No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. →
On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
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.
On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
I’m curious about when people are hitting certain realization points. For me it was yesterday morning and what I termed social cost sticker shock. Someone I know online said for them it was today that was “like all the cumulative isolation stress arrived at once”. Matt Kiser of What the Fuck Just Happened Today?, in the email edition, described his experience: “I think it finally hit me today about just how screwed we are.” Is anyone else hitting this sort of psychic tipping point just in the last couple of days?