D. G. Fitch @dgfitch@mastodon.online

When James discovered he could teleport anywhere he could see, he didn't expect to later be hired by a market firm.

Turned out, you could make big bucks in arbitrage going faster than the light in the fiber optic cables and the radio between the tall steel towers.

James flipped to the top of the next tower, flicking through the night sky. He glanced up at the edge of the moon, and instantly he stood in the white dust for a moment and stared back at the blue orb. Wondering.

#microfiction

I am not a woman. This Current Affairs article is about being a woman in America, and it made me feel sad and angry and somehow hopeful. https://editor.currentaffairs.org/2020/09/as-a-woman/

Graeber from FoaAA: "Counterpower is first and foremost rooted in the imagination; it emerges from the fact that all social systems are a tangle of contradictions, always to some degree at war with themselves. Or, more precisely, it is rooted in the relation between the practical imagination required to maintain a society based on consensus (as any society not based on violence must, ultimately, be)—the constant work of imaginative identification with others that makes understanding possible..."

Borders, and nations, are dumb. All we're doing here is building walls to increase inequality and excuses to gin up hate. C'mon, humans.

Apple cider is good

If our leaders are letting us die, maybe we need new leaders. Vote lol

OR

If our leaders are letting us die, the concept of allowing some few to have power over many is flawed. Rebuild better systems lol

Shocking twist: the gigantic banks are not there good guys you thought they were. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks #corruption #capitalism

New SAULT record highly recommended if you want some upbeat spooky soul rhythms in your brain.

Walking around outside in the sun after a long sensory deprivation float reminds me that being human isn't all bullshit.

It is unfortunate how well advertising and lobbying can work: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

Fascinating article about Öcalan and the anarchist abolitionists in Syria: https://editor.currentaffairs.org/2020/09/abolition-as-a-project-of-deep-democracy/

https://twitter.com/StoryShortest/status/1305929113102888961

Made more than $1 USD per word for charity for this story. My writing career has peaked!

"what's under the uncut chia seed / and what what what from the guillotine... and I know both sides of that bloodlust / they're both mud / that's what's up" - Aesop Rock, The Gates

Yo, claps for the clout of the checkmarks
of meme-armed teens, in days long scrolled,
we have been seen, and what honor the influencers won!

An unwatched feed slowly turning into a modern reimagining of Beowulf

Let's make some new and different shit sacred.