Chantal James

I’m just fooling with you! It was a mental illness joke. You’re good!

Never ask a woman her dress size or a bipolar person why they’re up late.

Dr. Who always calls me young Chantal James. I love it.

I think they're all well aware. No impending dark nights of the soul that were not previously in-progress.

To alleviate the inevitability? I guess? I’m struggling with how serious you seem to take me as a force in the world because no nations are taking my work seriously? To me we should mitigate the hardship of living in the fall of America as best we can & support the victims of its empire abroad.

Hell yeah

Well, major congrats to them for being freaky weirdos like me, & sorry if the news that this is what they are is disappointing to them.

Some who think bluesky users are freaks may think my account has a lot of followers because these freaky bluesky weirdos are following me & I’m a freaky weirdo. They’re actually exactly right. Those are the properties of bluesky’s user base that support my being followed.

When was the last time America behaved in a way that made me proud? Try never. It’s never been something to be proud of, that’s why you need not identify with its structure & take its blame, especially when it’s hurting you badly in its web of global harm.

Following in the tradition of other services like your phone provider or your insurance company. The hate is mutual.

A large part of why people rely on online mutual aid is because they're excluded from in-person community via poverty, disability, etc. You are their community and they are your community. Don't be part of the problem.

I’m not any more embarrassed to be American than I ever been but white folks are having a time. Whoever wants to shame me for my nationality needs to get the memo that my people came in chains that only evolved to new forms, hell no I never draw my personal pride from a state that’s oppressing me.

Every single time I see them on the street, I just feel like rage-crying at how alone we are.

The rest of the country did what it's always done & either forgot we exist, or treat us like a thought exercise instead of a real city with scared, stressed out people living here.

If you don’t consider your community to be those in your periphery you have the power to impact, you’re nothing but a snob, & that’s who online mutual aid seekers are.

To people who say of mutual aid that happens online that it’s not real because it’s not their community, first these people are sharing virtual space with you if you can see them. Second, make them your community by befriending them. You’ll have a human exchange & help because they matter to you.

There it is.

i have made friends with a few palestinians here
i text with them now
some people claim they are scams because that makes it easier for them to ignore them.

It really was a refuge for social outcasts. But the people who created it & who maintain it never intended or wanted that.

God, I miss those days

It wasn’t the site for People Mad At Elon; it was the site for people too weird to feel comfortable surrounded by that many normies

And then the fucking normies showed up

Dammit

(Many of them are fine people and all, just… dammit)

yeah it was amazing

I live in DC and flip those aholes off all the time. Fuck them

Don’t assume the occupation of DC ever stopped just because your media doesn’t want you to know about it anymore.

Folks, we still have troops in DC. They never left. What are they doing here? Being intimating bullies over people doing their ordinary things in public spaces. That’s the whole point of them & why Trump is squandering your money on them.

Priority on Ukraine: Israeli Elbit Systems Halts Modernization of Romanian IAR-99 Aircraft The Israeli defense company Elbit Systems has redirected its resources to deals with companies holding contracts to assist Ukraine, which will delay the modernization of Romania’s IAR-99 aircraft

Just one of several instances of Ukrainian-Israeli military relations.

Nobody who’s interacting with Palestinians on here to help them can buy that they’re frauds. They beg like they’re in the most starving desperate situations they are, interacting with them it’s always clear that’s who you deal with, we have their numbers & talk to them, we can get video on request.

YOU ARE DISABLED AND A WRITER, WHAT DO THEY MEAN. LIKE THEM THINKING YOU CAN'T WITHOUT AI IS THE ABLEIST SHIT. WHAT

reality stays the same no matter what bad code is trying to overwrite it

They are hanging out in front of my office eating Krsipy Kreme donuts, literally… at least 5 days a week. Dunno what they do over the weekend. Probably eat more donuts!

WORDS MEAN THINGS. I know that because I don’t use AI.

Oh my god remember when someone told me I had internalized ableism because as a novelist with a psychotic disorder I don’t buy that disabled people need AI?