Barret Wallace Was Not Wrong

At a certain point I got old. A lot of my "radical thinking" these days boils down to "perhaps we as a society should pay a living wage to bus drivers and sanitation workers."

But like, listen. I don't have a pension, or any savings. My family (such as it is) doesn't have money. I'm continually in debt. I don't have many options, so my retirement plan is to do domestic ecoterrorism.

Sometimes I think about the incredible environmental cost of machine-generated art and writing, and I think about what it takes to create and maintain server farms. And I think about how no one would get hurt if those buildings were bombed. It's a victimless crime, really.

That's still many decades away, though, and I'm not sure what sort of physical condition I'll be in. So who knows. I might have to settle for spray painting rainbow-colored dicks on the Antonin Scalia Law School or smashing the window in the National Cathedral with the Confederate flag.


...to the FBI agent reading this, please remember to leave kudos on my stories on AO3, thank you.

NextDoor

NextDoor
https://broelbrak.itch.io/nextdoor

NextDoor is a spooky 2D interactive story game based on one of Junji Itō’s short horror manga. It’s free to download or play in your browser, and it takes about ten to fifteen minutes to read.

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There’s one (very mild) jumpscare in the game, and it’s a cameo from what’s actually my favorite Junji Itō manga, Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. Yon & Mu is exactly what you would expect from a cute autobio pet manga drawn by Junji Itō, and it’s marvelous. (Here’s a link) to a nice and clean PDF of the translated manga on my personal Dropbox. I’ve got viewer tracking turned off for this file, so please feel free to download a copy if you’re interested.