Brooks Eakin @brookseakin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025"And so I began the slippery descent into facetiousness - the arch-enemy of literary creation. I still hate myself for it." Lu Xun, in the preface to Old Stories Retold, 1935 000
Brooks Eakin @brookseakin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Everything is going great! Really cool, really normal. 010
Brooks Eakin @brookseakin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The fact that only AI knows how to properly use the em dash (—) is so funny to me. Any comment online—written like this, with a clause embedded between em dashes, with no spacing before or after—immediately outs it as almost certainly AI-generated. 000
Brooks Eakin @brookseakin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Where do your tax dollars go? Here's a cool civic tech project drawing from public budget data to answer that very question. Just drop in the figure from line 16 of your 1040 to get a "taxpayer receipt."polco.usPolcoPolco is a secure and reliable place to provide input directly to local and state leaders, as well as other socially minded organizations. 010
