Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread? Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.

Help me complete this sentence: Ari Drennen is the Brianna Wu of...

I'm leaving this up for now, but I don't feel good about posting it. It feels like going out of my lane, and tarring a very large group over the actions of a handful of people. I apologize for this.

What's the deal with second generation immigrants in UK politics being so bad on immigration? There is some real pulling up the ladder behind you behavior on display. Also a lot of allegiance to various leopards eating faces parties.

Fight for power to, not power over.

I am fascinated by Hannah Hidalgo, an incredible talent and supreme competitor who is so mercurial she can bring her team down and carry them up. She still has this year and the next in college to sort herself out. I hope for the best, because the best version of her is spectacular.

The experience of being a tech loving sff fan in 2025 is constantly saying NOT LIKE THAT

Me: I like robots. *hears this ad* Me: Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Sunday is a work day back in the bad country, and the work day has started there, so I'm expecting the family group + lawyer chat to wake up at some point with contract shit. I really hope this shit is sorted this coming week. It should be.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

It's unfathomable how deep the brainwashing is in Israel, and has been for two years (and before, but it's ramped up). Someone who I would say is a highly intelligent person just told me Hamas killed everyone in Gaza who isn't Hamas. Which is one of the wildest lies

If I could trick my older sister to start listening to Maintenance Phase, would that change something? Or would she just reject what she's hearing?

Hey so. Lots of people reading your hot takes on Bubba are gay or bi. There are lots of jokes to be made--Clinton is RIGHT THERE--but if the best you've got is 101 basic bitch homophobia, got some bad news for you about you.

To be fair to the Dems - not something I'm generally super interested in - Biden was an extreme case of what's wrong with the party. That said, all that stuff is STILL wrong with the party.

deliver me from these people who somehow believe that if you approve of certain actions taken by The Church, that means you are so staggeringly dumb that you assume The Church is now a staunch ally of trans and queer people, and also approve of everything The Church does now

Please tell me we're not rehabilitating Space Laser Lady just because she and Trump had a quarrel. She's still a racist, transphobic, antisemitic piece of shit.

I'm fairly likely to be asleep for the battle of SC in women's college hoops today, as USC hosts South Carolina, but I should be awake for Notre Dame @ Michigan. The Wolverines lost me as a fan when they were early to cancel their DEI program, but Notre Dame's star is possibly homophobic.

A true icon of film and television. For me, his most memorable roles were as special agent Alonzo Mosely in Midnight Run and as Lieutenant Al "Gee" Giardello in Homicide: Life on the Street. Kinda sad that both are cops, but he was great.

I didn't read the Athletic sports betting story, because I avoid the NYT when possible. However, I did see that they only polled players in men's league. I guarantee you the players in women's leagues get it worse, as sports betting becomes bigger in those leagues.

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only

One day you're the dark lord of the sith, the next you're pissing on a wall and also your pants.

I've been here in Canada for six months now. Tomorrow will be the six months anniversary of arriving in Winnipeg, but I had that extra night in Vancouver airport. Feels both longer and shorter.

C'mon Karlach, we're going to go kill Gortash now (dear mods, Gortash is a fictional person in a game. I am not going to kill a real person)

It's Transgender Awareness Week, and I am asking you to be aware of nonbinary trans people. Many of us are, famously, very hot. However, please be aware that some of us are just weird little (or big, in my case) guys (non-gendered). We exist.

it's 🏳️‍⚧️ transgender awareness week 🏳️‍⚧️, so : donate to trans support organizations if you can, hire trans people, defend them in public & private spaces when necessary, & just don't be an asshole in general

Slept 11 hours. Woke up exhausted and some hours behind on my meds. Between the work on the contract thing back in the bad country (with sibling annoyances) and the work on the apartment, this week has been both mentally and physically exhausting.

When I was waiting for the apartment inspection, I had neither headphones nor earbuds on. Turns out, this building can be kinda noisy when one doesn't have noise canceling gear on. Huh.

Loving that glossy profile of Wow Platinum in the New Rome Times

Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/

Hey, it's time for #FollowFriday! Here's a big list of People Who Get It, imho. Great follows for good info, good vibes, or good practical things to do to help make things better in 2025. go.blacksky.community/5KTiNKd

Always remember that when Henry David Thoreau "lived simply," he was doing it on his friend's land, and his mom would do his laundry.

This is the legacy media version of posting through it

The actual harms from Roko and his stupid basilisk have been incredible, especially considering how, again, stupid it is.

Arcane archer is a ridiculously powerful subclass. Moreover, it's that powerful the whole game through, and scales beautifully.

The books I'm reading are very good, but intense. So, fuck it. I'm gonna put everything aside and listen to Brigands and Breadknives, AKA Legends and Lattes #3.

When this phone dies, my next one is probably going to be a Pixel. Not because I want the google ai shit. I very much don't. It's because that's the phone you can safely put GrapheneOS on.

There are many reasons why living in a city is non-negotiable for me. Some of them are about the traumas of growing up in a kibbutz and later a small-ish town. But some are as simple as "I am hungry and tired, it's the middle of the night, and Skip delivers subway footlongs 24 hours a day."

People who have started Pluribus... is it going to be too sad for me? Keep in mind that I am orphaned of both parents and country, and already depressed.

Dear God Maybe this occurred to everyone else already, but I just realized that the tech bigwigs sided with Trump because they had become so Roko's Basilisk-brained They treated Trump like their imagined future malevolent A.I., and now we're all fucked

By the time they come in to inspect, in about 12 hours, this place is going to look so good they'll have to call the snitch and ask if he was hallucinating. I hope.

The best thing about dentures is that there is a real, palpable, feeling of relief both when taking them out AND when putting them in.

This is an absolutely stunning novel. Literally stunning. When I finished reading it, I sat there, stunned. For a good little while.

It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"

When I decided to move here, I had a plan of what to do with my new life. For various reasons, I'm not going with that plan. But I've had a new plan for a while. I think it's a good plan. I think it will work.

Finally looking into trans friendly clinics in Winnipeg. I've had my Manitoba health card for a while. I need a primary care physician. I also need too talk to a well informed doctor about shifting my hormonal balance to be more aligned with who I am.

The Goodreads Choice Awards are upon us & I'm honestly really staggered & thrilled to see THE RIVER HAS ROOTS made it into the first round of Fantasy picks! It's in tremendous company, & y'all should go vote for your faves if you're so inclined! The first round runs from Nov 11 - 23.

good news for the people who are saying they'd never touch starbucks coffee anyway: you can go ahead and drop $5 in their strike fund sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/

The way the podcast bros can't stop talking about how sad they are that young men aren't being catered to enough when young women are so mad they literally want to FLEE THE COUNTRY at this point. Imagine welcoming & channeling that energy instead of ignoring it.

Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife. He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness

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