As most people will have deduced by now, a lot of the Trump team agenda is going to be derived in some way from the Project 2025 handbook. One of the objectives specified in that handbook is the banning of pornography. Let’s start with a reality check. Nobody can ban pornography. That is like trying to ban the consumption of alcohol, or prostitution. Societies that try to ban those services end up with corruption, laws […]
So, the 2024 General Election is over in the USA, and the authoritarians have won. Leaving aside the whole area of principled and unyielding resistance to fascists and assholes, which I totally support, the main personal question for authors is; how will this affect your writing? I have to confess that my writing (as in the Hammering phase, putting prose down) has been pretty much stalled for the last 6 months. Ideation and Percolation have
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Once in a while my frustration on a topic grows to a high level when I see people making the same mistakes over and over again, and still expecting a different outcome (and not getting one) or, worse still, accepting mediocrity and nonsense instead of operating to higher standards. Twitter (or X, or whatever letter of the alphabet Elon Musk has decided to call it this year), has become a propaganda cesspit. We saw this
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