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Tjiso

@tjiso

articles: 11
total claps: 25
top claps: 21
avg read: 3.5 min
paywalled: 5
active: 2025-11-23 → 2026-06-14

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#satire ·7 #fascism ·4 #donald-trump ·3 #surveillance ·3 #soylent-red ·2 #writing ·2 #authoritarianism ·2 #oppression ·2 #silence ·1 #monitoring ·1

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TJ Tjiso

On Cheesy Words and Other Dangerous Feelings

I have a problem with love, nice things, compliments, and all that soft stuff. Not with feeling them, but with writing them. Whenever I try…

Nov 23, 2025 · 5 min read · 21 claps #love #writing #feelings

On Cheesy Words and Other Dangerous Feelings

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The cadence that gives AI away

He first noticed it in texts that were otherwise unremarkable.

Apr 26, 2026 · 1 min read · 4 claps paywalled #ai #writing #chatgpt

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The Presidential Fabulist

From half a distance, Donald Trump keeps fascinating me. Frightening me mostly, to be honest, but there is also fascination about how he…

Jun 10, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #donald-trump #fear #fabulism

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Title 15, Section 45(c)

All these lofty slogans about freedom of speech were just a spectacle, she concluded. They must all have permits… or there was — her brain…

Jun 07, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #oppression #surveillance #fascism

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Chapter 4: The Most Balanced System There Is

Together they walked inland. An odd pair. Babe kept half a step behind Double Ception, unsure whether she was a guest, a prisoner, a meal…

May 04, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #democracy #satire #authoritarianism

Chapter 4: The Most Balanced System There Is

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The Bleach in the Machine

Feeling the weight of loss, she pressed on, hiding her emotions from Double Ception by idling in his trail. Following the rails, they…

May 30, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #schools #satire #politics

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Chapter 5: Mandatory Fashion

And silence lingered on as Babe tried to grasp what now was becoming clear to her — standing out was nothing that would go down favorably…

May 11, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #satire #donald-trump #silence

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Chapter 3: Double Ception

The inland road twisted like a ribbon of question marks, leading Babe past fields left to wither. The crops drooped and rotted in pitiful…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps paywalled #satire #burocracy #surveillance

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Just a Bit of Filing

Down the street came a man. Cheerful, Babe thought, almost out of place here… correction: completely out of place. What is going on? Their…

Jun 14, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #spanish-inquisition #terrorism #peace

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Comfort Guaranteed

With a peculiar, almost musical cadence still echoing in their stride, they reached a ridge where the road bent downward. From there, Babe…

May 21, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #political-satire #holocaust #deportations

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Yond Cassius

She looked up and saw the multicolored side jerk violently, straining against its gag, while the other side only clamped down harder. “Very…

May 15, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps paywalled #satire #shakespeare #authoritarianism