Mastodawn

Remember Leelah Alcorn. Provoked suicide is murder by proxy.

Whenever we finally restore our power, we must expand the Supreme Court until it reflects the will of the majority. Until it reflects the humane credo of a majority consensus of experts in science and psychology as well as that of the United States population.

Scrypt Feb 1

This month marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month (which Carter G. Woodson established as Black History Week before Congress extended it). It’s time to honor, discover and celebrate that history!

Scrypt Dec 28

“Before fascism becomes a movement, it must circulate in everyday life, in the nascent form of everyday paranoia and victimhood, fantasies of restitution and revenge, desire for domination, the authoritarian need to be right, the capacity to humiliate, approval seeking ingroup conformity, and converse tendencies toward malice and social sadism."
— Richard Seymour, *Disaster Nationalism*

Scrypt Dec 19

The man upstairs is hoeing his floor with a baritone vacuum cleaner that sounds like a soirée of giant bumblebees failing to get comfortable.

Scrypt Nov 7

Joshua Doss and Onyx Impact’s “Blackout Report: The Real-World Cost of Erasing, Distorting and Suppressing Black Progress” looks slick enough to have been born on your shelf, but it was finalized in October 2025.

Oh, and did I mention it’s free? You can download it right here:

https://blackoutreport.org

Scrypt Oct 24

Written by twilight while imagining petals that fluttered, detached from their stems and drifted heavenward.

Scrypt Apr 22, 2025

Lots of people noticed Pope Francis passed two days after talking to J. D. Vance. But I remembered John Lewis and Elijah Cummings dying during the first Trump admin and saw a wider connection. I can’t be alone in that.

Dealing with hatred on the scale we’re experiencing can hasten the death of reps who value us. That’s why it is important we recognize, honour and support them while they are still with us.

Scrypt Apr 16, 2025

When I see the name Lucifer — literally Light-Bringer, Morningstar — the son of Aurora and a Greek god in his own right, I sometimes think of Doré’s illustration from the Inferno: sitting lotus-still as Shiva and encased in ice. Everyone seems to want to represent Lucifer as red, but perhaps the better choice would be frostbite blue.

Scrypt Feb 27, 2025

In case you need a cute animal boycott poster to motivate your inconsolable friends, here it is.

Scrypt Feb 17, 2025

If you don’t download your Kindle books before February 26, you’ll be able to read them on Kindle devices and apps, but not on other eReaders or non-Amazon HW/SW.

You bought those books, but Amazon is about to relinquish your ownership of personal copies. Over the next seven days, take the opportunity to visit the Amazon website, go to Manage Your Content > Download by USB and download all of your Kindle books one by one.