Oh FFS. 🤦
Maybe NIMBYism will save us all…
Posts by Alison Fincher
Would someone have had them posthumously baptized and replaced their headstone? Dunno if you’re Mormon and/or already know this, but Mormons do posthumous baptism—not sure about replacing headstones, though.
Romeo + Juliet wasn’t even on the list! Neither was Bride and Prejudice! 😱
😱 Baz Luhrman wasn’t even on the list! I didn’t think about it!!
(Why TF does Faramir take Frodo to Osgiliath? It's not like Peter Jackson needed filler material?! Totally out of character for Faramir.)
The correct answer, The Muppet Christmas Carol, was eliminated in favor of Clueless two rounds ago.
As much as I love RoTK, there is no reason it belongs in the finals. It is a great movie, but it's neither sufficiently faithful to the source nor a sufficiently creative adaptation to qualify.
You are gonna want to stop whatever you are doing and watch this, until the end.
As is tradition, the second movie finds a way to make Godzilla the good guy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ND...
Oh no! It didn’t?!
Well… we bought a lot of back issues, at least. 🫠
Does it need lots of pictures? We love the journal Lapham’s Quarterly, but it really is more of a journal.
I use genderqueer for something like your “definitely not what I was assigned at birth”. For me personally it feels less like a journey than a gradual discovery of what had always been true but I lacked vocabulary for.
I don’t know why I balk at non-binary; I just doesn’t seem right.
I switched my Bluesky viewing mode to mutuals a week ago, and my experience has improved 100%.
10/10 would recommend.
(I do run an activist account and get a curated set of political news that way, which I appreciate. But actually interacting with the people I want to interact with? Amazing!)
All this talk about the automatic draft reminds me of the time the DMV got my gender wrong when I moved.
I received a threatening letter from the selective service because I was a 25yo "man" who had never registered.
In retrospect, maybe personal growth gender foreshadowing. 😅
Brought to you by the same folks who have been claiming for 20 years that Millennials don't want to buy houses because renting gives us so much more flexibility to live the easy, breezy lifestyles we crave. 🙄
A clip from the cover of a Japanese edition of How Do You Live? featuring a young man in glasses and a casual kimono looking determinedly above the horizon. The clip includes the text "Japanese Writers Standing Up to the State" and "RJL Episode 43".
Happy birthday to anti-fascist, humanist writer Genzaburo Yoshino, born this day in 1899.
His most famous work, the novel How Do You Live?, is as salient today as it has ever been.
You can learn more about Yoshino and his novel with the RJL podcast.
readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Epis...
This was me just last night.
It’s not on the top of many people’s lists, but it really is something of a hidden gem.
Sounds like you may be too busy, but DM me if you’d like a local to buy you a cup of tea!
“Researchers expected… those who supported the tradwife movement to have paternalistic attitudes toward women, viewing them as fragile but beloved creatures... Instead, they discovered pro-tradwife men expressed a hostile form of sexism, calling women who submitted to men lazy and parasitic.”
Oooh! Okay. Mine is way newer than that. 😅
Sorry you’re losing your Kinde, though!
They said what?! I haven’t heard anything about that!
A chat with Zoom's AI companion: Me: How do I disable AI companion? AI Companion: I can help you disable AI Companion. Would you like me to turn it off for you now? Alternatively, if you'd prefer to manage your Zoom settings yourself, you can explore various feature categories and adjust them based on your preferences through your Zoom settings. Me: Yes. Please disable AI companion. AI Companion: I apologize, but I'm unable to disable AI Companion through my current capabilities - this setting is not supported at this time through my interface. To disable AI Companion, you'll need to: Go to your Zoom settings directly (via the Zoom app or web portal) Navigate to the AI Companion settings section Toggle the feature off manually Alternatively, you can contact Zoom support for assistance with disabling this feature.
Fucking AI companions.
New Zoom features SUCK.
A reminder: No one has to obey orders to commit war crimes.
If you're in a position to refuse, please consider reaching out for help.
You can reach the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487.
girightshotline.org
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social
@slotkin.senate.gov
@deluzio.house.gov
@goodlander.house.gov
Countdown—14 more days to register to vote before the primaries!
My 11yo has lost so much joy for school this year, mostly because of classes that have insisted on the inclusion of AI tech.
Depluralize a movie:
Man in Black—but I suppose that one already exists