One of the benefits of having the friends that I do is that I live in a constant state of humility re: this fact

✨💖THEY CAN PRY MY SPARKLE FROM MY COLD, DEAD, GLITTER COVERED HANDS!💖✨

This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?"

All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.

finally, a train we can hate

Melvil Dewey was a colossal jerk, so I sure hope not. He's really not worth remembering! I'd prefer to develop an alternative, such as "a collection of librarians"...(is this joke deliberately framed to find the real librarians in the room? perhaps!)

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

HOLY SHIT

FRINKIAC BUT FOR "30 ROCK"

MILLENNIAL GAME-CHANGER

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Sorry... you are telling me that during the run-up to the 2020 presidential election the Trump FBI hid the fact that it was actively investigating sitting president Trump for Child Rape?

Because that would appear to be what happened, and it appears also that the death of Epstein ended that probe...

SCREAMING THIS FROM THE FUCKING ROOFTOPS

lolita fashion is simply minmaxing the fucks you give.

minimize the fucks you give about what you are "supposed" to wear

maximize the fucks you give about coordinating down to the last detail

1000% this.

Every bit of attention and money she gets is used to advocate for real-world harm to people. There's no separating art from artist when they're still alive and using their wealth for ill.

Here's the thing about Harry Potter: the best thing about it was always the community. The shared delight, the communal game of pretend, the "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" aspects of the collective fannish language. And the community around the books is dead. JKR killed that completely.

Protecting women and girls my entire ass.

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist."

Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.

I don't really think your opinion on Harry Potter has any intrinsic moral valence, but c'mon, you should really not be giving Rowling money or attention if you care at all about trans rights, y'know? She's not an author with bad opinions, she's a full-time political activist who used to write books.

if you watch and support the new harry potter show you are funding trans genocide globally by the way

I'm helping! Subscribed tonight. (first time in a long time where I've kept hitting a paywall and gone "but i WANT to read that article", sale seemed like a good excuse.)

More:
- Tiffany Aching, Pratchett
- Prydain, Alexander (great as a pre-LOTR series imo)
- Dark Is Rising, Cooper
- His Dark Materials (hits real hard for weirdo smart kids)
- Graceling, Cashore (I mistakenly read them in order 1-3-2 and actually might recommend that)
- Queen’s Thief, Turner

Some YA fantasy authors who to my knowledge have never funded an attempted trans genocide:

Terry Pratchett
Diana Wynne-Jones
Garth Nix
Suzanne Collins
Susan Cooper
Phillip Pullman
Rick Riordan
Pierce Brown
Sheri S. Tepper
V. E. Schwab
Rachel Hartman
Alex Pheby
Alan Garner
Ursula Le Guin

And more!

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instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options.
For example, check out some of these writers:

Re: Potter: even if Joanne wasn’t a monster, you owe it to yourself to read a fantasy series that doesn’t end with the restoration of the institutional status quo, and that doesn’t treat the character who notices the flaws in the system like the midseries unlikeable gadfly Lisa Simpson

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

A strategy I am recommending to people who don’t want to mask all the time is always in healthcare facilities and public transportation, AND if you see someone in a mask, put yours on. The first helps protect spaces high risk people may have no choice but to go, the second shows them support.

The 49MB Web Page A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

these days, if an app doesn't let me tone down the notifications to a reasonable level, i simply do not give it permission to send any. the device exists to serve me, not any other person or company

built myself a nice spreadsheet and a buncha polls so my scavenger hunt team can run a tournament to name a printer. six ballots and a bracket

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This is why my family hasn’t bought any HP stuff in years. :( upsetting but important.

I could watch this all day