Hi everybody! A lot of you have been asking me what you can get me for my birthday, which is this weekend. Just kidding, literally no one asked me that but just in case you were considering getting me something please donate here instead entertainmentcommunity.org
Alternately, please consider joining a #WritersGuildofAmerica picket line and support the absolute shit out of this strike
I haven't really articulated this much but: Disinformation depends on altering our stories, true ones and fictional ones, to affect how we see ourselves and each other and make the world seem much more negative. There is a lot of power in culture, so of course jackholes want it
If you stand up for the creatives -- the people telling our stories, whether through writing, music, art, what have you -- you're standing up for democracy and freedom. Save our stories, save democracy.
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"The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people.
Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges."
"As the planet warms, more calamities will strike the U.S. and, if the recent past is any indication, create new opportunities for militias and other extremist groups to mobilize and recruit...."
That's why all the insane border hardening and eugenics shit is happening now too. Borders are there to consolidate resources. Well, we're the resources they're trying to consolidate.
The rhetoric directs the stochastic violence, tells people vulnerable to such messaging what their targets should be, and then the lawmakers using said rhetoric get their way. Their attacks on schools and school shootings are of a piece
It's been this way the whole time. The weaponized narratives direct the stochastic violence and always have. That's their aim, that's their goal. And everyone just lets it happen.
Apropos of nothing: Here's a pic my mom just sent over of me at two years old, breaking a story
The majority of my childhood was spent around journalists, as I come from a journalism family (third-gen at least) and grew up in and around my grandpa's newspaper, the Lemon Grove Review et al
Thereby dooming me to a life of financial destitution and despair, but at least I've had a lot of fun along the way