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🏆 Because That's How I Beat Shaq... Hey y'all, It's getting to be that time of year, so if you're someone who is reading for things like the Hugos--and if you happen to enjoy my particular brand of weird--I would humbly ask that you consider my story  A Pin Drops . It's flash fiction, it's bonkers, and I have traumatized my friends with it. Perhaps it is something you could distract yourself with on this most stressful of days 🙃 Thanks, ]{p

🐀 Despite All My Rage... My wife has a sticker on her car that reads: "More rights for others doesn't mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie." It's one of those things that is so glaringly obvious that you shouldn't have to say it. And yet... we live in a country where sizeable portion of the population is voting for an "anti-woke" agenda, even if it will hurt them economically and infringe on their own rights--and potentially end democracy in America. How can people vote against their own self-interest like that? Are they that  motivated by racism, sexism, and homophobia? And the answer is no... but also yes... but also no. (But also yes.) The motivation isn't overtly about those things--although let's be very  clear that these people are  being racist, sexist, and homophobic, whether they're willing to acknowledge it or not. But what's actually motivating them is something more sinister, but also more understandable. It's abou