Bix dot Blog

The unsupported use case of Bix Frankonis’ disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon—now with climate crisis, rising fascism, increasing disability, eventual poverty, and inevitable death.

Read the current manifesto. (And the followup.)

Rules: no fear, no hate, no thoughtless bullshit, and no nazis.

While I am not going to write about Joker again, since I’m still spotting people on Twitter accepting at face value Todd Phillips’ problematic premise regarding mental illness and violence, I am going to pass along this National Health Law Program piece about how “the vast majority of individuals with mental health diagnoses are not violent, and mental health diagnoses are not useful predictors of future violence”. Anything and everything which “exploits deeply-rooted but erroneous stereotypes and fears of people with mental health conditions” deserves only public ridicule.

Originally published to bix.blog by Bix Frankonis. Comments and replies by email are welcome.