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winston @winston.cc · 03/10/2026

did everyone else know there is an incredible brutalist cathedral about an hour outside the twin cities? my partner and i went yesterday and holy shit it was amazing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_J...

a vast wall of honeycomb concrete shapes filled with patchwork stained glass

an even wider views of the stained glass windows with a balcony cutout in the middle

a shot of the front of the cathedral taken from floor level, showing massive brutalist shapes stretching across the church

a view from under the balcony, showing its large cantilevered supports made of poured concrete

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winston @winston.cc · 29/09/2026

apropos of nothing, when my partner and I met we found out within a couple days that we shared a favorite band: Frightened Rabbit. we had each seen them live about 6 times before meeting. but never will see them together, RIP Scott Hutchison. we built a shrine to them in our house.

a gig poster of the band, and art that we made representing some common motif's from their album artwork. a drumstick my partner got at a show, and the two books of Scott's lyrics and arts. all of this is in our dining room.

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winston @winston.cc · 28/09/2026

new bike new bike! it's a vintage 12 speed with a bunch of modern upgrades and soon you might spy me zipping past you on it

a blue steel road bike leans up against a subaru with a "John Prine is Pretty Good" bumper sticker

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winston @winston.cc · 27/09/2026

there's a JD Vance honey trap couch for sale on the twin cities FB Marketplace rn

a beige couch which red blocks at the front of the the center cushions strikingly similar to a labia. on the back cushions are two shapes that uh, don't take much imagination to be read as tits with yellow nipples. the couch is labeled as "abstract"

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winston @winston.cc · 20/09/2026

look at how cool our garage is tho

a vintage schwinn is on a bike stand without a rear wheel, a vintage honda motorcycle is in the foreground. the rear of the garage has tools and lots of bicycles

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winston @winston.cc · 19/09/2026

ahaha somewhere in the world are people who are credited as various losers in 10 Things I Hate About You, i absolutely love this for them

credit screen showing "drugged out loser" "wimpy loser" "laughing loser" "screaming loser" and so on

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winston @winston.cc · 17/09/2026

sneak peak of the upbeat and lighthearted blog post i'm working on

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winston @winston.cc · 17/09/2026

gonna start pronouncing it phdoom, like steven with a ph

photo of a weird looking chihuahua with the meme caption "phteven"

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winston @winston.cc · 17/09/2026

i write poetry—mostly to play with words and think, and thus for myself—but i just found this in a notebook and i dunno, it resonates. text in alt.

i am not yet to cynical for this world
the majesty of a tree—any tree, not
just the fancy ones—still overpowers
me, challenges me, confounds me as I contemplate
what it would be like to never leave
a spot, to not be able to move out of the way
to need the earth where i am, where i can
reach, to need that earth to sustain me.
To need the water to be toxin free, the soil
to be healthy, to need the climate to be stable
because if these needs aren't met, well,
what can I do?

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winston @winston.cc · 13/09/2026

sad music lifts my spirits! always been the case. i have so many sad songs that i listen to on the regular. seems to be how i can hold all the grief that being politically aware necessitates. these are just some of the songs on my "calm" playlist lol

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winston @winston.cc · 12/09/2026

being in the twin cities means sometimes a guy in a FUCK ICE shirt says hold on! as you walk down the sidewalk and then hands you a bunch of whistles, and none of this interaction is confusing.

a hand outstretched with 4 3D printed whistles

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winston @winston.cc · 12/09/2026

It looks like I will finish this shawl in the next week! i made up the pattern as i went; I wanted to make a river shape. I love it so much, it's my first time not following a pattern and I'm excited to explore more. Made it for my partner; it's like a blanket lol.

a large knitted shawl stretched out on a sofa. the shawl is primarily a grey wool with rust colored highlights, and throughout the shawl is a snaking river shape, in a bright rust red. the river meanders and branches across the shawl.

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winston @winston.cc · 10/09/2026

If you're in the Twin Cities and working in tech (broadly defined! fuck gatekeeping!) i've lobbied for the next Tech Workers Coalition meetup to be a burnout support group. TBD what that means, come find out Sept 24 at Bruhaven. I'll be there!

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winston @winston.cc · 07/09/2026

hello from the crop art line!

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winston @winston.cc · 06/09/2026

day 3 at the state fair lol we're addicted

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winston @winston.cc · 02/09/2026

family has all returned home for the heat so i am now wandering solo at the fair. first stop, craft brew flight

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winston @winston.cc · 02/09/2026

Twin Cities from the Ferris Wheel

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winston @winston.cc · 02/09/2026

first treat was deep fried cookie dough on a stick, verdict from the kids was S-Tier. then we did the centrifuge

three humans pinned against the wall in a centrifuge

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winston @winston.cc · 29/08/2026

state fair is full of surprises

a bright blue corvette is smashed into a tree on the side of the road

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winston @winston.cc · 28/08/2026

something is eating the moon!!!!

mostly black photo except for a bright moon that is fully visible but about half is in shadow thanks to the fucking earth

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winston @winston.cc · 28/08/2026

partial lunar eclipse is happening RIGHT NOW maybe it will also happen

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winston @winston.cc · 24/08/2026

did anyone else grow up with a mom who loved this tv show

Promo still from the Beauty and the Beast tv show, starring Linda Hamilton and a guy dressed as a beast.

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winston @winston.cc · 21/08/2026

i am an absolute hoot in the group chat

screenshot of text messages

> it's possible that we have not figured out the perfect mechanism for delivering healthcare in equitable ways, due to the competing logics of capitalism, state management, scientific epistemology, and historical oppressive regimes.
but i am sure the robots trained on all extant data will deliver solutions previously unknown, we're so close

> just a few more billion dollars

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winston @winston.cc · 21/08/2026

which i have carried with me across multiple residences lol

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winston @winston.cc · 17/08/2026

Since the savings of universal healthcare is in the news, I have a portion in this post about why rich people like the current system, and it's a map for the incentives we're working against. www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2026/s...

The current US healthcare system benefits the finance industry in 3 ways. First, it creates massive middle-man companies (insurers) who can siphon money off every aspect of the healthcare industry without needing to add any value. These companies are some of the most valuable in the world. Second, the necessity of healthcare and the absence of universal healthcare generates medical debt, and debt is one of the financial industry’s favorite tools. Third, the linking of healthcare to employment creates extremely strong incentives for staying employed; it reduces the agency of millions of people who might do other things with their time and labor, but instead hold down jobs to maintain health insurance. These three benefits to the finance industry become incentives to preserve the status quo; to refuse changes that would benefit millions of people. This also explains why biggest change to the US healthcare system in recent memory has not been to expand healthcare access via state coverage (universal healthcare like other countries have) but rather to subsidize the current industry (via the ACA). The country made the current healthcare system more sustainable by artificially reducing the cost of private insurance, ensuring all 3 above incentives remain in place.

Let me be clear: I am not making any claims of conspiratorial actions to prevent universal healthcare in the US. I am saying that the shape of the current system creates incredibly strong incentives for the people who have the most power in the system to refuse change. They may not know the incentives exist, they may or may not think in the same terms I’ve used, but the incentives shape what is the easiest course of action in the system.

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winston @winston.cc · 13/08/2026

it is wild how evergreen and wildly applicable this is

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winston @winston.cc · 12/08/2026

occasionally at work i use the robots to prove i am spending my tokens. today i tried to get the robot to transform a document i'd written into the content of a slideshow. it populated 5 slides out of 75, and did not delete the other ones. one of the slides it made is glorious.

a slide saying Milestone 1: November 2026 Target, with a subhed in lorem ipsum. Below this, is a timeline with 4 dots, and above each dot is the heading November 2026, implying that once November 2026 arrives, it will keep arriving perpetually.

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winston @winston.cc · 11/08/2026

Today is the MN primary, and MN has become a refuge for trans people. The state passed a trans refuge law, has enshrined equality in the state constitution, and been fighting republican bigotry. @amyklobuchar.com goes to pride but refuses to call out the terrorism against trans people. Fuck her.

A search for the word "trans" in Klobuchar's campaign account, showing no results.

A search for the term LGBTQ in Klobuchar's campaign account, showing her waving happily at pride and claiming to "stand with" the LGBTQ community.

a search for vote in the campaign account to show that her campaign is actively posting on bluesy.

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winston @winston.cc · 10/08/2026

have built a stack of all the books that i return to over and over again and it occurs to me it's a helluva recommendation list (titles in alt)

The Real World of Technology
Theory of Water
History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
The Great Derangement
The Ordinal Society
As We Have Always Done
The uncontrollability of the World
Metaphors we Live By
Against Purity
Staying with The Trouble
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Addiction by Design
Seeing Like a State

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winston @winston.cc · 08/08/2026

makin hip literary memes

album cover with cool lasers and digital design and the words NOW THAT'S A MAN I CALL ISHMAEL

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winston @winston.cc · 05/08/2026

not the full in progress stack, but what i have with me tonight. and i am in between fiction because i just finished rereading the new Murderbot (i love Murderbot, we discussed this). Highly recommend all 3 in the photo!

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winston @winston.cc · 02/08/2026

my god i love queer spaces. our car (named Stick Shift) won its first race!

a bunch of pinewood derby cars with dildos attached in a board

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winston @winston.cc · 29/07/2026

we just created a naked lady wall too!!!

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winston @winston.cc · 29/07/2026

the lines are against me tonight but typically the results are quite fun.

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winston @winston.cc · 26/07/2026

the view from the couch is of a massive tower of books. Look close and you'll see that most shelves have two rows of books lol. there's 6 more shelves of books in the hallway out the doorway.

the view looking up from the couch, showing stairs in the background, then 6 rows of shelves with books. there is a hallway, then a doorway into the living room. in the living room is another 6 rows of shelves, most with double rows of books.

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winston @winston.cc · 26/07/2026

we are finally hanging art in the house and it makes so much of a difference!

a corner of walls with lots of prints on the wall and a weaving my partner made. in the foreground are two cats.

a wider view of the living room showing the corner from the previous photo in context. there is a large beige couch and large coffee table over a colorful rainbow rug.

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winston @winston.cc · 25/07/2026

thanks to my ludicrously large Mnemosyne notebook my essay drafting process looks like this now. sneak peek at all the things i am thinking about when not shitposting if you're curious

a 13"x17" notebook lays open on a wooden surface, with a bunch of doodles connecting various thoughts and assertions. Two pens lay on the notebook to show the scale.

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winston @winston.cc · 25/07/2026

I'm reading Butler's "Who's Afraid of Gender" and they use the concept of a phantasm to explore the various anti gender groups. it seems like a rich framework for the fears people have of imagining better futures. (screenshots are Butler's explanations)

If one's opponents are gripped with fear, overwhelmed by the threat of a dangerous phantasm, then another approach has to emerge. It seems we are not in a public debate at all, precisely because there is no text in the room, no agreement on terms, and fear and hatred have flooded the landscape where critical thought should be thriving, It is a phantasmatic scene. In referring to a "phantasmatic scene," I adapt the theoretical formulation of Jean Laplanche, the late French psychoanalyst, for thinking about psychosocial phenomena. For Laplanche, fantasy is not simply the product of the imagination—a wholly subjective reality— but in its most fundamental form has to be understood as a syntactical arrangement of elements of psychic life. Fantasy, then, is not just a creation of the mind, a subliminal reverie, but an organization of desire and anxiety that follows certain structural and organizational rules, drawing on both unconscious and conscious material. I would suggest that the organization or syntax of dreams and fantasy is at once social and psychic. Although Laplanche was interested in infancy and the formation of an original fantasy, I am asking whether we can appropriate some aspects of his view to understand anti-gender as a phantasmatic scene. My wager is that we will be better able to respond to this movement and its discourse by framing the matter this way. For when the scene is set, and something called gender is imagined to be acting on children or affecting the public in nefarious and destructive ways, "gender" substitutes for a complex set of anxieties and becomes an overdetermined site where the fear of destruction gathers,

Wherever it operates, the phantasm brings with it a sadistic elation over being freed of new ethical constraints apparently imposed by feminist and LGBTQIA+ agendas or their mainstreaming apologists. What is remarkable and disturbing is the way that this moral campaign relishes experimenting with various ways of denying the very existence of others, stripping them of rights, refusing their reality, restricting basic freedoms, engaging in shameless forms of racial hatred, and controlling, demeaning, caricaturing, pathologiz-ing, and criminalizing those lives. Hatred is stoked and rationalized by moral righteousness, and all those damaged and destroyed by hateful movements are cast as the truer agents of destruction. These projections and reversals structure the phantasmatic scene of "gender." This leaves us with two urgent questions: Who is out to destroy whom? And how do forms of shared and escalating moral sadism pass themselves off as a virtuous order?3
The task is not only to reveal the falsehood but also to deflate the power of the phantasm to circulate and convince, and to produce another imaginary in which the targets of the anti-gender movement ally with one another to oppose those who would destroy their right to inhabit the world in ways that are livable and free.

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winston @winston.cc · 25/07/2026

Hey @amyklobuchar.com Minnesota has become a place where trans and queer people are fleeing to because the state fights for their rights. You have never made a single post acknowledging their existence. What the fuck?

search in bluesky showing Klobuchar posts about rights regularly

search in bluesky showing that Klobuchar's account has never posted anything containing the word "trans"

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winston @winston.cc · 18/07/2026

Infrastructure bike ride!!! we're gonna look at water towers of town with @blindeke.bsky.social

group of cyclists listening to a man talk about infrastructure

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winston @winston.cc · 16/07/2026

i think the air should not kill you

Norman Rockwell's freedom of speech painting depicting a man standing up, and the man has been photoshopped to be wearing a cool as corduroy jacket that says St. paul

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winston @winston.cc · 14/07/2026

this morning i took a bike ride, because bike rides bring me outsized joy, and the icing on the cake was I rode 26 miles and aside from the first 2 miles, the entire route was on protected bike lanes. Love that St. Paul has invested so much in bike infrastructure.

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winston @winston.cc · 11/07/2026

behold the grandma bomber jacket

a dude mean mugs the camera wearing a yellow quilted jacket that is crop topped, with floral patchwork quilting on the front panels. underneath he is wearing a trans anarchy shirt.

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winston @winston.cc · 10/07/2026

we have a solution! we previously had some compression pole shelves that we can configure against a wall. seen here in a previous house.

beautiful living room with wall to wall bookshelves

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winston @winston.cc · 10/07/2026

All 56 boxes opened. We uh, we don't think we have enough shelf space. Whoops.

a wide view of a living room dining room and entry way. There are hundreds of books everywhere. It is not all of them.

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winston @winston.cc · 10/07/2026

we are finally liberating our books from their cages (moving boxes). we have opened 28 boxes! we have 23 to go lmao

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winston @winston.cc · 06/07/2026

guess what arrived todayyyy

hot guy in a mirror showing off the back of his new Belgium kit which has the words TRANS RTS

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winston @winston.cc · 02/07/2026

in my new home office i have set up my desk so when i am done with work, I pack up the work laptop/keyboard/mouse and then swing the large monitor to point at the wall. suddenly, my desk is devoid of work and useful for writing and thinking! it's glorious

a large wooden desk with a notebook and pen in the middle. there is a small laptop open on the far back of the desk. there are many notebooks scattered around, and two large speakers beside the desk. above the desk is a huge vintage map and some other smaller pieces of art.

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winston @winston.cc · 01/07/2026

decided it was a good night to go be slutty at the piano bar (Menards) (jk getting some speaker wire)

a cute person in a tranarchy shirt glares at the camera in menards. they have a cool ass sleeve tattoo and blue circular glasses and you'd enjoy hanging out with them

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winston @winston.cc · 27/06/2026

Here's the drawing i did last night. I recently bought a book of fine art nudes that a couple made together, they are absolutely incredible work. Used one of the photos as a model then doodled on top.

fine art nude book called "A Voice Within" by Craig and Honey Blackwell, underneath a sketch book. The sketch book has a light pencil drawing of a nude woman, surrounded by colored circles of various sizes.

closer view of the drawing. the nude woman is reclined with her arms stretched above her. the circles are a mix of outline and fully shaded, in colored pencils of varying shades.

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