We are occasionally too hard on straight people as political actors.

I'm still thinking about how a journalist posted something and worded it so poorly that he called something abusive non-abusive, then instead of just correcting it initiated a self-fatwa and proceeded to say everyone who noticed his poor wording is who is really ruining everything. 🧵

sure seems like a lot of the "Bluesky hates me, history's most tragic victim. I cannot stay, I must away!" people are dudes who just experienced 10 minutes of about ~20% of what any woman online anywhere gets full-time

I am so unbelievably tired of cishet centrists and libs responding to criticism from queer people with doubling down and thinly veiled homo- and transphobia so that they can feel like a victim.

A) people are shooting the messenger here B) his phrasing makes misinterpretation possible C) people describing this as a unique Bluesky experience or "Twitter is better" are delusional

Tormenting vulnerable children: protected speech Writing a book about being queer: dangerous, criminal

SCOTUS basically saying you have a legal right to terrorize and abuse children so long as you dont leave a mark, and further, it's discrimination to say otherwise, and way too many cishets saying "oh that's reasonable" I see you.

stop showing me cis people saying it's not that bad and to calm down :) are you people fucking stupid

That second Reviver disc from Vinegar Syndrome is a great buy. Two fantastic looking, fun mid-century horror films.

Kinda disappointed Robert Winston didn't seem to make many movies because I am a simple man.

Straight People, do not read the next post. Seriously.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

The president is a rapist pedophile

probably more people will be blocking attie than ICE by the end of the day tomorrow.

One day maybe they’ll ask me to do a Conan one-shot or mini series. Would you read that?

Demons aren't real...with the sole exception of the Folkloric Devil. Just one satanic entity traveling the backroads, constantly getting out-witted by bumpkins, an inexhaustible supply of golden fiddles to give away, occasionally scaring one haughty girl at a barn dance.

I am watching the Jack Black/Paul Rudd ANACONDA and it's not, technically, the worst film I've watched in...about a decade, but I've watched several Chinese giant snake movies that were lousy and this is so much incredibly worse than any of those.

Weekend Haul

Saw some anti-ICE billboards in Orange County that all took the teal that it was a corrupt, fraud-ridden waste of tax money and A) way to know your audience and B) whatever it takes.

90% of this account is just spamming the replies of trans people calling out how this is a blatant misrepresentation of what the AMA said, and they've been doing it for weeks. You know this person is a true believer.

As of 1:30, I think we're done. There just isn't much there that I cant get elsewhere for either less or without being jostled by people, and with my no fan art rule not a lot in Artist Alley for me.

Most of this morning was Artist Alley, where I didn't spend much as I'm trying to avoid fan art as much as possible (a Donald Keychain and Paddington print notwithstanding) SO MUCH KPop Demon Hunters... Stickers and charms seem to be the sales items of choice, lots of small bags, notebooks, notepads

TFW you really hope that family you saw in the lobby wearing identical hats were some kind of Star Trek Wars thing you don't recognize and not the Confederate caps they really really really look like at first glance.

I *might* have squealed a bit when I pulled a Rodan out of the Godzilla Ramen blind boxes...

In something that I am sure is not an economic indicator, WonderCon had a significant amount of empty floorspace, and many booths were clearly carrying a smaller selection of merchandise. Plus side, fewer obviously drop-shipped knock-offs than usual floating around.

Ban all gambling not directly overseen by Oryu, the Red Peony

"Gavin Newsome isn't making homophobic jokes, it's his social media manager!"

The Atlantic in 2024: "Arrest all these student protesters!" The Atlantic in 2026:

No one is complaining about the office football pool, people are complaining specifically about predatory companies targeting young men with 24/7 access to pools that are literally being exploited by government agents waging a war and how seemingly every company is rushing to embrace this for $.

"We are tired of remakes and IP films! Hollywood needs to give us new, original ideas, things we've never seen before!" "Here's a movie about mystery solving sheep."* "No not like that." *yes, I know it's based on a book series

Mail Day

There is literally nothing in the Harry Potter series that isn't in Terry Pratchett books, but better. Magic school? Yes. YA protagonists that age and grow? Yes. Absurd situations parodying other genre works? Yes. Plus, as a bonus, they're good and have actually strong moral arguments.

Are the dogs okay?

So the Stan girlies have shown that a lot of the accounts that are posting this weird Chappell Roan made an 11 year old girl cry were also used in the Blake Lively/ Amber Heard smear campaigns and considering she just ditched an agent for being in the Epstein files- I’m with them

I had action figures of these dudes when the film came out. And even I dont want these.

in woke 2, we're abolishing cynically invoking wokeness to punch left

"There's no left-liberal coalition!" and their definition of the left is Elizabeth Warren...

Uncanny. The only way to tell them apart is that Patrick Bateman has killed fewer homeless people

I keep seeing DoomPosts from people outside California about the governor race, and they all miss the real issue, which is that if you live in CA right now you're not paying attention to the governor race because Feds and local politics are sucking up all the oxygen.

People are dunking on this, but if austerity-minded budget scolds get concentration camps shut down, I'm okay with that.

At a concert and almost made a snarky comment about someone's grandpa wearing a Dead Kennedys shirt before realizing that dude is probably my age.

Too many examples today, but as always...

Again I would like to reiterate, as something of an expert on the man and his work: there is actually nothing funnier or less film-literate than accusing someone of *ripping off Quentin Tarantino*

I think @andrewhickey.500songs.com meant it as an aside, but I now fear i will need to hunt down all of Keith West's work...

As I've been saying for years, when you're a man in America, you eventually hit a certain age where you become really into model trains, or Warhammer, or naval history, or pens, or ANYTHING or you end up a guy really concerned about birth rates and "fairness in women's sports".

Communism discourse is hitting the timeline again, which usually means some middle aged professor of political science at a mid-tier state college lost an argument online with a 14 year old who just discovered theory.

Fucking hell people...