Xauri'EL Zwaan
@xauriel.satan.social
Lunarpunk Satanist Cyberqueer, Feral Goth Trash Goblin, Speculative Fiction Author, Capitalism Disliker. Ze/zer/zir
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i mean the rational response to seeing a guy like this refusing to provide proof that he is a federal agent is to shoot him because he’s indistinguishable from a mass shooter
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 6:55 AM
i mean the rational response to seeing a guy like this refusing to provide proof that he is a federal agent is to shoot him because he’s indistinguishable from a mass shooter
The Nazis at least had Leni Riefenstahl. The Trump regime has Melania, tiktok memes, and AI slop
February 3, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The Nazis at least had Leni Riefenstahl. The Trump regime has Melania, tiktok memes, and AI slop
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"Ghost Ships" is starting pretty good, BTW. I have the first scene drafted and basically the whole plot skeleton firm in my head, though it's going to be concept-heavy and the characters and their viewpoints need to be developed more. I'm hoping to keep each scene to a tight 1k and keep the […]
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February 3, 2026 at 5:05 AM
"Ghost Ships" is starting pretty good, BTW. I have the first scene drafted and basically the whole plot skeleton firm in my head, though it's going to be concept-heavy and the characters and their viewpoints need to be developed more. I'm hoping to keep each scene to a tight 1k and keep the […]
It honestly shouldn't be that surprising that the Right en masse are willing to defend and support pedophiles. Conservative churches are lousy with child sex abuse, and "libertarians want to abolish the age of consent" has been a meme for ages at this point. They probably all know people personally
February 3, 2026 at 4:57 AM
It honestly shouldn't be that surprising that the Right en masse are willing to defend and support pedophiles. Conservative churches are lousy with child sex abuse, and "libertarians want to abolish the age of consent" has been a meme for ages at this point. They probably all know people personally
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Important for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.
Three delivery apps, including UberEats, will pay NYC delivery workers $4.6 million after they violated the city's minimum pay law.
The Mamdani admin will announce the settlement today, which comes after enforcement action taken by the city.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...
The Mamdani admin will announce the settlement today, which comes after enforcement action taken by the city.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...
The Mamdani Effect: Three Delivery Apps Must Pay $5M In Minimum Pay Settlement - Streetsblog New York City
A new era: Mayor Mamdani's worker protection department announces new enforcement against UberEats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan for not complying with the minimum pay law.
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January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Important for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.
We need to start appending "death to fascism" to literally every one of our posts the way Cato the Elder said "Carthago delenda est" at the end of every speech, just to make absolutely clear how universal the sentiment is
February 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
We need to start appending "death to fascism" to literally every one of our posts the way Cato the Elder said "Carthago delenda est" at the end of every speech, just to make absolutely clear how universal the sentiment is
It sounds like deploying AI in front line customer-service positions is going super poorly. It's easy enough to replace Office Drone Bob when the boss barely knows what he does anyway. Customer service isn't like that. When your AI fucks shit up, actual customers complain and go elsewhere
February 3, 2026 at 3:39 AM
It sounds like deploying AI in front line customer-service positions is going super poorly. It's easy enough to replace Office Drone Bob when the boss barely knows what he does anyway. Customer service isn't like that. When your AI fucks shit up, actual customers complain and go elsewhere
Fix the economy by imposing massive tariffs. Make America Healthy Again by stopping vaccination and consuming whole milk and red meat. Increase your geopolitical influence by alienating your closest allies. Get rid of DEI, then fill your ranks with the least qualified people imaginable
February 3, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Fix the economy by imposing massive tariffs. Make America Healthy Again by stopping vaccination and consuming whole milk and red meat. Increase your geopolitical influence by alienating your closest allies. Get rid of DEI, then fill your ranks with the least qualified people imaginable
If everyone who is in the Epstein files faced legally appropriate consequences for their crimes, it would be functionally indistinguishable from a revolution
February 2, 2026 at 11:36 PM
If everyone who is in the Epstein files faced legally appropriate consequences for their crimes, it would be functionally indistinguishable from a revolution
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We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.
February 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM
We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.
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If I told 19-year-old me on the eve of the millennium that when ze's in zir 40s we will be arguing about whether the President of the United States shit his pants on live television, ze would say "wait tell me more about AI", and I would have to explain that no, AI is actually really dumb and […]
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February 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
If I told 19-year-old me on the eve of the millennium that when ze's in zir 40s we will be arguing about whether the President of the United States shit his pants on live television, ze would say "wait tell me more about AI", and I would have to explain that no, AI is actually really dumb and […]
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[US politics]
Frankly, I think Orange Mussolini's cabal of cronies is scared to death right now. They know that Dear Leader could kick the bucket at any moment, and they don't have a viable succession plan. For all that there are plenty of Americans that are up for fascism full stop, there's a […]
Frankly, I think Orange Mussolini's cabal of cronies is scared to death right now. They know that Dear Leader could kick the bucket at any moment, and they don't have a viable succession plan. For all that there are plenty of Americans that are up for fascism full stop, there's a […]
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January 25, 2026 at 10:13 AM
[US politics]
Frankly, I think Orange Mussolini's cabal of cronies is scared to death right now. They know that Dear Leader could kick the bucket at any moment, and they don't have a viable succession plan. For all that there are plenty of Americans that are up for fascism full stop, there's a […]
Frankly, I think Orange Mussolini's cabal of cronies is scared to death right now. They know that Dear Leader could kick the bucket at any moment, and they don't have a viable succession plan. For all that there are plenty of Americans that are up for fascism full stop, there's a […]
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The thing about Thunder Junction is that I psyched myself into being disappointed with it. At first I was just like "sigh, OK cowboys I guess", but as the reveals came I began to build up a picture in my head about how it could be subversive, about how it might critique and deconstruct its genre […]
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January 26, 2026 at 2:44 AM
The thing about Thunder Junction is that I psyched myself into being disappointed with it. At first I was just like "sigh, OK cowboys I guess", but as the reveals came I began to build up a picture in my head about how it could be subversive, about how it might critique and deconstruct its genre […]
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...so apparently Patreon has removed the ability of users to download audio links from my posts, even though I still have a checkbox on my dashboard allowing me the option to let them do so
January 27, 2026 at 5:45 AM
...so apparently Patreon has removed the ability of users to download audio links from my posts, even though I still have a checkbox on my dashboard allowing me the option to let them do so
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Had a really cool idea for a space opera story today. It's based on the WWII Ghost Army (look it up) and it'll be a mostly slow, meditative piece about both the necessity and the ridiculousness of war
January 27, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Had a really cool idea for a space opera story today. It's based on the WWII Ghost Army (look it up) and it'll be a mostly slow, meditative piece about both the necessity and the ridiculousness of war
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Right-wingers will endlessly pick apart every single mistake and misstep of the communist revolutions, but if you dare to apply the same level of scrutiny to the American revolution, they immediately start shrieking about "critical race theory" and "trying to make people ashamed of their heritage"
January 28, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Right-wingers will endlessly pick apart every single mistake and misstep of the communist revolutions, but if you dare to apply the same level of scrutiny to the American revolution, they immediately start shrieking about "critical race theory" and "trying to make people ashamed of their heritage"
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I wish I understand why right-wing people love obviously stupid clowns so much. Trump, Farage, BoJo, Poilievre. These people are fucking *idiots*.
January 29, 2026 at 7:40 AM
I wish I understand why right-wing people love obviously stupid clowns so much. Trump, Farage, BoJo, Poilievre. These people are fucking *idiots*.
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It's really funny when people who are into sports get upset that everyone around them isn't as enthusiastic about sports as they are, and that some people are even (shock horror) *sarcastic* about it. Oh honey, it's cute that you think you know what being persecuted for your hobbies is like
January 30, 2026 at 10:13 AM
It's really funny when people who are into sports get upset that everyone around them isn't as enthusiastic about sports as they are, and that some people are even (shock horror) *sarcastic* about it. Oh honey, it's cute that you think you know what being persecuted for your hobbies is like
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I deeply dislike revisionist history that attempts to position Lucian as the writer of the first work of science fiction. It involves a deep misunderstanding of what distinguishes sci-fi from fantastical fiction in general, and I can't help but suspect that the underlying motivation is to […]
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January 31, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I deeply dislike revisionist history that attempts to position Lucian as the writer of the first work of science fiction. It involves a deep misunderstanding of what distinguishes sci-fi from fantastical fiction in general, and I can't help but suspect that the underlying motivation is to […]
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The primary difference between orcs and goblins is that orcs are k-selected and goblins are r-selected
I'll go into it more if you want but I'm high as balls and not up to explicating right now
I'll go into it more if you want but I'm high as balls and not up to explicating right now
January 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM
The primary difference between orcs and goblins is that orcs are k-selected and goblins are r-selected
I'll go into it more if you want but I'm high as balls and not up to explicating right now
I'll go into it more if you want but I'm high as balls and not up to explicating right now
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As beautiful a dream and an achievement as it might have been, I kind of feel like nuclear disarmament was always a pipe dream. Genies, bottles, etc.
February 1, 2026 at 8:06 AM
As beautiful a dream and an achievement as it might have been, I kind of feel like nuclear disarmament was always a pipe dream. Genies, bottles, etc.
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It's not that girls are weapons, actually. It's that weapons, as objects coveted by men who view the possession and conspicuous use of them as intrinsically demonstrative of their masculinity, are a type of woman.
February 1, 2026 at 11:30 PM
It's not that girls are weapons, actually. It's that weapons, as objects coveted by men who view the possession and conspicuous use of them as intrinsically demonstrative of their masculinity, are a type of woman.
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one of my favorite "SOCIETY" things is this 2018 cover of so-called news magazine The Atlantic, where a moral panic about us transgender people is front and center, and in TINY little print in the top right, "We're Not Prepared for the Next Pandemic"
anyone care to explain the cultural moment where this sort of fucking framing of a person explained to stand-in for a 13-year-old could be on a newsstand with this visual language & everyone jerkoff distance from media was like Yeah This Is Worth Obsessively Promoting
February 2, 2026 at 5:52 AM
one of my favorite "SOCIETY" things is this 2018 cover of so-called news magazine The Atlantic, where a moral panic about us transgender people is front and center, and in TINY little print in the top right, "We're Not Prepared for the Next Pandemic"
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February 2, 2026 at 12:15 AM
My novelette All Rights Reserved is now available IN PRINT! Order direct from your favourite online storefront, request it from your local bookstore or library, or get a signed copy when you join the Patreon at the Posthuman tier or above!
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