As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

I spent two weeks teaching Susan Wendell’s book and one of the main points that she makes is that there are more people disabled by heart disease and diabetes and other such things than by accident or birth. One of the things I added was that queer people suffer disproportionately from them.

Saturday, 1pm: Time to plan for next Daggerheart session! Saturday, 2pm: Gonna hop on Wikipedia quick so I've got references right. Saturday, 6pm: Ishtar ordering sex workers to mourn the Bull of Heaven in anger at Gilgamesh clearly represents social conflict and the ascension of military power.

Pssst. I’m a queer author about to debut in traditional publishing with a modern-day sapphic Sherlock Holmes hommage with fey and magic. You can order signed copies through here: www.therippedbodice.com/book/9781464...

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website

Strat Guide Folks: What should we write for this section? Remember, advice but not complete spoilers. Me: "Be aware that the wrong choice here could cause Tali's loyalty to drop sharply." Strat Guide: No. Me: "...could cause Tali's approval rating to plummet?"

One-week reminder: I'm doing panels and presentations at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social next week, including a keynote Saturday night that I was inexplicably allowed to call, "Two Decades of Accidental Self-Inserts." The convention is online and free to attend! flights-of-foundry.org

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

This reminds me of my favorite Mass Effect 3 fan story, when someone was at the Geth/Quarian choice, and their partner said, "What happens to Tali if you upload the code?", and Xbox Kinect heard "Upload the code," and made that choice for the player, which, spoilers, does not go well for Tali.

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If I listened to Harry Belafonte's "Day-O" instead of k.d. lang's "Hallelujah" while writing Solas...

I’ve been making a real effort to moderate my engagement on here as of late, but I’m going to say this: You should be talking to your elders from the Civil Rights and Black Power Eras. You should be taking to the Rainbow family who survived the AIDS era.

The quote I loved here: "The source notes that Kimmel has always been free to speak his mind about Trump and has never been censored on his show." Presumably the source means BEFORE Disney literally took him off the air because of FCC threats?

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

If it's not pushed back on now at the very least we will have a two-tier publishing environment, where established authors get the human infrastructure and the newer/less prominent authors get a substandard experience, and then the surprised publishers will wonder why new authors aren't selling

As a matter of disclosure, please remember that I and many if not most creative folks have business dealings with one or more corporate entities who are navigating, delicately or, uh, otherwise, the fact the US government has been taken over by fascists, no, it's not great and also we have bills

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Someday, when we're on the other side of this, it'll be interesting to see which institutions -- education, media, tech -- change their business models to avoid ever again being vulnerable to government purse-string bullying, and which resign themselves to being unofficial government branches.

Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy. These are desperate moves. They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.

Just canceled.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

It'd be one thing to watch democracy slowly collapse because some evil geniuses took over, but we're literally being forced to watch a bunch of people with more power and security than any of us can imagine in our wildest dreams just crawl on their bellies and beg to be kicked in the face again.

ah, well

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

A whole lot of people are coming for @angryblacklady.bsky.social today for saying "do not put your name on a list of people attending a protest, what the fuck" with responses like "you're just discouraging people!" and "but they already know who you are!" and "DON'T LET THE TERRORISTS WIN" etc

This contradiction is the literal entire premise of the publishing industry. Publishers are my partners in trying to make my book a success and at no point can I trust them to have my best interests at heart. Part of activism in this era needs to be not abdicating critical thought to ANY org, ever

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support. I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

okay listen first of all what the FUCK man www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ys...

The most dangerous man in London... doesn't stand a chance. The start of the acclaimed Brothers Sinister series. Reminder: The Governess Affair is FREE just about everywhere! /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gover... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c...

“This movie’s brought to you with limited interruptions.” Wow really you’re limiting the interruptions that’s so cool of you I mean originally the service I paid for had no interruptions which arbitrarily changed while the price of that service has increased several times since but no, thanks a lot

Just Shazam'd the hold music for my medical insurance, because it's honestly serving good saxophone. Harriet Goldberg, "My Time to Fly". This is for the medical coverage issue I've been waiting for an update on since May. But good saxophone is good saxophone.

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Katrina Barkwell - Programmer Women of colour are by far the most educated in #gamedev, yet hold the lowest % of permanent or managerial roles. So how does someone with no power make an impact? In the company? The community? How far can rage carry a career in game dev?

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

YES please check out my sci-fi duology Exo and Crossfire, I really like them and they are so criminally unread compared to all my other books

What a useful thread.

I am grateful for every single person who stands up right now, because so many of us have felt like we were slowly going insane.

Starting to recommend a new book to my partner and then pausing like, ”Hang on, I gotta wait until I’m finished so I know for sure that the dog survives.”

7) This to basically say, you're goingt o see a lot of people saying a lot of stuff about this culture, who should not be, because they don't understand it and when we don't understand things we should shut up and find an expert, but they are not paid to shut up, soooooo ....

"Hey insecure smart kids here's a shitload of praise for internalizing that the substance or moral content of an argument doesn't matter, what matters is arguing it in a certain socially acceptable form!" was beyond malpractice, it was murderous.

It is amusing to think that 40 years ago we had a nationwide panic to stop kids from playing Satanic RPG's that would warp their mind, when what we should have been doing was hunting down and destroying high school debate clubs with the ferocity of a Butlerian jihad.

Debate is a hobby. It’s not a thing you do to understand another person. Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.