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City of Seattle Demolishes Black Lives Memorial Garden
> Read More: City of Seattle Demolishes Black Lives Memorial GardenThe 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.
π Category: Journalismπ File Under: Activism, Antifascism, Human Rights, Local Government, Police, Racial Justice, Seattle
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Cancelled Project Revita Refocused Gets Second Chance
> Read More: Cancelled Project Revita Refocused Gets Second ChanceTragically cancelled earlier this month, publisher Dear Villagers is reportedly revisiting the decision to cancel Revita Refocused, after an outpouring of community support.
π Category: Journalism
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Deplatforming Myself: A Tech Manifesto
> Read More: Deplatforming Myself: A Tech ManifestoThe 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 the Internet, and who its meant to benefit. Iβve decided: I think I want out.
π Category: Essaysπ File Under: Antifascism, Enshittification, LGBTQ+, Manifesto, Tech, Why Did You Build the Torment Nexus?
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Just A Poem
> Read More: Just A PoemJust 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.
π Category: Poetry
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Read the Room, Apple ππ
> Read More: Read the Room, Apple ππGestures are frequently triggering at inappropriate times, in the best case simply ruining a solemn moment with tasteless commentary. In others, itβs creating legitimate panic and discomfort for patients in mental health care settings.
π Category: Essays
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Containment Procedures: AN-22 (The Most Important One)
> Read More: Containment Procedures: AN-22 (The Most Important One)Letβs 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, letβs say we referred to that object as AN-22.
π Category: Fiction
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Containment Procedures: AN-13 (Excalibur)
> Read More: 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.
π Category: Fiction
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I Will Be Free
> Read More: I Will Be FreeIβve 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 Iβd never make it. And I believed them. That became my story. Let’s write a better one.
π Category: Essays
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I Was Laid Off In Retaliation for Anti-Discrimination Whistleblowing
> Read More: I Was Laid Off In Retaliation for Anti-Discrimination WhistleblowingIn 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 violated US anti-discrimination labor laws.
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Third Semi-Annual Poetry Dump
> Read More: Third Semi-Annual Poetry DumpInspired by the nakedly visible income inequality of downtown San Francisco.
π Category: Poetry