Hello fellow WNBA fans! It's time for games 4 in the semi finals, and everything has changed, as both series are on the brink. At 2 cdt, the Fever fight for their playoffs lives at home against an Aces team that wants to end this series and move on.

I never want anybody to forget that these people spend a decade using "free speech" as the thin end of the wedge to completely destroy free speech. People saw it coming, and said so, and were ignored.

As is usual for me in virtual cons, I forgot this was happening. But I remembered just before this keynote, which was wonderful and moving and great.

The weather's nice, air quality is good, the sun is behind the building across the street, and I am on my mental health balcony. This is my version of going to the park or touching grass. It helps.

You may remember this book from the Hugo long list, or possibly from the previous times I told you to read it. It's on sale. Go grab it.

It has been a long time since I cheered for Marc Maron. But I cheered for this burn.

today in making manufacturing consent great again

When I, a person who has never been there, think of Portland, I think of donuts, books, quirky oddballs. More recently, The Sports Bra and the Portland Fire. From the outside, painting it as an outlaw place would seem like a hard sell.

I have muted the thread. Probably should have done it sooner. I continue to be confused as to how people who regularly get this level - or higher - of engagement do it.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

This was the most @hinaypod.bsky.social episode ever. Non spoiler recap: Two sweet conversations about relationships, and between them a deeply disturbing story about a very angry very old man.

So, so many replies to this are about Trump. And, yeah, I get it. He is also terrible, and if you're in the US, hating him is closer to your lived experience. But this one thing isn't about him.

I, then fully convinced I was a cishet young man, watched this movie in screenings dozens of times on three continents*. You know, like straight people do. *most of the times were in Israel, but I did rack up London, San Francisco, and NYC.

I have a hard time commenting on Netanyahu, because, well, I hate him. I've hated him for decades. But personal hatred aside, he's a monster who's committing genocide to stay in office and out of prison.

every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.

And, after saying all the games are on league pass, this one is blacked out and only on Sportsnet. So I'm going back to my balcony until it gets too cold, which will happen before the Lynx game starts.

My blackness is not violence, my queerness is not violence, my transness is not violence Someone who hates me declaring it otherwise isn’t doesn’t make it true

Other music services have tried to convince me to drop youtube music, but none have been as convincing as this new effort BY yt music. Nope nope nope do not want. If they make this a feature I can't permanently turn off, I'm out.

I like clouds. They offer gentle protection from the evil sun. Well, except in Argentina, where I and a group of folks all got sunburned on a cloudy day. Generally speaking, though? Yay clouds.

bc they enjoyed captive audiences their entire lives, both elites and non elites and they nurtured a belief people listened bc they had interesting things to say. Social media and egalitarian norm shift changed it suddenly you cant just go off about the Rise Of The Colored Empire without pushback

your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤

yea I kinda don't love that the only real 'stance' they're taking is 'this genocide makes Jewish life harder'. Like yea it does but we're pretty fucking far down the list of 'real victims' of this shit!

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Hello fellow WNBA fans! Big, big day in the W playoffs. Huge. Both series are 1-1. Both 3rd games a today. While the higher seeds technically only need one win in their two upcoming road games, the third game is pivotal. Because the team that's up 2-1 then has two shots at winning the series.

It's every allegedly canceled comedian plus a few who will bum you out.

It's getting harder to listen to the excellent podcast Maintenance Phase, as it can sometimes feel like it's a show about all the ways the internet messed up my sister.

Sometimes, having lived on the internet since before the world wide web, I get conspiracy brain thoughts about whatever topic I'm interested in. And then I think about posting them. And then I (usually) don't, because it's conspiracy brain and will gain no one nothing.

Honestly as someone still representing those kids, it's depressing how everyone forgot about them. I say this a lot, but the lesson from those protests from the American left writ large was "if you protest and get arrested, you're on your own."

I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam

yes, this is why Trump’s hold on his base is so strong and why he was uniquely terrible for this country even above and beyond the policies he’s implemented he gave his base permission to break the social contract and they worship him for it

Yeah, this challenge is not for adhd folks.

Hey authors! If your first novel came out in the onslaught that was 2020, please share it here. Tell us the title and at least one cool thing about it, plus give us a link to learn more and buy it.

This conference looks very cool and, if circumstances allow, I plan to be there.

Shoutout to the Microsoft worker organizers who have been tirelessly (and often at the cost of their jobs) pushing Microsoft- not nearly enough but just another brick to crumble

Fuck yeah women's tag team championship on AEW!

Lesbian friends, I hope this new song treats you well, and that you are holding up ok.

Fine. OK. I give. We live I the fucking matrix and the machines are assholes. (I don't mean this. I will not have my brain broken by stupid Roko and his idiotic basilisk)

OH NO

No wnba games today. No wnba games tomorrow. WNBA games on Friday! So let me tell you the earworn I have when watching Alyssa Thomas play. So, you know, in Hamilton, the line "you simply must meet Thomas, Thomas"? It's that, but with "watch" instead of "meet"

How about a deal? You stop doing and saying nazi shit, and if you refrain constantly for a few years, we'll consider not calling you a nazi. You nazi.

Made lunch. Ate lunch. Sitting in my mental health balcony with noise canceling headphones on. I think I'm gonna make it after all.

The kids get it

Once again, good game between two good teams. Hopefully the Lynx find their turbo button at some point. 21-19 Lynx lead after one.

Still thinking about a conversation with older sister. I mentioned a scammy publishing business whose owner she gave my current contact info. Her reply was "and if she offered you a job, would you refuse because of PRIDE?" And here's the thing

Mainstream newspapers and other media outlets continually letting Jesse Singal and Helen Lewis write about trans people as if they were just journalists covering a topic and not people who have dedicated years of their lives to destroy trans lives is malpractice at best, and pure evil at worst.

For many runs on BG3, I barely used Minsc. He is such a late arrival! But with a good bow, Belm as an offhand weapon, and Volley, Hunter Minsc is a MONSTER. I should do a Hunter run. Yeah, when I finish this Paladin of the Crown run.

i think america would be a better place if everyone just stopped paying attention to politico til they went out of business. there’s no “autism problem” just like there’s no “trans debate.” both of those things are eugenics. both questions are really “should these subhumans be allowed to exist?”

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Hello fellow WNBA fans! It's game 2s of the semi finals this fine evening, and we're in for good stuff, I think. I hope. At 6:30 cdt, we've got Mercs @ Lynx. Will the Lynx take the second game as they did the first, or will AT and her team turn things around? Probably the first one. Unless....