Bluesky waitlist; Burrito at Night; News of the World

I wish there was a way to find out where I am on the Bluesky waitlist 🙁 Once I get my invite, I guess I sign up and then I’ll get an invite code per week after that, so I’ll pass them on to YOU.

I’ve been waiting and waiting. There’s definitely been a sense of FOMO (feeling of missing out).

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I’m working some more on “Burrito at Night.” It’s set in a futuristic dystopia that’s also kind of familiar while being completely alien to everything we know.

Yeah. It’s a confusion happening.

The main character is known simply as “he/him/his.” I don’t have a name for the character, and I’m not going to give him one. Though he is easily able to differentiate from other characters, so there will never be “Is it main character talking or someone else?” moment. Guarantee. (And if you see otherwise, I’m sure you’ll let me know ❤️.)

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For the News of the World:

1. The Department of Labor found out a slaughterhouse in Nebraska was employing over 100 children in dangerous positions. Like, there were reports as far back as 2016 of children going to their middle schools with chemical burns and cuts due to performing dangerous jobs for low wages.

• children should not work dangerous jobs
• children should not have to work at all, as a universal basic income and free medical for all would allow people to live without fear of being killed by capitalism
• if companies are going to hire children to perform jobs intended for adult workers, then children should receive adult wages (the same way disabled people should receive full wages. Otherwise it’s soft-slavery, and that’s GROSS)

1. Tucker Carlson is going to have his show on Twitter, and is likely being paid by Elon to do so.

• why?
• seriously, why???
• he is giving up his $25 million non-compete money from FOX to be able to do so
• a lot of rightwing boomers that never bothered to get Twitter accounts are now getting Twitter accounts and using their social security money to pay for Twitter Blue
• Twitter Blue already sucks for EVERYONE because it brings the most terrible replies right to the top, and now it’s going to be populated by the kind of people that can’t figure out how to use their TV remotes without asking for help. So if you’re a child of a rightwing boomer… your parents are suddenly going to be coming to you whining and crying because their accounts have been hacked and all their personal information has been stolen or because they’ve “accidentally” bought a bunch of NFTs and/or invested in Scamcoin
• anyone that thinks Carlson is “one of the people” is a liar and a scammer because the guy is a scion of a rich family that paid his way through school so that he could force himself in front of the American public
• he’s not the son of a guy that bought an emerald mine in South Africa with the money from the sale of a private plane… but his family DOES have that big Swanson Foods money

1. Florida has put in laws to prevent trans people from using bathrooms.

• how are they going to enact this law?
• cisgender women have already faced abuse by self-proclaimed bathroom police (one transphobic woman freaked out and began screaming at a cisgender woman in the bathroom and pulled her husband into the women’s bathroom to beat up the “man” invading “women’s spaces”)
• why are these people so interested in the genitals of strangers? Why can’t they mind their own business? Why are they making other peoples’ genitals their whole personality?
• how does a state dependent on tourist money hope to survive by being transphobic, homophobic, and racist ALL AT THE SAME TIME? Like, who is picking their fruit and taking care of all their retired old people?

1. Multiple European countries have issued warnings that America is unsafe for tourists.

• there’s been OVER 200 mass shootings in the United States (it’s only considered a mass shooting if 4 or more people were shot)
• multiple children in different instances have been shot while playing outside
• people have been shot while eating, shopping, practicing their religion, enjoying a parade, and going to work
• multiple trains have crashed while transporting dangerous chemicals, resulting in poisoned water and dead wildlife all due to unsafe railroad industry practices
• waste water management testers have found HUGE amounts of COVID, wild COVID variants, syphilis, measles, and polio in our sewer systems, which means there are active untreated cases moving freely amongst the populace
• there’s a horrible woman in Tacoma, Washington that has an active case of tuberculosis that she has refused to have treated for 2 years while continuing to go out in public (she came to my attention when they reported on the news that she’d been in a car accident as a passenger and when she was taken to the ER was diagnosed with COVID on top of her raging case of TB)

I didn’t write myself any notes on what news I might share. I’ll go back through my list of stuff and maybe post more later.

“The world is on fire!” No it’s not.

Chaos-actors are trying to get us all to freak out. They want people to be nervous, worried, and on edge because they get a sick thrill out of sowing misery wherever they go.

Keep calm. Take deep breaths. Don’t ignore what they’re trying to do, but don’t let it drive you to despair.

People are being total idiots and letting sickness rage untreated in the name of profits, and that’s the scariest thing going on. All the rest of it?

We will raise concerns. We will resist fascism. We will promote freedom and societal well being. We will stand tall beside our brothers and sisters. And we won’t let criminals get away with targeting the most vulnerable members of society.

We are a world community. And we care about humanity, the environment, protecting wildlife and endangered flora, reversing the ill effects of climate change, surviving the pandemic with our health and livelihoods intact, and ensuring the health, happiness, and education of ALL CHILDREN, not just the ones with wealthy parents.