Meghan Ball

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Writer, editor, nervous wreck. Just your friendly neighborhood goth disaster. Bad at guitar, good at cross stitch. Music obsessed book nerd. No, I don't know why I'm like this either. She/her

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Also hurricanes

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Ask any fan writer or artist.

“if money was abolished would you still make content?” is the most insane AI bullshit i have ever heard in my life i was making art and drawing way before i was making money for it how fucking corrupt are these pieces of shit? money is barely part of the equation. its only there cause i NEED IT

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Ayn Rand: oh my god... I see now how wrong I was.. Me with a time traveling xbox: they also made a second one where you can duel wield plasmids and guns but I gotta switch discs

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

Please god, I've seen what you've done for the UK...

REES MOGG OUT AHAHAHA FUCK YOU YOU CORRUPT UNDERTAKER

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

We are so back

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WHAT A WAY TO MAKE A LIVING

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this is one of my least favorite tropes and it is especially ridiculous when the heroes have just shot their way through an army of mooks to get to the villain oh, you can kill 475 henchmen but the guy who is actually responsible for ordering them around is a step too far? do you hear yourself?

the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

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I tried to kill a victorian child with a modern thing but they just chugged a pint of cheap gin stabbed me and scampered up a chimney

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Burn it to the ground. Salt the Earth so it doesn't rise again.

🚨 BREAKING: The Tory party is set to suffer total annihilation, according to a final mega poll. Full story: trib.al/BeoNk1z

UK election: Tories set to suffer total annihilation, final mega polls predicttrib.al Keir Starmer’s Labour will romp to victory, according to pollster YouGov.

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Delighted that my poem "Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness" (thedeadlands.com/issue-31/fiv...) in @thedeadlands.com has made it into the Rhysling Anthology! What stellar, brilliant company!! **twirls** You can snag your copy here: www.amazon.com/2024-Rhyslin...

The 2024 Rhysling Anthology: Garrison, Brian U., Kopaska-Merkel, David C.: 9798988631811: Amazon.com: Bookswww.amazon.com The 2024 Rhysling Anthology [Garrison, Brian U., Kopaska-Merkel, David C.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The 2024 Rhysling Anthology

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

🎶Coming out of my cage and doing fucking terribly, actually

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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

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::gets excited:: The Arts & Crafts movement of the Victorian era was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution and the fear of losing artisanal craftsmanship and work across a wide spectrum of creative mediums. Industrialization was making mass production much easier but the downside was losing skills

OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

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The only thing I'm confident in predicting is this: "Democrats should nominate someone who isn't Joe Biden" "No, no. Not like that!"

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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

I am a delight* *terms and conditions apply. Not valid in all 50 states. Please check fine print.

[upon hearing I have not taken any days off this year] Coworker: What are you doing??? TAKE A DAY OFF! You know [company] doesn't care about you! Me: Listen, it's fine, even *I* don't care about me so– Coworker: *literally screaming* GIRL WHAT

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Totes appropes

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The narrator in Robyn's "Dancing On My Own" is a ghost. By contrast, the narrator in Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself" is a vampire.

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if you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great

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bringing this here because i've had it

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They should make this quote the default “what’s happening ?” Prompt on all social media.

Marcus Aurelius was the first person to suggest that you should, perhaps, not post through it.

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Sorry to all my lawyer friends who spent a bunch of time learning how law works in the US. I had friends who were Flash developers and things turned out alright for them after they pivoted to C# or whatever. Hopefully there's an equivalent for our national legal system

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life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.