Rebellum

my network of child urchin spies has informed me that there was a big blue bird and it could talk and it was a princess and it came and took one hundred bread loaves up to its crystal house made of pink and blue crystals and when the baker tried to arrest it it ate him and then it started raining and the dog with three legs bit a guy and when he screamed he farted.

but perhaps I have some news that will interest you. my whisper network of urchin child spies reports rumors of a lovely young princess, so beautiful that it’s a curse, with purple eyes and long black hair down to her knees with natural purple streaks in it… they say she can talk to wolves and even turn into a mermaid… a worthy bride such a one would make! with a queen like that at your side, you would be a living legend.

I WILL calmly and kindly try to help anyone who is afraid of bugs. I will show them my finds, i will explain their importance, i will tell them just how sweet and gentle and friendly they are. And I WILL shoot down any immature loser who believes senseless killing is the only possible response to not liking something.

Get woke. Love bugs.

I used to work at a TV station in Ohio. On weekends, we only had an 11pm news broadcast. Not much happened on weekends, ya know? I worked Monday-Friday 9-5, but someone on the weekend shift quit, so I also had to come in at 9pm on Sat/Sun to work the 11pm news. It was brutal. I worked seven days a week, even if two of them were ~3hrs.

This was a particularly bad winter. One Saturday, we had a level 2 snow emergency: That means you should only travel if you absolutely must. Like, it's not uncommon for cops to pull you over in level 2 emergencies to ask where you're going and why. It is genuinely dangerous to drive in that much snow.

I told my boss as much, how I almost crashed on the way home at 12:30am after a news broadcast. I told him I would need to call off if there were a snow emergency again during a night snow.

He told me, point blank, "If you ever call me about the goddamn snow, I will take it as a call of resignation."

And that was that! The very next Saturday, snow fell again. It was a level 2, but would become level 3 by sunup. Level 3 means driving is literally illegal except for ambulances and snow plows. I stared out the window, watching the snow, and I had to make a choice.

"Will I die for this? Will I kill myself to keep this job?" I made $11/hr.

Nearly three years after Saskatchewan’s pronoun law came into effect, LGBTQ+ groups and the province’s Opposition are warning of its consequences. “We see concerns about incidents of discrimination going up,” NDP Leader Carla Beck said at a news conference Thursday. “People (are) scared to talk about issues that would make students feel loved and seen and accepted.” In August 2023, Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government imposed rules that require parental consent for children under 16 to change their names or pronouns at school.

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