LARPing really do just be woke fatphobia

In case you, too, needed this today:

Oh boy, and it's 8% off! What a steal! I needed a replacement since my local kroger stopped carrying syrup of ipecac.

this is the equation they used to calculate the success of the amazing digital circus finale

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

at this point you kind of have to assume anything you see on the internet without a clear attribution chain is fake. you can reevaluate if that changes; harder to go the other way.

I should call her

In fascism (totalitarianism in general), you are not allowed to be smarter than your boss. This feature is a **KEY** factor in why it fucking sucks as a system. Successive leaders are intrinsically stupid bastards on an exponentially stupider scale.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Me, allowing comparison to once more be the thief of joy: goddammit, why is it that I, someone with a full-time job, a toddler, and a small queer org to run, cannot write as much as this professional author? Me: clearly it is because I am lazy.

People said Occupy was a failure and it ushered in 15 years of actual political engagement on economic inequality People like to call BLM, Abolish ICE, etc failures and, no. Spontaneous mass protest moments rarely win immediately. But they change the political environment and lay the groundwork.

lol, lmao, etc

I have a diabolical plan to stop the rise of the Democratic Socialists! It's foolproof and guaranteed to work! It has no known defense! Step 1: Be a Democratic politician already in power. Step 2: Do all of the good things that DSA mayors do once they're elected, that 80% of your own voters want.

Nobody is making profits. It is going to burst and it is going to take all those data centers with it. Keep your skills. Practice your crafts. Hold on to your books. Stay sharp.

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

I spent my evening, which was supposed to be my night to rest and relax, assembling a big boy bed for the toddler. He is currently sleeping on a pile of legos.

this is in line with my frustrations about how every trans movie is an egg crack movie. i want a movie where a woman's transness is not the core of the story because trans women are women and are subject to regular woman issues on top of trans issues. this really should not be a radical suggestion.

I think a large part of the Boring Adult Joys aren't even about really maturing as a person, but about the pleasures of gaining autonomy over your own space. It's fundamentally the same joy as the joy of getting a new poster for your room as a teenager, or a toy as a kid.

I think becoming a Boring Adult (complimentary) is not about no longer feeling joy at the big and whimsical things, but about the scope of the things that make you happy widening. Like today I got a new soap scent! Fresh linen!!!! Isn't it a beautiful thing for that to make someone so happy?

sucks when world leaders just resign. i call them up like "submit to the eggman empire or suffer the consequences" and they just quit. i have phone anxiety you know its hard to just do these speeches over and over

Just listened to John Cage’s 4’33”. Great piece, no notes.

If you’re going to sentence someone to 5 decades in prison on a terror charge for having a zine, you’re not going to deter the next zine haver. You’re going to make the next zine haver decide they may as well get their money’s worth.

A shout out to all the queer folks in Hetero presenting relationships who get called "Ally" constantly, especially during pride. Let's continue making a side eye at each other. Its our secret code.

oh my god

the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

As writers, what better way is there for us to celebrate pride month than to shout-out our favorite queer publications and collectives? After surveying LMC staff for their faves, we narrowed the list down to eight. Share yours in the replies!

oh look, it’s the thing we all said would happen. god fucking damnit i hate being right. they’re using this shit to enforce fake morality and dress laws even if you’re doing what you’re legally supposed to.

I feel like there should be a standard clause in all publishing contracts that basically goes "the publisher behaving like a dickhead is grounds for rights reversion". I would have a LOT of rights back. (Which is why there isn't such a clause.)

Okay, UKsters, the media is useless re: extreme heat, so let’s do this. I’m from Southern California, spent the last ten years living outside Seattle, which has a similar climate to Scotland, where I am now. Here’s what I know. 1. Heat exhaustion and sickness are no fucking joke. Do not tempt them.

I believe the UK should rejoin Europe. Not only politically by reversing Brexit, but also physically by restoring Doggerland.

Describing transition as “a long-term life on medication” is utterly pathetic. I take my hormones along with my bipolar and ADHD meds… y’know, my *other* long-term medications. It’s literally just putting pills in my mouth, not some hardship that’s uprooted my fucking lifestyle.

Setbacks in learning are often due to your brain needing to rewire and reset. You see it extremely visibly in toddlers, and while it's less obvious in adults, what is often called "art block" is just your brain rewriting itself. Try something adjacent to your art until you're ready to return

But for real, fuck geese.

You expect gay men to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like the Ninja Turtles sewer lair where I might get vibe checked for being myself.

vote for me for Director of the United States Mint and my first project will to be to make all our coins ferromagnetic I don't think this'll solve any problems, it'll create many new ones, but it should be done anyway

I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler."

this is a really good thread, if you are interested in books, you should read it.

when the AI datacenters inevitably close i'm gonna move into one and attack anyone who enters like it's an ancient dunmer stronghold

probably not the time to point out that straight people are a modern invention, and some of them have been mad about it since day one

I really wonder sometimes if this perception that art is something gated off by “the elite” is believed because people tend to give attention and praise to skilled and capable artists, and we live in an attention economy. Thus anyone getting positive attention is seen as “elite.” 1/

I will not accept an argument that art and creativity have been uniquely democratised in the last few years since the invention of genAI. What a disservice to human history. How little regard you must have for the billions of souls that struggled through unimaginable suffering to express themselves.

Shaking every director and producer by the ears while screaming "there is literally no pressure to have immaculate Storyboard art, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"

This is about the UK, but it's very applicable to the US as well "wanting a different set of voters than the ones they have" really nails the issue with mainstream liberal parties right now

RT to make hordes of very specific nerds big mad

Hell of a day to be writing my AI policy for work with the a24 news, lemme tell you.

Yeah, that’s the America I grew up in. When I say the anti-trans playbook now is the same playbook as they ran in the 90s against gay people, I mean the SAME

Today I had to teach a grown ass adult how to use a drill and it's very "And if I have to tell you that... well, I'm glad I told you that." They gotta put shop back in high school, man.

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