From the Sun (a #ShortStory)

First thing he noticed 

when a headache woke him

was that he was awake.

Grabbing the ladder 

to climb down from his bed,

he noticed something missing:

the ring finger from his left hand.

It wasn't really missing 

but it shouldn't be lying on the floor,

not attached to his hand.

For later concern.

Before waking up the crew

and have them open the pods,

he first wanted to determine 

if they had succeeded.

After his kind had ruined 

their home planet,

they had recruited the best, the brightest and the wealthiest 

to try again at a nearby planet.

This one was chosen 

for several reasons.

One of it being very compatible 

because it was 

the third one 

from the Sun

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When did you choose to be straight?

Early nineties I worked for a local branch of the Dutch equal rights organisation for gay people. In the sense of 'homosexual', not as in the meaning of 'happy'. In the days 'the community' did not entail half the alphabet. We only knew gay, straight, bisexual. It was even before lesbians apparently weren't considered homosexual anymore and politicians as well as the press started to say 'lesbians and homosexuals'. 

I helped them to strive for equal rights. So we had a party to celebrate the fact that clubs got fined for throwing out homosexual couples for dancing. We cheered and I quit when homosexual men and women finally got the right to marry someone of the same sex. 

It's a common misconsception that because I worked for an organisation supporting gay rights, therefore I must be gay. Weird, really. 

Do people think you have to be a woman to support women's rights, a slave to want slaves to be free, over 65 to work in an old folks home or a light bulb to work for Philips?

According to this dumb right logic that you can't have an opinion on zionism if you're not Jewish or have to be black to support the BLM movement, they are all a small puddle of dirty oil because they support Shell and Exxon Mobil.

It's impossible to have a normal, adult conversation with wappies, so you have to ask them really simple questions their tiny brains can handle. Like: When did you choose to become straight?

"Yeah, but you suddenly see a lot more of those people and it scares me!" Why? Because other groups of people finally get the same rights as you have, doesn't mean those rights are taken away from you. 

Terrified a gay or trans person may hurt your child? Better warn them for Republican congressmen calling themselves 'christian'. Like Justin Eichhorn. "Yeah, but he was just an expection! Christians would never solicit a minor or sexually assault someone! Let alone when they're married." Nope. There's also Mark Foley, Robert Bauman, Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump...the list of sexually abusive christian Republicans is long. Really, really long. 

I don't care that Lindsey Graham is gay and known to male sexworkers as Lady G. I do care he wants to make life miserable for those who chose to come out of the closet and don't want to hide their feelings. 

"Yeah, but homosexuality is wrong because it says so in the Bible!"

If you really follow the Bible - as you claim to do - how many Evangelicals and politicians have you executed for misquoting a Bible verse? After all: the Bible clearly states: "Anyone who speaks a lie in the name of the Lord must be put to death". 

At least the worldwide average IQ would rise if everyone stating homosexuals go to hell 'because that's in the Bible!' would really get executed as the Bible says they should. 

Do you think: "Every homosexual goes to hell!" is in the Bible? Name Chapter and Verse. If not, you're lying and should be put to death. Zechariah 13:3.

"Thy shalt not be homosexual" is not in the Ten Commandments. Adultery is and so is lying, stealing, worshipping of idols... Which makes me think: If evangelicals worship Jesus (or Trump for that matter) they are actually doing something that's against God's wishes as He published in those stone tablets.

Gender fluid and homosexual people have always existed. But had to hide in the elderly MAGA woman's days. Because of her bigotry, stupidity and fear. Only since recently LHGBTQIA+ people are starting to feel safer showing who they are.

If bigots have the right to get married, why shouldn't homosexuals?

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Stalker (a #ShortStory)

I have a stalker!

O, that's serious! Are you sure 

and do you perhaps have a picture of him 

so the police can be on the lookout for him?

Yes. I have over 300 pictures of him

and especially got a zoomlens for my camera.

I'll show you.

Here he is on the corner of the street.

Here he is sitting in his living room.

Here he is brushing his teeth in the bathroom.

I checked the nameplate on his door

and found out where he works.

So here he is parking his car at work.

Here he is sitting behind his desk

and here he is picking his daughter up from hockey practice.

Of course I looked him up on social media

and discovered he follows dozens of women.

Even men.

I'm terrified!

Do you think he is the stalker?

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"He never thanked us once!"

A standard tactic of fascists is lying. A lot. Because simple minded people believe anything if they hear it often enough. 

Like when they stated President Zelensky not once thanked them for their (financial and military) help in Ukraine's fight against a fascist dictator who attacked Ukraine with brute force. And violated at least two dozen ceasefire agreements. 

In the fascist's defense (I'm defending fascists. Please don't tell my grandmother and mother and her brothers who survived a Japanese prison camp): Zelensky did indeed not say thank you once. But at least 33 times. 

"But you can't call fascists fascists because that will make the poor snowflakes cry!" I will stop calling fascists fascists as soon as all fascists have stopped being fascists, okay?

The Musk* Regime (aka 'The Trump Government') is a Mafia Familia. With an actual Don at the head of the table but secretly his consiglieri (an illegal, African immigrant) holding the reigns and doing the bidding of the largest Mafia Familia on the planet: the Kremlin with all its olicharchs (or however you spell that. Am a bit p1ssed off so f*ck spelling) and their tech bro buddies and big land owners, aka 'Big Agro'. 

*Edit: when I wrote this. Elon wasn't forced out from being one of the regime's minions

"You're just jealous of Elon Musk because he's rich!" Is he, really?

If I have 2000 and at the end of the month I have 200; I know 1800 went to the housing-, a telecom- and an insurance company, the supermarket and that nice guy from the falafel shop at the end of my street. When Musk recently lost billions...who has all that money now?

"Pay us 20% of your turnover and give our friend Vlad access to all your resources. Or else. It would be a shame if something happened to your nice country. Did I tell you we have nukes?" It's simply an attempted (because Z is having none of it) shakedown. Like in the kindergarten school yard: "Gimme your lunch money or my big friend behind you will give you a wedgie." 

Mob enforcer JD Vance (pseudonym for John Bowman) threatened Greenland: "Give my boss all your land and resources or else!" and showed no respect. He could have at least worn a suit, right?

Has Vance actually said 'Thank you' to the people of Greenland?

Any sane person stands with the oppressed and attacked, never with the bullies and fascists. And there's no guarantee Count Vlad will stop his quest for more Lebensraum to create his Thousand Year Empire, filled with only Übermenschen and imposes a policy of Blut und Boden (just like Mr. Mileikowsky in the Middle East), once Ukraine has fallen. 

So in a way I'm grateful to Krasnov (Trump) and Bowman (who later started to call himself Vance. But weirdly enough demands people should always use their birthname. Calling people by a later chosen name is woke and therefore bad. So people calling Mr. Bowman 'JD Vance' are woke) for getting the leaders of Europe forget about their quarrels and unite against the agressor. 

I don't like fascists very much. You may have guessed. 

If you like fascism, can you explain to sane people why you do that? You can answer that question anonymously. Which should be no problem since you already barf your fascist nonsense anonymously all over social media.

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Antisemites

Wappies really seem a different kind of hominim. While the Homo Sapiens Sapiens evolved to beings who can think for themselves, the Homo Lunatic Ludicrous got stuck in the time of the Neanderthaler: terrified of anything they can't understand. Which makes them easy targets for populists that tell them they will be alright as long as they do exactly as the populist tells them to do. According to the principle of 'Trust me, bro!'

It's why they trust websites with words like 'truth' and 'natural' in them over medical science. 

In wappies' defence: cancer, corona, autism, air pollution - or whatever is trending on social media - can't hurt corpses. So wappies should keep on using ivermectin, inject themselves with bleach, cover their heads with Anti 5G radiation blankets, drink pine tea to combat kidney failure or whatever their favourite fake doctor tells them they should do. 

More often then not, the 'Oh no, chemtrails!' and 'The government and scientists lie to us!' people are led to believe fascism is the best form of government. Because they want a single strong leader to lead them into thinking the solution to all of their problems and cause of all their fears is something unknown. In general: people who don't act and look like them: witches, gypsies, communists, freemasons, Jews, arabs, homosexuals, people of colour, refugees...everyone who seems foreign to them. 

Tell them these elusive 'foreigners' are to blame and they are like putty in your hands. Not long ago they used to be against Jews and Dutch wappies even fought alongside the nazis to rid the world of Jews and other Untermenschen. 

But geopolitics shifted so now that same kind of people want to rid the world of arabs 'because arabs are anti-jew!' Only because their 'strong man' (right wing populair men and women) didn't tell them that arabs are semites too. 

Personally I take great pleasure in watching their eyes turn wildly in despair if I confront wappies with simple facts like these: if being anti-Netanyahu makes one an antisemite 'because he's Jewish!', you're an antisemite if you're anti-Soros. 

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Unconscious (a #poem)

My heart weeps 

for the children lost 

in war and peace

in famine and prosperity,

in ignorance and knowing 

in fighting and in hoping.

Their choices have been stolen 

their voices left and frozen 

Crying without tears 

living with only fears

Waiting for the bombs to drop 

wishing for the pain to stop 

We should be their conscience 

not act like we're unconscious 

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It all adds up

On a regular basis, questions like these pop up in my social media feed:

In my head 48 gets written beneath 27. So I add 40+20=60. That leaves 8+7=15. Those numbers go under eachother again. 60+10=70; 0+5=5. Put the last number under the previous one again and you get: 70+5=75. Tadaa! Goes a bit faster if you don't think about it and just add 27+48=75. Or 30+50=80; 3+2=5. Substract that outcome from the previous one and you get 75.

Tip for those who find adding up difficult: play darts. It helps because you have to make quick calculations if you don't want your opponent to get bored and leave the match (and the bar) without buying you a beer. 

How do you add up numbers?

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