Prickly Bits

Feb 4, 2025

Updated: May 5, 2025

I’m a nice guy, really, I am.
… until you push the motherfucker button.

Herewith, for your entertainment and warning, a bullet list of my motherfucker buttons. These are merely summary statements; as you go digging (and I write), much more detail will come to light.

• Speaking bluntly, I’m something of a bigot when it comes to hypocritical Christianity – particularly conservative, evangelical types of hypocritical Christianity.
  This is largely because sociopaths identifying as “Christians” have been beating me down pretty much my entire life. To hear it told, Jesus is light and love, but you sure as hell can’t tell that from looking at or listening to the most visible/verbal examples of the genre – and as if that weren’t bad enough, the rest of you Christians almost universally refuse to shut down your worst actors.
  (Don’t even get me started on the raging hypocrisy of the prosperity gospel movement.)
• I have very little patience for political naivite, and for those people who combine it with an ignorance of American history, political history, and/or human sociological behavior.
  The current situation did not coalesce as the result of a single Presidency, it’s the culmination of 250 years of history, and the past 60 years in particular – and it’s not going to be fixed by a single Presidential term, a single President, or realistically, even within your lifetime. Get your head out of your ass and think bigger than the current-circumstance-butthurt reflection in your mirror.
• Gatekeeping within the LGBTQ community is an item of particular annoyance.
  There is no single, right way to be gay, and furthermore, being exclusionary towards bisexual, transsexual, and queer identities when you yourself as a gay person were receiving the same sort of socially structured exclusion here as recently as 10 years ago is a fucking ugly look. Knock it the hell off.
• If you’re going to come at me, do the damn homework.
  Seriously, if you are going to come at me for friendship or to propose something more, don’t be coming at me like you’ve never crossed paths with my existence, particularly if you’re coming at me on Facebook. Read my timeline there, read this website, then come at me in a manner that clearly indicates you’ve done one or the other. Asking me what my name is or any other question brazenly obvious to the most casual research will make you look like a scambot and get you blocked almost immediately.
  Above all else, remember: I am far, far more than my pictures and your fantasies, and I have a life outside my bedroom. I expect that reality to be acknowledged.
• Vaccines save lives, you motherfuckers.
  Yes, there are a few people for whom they cause potentially life-threatening problems but in total those people number in the overwhelmingly insignificant statistical minority – and those people need to be able to rely on herd immunity. As for the rest of you, I know you don’t like to be uncomfortable and told to suck it up, but trust me, sweetie – getting vaccinated and possibly living for a few days with minor reactions is a better alternative than being dead. Do you really need this explained to you?
  What’s that? You did the research? Listen, bub: unless you’re a trained, published epidemiologist and/or pharmacologist, your few minutes of haphazard, wildly biased “research” in an unjuried, open-access, unmoderated Internet do NOT bear ANY credibility against the years of meticulous training and accumulated experience represented by the professionals in those fields. This is one case where your self-important, self-absorbed armchair quarterbacking can kill people – possibly even people you know.
  Finally, if you take medical advice from a fucking politician or a talking head on the TV, you’re already committing suicide. Thanks for leaving the rest of us to explain your stupidity to your children.
• Living in abject fear of change is a monumental mistake with devastating results for yourself and those around you.
  You do not live in a bubble. The world and everything in it is in a constant state of change. Refusing to acknowledge and cope with that fundamental fact of existence only ultimately makes your fear and discomfort much, much worse. As you walk through the world on a path paved with the consequences of your actions, inactions, thoughts, beliefs, and interactions with others, you don’t just cause ripple effects; you cause a fucking maelstrom.
  Make it a good one.

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