Howdy, fam!
My name is Elizabeth Haste, but we’re internet friends now so you can just call me Val. I’m a queer writer and video essayist on the west coast. Chessie is my cat and co-writer, who says: 2wmnbp0er6541.
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City of Seattle Demolishes Black Lives Memorial Garden
The Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation demolished the Black Lives Memorial Garden early this morning, under supervision of the Seattle Police Department and private security firm Evergreen Off-Duty.
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Cancelled Project Revita Refocused Gets Second Chance
Tragically cancelled earlier this month, publisher Dear Villagers is reportedly revisiting the decision to cancel Revita Refocused, after an outpouring of community support.
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Just A Poem
Just one lil poem on its lonesome, this time. I feel like this one wants to be longer. I hear you lil poem, I’ll keep noodling on you.
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Deplatforming Myself: A Tech Manifesto
The internet has become one big roach motel. I lay the blame for this development solely at the feet of The Platform; the proliferation of venture-capitalist backed walled gardens, which are incentivized to trap users inside and milk them like cattle. This has me re-evaluating my relationship with The Platform, what I want out of…
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Read the Room, Apple 🎉💀
Gestures are frequently triggering at inappropriate times, in the best case simply ruining a solemn moment with tasteless commentary. In others, it’s creating legitimate panic and discomfort for patients in mental health care settings.
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Containment Procedures: AN-22 (The Most Important One)
Let’s imagine there was a Motorola brand plastic cellular phone, produced in 1983, which was approximately 25cm tall with its antennae retracted, and weighed approximately 70g. Hypothetically, let’s say we referred to that object as AN-22.
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Containment Procedures: AN-13 (Excalibur)
Subject is a steel, two-edged short sword measuring approximately 80cm in length from pommel to tip…Any requests made by AN-13-A are to be logged, and disregarded.
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I Will Be Free
I’ve wanted to take a risk like this for a long time. I put it off because I was scared. I was told my whole life, by deeply uncurious people with small imaginations, that I’d never make it. And I believed them. That became my story. Let’s write a better one.
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I Was Laid Off In Retaliation for Anti-Discrimination Whistleblowing
In order to protect women, gender nonconforming folks, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community from suffering as my peers and I have, I feel ethically obligated to go public with my experience. In this article, I will outline why I have sufficient reason to believe that my former employer Rune Labs has…
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Third Semi-Annual Poetry Dump
Inspired by the nakedly visible income inequality of downtown San Francisco.