adam

@karlbarx.bsky.social

32 / they/them / nonbinary / autistic / communist / library enthusiast / plant grower 📍Detroit

i'm not a big texter because after i've said "lol" "haha" and "lmao" once each then I have to stop the conversation immediately as i can no longer react to anything

age of empires iv is my favorite kind of video game: the kind that has me pausing the video game to look up the history of the domestication of horses

im not saying you have to indulge any of the more toxic shit these guys often believe, but i think offering them another explanation for their feelings of alienation without dismissiveness and vitriol is pretty important if you want to win them over

if one side is telling them "your perception is false, things are fine" and the other side is validating their feelings but blaming women, poor people and minorities for them, which side do you think they're gonna go to

I really prefer Storygraph to Goodreads, but I miss all my Goodreads friends. If you're on Storygraph, follow me, I'm karlbarx! 💙📚

I had no idea that Paul Stamets from Star Trek: Discovery was named after a real mycologist. I just saw a reference to the real Paul Stamets while reading Tao Orion's Beyond the War on Invasive Species (great book btw) 🌱 💙📚

Sometimes you’re about to go to sleep but then you have no choice but to sit up reading the Wikipedia pages of all the defunct department stores from when you were a kid