Alberta separatists vow to appeal petition denial as soon as US State Department tells them how

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

Yeah, pretty much. If Audible wanted to make audiobooks of the 4 titles I have the rights to...I'd say yes. I have a mortgage.

You won’t allow me to go to school. I won’t become a doctor. remember this: one day you will be sick. Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl, the New York Times magazine 'Why Afghan women risk death to write poetry'

Anyway, my thoughts on video games are my thoughts on comics are my thoughts on tv shows are my thoughts on literature. You are not being discriminated against because a company you love has acknowleged that someone else exists.

Me, in my Stargate: SG-1 rewatch: It's not that I think Ba'al is hot. I just respect his amused attitude as a refreshing change from most Goa'uld. Ba'al: (Shows up in a suit and tie.) Me: God damn it, Trick, you basic-ass pansexual.

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

I want someone who thinks the US is a truly god-blessed, Exceptional ™ "city on the hill" to explain this fucking phenomenon to me.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

As an RPG fan with a specialty in generic systems, it delights me to see Cortex getting another chance at life. It's a challenge to process, but it's a book that truly lets your creativity shine and showed me just what an RPG can be. I recommend it in every serious RPG hobbyist's collection.

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

You might not know this, but you can get some AMAZING deals directly from @jordanlhawk.com. Just got the whole Whyborne & Griffin series + the Spirits trilogy. What a steal! Moreover, I already put the epub files on Calibre & I'm loading them on my ereader now. www.jordanlhawk.com/collections/...

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Gov't to Citizen's United: "Money is speech, spend it how you want, the gov't can't stop you." Gov't to Citizens Who Think Cash Bail is Stupid: "Money is criminal conspiracy and we will put you in jail for spending it in ways we don't like."

Torn between feeling snotty and “No, that’s still wrong.” I was reading a big-name-publisher novel, and the prose used “was comprised of.” I can see using it in dialogue for character voice, or if you’re in a very tight POV in the prose, but this was not that. It’s just wrong.

14 years ago today, I started my first job as a video game writer. It's been wonderful and it's been hard and I am so grateful for this adventure.

The Cortex Prime Game Handbook is live on DriveThruRPG for the first time! 256 pages of the most flexible RPG toolkit I could make—build any genre, any tone, any kind of story you want to tell. I'm so proud of this book. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

I was really confused about some of the sound design choices in Clair Obscur. Weird threatening sounds near blank walls with nothing behind them, enemies that surprised me as I spun around trying to track where they were. ...I had my headphones on backwards.

Replaying Breath of the Wild recently and boy is it clear how much mainstream games just contracted creatively over the last decade. Regardless of what your personal thoughts are on the game itself, 2017 just felt like a really exciting year as a designer! We got Nier: Automata and RE7 too!

You never know who is quietly watching you be yourself as an out trans person, and using your confidence to build their own.

A weird thing happened during the indie romance boom in the mid-2010s: a bunch of women who did not have high earning potential on paper could abruptly start making $20k-100k a month self-pubbing romance. We watched so many marriages implode over it, y'all, when their husbands COULD NOT COPE.

The universal note is "If you do it badly, it won't be good." Make sure the love interests have great chemistry. Keep the plot tight and propulsive. You've got to hold the reader's attention. These are all "try not to be bad" in fancy clothes. They sound useful, but they aren't.

Buy and read books by trans authors. Buy things from trans-owned shops. It's more important now than ever, and some of the best books I've ever read are by trans authors. I don't have time to make a list tonight, but I'll try to make and post one tomorrow.

Hi everyone, this Colorado family is in desperate need of help. The husband was taken (I believe illegally) in front of community members. ICE told lies about him. He is in detention and his family is suffering. www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

Some responded to this by saying it's true, but only insofar as 2014 Twitter is never coming back. That Roberts is, in fact, pining for a social media ecosystem that once benefited the left but is long gone. Let me advance a more radical proposition: the left's extreme onlineness was Always Bad.

dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby"

The trick to successful personality politics is in constantly giving up the spotlight, while remaining present. Mamdani uses "I" precisely twice in this entire video. He uses "we" or "our" 22 times. He mentions multiple other politicians by name, giving them credit. This is mastery of the form.

Critically: You must INTENTIONALLY REQUEST expedited processing by including a letter with your citizenship request explaining your situation, along with supporting documentation.

And will you be paying these people 10-15x what they're currently being paid? ...No? They'll get paid the same? Where is that money going, then? Ah, to the CEO's salary and other executive bonuses, you say? Put like that, almost sounds like an economic incentive to push this narrative. Weird.

The Hellion’s Waltz (2021), a sapphic historical romance set in 1824, with a silk-weaver heroine planning a heist: www.oliviawaite.com/hellions-waltz #booksky #Romancelandia

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

This. It's a very small world and I don't think people realize how many of us know each other.

ICYMI, I wrote a little thing about how the crafting of sex scenes in genre romance has taken a major hit in recent years. #romancelandia romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/no-f-ck-is...

I could not agree more with this. What makes a sex scene hot is the character work, not the mechanical bits, and absolutely not buffer track dialogue

I love that there are long stretches of later seasons of SG-1 that are just gorgeous women bullying Daniel Jackson. The writers were like, "You know, it took us 6 or 7 seasons, but we've cracked it. This is what the people want."

You can just dislike something.

I keep wondering what the threshold for being part of a transgender terrorist group is, and then chiding myself because of course I know the answer. The threshold for being a transgender terrorist will end up being transgender, full stop. It won't start there, but it will end there.

OMG THE GOSLING SESSION OF MY LIFE! Over 50 of them!! I got so much footage and I'm totally exhausted. I'm gonna call it, double check for some ducks, then head home to rest up for an afternoon common gallinule sesh. Here's my final little guy. More posts later. 🪶 🐣

THERE IS STILL TIME

Celebrating the WNBA season opener by once again sharing my favorite sports graphic of all time.

It's ridiculous that people are out here spending all their time talking like the coal miners are the only blue collar workers out there when there are more solar installers than coal miners.

COMING THIS WEEK: Cortex Prime launches on DriveThruRPG! Rusty Sellsword Design is launching the Cortex Prime Game Handbook PDF and the first four Prime Spotlights (that comprise Volume 1) this week!

This is a good time of year to read The Hellion’s Waltz, a historical sapphic romance about a piano tuner heroine and the hot silk-weaver whose Robin Hood con she’s trying to thwart. Vintage piano styles, Jacquard looms, union activism! www.oliviawaite.com/hellions-waltz

I prefer "morally nuanced deuteragonist."

This is the law as its written. Use it.

Great game there. Philips was fantastic, keeping the puck out of the net enough for a win despite Boston having almost double the number of shots as Ottawa. #pwhl

You never seen dudes rock as hard as this!