"Please"
Vignette: "Please," written August 5, 2026.
Musings, stories, political thoughts, and other assorted words written by Joshua Meadows.
Vignette: "Please," written August 5, 2026.
When you throw the more vulnerable under the bus, you don't get to insist you're still on the same side. And when you're not on the same side, you don't get to dictate the terms on which the people actually under threat get to be angry and fight back.
Vignette: “Verbatim,” originally written June 25, 2026.
Vignette: “Keeper,” originally written May 23, 2026.
I beg of Labor, at all levels of government, to give the country something better and more optimistic than "it could always get worse."
Despite not spending any money on it, a week in I'm finding myself playing several hours a day and have become invested enough in the story to want to see how it progresses.
In a perfect world, sexuality would be irrelevant and straight people could do gay roles without issue or judgement — but the reverse is not the case, and in many professional realms someone coming out as queer is detrimental to their careers.
Assimilationist queers are not a new thing, and every oppressed minority has its own flavour of folks who think appeasement and ass-kissing is the best way to save their own necks.
The right is lamenting that there will never be another person like Charlie Kirk again — we can only hope.
Vignette: "Link," originally written July 21, 2025.