Constantine
@ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, story-coach. Bad at bios. Big-Five Publishing refugee and failed iconoclast. Sci-Fi, slipstream, and spec is my jam.
Latest story: https://stateofmatter.in/fiction/the-erasure/
This is another thing that I guarantee will disappear in a Trump presidency and we'll all be sent back into TurboTax Hell.
NEW: The IRS is making its free online tax filing program, Direct File, permanent in all 50 states
Free IRS online tax filing program coming soon to all states
It could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax.
www.axios.comOne of my favorites was a guy who was big mad that the US wasn't airdropping food and who wouldn't believe it was dangerous or difficult and then was BIG MAD a week later when we airdropped food and killed someone with it because it was hard to do safely.
Hi, I'm a public school teacher in an urban Title I school.
My greatest hits include, "please don't tell me how important what I do is or why I must be brave to do it," "the kids aren't a problem, it's the adults who make things difficult," "My immune system is strong," and "no I'm not scared."
Hi. I’m a chemist! 🧪
My greatest hits include “yes, plants are also made of chemicals,” “just because it’s found in nature, doesn’t make it safe,” “just because it was made in a factory, doesn’t make it deadly,” “nothing you eat will ‘acidify’ your body,” and “the formula of carbon dioxide is CO₂”
Look Nied things are not complicated because things being complicated make it much harder to be performatively angry at the people attempting to do them and I do not care if the Eastern Mediterranean has been known for destroying small beachable craft in rough seas for 5000 years.
Seen this among former students who've gone from posting stories about cocktails to posting ideologically driven nihilistic eschatological fantasies about the cleansing nature of blood spilled in the service of revolution.
All in cute little 24 second clips!
It’s been crazy to see many of my previously totally apolitical friends go so far down rabbit holes in the last few months that they start posting shit like this
The article starts by saying there are tapes. We need this tape.
Absolutely insane shit from behind the scenes of The Apprentice.
For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can.
The con we pulled on America just won’t die.
slate.comYou got yourself aegis-labeled for queerphobia for that one. You're going to want to appeal. ASAP.
Yes he did. Biden retaliated against Houthis who were targeting shipping lanes. Biden ended the war in Afghanistan. Biden has engaged in fewer drone strikes than any president since Clinton. Biden is an absolute idiot about Israel.
What's your point
Trump oversaw 375k innocent people killed in Yemen by SKA -- HE FUCKING RESTSARTED THE ARMS SALES THAT OBAMA HAD CANCELLED TO PREVENT CIVILIAN DEATHS. YOU ABSOLUTE GIT.
I'd venture to say that 35% of all entertainment is dedicated to recreating the worlds of artists before they reached the age of reason. The remaining 65 percent is therapy for what happened after that point.
The 80s and 90s were absolutely rife with entertainment dedicated to exposing the horrific damage created by the suburban/small-town idyll because it was all created by Boomers who were discovering that they weren't the only ones whose Rockwell family facade hid horrific abuse.
As an author whose publishing career was mortally wounded by a poorly-performing debut, I cannot stress enough that major imprint publishing is killing innovative fiction in pursuit of tentpole titles in just the same way Hollywood is doing with movies.
No question it is harder and harder out there for a debut novelist. And for the novelist who has to reinvent themselves with every book.
Why Are Debut Novels Failing to Launch?
For first-time writers, it’s harder than ever to break out. That poses an existential crisis for publishing—and disturbing limits on your access to exciting new voices.
www.esquire.com
Neo-Nazi Stephen Farrea, who harassed attendees of drag queen story hours, has been arrested for possession of CSAM.
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Law enforcement and the military. Famous for not having issues with sexual assault.
The Kidnap Express is apparently trying to market to women in particular
So a dead-beat dad cop is participating in a community council meeting when the mother of his children calls in on the speaker-phone...
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She was the King County Sheriff and was close with Dave Reichert, so I'm a little skeptical.
Ahhh. My dad used to smoke Borkhum Riff and that smell can make me weep with nostalgia
It's been decades since I've smoked weed, but I honestly enjoy the faint whiff here and there in outdoor spaces -- better than fucking cigars.
Back in the pre-internet days, we used this.
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Whichever one happens to be spreading the currently stupidest crap about classroom management on TikTok.
Who is the biggest asshole in your line of work? Not like the one with the worst impact on the world. Just the biggest asshole
Look, it really helps to read the source material, which was the point I was making in my original post way back before we started talking about Korn being cool.
The predilection for thinking things were best before the end of puberty dates back TO THE 1940s & has nothing to do with the wage gap.
School administrators with limited experience talking to 25 years veterans...
Yeah, but human choices don't conform to exponential growth or decline models. There is very little evidence that population declines will accelerate to a point where we have to worry.
Not a lawyer, but I think that's also a decent sign that they're taking the job very seriously.
Monday.
Seriously. I'm betting the guy turned off the movie twenty minutes before it ended and thought, "wow I need a weirdo with a golden tongue to help me get the girl bc there's no way all that character development and foreshadowing means the weirdo actually gets the girl in the end."
I'd imagine they'd at least open debate on all 34 counts individually, confirming that each instance was actually fraudulent, was known by Trump, and was in service of a criminal act. Figure 15 minutes each and then an hour for the form and they finish Friday morning.
He is absolutely convinced he's getting convicted. If he thought there was a hung jury in the offing he'd be posting about how confusing and ridiculous the charges were and how even the jury seemed lost.
If temperatures in Houston had been as high as predicted last week, with the current power outages, this eventuality may have been today.
If heat like this sustains itself in a dense urban area for a several-day stretch, and if that area’s power grid fails (which as we’ve repeatedly seen now is very very possible), that’s all it will take
Wait, what's wrong with a popular media consisting of jokes about ironic racism while ignoring actual racism? Wasn't that the salad days?
Someday we're going to look at our how we approve chemicals for public use and decide the standard should be "proven safe" instead of "not shown to be dangerous." Until then we're going to continually dwarf asbestos claims with new cataclysms.
Lawyers to Plastics Makers: Prepare for ‘Astronomical’ PFAS Lawsuits
At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos litigation, audio from the event revealed.
www.nytimes.comThis is not the day Donald Trump became president.
Juries almost always end up taking deliberations very very seriously. The only surprise here is that you had a lawyer on your panel.
I've heard tell of it even down here in LA, so it must be something. Would still trade that singular douchemobile for the hordes of two-stroke minibike rallies we've got here now.
This was about *everybody*, not just Boomers and X. Millennials think this about the 90s.
She's going to be Sec State for Trump. Her or Richard Grinnell.
If only there was some small thing that people could do to prevent her from gaining the authority to help turn Gaza into Kushner estates.
Nikki Haley, the former Republican presidential candidate, wrote “Finish them” on an artillery shell during her visit to Israel this week. Haley finished her inscription with a note that “America loves Israel always,” using a heart emoji for “loves.”
Nikki Haley Writes ‘Finish Them’ on Artillery Shell in Israel
Her visit came just days after Israel drew international condemnation for a strike that killed dozens of Gazan civilians in a camp for displaced Palestinians.
www.nytimes.com