Kakistocracy (Jay): still pissed about Link
@crankypacifist.bsky.social
he/them/y'all
abolish ice
free palestine
e pluribus unum
borders are violence
inherent dignity for all
adhd working-class academic, nc, us
typos are stylesheet
i write crap for fun. jayparr.wordpress.com
pfp by terijian bearheart
abolish ice
free palestine
e pluribus unum
borders are violence
inherent dignity for all
adhd working-class academic, nc, us
typos are stylesheet
i write crap for fun. jayparr.wordpress.com
pfp by terijian bearheart
Pinned
Temple in a City literary journal
Letter, Constance, Regarding the Sculpture of Constance Lloyd Wilde Holland at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue in Central Dublin] by author Jay Parr. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
Oh hey! I saw pictures of the Oscar Wilde memorial in Dublin, and all I could think about was poor Constance—pregnant and naked and cold and pushed to the side—so I wrote a tiny ekphrastic thingy that TIAC was kind enough to publish!
@templeinacity.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/ekphrastic-j...
@templeinacity.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/ekphrastic-j...
ADHD stuff: my daughter does her homework with sims gamer videos playing as background stim, meanwhile I can't work if there's background music with lyrics or a catchy melody.
December 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
ADHD stuff: my daughter does her homework with sims gamer videos playing as background stim, meanwhile I can't work if there's background music with lyrics or a catchy melody.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is also on my on-sight list.
The House is expected to vote later this week on H.R. 3492, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s extreme bill that would impose severe financial penalties and up to a 10-year prison sentence for providers who deliver lifesaving, essential healthcare to transgender and gender diverse patients.
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene is also on my on-sight list.
Reposted by Kakistocracy (Jay): still pissed about Link
If anyone wants to brighten my spirits and help me get some dinner, I would be over the moon
$kseniadeville if you can
$kseniadeville if you can
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If anyone wants to brighten my spirits and help me get some dinner, I would be over the moon
$kseniadeville if you can
$kseniadeville if you can
Reposted by Kakistocracy (Jay): still pissed about Link
Just ..
Everybody thinks being the meanest fucking person means you’re the strongest/ smartest/ etc
And it’s just
Tiresome and bad strategy
Everybody thinks being the meanest fucking person means you’re the strongest/ smartest/ etc
And it’s just
Tiresome and bad strategy
December 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just ..
Everybody thinks being the meanest fucking person means you’re the strongest/ smartest/ etc
And it’s just
Tiresome and bad strategy
Everybody thinks being the meanest fucking person means you’re the strongest/ smartest/ etc
And it’s just
Tiresome and bad strategy
"Poverty is systemic cruelty." 😚👌
(also, this little 🧵 is delightful. scroll up)
(also, this little 🧵 is delightful. scroll up)
This is a sweet story in many ways, of course, but it's also tragic. Poverty is systemic cruelty. It is a wonderful thing though to be reminded of the generous spirits that exist in spite of everything that is thrown at people.
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Poverty is systemic cruelty." 😚👌
(also, this little 🧵 is delightful. scroll up)
(also, this little 🧵 is delightful. scroll up)
This part. The real Trump Derangement Syndrome is accepting anything about him as normal or desirable.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” has always been a way to smear people for having a logical, rational response to Trump having power. The real TDS is normalizing Trump’s power and the way he abuses it
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This part. The real Trump Derangement Syndrome is accepting anything about him as normal or desirable.
ACADEMIC FRIENDS! I NEED HELP!
I need Chapter 1, "Socratic Self-Examination," from this 1997 Martha Nussbaum book.
It *must* be machine readable! (for accessibility)
I found an "e-book" through ILL, and what I ended up with was inaccessible page-image scans.
Thanks!
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
I need Chapter 1, "Socratic Self-Examination," from this 1997 Martha Nussbaum book.
It *must* be machine readable! (for accessibility)
I found an "e-book" through ILL, and what I ended up with was inaccessible page-image scans.
Thanks!
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education on JSTOR
How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Mart...
doi.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
ACADEMIC FRIENDS! I NEED HELP!
I need Chapter 1, "Socratic Self-Examination," from this 1997 Martha Nussbaum book.
It *must* be machine readable! (for accessibility)
I found an "e-book" through ILL, and what I ended up with was inaccessible page-image scans.
Thanks!
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
I need Chapter 1, "Socratic Self-Examination," from this 1997 Martha Nussbaum book.
It *must* be machine readable! (for accessibility)
I found an "e-book" through ILL, and what I ended up with was inaccessible page-image scans.
Thanks!
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
This bullshit goes to eleven.
December 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This bullshit goes to eleven.
i can has sleep now pls
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
i can has sleep now pls
Remembering the time fifty years ago when it got so cold the gas main to our whole little town froze. That was a mess.
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Remembering the time fifty years ago when it got so cold the gas main to our whole little town froze. That was a mess.
My plumber friend texted me like "Hey, put some heat in that outdoor water heater room if you can," so now I have ideas about how to set it up so I could control it from inside the house. Maybe a bit involved for installing it tonight though.
December 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
My plumber friend texted me like "Hey, put some heat in that outdoor water heater room if you can," so now I have ideas about how to set it up so I could control it from inside the house. Maybe a bit involved for installing it tonight though.
Fine, it's 20F/-6C and gusty outside, I'll put on more than my puffy vest to take the trash out.
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Fine, it's 20F/-6C and gusty outside, I'll put on more than my puffy vest to take the trash out.
Lidl has lost my business for good.
December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Lidl has lost my business for good.
Reposted by Kakistocracy (Jay): still pissed about Link
Oooh! I have a new story out today. This is one of my favourites, but mind the cw: perceived suicide, graphic death, implied addiction.
Handle yourself with care ❤️
Handle yourself with care ❤️
Issue 2.23 is live! Check this one out:
"Tomorrow Never Comes" by Melissa Ren
www.wallstrait.com/post/tomorro... #amreading #fiction
"Tomorrow Never Comes" by Melissa Ren
www.wallstrait.com/post/tomorro... #amreading #fiction
"Tomorrow Never Comes" by Melissa Ren
I met her in my dreams. While roaming the empty streets buzzing with azure neon lights, I came face to face with an underground pool. The water rippled like the ocean, as if something greater disturbe...
www.wallstrait.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Oooh! I have a new story out today. This is one of my favourites, but mind the cw: perceived suicide, graphic death, implied addiction.
Handle yourself with care ❤️
Handle yourself with care ❤️
I let the cat out into the catio, and she caught the wren that had snuck into it, brought it into the house, and ran away from me with it, and I managed to catch it and get it back outside, and close the catio until further notice, all in the time it took my first cup of tea to steep.
Good morning.
Good morning.
December 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I let the cat out into the catio, and she caught the wren that had snuck into it, brought it into the house, and ran away from me with it, and I managed to catch it and get it back outside, and close the catio until further notice, all in the time it took my first cup of tea to steep.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Reposted by Kakistocracy (Jay): still pissed about Link
“We’re trying”
“Are kids still getting shot?”
“Yes”
“Then we ain’t trying hard enough”
“Are kids still getting shot?”
“Yes”
“Then we ain’t trying hard enough”
December 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
“We’re trying”
“Are kids still getting shot?”
“Yes”
“Then we ain’t trying hard enough”
“Are kids still getting shot?”
“Yes”
“Then we ain’t trying hard enough”
Welp. Three people just got D's for the semester instead of the A or A- they were expecting, and on Monday I'll be processing their Academic Integrity Violation paperwork.
It sucks. I hate doing it. But that's what you get for making me be a cop and stealing my time from your classmates.
It sucks. I hate doing it. But that's what you get for making me be a cop and stealing my time from your classmates.
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Welp. Three people just got D's for the semester instead of the A or A- they were expecting, and on Monday I'll be processing their Academic Integrity Violation paperwork.
It sucks. I hate doing it. But that's what you get for making me be a cop and stealing my time from your classmates.
It sucks. I hate doing it. But that's what you get for making me be a cop and stealing my time from your classmates.
Finally through my hell week(s) enough I could make time for a bike ride tomorrow.
So of course the high temp is at 0200.
And it'll be below freezing by midmorning.
And it's just gonna get colder and windier as the day goes on.
So of course the high temp is at 0200.
And it'll be below freezing by midmorning.
And it's just gonna get colder and windier as the day goes on.
December 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Finally through my hell week(s) enough I could make time for a bike ride tomorrow.
So of course the high temp is at 0200.
And it'll be below freezing by midmorning.
And it's just gonna get colder and windier as the day goes on.
So of course the high temp is at 0200.
And it'll be below freezing by midmorning.
And it's just gonna get colder and windier as the day goes on.
It's seriously fucking depressing how on the nose this is.
American politics be like
Party X: Let's hurt [Minority of the Week]
Party Y: Here's why we should only hurt some [Minority of the Week]
Party X: Let's hurt [Minority of the Week]
Party Y: Here's why we should only hurt some [Minority of the Week]
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It's seriously fucking depressing how on the nose this is.
Processed my F grades, and there have been entirely too many people who just disappeared this semester.
Never a good sign of the times.
Never a good sign of the times.
December 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Processed my F grades, and there have been entirely too many people who just disappeared this semester.
Never a good sign of the times.
Never a good sign of the times.
• Go to bed
• Fall asleep
• Stop breathing
• Wake up restless
• Get up and move around
• Repeat
• Fall asleep
• Stop breathing
• Wake up restless
• Get up and move around
• Repeat
December 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
• Go to bed
• Fall asleep
• Stop breathing
• Wake up restless
• Get up and move around
• Repeat
• Fall asleep
• Stop breathing
• Wake up restless
• Get up and move around
• Repeat
So of course I can't sleep.
December 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
So of course I can't sleep.
This thread, though.
What happens when technology progresses to the point where there ARE literally no jobs possible to have, but our society still requires you to have one? And because wealth is morality, if you DON'T have one, it's YOUR fault, YOU are a failure. For not having a job. That doesn't exist. It's madness.
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This thread, though.
We need financial aid for students who are taking one class at a time because of life demands.
Better yet, we need tuition-free enrollment and cost-of-living stipends, to maybe take some of that pressure off.
If you're trying to learn, we should support you. Not fuck you over at every chance.
Better yet, we need tuition-free enrollment and cost-of-living stipends, to maybe take some of that pressure off.
If you're trying to learn, we should support you. Not fuck you over at every chance.
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We need financial aid for students who are taking one class at a time because of life demands.
Better yet, we need tuition-free enrollment and cost-of-living stipends, to maybe take some of that pressure off.
If you're trying to learn, we should support you. Not fuck you over at every chance.
Better yet, we need tuition-free enrollment and cost-of-living stipends, to maybe take some of that pressure off.
If you're trying to learn, we should support you. Not fuck you over at every chance.