Chaotic good

I'm not sure if my plantar fasciitis joke will stand

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It feels like every online space for discussing literary fiction (as opposed to light or genre fiction) turns randomly, horribly transphobic. It's depressing.

Drink more MILK Eat more BUTTER For your health & PROSPERITY

HELP MY DUMB ASS WENT TO WORK 40 MINUTES EARLY

People want to rip on the Dems/biden for “not doing anything for trans people.” Fine. But understand the implications of this. SCOTUS has blessed it. And it means that if Biden is in power next year, they’re going to put the screws to red states over treatment of trans people

My honest Harry Potter opinion is that the first three books are solid kid lit and there's a gradual drop of quality from there. Half-Blood Prince is BAD. As a kid, I gradually lost interest without being able to explain why.

I'm in gender trouble again (don't know how to relate to straight women when I'm a gay guy, a straight guy, and a lesbian in a trench coat)

The drop-off of trans panic after the DeSantis campaign collapse has been incredible to behold, and proof of what a top-down, non-populist phenomenon American transphobia is.

oh no

Moms for Liberty is on an epic losing streak: *school board candidates getting routed *book bans triggering national backlash *founder embroiled in sex scandal *liberals countermobilizing effectively We go deep into this with Jennifer Berkshire. Listen👇 newrepublic.com/article/1797...

Found out the art museum is free so I'm gonna make going to the art museum my whole personality

The ‘GODZILLA MINUS ONE’ team are wearing Godzilla-themed shoes

Chinese elites used to prioritize beauty over comfort to such a degree that they slept on decorated ceramic headrests, like this tiger I saw at MIA.

At a Mennonite church. I did not know LGBTQ-affirming Mennonites existed, but the Twin Cities continue to surprise me.

The religious trauma discourse is very bad.

I got to try Somali food for the first time. The Somalis are on my culinary wavelength.

Made the grave error of listening to Coconuts by Kim Petras before work.

Harry Potter is one of those things where I don’t care how important it was or is to you sentimentally or whatever. I insist you find another fucking thing. There are so many things. Other things. Better things. Literally anything.

*youth pastor voice* You wouldn't deadname Saint Paul would you?

Fantasy is the only genre with remotely sufficient silly little guy representation

On break

Tummyache Tuesday

New clinic says my T is too high. I have too much juice. I've been liver kinging it.

Forget the transphobia and warmongering, this might be what ends my puzzles subscription.

Between AI anxiety and Poor Things, I think Frankenstein is about to have a moment

Junji Ito's Frankenstein

"Israel today is dynamiting the edifice of norms built after 1945, which has been tottering since the catastrophic war on terror and Putin’s war in Ukraine. The profound rupture we feel today between the past and the present is a rupture in the moral history of the world since 1945."

Being a Christian and a capitalist requires way more theological creativity than being Christian and LGBTQ-affirming IMO

I agree! The point I was making is that there is a huge effort to normalize COVID, not that the flu is harmless. It kills a lot of people!

Does anyone else feel depressed and irritatable for no reason, then wake up the next day and realize you are physically ill and have been for at least 12 hours? Is this an autism thing?

Moral outrage on this site sometimes underestimates how uninformed and sometimes deliberately misinformed the average non-Arab American is about I/P. Leftists get to calling people evil when they just need an education.

He’s almost here… Prepare yourselves…

NEW: "Starbucks has affirmatively agreed to bargaining with workers & their representatives to craft a master contract that applies to all unionized outlets, to be augmented by add-on contracts dealing with issues specific to particular outlets."

This explains a lot about the Chapo guys

1903: British colonist G.W.L. Caine plants Indian black tea in his garden in Kenya 2024: Chai latte becomes most popular hot drink in St. Paul

As a special treat on a Monday afternoon I wrote a little blog about periodisation and how to tell the difference between different parts of the Middle Ages. Sort your late Antique from your Early, High, and Late medieval! Figure out what's modern! It's fun. going-medieval.com/2024/02/26/l...

Men only think about 15 things, and two of them are Macaroni Camp Style and London Loaf

(1/) One thing I wish more people knew about the Belgian genocide of the Congo is how one woman who heard something incredible at a dinner party and took it seriously was singlehandedly more responsible for ending a genocide than anyone else I can name in history. Meet Alice Seeley Harris.

It's the bonus hole

Kae dot moe was basically the only person in the disturbing little anime girl subculture on here who deserved the slightest benefit of the doubt when it came to the pedophilia/age regression fantasy distinction, and now she's gone. Nuke the rest of them.

I've always wondered why groovy hippie lit faded from memory so much faster than beat poetry from 10-15 years earlier.

Anime girl eyes

Flaco escaped the things that imprisoned him, found freedom, left his comfort zone, and died adventuring. May we all be so lucky. newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

"If only [Abraham] had been disowned, cast out from God's grace, he would have understood it better." - Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling