dude, wtf happened to nora vargas?

on homecomings & the ghosts that we pack away when your past has a zip code and a monthly fee

i am back writing on substack, y'all! today i wrote about the first time visiting my hometown in 3 years and confronting some things that await me here... hope this resonates:

Right now the prevailing ethos in DC is "Trump won so the law is immaterial and he can rule as dictator." He's not allowed to appoint his own FBI director, but everyone has decided to let him. He can't unilaterally create an agency for Elon Musk, but we're just going to treat it as real. Appalling.

Napoleon, December 3, 1812

Don't think we can ever criticize South Korea for being a reactionary right-wing democracy again when their people and legislature took this far more seriously than ours took January 6 and it wasn't even close.

paloma faith dominating my spotify wrapped yet again!

trump's fbi nominee just legit looks like a crazy dude, that official photo of him is hard to look at. lol. please stop showing it to me! it's so unsettling. he's looking right at me.

Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.

one of my iron clad beliefs is that there are very few actual “schemes” in the world. instead, there are just a lot of stupid, venal people and quite a few of them hold positions of real power and authority

on creating meaning in a chaotic world reflections on a queer puerto rican's evolving personal life philosophy

i've had this draft kicking around for months. finally let go of my perfectionism to post it. this is my attempt to put into words my values, my "life philosophy" - i'm not perfect, but then again... that's not the point.

www.eddyplolz.com/p/on-creatin...

amén

i’m sad that kamala lost because i genuinely think she would have been a good president. i think she would have done a good job.

Remember folks, as the holidays approach, do not ask people why they are not consuming alcohol and certainly do not force them to drink. It's none of your business to begin with and you can seriously harm people by pushing drinks on them.

i keep reading articles and interviews of the kamala advisers and these people have no fucking self-awareness. i feel like i have done more reflection in the aftermath of the results than them. i can’t fucking stand it, i’m fucking livid at all of them

i'm in a polyamorous relationship with my left and right hands

The fact that China doesn't like people switching to Bluesky seems like another sign that it's a great thing

I’ll continue posting about how AI is crappy and evil and hopefully it gives their product low self-esteem

happy birthday to my dad!

te amo un mundo, papi. 🥰

so here for it

this time of the morning is really my favorite. It’s still dark. It’s very quiet. No one needs anything from you. You can just lie still and let the dark and quiet consume you for an hour.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

i love being on blue sky because i am developing mutuals that i wish i had on twitter and it’s with very very smart and talented people, i really look forward to opening this app regularly

tell drake. i want him to know it was me. i played that shit 837283 times

hell of an endorsement of bluesky

I’ve created a Puerto Rican Studies starter pack to foster community in the cielos azules. Please share, join, and invite others!!! 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

go.bsky.app/42oxEXL

I am in a similar boat. i have known of the musical but have never seen it nor know much of it! looking forward to it ☺️

oh ryan. you have given me such beautiful peace of mind. i feel like i can enjoy this. and i LOVE bowen yang.

before i decide to care about wicked i need a key question answered

is fucking james corden involved in it?

please tell me he is not

i'm holding space for this *crassly grabs crotch*

like what did the interviewer mean by holding space with the lyrics?

i think it may have been better to say simply that people are identifying with the lyrics strongly, that they see themselves in it, that they connect, yada yada

how does "hold space" even convey any meaning here