Kaleb Axon
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I should talk more about my writing or aspirations thereto, but I'm all random on these sites.
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wait WHAT? i did not agree to this
Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing
January 30, 2026 at 6:41 PM
wait WHAT? i did not agree to this
Wrong. Two people were illegally executed before him.
January 29, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Wrong. Two people were illegally executed before him.
I am a US citizen living in an immigrant neighborhood in a state with a Democratic governor. I believe our Republican senators are the reason we're not being targeted, but all it would take is for our governor to say something Trump doesn't like.
January 25, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I am a US citizen living in an immigrant neighborhood in a state with a Democratic governor. I believe our Republican senators are the reason we're not being targeted, but all it would take is for our governor to say something Trump doesn't like.
America has reached a tipping point. Unless a literal miracle happens, from here things will get much, much worse than anyone has ever imagined. And I have no lack of imagination.
January 25, 2026 at 12:18 AM
America has reached a tipping point. Unless a literal miracle happens, from here things will get much, much worse than anyone has ever imagined. And I have no lack of imagination.
Quote skeet a gif with a clue of where you’re from…
January 24, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Quote skeet a gif with a clue of where you’re from…
The Internet's most successful crowdsourced project just lost a huge portion of its contributors.
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Wikipedia owner signs on Microsoft, Meta in AI content training deals
Wikipedia on Thursday unveiled partnerships with several Big Tech companies including Microsoft , Meta and Amazon , marking a major step up in the non-profit's ability to monetize tech firms' reliance...
www.reuters.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The Internet's most successful crowdsourced project just lost a huge portion of its contributors.
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
www.reuters.com/business/ret...
I'm gonna have to say Little House on the Prairie. I am not counting the short-lived "New Beginning" series that continued for a season or two, only the original series with Charles and Caroline. Its finale was unconventional but profound. SPOILERS below.
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 7, 2026 at 6:54 AM
I'm gonna have to say Little House on the Prairie. I am not counting the short-lived "New Beginning" series that continued for a season or two, only the original series with Charles and Caroline. Its finale was unconventional but profound. SPOILERS below.
The stable, when Heaven came down.
A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story:
Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.
Randy, his arms down.
The Old Man, when the lamp broke.
Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.
Randy, his arms down.
The Old Man, when the lamp broke.
Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
December 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The stable, when Heaven came down.
It just occurred to me that every week in the #OrthodoxChristian liturgy we are reminded of the wisdom of listening to The Doors.
I'll just see myself out now.
I'll just see myself out now.
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It just occurred to me that every week in the #OrthodoxChristian liturgy we are reminded of the wisdom of listening to The Doors.
I'll just see myself out now.
I'll just see myself out now.
Going into 2026 like...
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Going into 2026 like...
Pet peeve: When I see someone designating an arbitrary set of 12 days in the first part of December as the "12 days of Christmas." 🤪
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Pet peeve: When I see someone designating an arbitrary set of 12 days in the first part of December as the "12 days of Christmas." 🤪
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from
*a collective gasp from all Kansas City residents*
@xkcd.com this is too true to be funny 😬 #Schlitterbahn
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@xkcd.com this is too true to be funny 😬 #Schlitterbahn
xkcd.com/3168/
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
*a collective gasp from all Kansas City residents*
@xkcd.com this is too true to be funny 😬 #Schlitterbahn
xkcd.com/3168/
@xkcd.com this is too true to be funny 😬 #Schlitterbahn
xkcd.com/3168/
When I was 8 (1978) I convinced a couple of small neighborhood stores to let me sweep their floors for 50¢. It became a regular gig.
September 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
When I was 8 (1978) I convinced a couple of small neighborhood stores to let me sweep their floors for 50¢. It became a regular gig.
Back in the 90s I used to say that I thought there would be a civil war in my lifetime. I eventually decided that I was being dramatic and irrationally pessimistic.
Over the past several months I've become increasingly convinced that my original instincts were right.
Over the past several months I've become increasingly convinced that my original instincts were right.
A group of 19 Democratic governors on Thursday condemned President Trump’s threat to send National Guard troops into major cities like Chicago, Baltimore and New York as an “alarming abuse of power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
August 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Back in the 90s I used to say that I thought there would be a civil war in my lifetime. I eventually decided that I was being dramatic and irrationally pessimistic.
Over the past several months I've become increasingly convinced that my original instincts were right.
Over the past several months I've become increasingly convinced that my original instincts were right.
I love the old man on the Cracker Barrel logo. He advocates for a $20/hour starting wage. (No wonder they wanted to get rid of him!)
I love the old man on the Cracker Barrel logo. That barrel is full of Nazi scalps. And he wants his scalps.
I love the old man on the Cracker Barrel logo. He won last season’s Great British Baking Show.
August 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I love the old man on the Cracker Barrel logo. He advocates for a $20/hour starting wage. (No wonder they wanted to get rid of him!)
July 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Create a political climate hostile to business owners and a cultural climate hostile to Christians, then freak out when Christian business owners leave. Yep, that makes sense. 🙄
The CEO of In-N-Out Burger announced that she plans to move her family to Tennessee as the chain establishes a corporate office there, drawing a backlash in California, where her grandfather founded the company nearly 80 years ago.
In-N-Out C.E.O. Says She Is Moving to Tennessee and Opening an Office There
Not all Californians took it well.
trib.al
July 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Create a political climate hostile to business owners and a cultural climate hostile to Christians, then freak out when Christian business owners leave. Yep, that makes sense. 🙄
By most standards this post isn't much, but I believe it's the most popular one I've personally had on Bluesky so far. Some of you sound a bit enthusiastic about it, and I totally get it.
Problem is, it would mean war. I can imagine thinking it might be worth it, but is it really?
Problem is, it would mean war. I can imagine thinking it might be worth it, but is it really?
I have said for years that Texas may be the state that makes noise about secession, but California is the state that might actually do it.
July 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
By most standards this post isn't much, but I believe it's the most popular one I've personally had on Bluesky so far. Some of you sound a bit enthusiastic about it, and I totally get it.
Problem is, it would mean war. I can imagine thinking it might be worth it, but is it really?
Problem is, it would mean war. I can imagine thinking it might be worth it, but is it really?
This is a terrible policy. Now the tax code favors tips over paying a living wage. Eventually every customer-facing job will pay $2.13/hour and we'll be expected to tip on basically every financial transaction.
July 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is a terrible policy. Now the tax code favors tips over paying a living wage. Eventually every customer-facing job will pay $2.13/hour and we'll be expected to tip on basically every financial transaction.
I like Bluesky. But for some people it's just as much a haven for extremists as Twitter has become for some other people.
It's absolutely nuts to look at the comments on every @nytimes.com post and see people accusing them of being Nazis and MAGA collaborators.
It's absolutely nuts to look at the comments on every @nytimes.com post and see people accusing them of being Nazis and MAGA collaborators.
July 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I like Bluesky. But for some people it's just as much a haven for extremists as Twitter has become for some other people.
It's absolutely nuts to look at the comments on every @nytimes.com post and see people accusing them of being Nazis and MAGA collaborators.
It's absolutely nuts to look at the comments on every @nytimes.com post and see people accusing them of being Nazis and MAGA collaborators.
No tax on tips is the worst provision of the budget bill that no one talks about. Economic activity gravitates toward what is not taxed. This bill codifies what used to be a technically-illegal under-the-table practice and gives tip earnings a special preferred status.
July 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
No tax on tips is the worst provision of the budget bill that no one talks about. Economic activity gravitates toward what is not taxed. This bill codifies what used to be a technically-illegal under-the-table practice and gives tip earnings a special preferred status.
Every time I see "Fordo" I misread it.
Centrifuges at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant in Iran are "no longer operational" after the U.S. attacked the facility with bunker-busting bombs, Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on French radio Thursday.
Centrifuges at Fordo ‘No Longer Operational,’ U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Head Says
Rafael Grossi told French radio that there was “no escaping significant physical damage” after the U.S. dropped bunker-buster bombs on the Iranian facility.
trib.al
June 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Every time I see "Fordo" I misread it.
In light of current events, especially with the Evangelical Right's tendency to endorse participation in any conflict they think has eschatological consequences, it's a good time to bring out this song.
youtu.be/it2BX13FUuw?...
youtu.be/it2BX13FUuw?...
The High Tech Tribulation Force
YouTube video by Terry Scott Taylor - Topic
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June 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In light of current events, especially with the Evangelical Right's tendency to endorse participation in any conflict they think has eschatological consequences, it's a good time to bring out this song.
youtu.be/it2BX13FUuw?...
youtu.be/it2BX13FUuw?...