Ask me how long ago Fandom and Male Privilege was. Oy.

Just once, it would be nice to say, "Wow, things have really improved in the last 20 years."

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a blog post about rape and men, calling on men to DO SOMETHING about rape culture. It kinda sorta exploded. Today, I read about a website that teaches men to drug their partners so they can rape them. 62M views in a month.

Kittens are God's most perfect creatures.

Walking Dunning-Kruger Effect.

I thought dental surgery was the one place left where they'd actually treat pain. But apparently, I was wrong.

Just told my dental surgeon I was in "quite a bit" of pain from surgery this afternoon. "Well, that should be clearing up soon." Jesus.

I'm in the market for a french-door refrigerator (two top fridge doors with a bottom freezer drawer) with an ice/water dispenser. Anyone have one that they just love?

What the *actual* fuck?

Why do candy companies make lollipops too large for a typical mouth? I don't mean the comically large kind. I mean the fancy flavors ones that are like a quarter inch too big across to fit comfortably. They are delicious, but a PITA to consume.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0067
Not the greatest, but I only missed a few, which, considering how bad my general eyesight is, is saying something.

I've been waiting to see if any of the people who clutched their pearls when I said I wasn't sorry - not glad, just not sorry - when Limbaugh died would respond to Trump. The crickets came early this year.

"Earthquake Weather." You can find the lyrics here: seananmcguire.com/songbook.php... It's one of my favorites of hers, and that's saying something.

I'm glad you like it! Like I said, I really love that song.

New ink. @seananmcguire.bsky.social , you might recognize the inspiration. Possibly I listen to that song a lot.

Memories! I always said that Tab didn't taste that bad if you didn't expect it to taste like Coke and just expected it to taste like itself. Possibly I was brainwashed.

*Waves* Hey, all. Haven't been around much, but I'm going to make an effort to change that this semester.

Love it! I love the Glinda of the books!

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

I was *vibrating* with rage, earlier, klia. *Vibrating.*

Take a job with the federal government, they said.* They pay is so-so, but you'll have job security, they said.

*To my spouse, not me. I'm a college professor, so I'm all good, she said with a vaguely hysterical laugh.

Pope rebukes Trump administration over migrant deportations, and appears to take direct aim at Vance Pope Francis has issued a major rebuke to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants. He warned that the program to forcefully deport people purely because of their illegal status deprive...

Aw, yeah.
apnews.com/article/pope...

Saute tons of chopped garlic in butter, add canned tuna, add white wine (there are lots of good cheap brands) and lemon juice (bottled is fine). Reduce liquid a lot, add cooked pasta. Parmesan tasty but not required. I can adjust amounts to get the right number of servings.

When did people start using "whenever" in places where they mean "when"? Like, "Whenever that story came out, everyone was surprised by what it said." I keep hearing it, mostly in documentaries, but sometimes from my students. Is it a regionalism that spread?

What is being done? Absolutely nothing. I do know some walk-in bosses who are trying to allay fears, but they don't know what the hell is going on any better than anyone else.

White House tells federal workers they can quit now, get paid through September The email is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.

Fuck. That. Noise.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Just got a message that a kid brought a gun to my kid's school today. He was caught by the preventative measures, and arrested, so the system worked as it should have. And now I'm just going to quietly freak out that we need those systems in the first place.

Paranosmia: when just reading about someone eating sauerkraut makes you smell it for four hours. It's a good thing I like sauerkraut.

I have watched hundreds of Progressive Insurance commercials starring Flo and company, and it wasn't until today that I wondered why insurance agents need to wear aprons.

Took advantage of early voting today. I get anxious that something will happen on election day, so most years, I vote early. Vote Blue!