Author: Cliff Pervocracy
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Question 3
[Content notes: politics, capital punishment. I started this a while ago so it is not a commentary on any specific recent events. It’s more of an ongoing mood.] The Marbury 🦅 Daily Bulletin Wednesday, October 1 NEWS BALLOT QUESTIONS ANNOUNCED FOR UPCOMING TOWN ELECTION Marbury’s town election will be taking place this November 11th, and…
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You Can’t Escape Values.
“Values” is often a codeword in politics for a specific kind of values – “family values,” “American values,” – which in turn pretty much just means “whatever conservatives believe.” So the word has some stink on it. I’ve run into that when I’ve tried to explain this before. But I think it’s important for people to understand:…
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The Last Mountain.
[Content notes: Apocalypse, pet death, people death, drugs] It was April, and the world was ending. Pierce, Astin, and Darley stood on the deck of the Sir Edmund, watching the lights of New York slip away. The lights glittered as they always had. Even a mile away, all looked well. The spire atop the Empire State…
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Oops, I accidentally Six Months.
Hi! I exist! So I got really, really depressed without maybe being fully aware of it in any sense other than feeling like the last time I was all the way awake was maybe 2019. I try to keep a diary, and there’s just gaps of entire months in which I… apparently existed. And I…
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The Bad Guys Won And We Are Still queer.
Every time I get really scared about what the Trump administration is going to do to queer people, I remember the 1990s. (Because I’m that old.) Of course gay and trans people existed then, but in terms of visibility and official recognition in the US, we were either closeted or on the margins of society. It was…
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The thing about tv commercials.
The thing about TV commercials is that because there’s so much money (and CEO ego) riding on thirty seconds of video, the filming process is agonizing. Every shot requires eleventy billion takes because God forbid it isn’t perfect, and also needs twelvety different variations so the client has Options. (Literally, if it’s a big-deal ad…
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Goodbye, Matthias.
Matthias my buddy, my little mouseboy, you were the best of mice. You were not a young man when I took you in, you were a rescue with a broken tail and battle scars, but you had so much life left. When you were sick I thought that was the end, but you pulled through.…
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Resistance is not an emotion.
How To Make A Place Where Nothing Bad Ever Happens (All steps are optional/circumstances-permitting except #10, which is mandatory.) So That’s How You’re Coping With The Election, Huh? Yep! And I’m not even ashamed of it. In 2016, I cared about US federal politics, I followed it closely, and what did it get me? Internet…
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How do You Tweet On This Darn Thing?
A problem I’m having with the transition from social media to building my own place on the Internet is that I’ve not only gotten used to reading infinite scrolls of half-formed half-thoughts, I’ve gotten used to writing that way. I quit Twitter a while ago, but I keep thinking in tweets. And I’m not sure…