Our Lady of Immaculate Depression

Hey I set up one of these things here if you think what we're up to deserves financial subsidy. It's got stuff I need for work on it and also stuff I just want and also like. Groceries.

This 1889 beauty in Elgin, IL needs some polish, some work, and the kitchen is meh, but look at her. 8bds, 4ba, 6,040sqft, $550k.

Matt Miller is one of the event gang leaders, as well as a teen genius hacker. He's intelligent, he's not to be trifled with, his team's uniform is iconic, and he is obsessed with an unseen tv show called Nyte Blayde. Matt infodumps at you about this show's brilliance, its subtlety, its tragic depths. You can tell he's read fan theories, was probably on fanfiction.net during downtime. He refuses ANY criticism for it, this is peak art and it's fucking sad if you're too stupid to understand that. He is SO earnest. So sincere. He gets so fucking mad if you insult his show.

Yeah so this is Nyte Blade:

I love Saint's Row the Third for a lot of reasons, and the depiction of a brilliant teenager obsessed with what most older adults recognize is derivative slop that's been done before and better, a kid who is a threat to you and also experiencing the world for the first time, projecting complexity where there is none because that's how his brain works... God it's so magical, idk why there isn't more rep of this kind of things, I love looove when we talk about the distinct quirks of adolescence. Basically,

Via Authors Against Book Bans - May 29, 2026

Three federal book ban bills are currently alive in the United States Congress:

HR 7661

Status: Passed out of committee; to be introduced in the House Would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to prohibit federal funds from being used for any material deemed “sexually oriented.” Buried within that definition is language that includes material that “involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.” While framed as protecting children, the bill opens the door to banning books that include LGBTQ+ characters, defining trans existence as inherently inappropriate, and narrowing literature toward a prescribed, limited canon. In short: Would treat any LGBTQ+ identity as sexual content.

HR 2616

Status: Passed the House; referred to a Senate committee Would withhold ESEA funding from schools that “teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology,” using definitions from Executive Order 14168. It frames itself as protecting children. In practice, it represents another attempt to eliminate not only trans and nonbinary books, but also any acknowledgment of gender non‑conforming people in public education. In short: Would deny the existence of trans and nonbinary people.

HR 8705

Status: Passed out of committee; to be introduced in the House Rather than naming specific books or categories of literature, it blocks federal funding for American History and Civics Education from being used to promote what it calls “discriminatory equity ideology” or “gender ideology,” definitions drawn from a January 29, 2025 executive order. Likely impacts would include fewer books on racism and civil rights, less discussion of sexism and inequality, narrower civics curricula, and publishers pulling back on diverse perspectives. In short: A funding lever that shapes whose version of history gets taught.

HR 7661 and HR 8705 are still in the House, so please call your representative and tell them to oppose both bills. Click here to find the phone number of your representative’s office.