for any price, because most people who are competent enough to be smart around weapons are also smart enough to be competent around too-good-to-be-true job offers that come with a lifetime moral stain and the hatred of your whole community.