Finally told Mom about my panel getting approved for Oni-Con and my deciding to go this year again after all. She wasn't happy about it but she didn't yell at me; she didn't miss the chance to fat-shame yet again, however. (sigh)

I had my first run-in with Trump 2.0 complicity days after the 2024 election. Since then we've seen more examples from media, universities, law firms & many others. Does what the little guys do matter? Yes, more than ever. wiczipedia.substack.com/p/how-to-not...

I'm really wondering if this will be the final year for Oni-Con in Galveston. The website looks like the con is over a month away but it's THIS weekend with only 2 confirmed guests and no posted schedule. No indication of any Japanese musical guest, not even their regular industry guests. Wow.

Watching Houston Rockets 🚀 preseason vs Atlanta Hawks #NBA 🏀

Communicating with someone on Oni-Con staff about my equipment needs for my Anime & Manga Library resources panel. Apparently Galveston Island convention center uses TVs instead of projection screens now. Anyway, seems as long as I can plug in my laptop via HDMI cable it's all good.

#OniCon just isn't what it used to be; I hope young people enjoy it, especially newer #anime fans that don't know the con's legacy and history because they don't know what they're missing. For us old-timers Oni these days brings us more nostalgia and sadness, remembering the glory days.

Translation: feel free to harass and rape fellow soldiers and sailors with reckless abandon because there’s no longer a safe way for them to report you.

Holy 💩Oni-Con approved my library resources panel! On the one hand, awesome, but the con is in 2 friggin' weeks! Had to scramble to get a hotel room and even my usual budget hotel cost me a pretty penny this close to the event. Wasn't going to go this year but now I am. #Galveston here I come!

MASS WORLD PROTESTS THREAD:👇🧵 If we don’t begin finding new ways to connect & share information that those 10 conservative billionaires DON’T want us to know… Then there will be NO revolutions to televise. Social Media is so powerful: they plotted to buy it all away from us - & they’re winning!

Houston Astros eliminated from playoffs; Now backing the Toronto 🍁Blue Jays in the postseason! #MLB ⚾

ICE has arrested the Des Moines Public Schools superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts according to an email sent to parents.

Slept in like a lazy bastard. Our library was marching in the county fair parade today with a float and I could've walked alongside but the person organizing was very loosey-goosey with not much detail and I just hate that and don't trust that. So I skipped. I need solid plans or nope for me.

Stayed up to watch until the bitter end as the Astros drop game 2 against Athletics, 0-6. Kept hoping our guys would smash in a 3 run HR in the bottom of the 9th to at least finish respectably but NOPE, big fat GOOSE EGG. F*CK. #MLB ⚾

Astros drop first game against A's on the road #MLB ⚾ ... thinking we're not gonna secure that playoff wildcard at all. Even if we did and even if we got to WS by some miracle it'd just be another 2005 blowout. Just not our year.

Goofed up and took 2 Benadryl against an aggressively runny nose after dinner but by 8pm it knocked me TF out and I just went to bed early. Kinda sucked but I did log 9 solid hours of sleep and feel well rested today so 🤷‍♂️

Pumpkin Spice (& Pumpkin beer) season nearly upon us again. Look forward to consuming BJ's Brewhouse Pumpkin Ale once again in the month of October. 🎃

i finished the profile a few weeks ago, so couldn't include anything about what's gone down at the ICE protests in chicagoland, but she wrote about it at the new republic: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

This is another "stick a lightbulb up your ass to cure COVID" moment...."put bleach in the body"...surreal and incomprehensibly dumb.

Woohoo! My Dirty Pair box set that I backed on Kickstarter finally came! With new English 🇺🇸 dub!! #anime #SciFi #action

The truth is, so much of MAGA thinks Joe McCarthy was RIGHT.

Heartbreaking Astros loss to Seattle Mariners, coming up short 4-6. Big grand slam rally was a start but not enough. Real chance in the bottom of the 8th blown.

A couple days ago, I asked Lydia to write about this. Idk if that prompted her to write this or if she was already planning on it, but I'm thankful she did. Sadly I can't read it because the Times thinks my computer is a bot and blocks me lol But you all should read it.

Exactly, they wouldn’t try to silence you if your voice held no power! #GetLouder 🗣️

Dont let the scare you into silence.We need to get a lot louder!

And they pretend not to understand why we call them Nazis....

IMLS funds directly support Texpress, the Texas in-state library courier system for Interlibrary Loan. While we libraries also pay an annual subscription fee, idk what happens to the courier after this Dec. if the funds are still tied up in court. #libraries #FreedomToRead

If he was taken out by a Fuentes acolyte, that makes him less a Horst Wessel than an Ernst Röhm. German history deep cut.

When asked about the emotional impact of CK's murder upon himself personally, Trump twice pivoted to talk about his grand ballroom project...

Keokuk, Iowa Saturday, October 18 NO KINGS

Utterly Orwellian but totally predictable.

Remember, Trump has backed down on his plans for Chicago. Pritzker stood the fuck up and Trump, he TACO'd.

Infinity Castle was pretty great, but even at 2.5 hours run time, the story is nowhere near done. Lots of action, yes, but also lots of flashback material that is slower paced. Tanjiro & Co. take down a major lieutenant but so much more story left.

Please note, this was his exact same response to COVID; Bad numbers? Quit collecting the numbers! If we ignore the problem maybe it will just go away... 🤪

Checked some mainstream news sources and there is credible evidence for his extremist ties.

It would be darkly funny if this was the reason someone took out C.K.

Got my tickets & read to go....Demon Slayer Infinity Castle tonight, woohoo! Sorry Downton Abbey but I'm a weeb first and foremost.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

SCOTUS is our Paul von Hindenburg, and each shadow docket reversal in favor of the Admin is our Enabling Act, doled out piecemeal, bit by bit. #HistoryRhymesNotRepeats

Yeah, he was the epitome of evil.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

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On this day in 2001, I was fast asleep on the couch upstairs because I worked evening shift at the office back then. Dad saw the whole thing unfold on live TV and yelled up the stairs when the 2nd plane hit. I turned on the TV and just stared for 30 seconds trying to figure out WTF I saw...

You people trying to rewrite the history of who Charlie Kirk was are pathetic. He used his organization to bully, dox and attack people he didn't agree with. Free speech my ass. He was one of the worst aspects of American politics. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

ICE raided a battery plant run by Hyundai & LG Energy that was under construction and arrested hundreds of people including 30 Koreans on business trips. The U.S. government is actively sabotaging the economy and MAGA are too drunk on mass deportations and owning the libs to care.

For anyone who still cares it takes an act of Congress to rename it to the War Department; can’t do it via EO.

As an autistic adult American, getting real tired of all the fearmongering conspiracy bullshit about autism coming from HHS Sec/RFK Jr

"AI can show me what anime characters would look like as real people!" Or you could just buy a ticket to an anime convention and go support the #cosplayers there, just sayin'.