Sherlock Holmes Is Finally Free To Be Gay I recently watched the utterly ridonkulous TV show Young Sherlock, which takes some delightfully strange liberties with the character of Sherlock Holmes....

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.

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Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

Guy in the coffeehouse complimented my knitting and it turns out he knows how to knit (!) because a bunch of elder gay men in a Seattle coffeehouse adopted him and taught him how and that just sounds like the most impossibly charmed life.

My almost grandmother (my grandfather’s fiancé’s)!was a war veteran nurse who died of the flu while serving.

It would be cool to live day to day and not be stressed about the world at large

This is excuses for a lotta evil out there

I mean I guess we should be calling it Trump's illegal war

I know its a mouthful but

Screenshot of law and order svu scene with z folder on desk labeled “Epstein.”

🧐

Basket of picked green beans in the middle of the field for workers are harvesting

"Adan" shared this photo from the Coachella CA where hes picking green beans. "I get paid 40 cents per pound. The work is exhausting - especially due to the excessive heat in the area. But this is how I support my family." #WeFeedYou

Keep thinking of the forever war episodes.

Turns out what we we want our leaders to be who are POC of 2 different religions singing wheels on the bus

(A woman would be great too but y’know it’s a start)

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

91% ?!?!?

go fucking team.

Makes it easy to tell.

I’m not nearly popular enough to get any of than on Substack. But I’m pretty sure I’m getting AI on Wordpress bc of the number of foreign sites. So I’m feeling a little like I can’t win right now. (I write liberal contemporary prayers. So only a minor number of ppl care about that stuff.

Whyyyyy

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Fridays are particularly bad for the admin knows everyone is going home and the business offices are close so they misbehave thw most Friday…sigh

I keep Wordpress bc I want somewhere less evil.

I feel stuck on Substack TBH

Thw click thru rate is terrible and I think their searches are not showing up very well even tho I keyword stuff

Right for what I do (a niche thing) so yeah

And no one is opening the newsletter from it at all so. That is Also a prob. Basically I moved to Substack when it was dying. But it was revealed to be evil almost immediately so I’ve been doing a side by side comparison pub on both for maybe 2 years now? Bc other options I’ve explored look not

Some of it is traceable to the death of twitter but some of it isnt. So yeah.

Even when I post it on other platforms ppl don’t click thru anymore.

Ummmm. Well whenever I publish no one is looking at it anywhere and thw searches are mostly showing up in other countries. So for me it isn’t working anymore I used to average hundreds of views to thousands a week.

Thank you. Ian too exhausted to move all the time Wordpress died and now I’m on Substack too. But I’m afraid as soon as I move there will be problems there.

go go go go go

28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.” The central premise of our state’s equal protection guarantee “is that persons similarly situated with respect to a legitimate governmental purpose of the law must receive like treatment.” Goble v. Mont. State Fund, 2014 MT 99, ¶ 28, 374 Mont. 453, 325 P.3d 1211 (quoting Rausch v. State Comp. Ins. Fund, 2005 MT 140, ¶ 18, 327 Mont. 272, 114 P.3d 192). We apply a three-step analysis to equal protection claims based on a suspect class: we “(1) identify the classes involved and determine if they are similarly situated; (2) determine

6. The court also went a step further. The Montana court separately declared that trans people constitute a suspect class. In legal terms, a suspect class is a group that has faced such severe discrimination that any law targeting them must meet the highest level of judicial scrutiny to survive.