On a writing retreat for the first time in ~5 years. Project for this is working on the sequel to Tesserae, which has been half-written for ages. To that end, I'm building a continuity doc, which of course requires a re-read of Tesserae itself. LOOK WHAT I FOUND. This was pubbed in 2015, FFS.

Depends on how you feel about anything touching your eyelids. If you don't mind it, these are cheap and work very well. They have a little under-eye pillow thing on the back to keep it from feeling like your eyes are being smushed.

Bad. At. Math.

"NYC and Seattle are totally like the rest of the country. If we can elect socialist mayors there, we can easily elect them everywhere!" This is your brain on class reductionism.

Also considered this one, but couldn't find a gif. And seeing as how I'm an OT3 shipper, I could have easily come up with a dozen more, but that would have made people go looking for my AO3 account and, well....

You're not in the US, though. Which is why I'm muting this now. You clearly don't understand how our government actually works here because you're not directly involved with it.

This is why. Even if there was an across-the-board drop, it was still largest there.

Arguing with an anti-abortion dipshit on FB and found this on her profile. Fucking hilarious.

This fucking guy.

Sorry, but the math just doesn't work. This is a list of the R seats that expire this year. Note how many of them are in deep, deep red states like Oklahoma and Mississippi. We might be able to get to a simple majority, but 2/3? No.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

I wrote this in early 2014. The rest of the book isn't about this, mostly, but as I was thinking about what changes might have happened by 2060, this is one of the things I landed on. Oof.

Here's another one.

There's bot garbage going on. Also seeing a lot of random anti-Democrat replies from accounts that otherwise only reskeet porn. Stay alert. There's a flood of this stuff happening here.

I mean, come the fuck on. Accusing a Jewish candidate who literally refused AIPAC money of taking it anyway? Claiming DNC money is automatically AIPAC money? This is trollfarm garbage.

More inauthentic accounts that post almost nothing but memes and anti-Democrat propaganda. Finding a LOT of these every time I see one of those Track AIPAC posts.

Exhibit A.

The second that dude called Planned Parenthood "establishment" I was turned off for life. Why do all these guys sound like this?

Who keeps posting these? Oh. This is astroturf bullshit anti-Democrat propaganda, folks. They're spamming these on every post a Democrat makes and every post that mentions them.

This is the money quote, right here. When I bring up this sort of thing, I always get some pushback, as if I'm policing women's choices. But my point is that none of our choices are made in a vacuum.

My #BlueSkyMonday is the view from my neighborhood park. Lake Washington, Mercer Island and the Seattle skyline all the way in the back.

This is the post. There are only about 50 million foreign-born people in the US. Second-gen (natural born citizens) is about another 50 million. They want to deport all of those people.

Bsky says otherwise. So. Trollfarm or just a dipshit?

WTF is this bot shit? Look, I'm enough of a realist that I come off as a doomer, but I would never imply that we shouldn't bother voting at all. That's apathy propaganda, and it's aimed squarely at the people most likely to buy into it.

Speaking of rather shocking FB things.

2016, FTR. And though it's crystal clear that sexism is a factor, it's also fascinating that a bunch of Latino men who voted for Clinton didn't vote for Harris. And it's not necessarily racism, because their numbers were more or less the same for Obama.

Jesus Christ. Can we please dispense with the endless hot takes about why Trump won twice but lost to Biden? It's the easiest fucking thing in the universe to figure out.

Nope.