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Iron Spike

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Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
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Executive Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
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So I guess the next few days for me will just be lying on the couch, sizzling, watching seven-hour LPs of Breath of the Wild. Wheeeee.

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I try to avoid taking fever reducers when I’m sick, on account the fever is doing a job, and stopping it from doing that job can just make you sicker for longer. But man am I fucking miserable.

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"But Spike, human labor is much more expensive than it used to be." Yeah, no, that modern mansion is $32 million. Anyone who could buy that abomination could hire a sculptor to carve some Art Nouveau crown molding. We've just been programmed to no longer consider artisan finishing as luxury.

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"Luxury" no longer means "bespoke furnishings and finishings commissioned from artisans," it means "We charged you a lot."

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Compare Carson Mansion, built in 1886, to a modern estate. Even if you don't dig Victorian architecture, you have to admit there is MUCH more artisan involvement in Carson. Whereas the La Jolla house has plaster, engineered wood, and concrete. Way cheaper. And we're conditioned to accept it.

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And Minimalism! The complete victory of Minimalism, which means engineered and machine-finished materials EVERYWHERE. Glass, laminate, steel. Again: The same materials used in everyone else's homes. But LESS of it. So they CHARGE YOU MORE. Wild.

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Apropos of nothing: One of the wildest degradations of meaning in the last few decades is "luxury." "Luxury" homes have the same appointments as everyone else's, by and large due to for-profit home-building. There is zero artisan involvement in, like. Anything.

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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office. I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs. This morning, on that same post, was this picture.

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EXACTLY. Every Jamaican on Earth saw that for exactly what it was. Babes, this isn't you "getting your groove back," this is a Jamaican man speedrunning permanent residency!

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PCP: "Hey all your test results came back from your annual, you're in perfect health! Everything looks great!" Me: * SMUG* 102-degree temperature, a keepsake from ALA Annual:

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When people say “it’s never been this bad” I can tell their understanding of American history goes back 20 years, max.

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John Leavitt's avatar John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social
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We joke about it being like getting kicked in a head by a horse everyday but Musk has literally never had a human relationship outside his family he wasn’t paying for and now he’s basically a 56 year old toddler

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I utterly despise doomer thinking. We have WORK to do, god damn it. We have years, DECADES of work to do. It is going to take our time and money and emotional commitment.

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

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Literally saw a TikTok awhile back where someone was interviewing tattoo artists, asking "What's the most stereotypical Millennial tattoo?", and two different artists answered "Harry Potter tat cover-up."

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"What are four films you don't just dislike, you despise."

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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I dunno, I guess y'all didn't sit through "Eyes On The Prize" every February in Social Studies for every year of middle school? Maybe you should find it and watch it. You will not find "They shot our leader, we should give up, it's hopeless now."

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You're entitled to your despair. But understand that when you catastrophize on social media, you risk spreading learned helplessness. Which is exactly what fascists want, for people to lie down and cry.

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Doomer shit is un-American as fuck. Sorry. Factual. This country didn't even consider me a fucking person for half its existence, and the Supreme Court declared Black ppl didn't qualify as US citizens TWICE.

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Respectfully: If you're on Bluesky right now screaming that Pride Month will be abolished, Trump will be declared king, America is forever ruined: Log off. You are entitled to your feelings, and it's better to let them out than not. But *Do Not Do Death Magic On The Emotional Contagion App.*

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Ashley Fairbanks's avatar Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com
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I just want to beg people to tell me what happens when we completely give up on the electoral system. Tell me what you imagine happening. I want to be able to see it. Tell me how it doesn't involve things getting so much worse, millions dying, before there's any chance of something better.

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Erica Schultz's avatar Erica Schultz @ericaschultz42.bsky.social
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Feel stuck about the coming elections? You can do something about it!

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Winifred Burton Updates's avatar Winifred Burton Updates @authorwinifred.bsky.social
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Some of the nihilism I'm seeing on the skyline is why Black people say y'all wouldn't last an hour as us, btw.

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Chuck Wendig's avatar Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social
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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.

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Stephen West's avatar Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social
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"It seems history matters to this Court only when it is convenient." From Sotomayor's dissent

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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If you do this kind of shit: THAT is why they blocked you. And if you can’t understand that that is why they blocked you: that is ALSO why they blocked you