With many immune diseases, you have to factor in progression, which makes it more confusing. I remember controlled HIV getting moved around risk categories for a minute.

It has more to do with how the CDC had to lump all immunocompromised people into one huge group in the early COVID days, when in fact there are many levels of being immunocompromised.

But that's religion and religion is stoopid /s

Man, the WWII generation dying off has been terrible for people's brains

Chaotic good

WHAT

I'm not sure if my plantar fasciitis joke will stand

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Not just trans women

"I demand trans people stop getting into the weeds about this or that study, state their principles clearly, and answer all the fundamental questions we have."

"Okay."

"Nooooooo that's not empirical!"

Transphobes reading Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virginia Woolf's Orlando with no sense of irony.

The Pamela Paul stuff is a window into how TER*Fism, despite being rather uncommon in the US compared to right-wing transphobia, has nonetheless infiltrated a lot of elite literary fiction cliques.

Yes, I know the literary/genre divide isn't real, but you know what I mean.

It feels like every online space for discussing literary fiction (as opposed to light or genre fiction) turns randomly, horribly transphobic. It's depressing.

Minnesota shape with those words on top

Drink more
MILK
Eat more
BUTTER
For your health &
PROSPERITY

HELP MY DUMB ASS WENT TO WORK 40 MINUTES EARLY

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Oh no, you don't have to imagine, MAGA rap is a real thing

They think MAGA rap will suffice.

Glad he is coming around

The most praised aspect of the series -- that it "grew up with its audience" -- is its downfall. The first three books have an appropriate balance of whimsy and stakes. Raising the stakes makes the whimsical elements of the setting look either ridiculous or sinister.

TAKE TWINSIES

Utah prison discriminated against transgender woman, Department of Justice finds The Utah Department of Corrections is under fire for discriminating against a transgender inmate who the U.S.

People want to rip on the Dems/biden for “not doing anything for trans people.” Fine. But understand the implications of this. SCOTUS has blessed it. And it means that if Biden is in power next year, they’re going to put the screws to red states over treatment of trans people

We forget how hegemonic Pottermania was in the early-mid 2010s. Hating on HP wasn't just uncouth, it was *right-wing* coded.

But I definitely had Potter fatigue by that point. There was so much pressure to like HP well into adulthood, and I had moved on. I didn't have the same sense of betrayal as others.

As a white American kid, I didn't have more insight than that until Rowling went TER*F and former fans with literature degrees started tearing the series apart looking for racism, antisemitism, etc.

The only political thing that bothered me from the very beginning was that squibs (as well as "uneducated" wizards like Arianna Dumbledore) are basically disabled; people with magical disabilities are treated like shit with no resolution.

My honest Harry Potter opinion is that the first three books are solid kid lit and there's a gradual drop of quality from there. Half-Blood Prince is BAD. As a kid, I gradually lost interest without being able to explain why.

I'm in gender trouble again (don't know how to relate to straight women when I'm a gay guy, a straight guy, and a lesbian in a trench coat)

One thing I've seen in postmotems of the midterms and special elections is that skilled GOP canvassers (a job that requires you to be both enthusiastic and presentable) have disappeared and I think this is going to be more of an issue in the general than people think.