Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social She/Her that's where I'm at with it. 25+ years ago my dad was both a member of a Catholic organization with a Jerusalem cross logo, AND a cantor at a monthly Latin Mass, both of which were then primarily frequented by like grandmas. he would not do either of those things again. they are not for grandmas now 10:54 PM • Apr 20, 2026

This is basically what I’m saying. The meanings of things change over time and if you’re asking non-Christian people to trust you then you have to understand the broader implications of your choices.

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The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted”

But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian.

Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest

It’s a symbol of hate.

Frickin humans, right?

I, also, am exhausted after a day dealing with humans.

When a cat is sleepin' real hard and you pet her and she makes a little "activation noise" rt if you agree

Cover for the manga Assassination Classroom, volume 21. At the bottom is a silhouette of a dozen or more people beside a building, set against a starry sky taking up the upper half of the image. In the top right is a crescent moon facing down and to the left. Two stars brighter than the others are placed so with the moon they look like an almost upside down smiley face.

If there was any justice in the world that should’ve made you the coolest kid in school.

“I’m your Hucklebelly”

right? and? i could cycle it and get there faster. a marathon is designed to test human athletes. a machine moving faster than a person is irrelevant to literally anything. who cares.

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.

I have to go through a roundabout to/from work. It has 5 inputs/outputs. During rush hour it can take 30 minutes just to get into/out of it. Lots of accidents happen on all the adjacent streets.

That diagram being asymmetrical is making my eye twitch. WHY is there a cutout for a right turn at the bottom, but not at the top?!

I’m in Massachusetts. We’ve got roundabouts. I grew up here, and.. just no.

Diagram of a standard jughandle left turn scenario, with a blue arrow showing the path of cars making a left turn.

That was my confusion, at what point in the light cycle could you actually turn left? If the L/R traffic is stopped, there might be no room to turn left into.

I’d never heard that term used in traffic context before! I went and looked it up, the reverse jughandle looks like a great idea! (The standard jughandle confuses me though 😅)

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

79.9% as if this morning! I think… I think we can do this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

With 47 days left? I hope you’ve got some stretch goals planned! 😉

It’s not the singing that will make you smile…

Wait for it…

This is fucking terrible, why did it make me snort-laugh

Ok SFF people. Opinion time.

JUMPER by Steven Gould. About a kid who can teleport. Iirc there’s never an explanation about how he can teleport - he just can.

Science Fiction, or Fantasy?

Has anyone gotten the pope to say “Da Bears!” yet?

I agree that Star Trek is science fantasy! But they at least have technology for transporting, even if they don’t explain how the technology works. In JUMPER he just… does it. No tech, just poof, he’s somewhere else.

Ok SFF people. Opinion time.

JUMPER by Steven Gould. About a kid who can teleport. Iirc there’s never an explanation about how he can teleport - he just can.

Science Fiction, or Fantasy?

Thanks!

What model battery did you get, if you don’t mind my asking?

I truly hate when little Right Wing Hitler youth open their mouths and give opinions in their over sized fake glasses, that they think will make them seem smart ,on things they know nothing about.

But listen to a real farmer rip her apart.

This is fucking terrible, why did it make me snort-laugh

I *just* expressed disappointment that you wouldn’t be at Readercon!

John’s Brain, stop being mean to John!

Someone You Can Build a Nest In Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, a...

Hey, the audiobook of my Nebula-winning novel Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just SEVEN BUCKS! The deals lasts a while longer.

A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?

It’s even the exact copy that I put on the order list, back when I worked at that library 😉