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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They already are. Nobody enforces it ‘cause it’s mostly white dudes with lawyers.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I love the way you took my favorite Oz book and made it better.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In order to learn more about the dead world they found him orbiting. He joins them on several adventures. Those books are by Neil R Jones, and out of print, but I read them in the late 1980s. I think I have found copies of three of the five books. It’s neat to realize Kishiro also read them.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
a funeral rocket, to preserve his dead body in space. Millions of years later, the Zoromes happen upon his dead body orbiting a dead Earth, and, as is their way, make him into one of them - a full-conversion cyborg with four legs, six tentacle arms, a blocky body and conical head with six eyes -
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It’s been decades since I’ve read the first Battle Angel Alita series. I splurged on the hardcover box set. I hadn’t remembered the cameos. The facehugger is well-known, but the Zoromes or “Machine men of Zor” are less so. The Professor Jameson stories start with the Professor making (cont.)
Battle Angel Alita, hardback box set
Same set, spine on.Gon pushes Ido and Alita past a Zorome in Ido’s basement.  Ido says “I wouldn’t touch them if I were you.”What looks a lot like a facehugger swimming in the Scrapyard’s sewers . . .
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Of course you should push your car to the car wash - it’s much better exercise. . .
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I got on well enough with my middle/high school male friends. We were, in retrospect, all kinda neurodivergent. It took me growing boobs to realize that them wanting to talk about penises was a manifestation of cis boy gender euphoria . . .
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I absolutely have. In Iraq. They were mostly open again by the time I was in country, summer of 2004. It’s a common response to an invading army.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Chinga la migra!
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s not the first time (Panama, 1989). Maduro wasn’t dumb enough to declare war, however, so the legality is oven more questionable this time. “Hey, Congress, the war’s basically over, backdate the declaration.” Perhaps? I don’t think they’re that competent.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
If he admitted he’s a trans man. It’s kinda hard for anyone to help when one doesn’t want to be helped. It’s harder when one wants to ensure no one gets help. There are quotes where she sounds like such a rotten egg . . .
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Yes, l read chunks of those standards an a kid in high school in the early 1990s. There’s nothing quite like blanket assumptions of delusion to keep a kid closeted.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Alita/Gally has always felt like a more attainable level of full-conversion cyborg. And more affordable, somehow, probably due to the setting being full of military surplus . . . Something I didn’t think about in the early ‘90s.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I’ve bought shorter novels . . .
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’m mostly fine now, but neither I nor my unit know what I’m supposed to do next. Hurry up and wait, but big Army is running around like a head with its chicken off . . .
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I adore estradiol undecylate. Health insurance sucks.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
They’re not getting paid right now. They can expect back pay, but reasonably expect to get stiffed out of per diem. The reason this photo is here? Because they know there’s fuck all for them to be legally doing.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
So obvious the Army made it policy: Don’t take picture of yourself (or your buddies) breaking the law. Not quite so obvious: Don’t talk to cops. Don’t send your partner or buddies notes or texts about breaking the law. Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor is a felony.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
State violence is political violence. Advocating for state violence is advocating for political violence.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“Wai! Wai!” And other excited ‘80s anime girl noises . . .
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I thought those were so pretty, but never used one beyond playing with it in the store. Lovely to see a couple of them still in existence.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The nuclear family model is bogus and exhausting. Been there, done that.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Well, E levels can kinda be adjusted by feel, but having a baseline or two really helps develop understanding of what the various “feels kinda crappy” mean. All of the ones I know? E has dropped below optimal. Or “Spiro made me pass out after donating blood.” That was last month’s discovery.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
You’d hope.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Never is when the DOD passed an audit.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
13 instead of 47, in my case. But my life would have gone very differently that way.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
So you can soak them in butter. The cheese and potato ones are better than the onion and potato, of course.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
History. And advocating violence is against the TOS.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Today’s ridiculousness: I’m f’ing blubbering over leaving the Army. I signed my voluntary out packet Wednesday. I’m NG now, so I’ve been paying for the privilege of suffering with my fellow soldiers, but I was still looking forward to doing that for about another ten years.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I’m pretty sure no tax on tips is only to prevent single moms from getting an Earned Income Credit.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I knew I wanted to be a girl by middle school. I was closeted IRL until I left college. I was explicitly a lesbian in boy drag (still closeted) until I got my 20-year letter from the Army. About that time I read “if you want to be a girl it means you already are.” 22 months on HRT.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Fascism is authoritarianism. It’s driven by corruption and central planning, and it is hard to keep running, by its very nature. It often kills a lot of people before it falls apart or is stopped. It’s better to strangle it in its cradle than fight out from under it.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The British, the Japanese, the Nationalists, Mao was a much better revolutionary than leader, and the economic reforms led to a mix of resistance and crackdowns. The 1971 burglary of an FBI office in Pennsylvania ended Hoover, and Nixon left in disgrace. Nothing is perfect, nonviolence is hard.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
India evicted the British. They were doing better for a while, then the rich retrenched. South Korea was pretty terrible between the Korean war and the 90s. They got better, they’ve backslid a bit. The Soviet Union fell apart, and things got better until Putin. China’s been fighting since 1899.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Not at all. Look how long “saturated fat causes heart disease” has hung around.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What is the job? Where? Unless it involves dancing naked on tables, I really don’t think they need to know that.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’m willing to grant that. Taxing the little guy less is part of American ideals of fairness. Exempting the first $500k or $1M would allow that without supporting crystal palace edifice complexes. And you do know that pregnancy crisis centers are terrible for mothers and families, right?
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Gatekeeping, historic or current, plays a role as well. For most of the 20th century, to be a transsexual, rather than “just” a transvestite, you needed to tell your doc you wanted a husband, picket fence, and kids. Narrative shapes belief. And lots of people disbelieve in study confidentiality.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
India. South Korea. The Soviet Union. The US, under Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover. China’s been in this fight for decades. It’s a very hard fight. We often backslide. We probably can’t stop it forever, but putting it off 50 years at a time is a better start than “It’s all over” doomsaying.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
He’s less charismatic. Remove the cult leader and the cult will falter. Sometimes the cult survives, but it isn’t the same after,
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
There are paths. Most of them require coalition (hard) or lone-wolf terrorism (also hard). There are a lot of paths that require consistent, non-violent activism. These paths aren’t all mutually exclusive. Saying the fascists have won is admitting defeat.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
So, in better news, a fat marmot near the Skyline trail on Mt. Rainier yesterday:
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Tanks always squeak, just like tracked bulldozers. You can’t hear it as well when they’re going fast, but at parade speeds?
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Violence is the pop culture script for resistance. The tools of nonviolent resistance have been erased from most of our narratives.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Um, the first Mustang was in 1964, wasn’t it? So he’s totally wrong, instead of mostly.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
- You get to be picky. Realizing that one made me cry.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Yup, you can see the end of ARMY on his left nametape. Those visors suck to wear - they’re heavy and the weight is all forward.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I’ve improved recently - I can now recognize that someone was flirting with me. A couple days later. Sigh.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Foundational compromises empowering rural states combined with a compromised educational system. And we get lots of people voting for people who are actively trying to destroy them. Sigh.
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wrenxi.bsky.social @wrenxi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Part of their job is to discredit the government by being so incompetent everyone knows they could do the job better.
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