Should we all reintroduce our baseball allegiances for a quick refresher? No explanation. 1) LA Dodgers 1) Toronto Blue Jays 3) Vancouver Canadians 4) Seattle Mariners 5) anyone who is not the Yankees 6) Fuck the Yankees

Hey, you should read this @parkermolloy.com piece on the collapsing of what is largely an intersex/DSD story into an anti-trans culture war frame. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

Hey, #transrightsreadathon people, friendly reminder that these are wonderful!

I do think "Avoid giving money to someone who will use that money to harm minorities, whose product is one fiction franchise out of literally thousands" is kind of a reasonable ask. Like it's not even activism, it's "don't actively contribute to harm."

This is horrifying. Everyone should read The Other Olympians by @michaelwaters.bsky.social to understand this history of sex-policing and the connection between fascism and transphobia. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

"There are all sorts of differences between humans beyond our chromosomes... Far more significant than gender, they affect what athletic feats we are able to achieve with our bodies." www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-incl...

Some of my faves recently have been indies! @alexandrarowland.bsky.social @authorkaraj.bsky.social @pretensesoup.bsky.social @noahhawthorne.bsky.social @ardenpowell.bsky.social @sebastiannothwell.bsky.social

These, plus The Bayou! (Different vibes, equally awesome) #transrightsreadathon

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

This is appalling. There’s a lot to be mad at Carney for, but his fatuous love of genAI is very high on the list. At the very least, it should be illegal to feed another person’s work or personal information into the planet-destroying-theft-and-lying machine. Evergreen: fuck AI

Get your copy if you haven’t yet. Get another copy, just to be sure. Get 20 copies and leave one in every free library in your area. Hands down one of my all-time favorites, and filled with beautiful, healing trans rage. Comfort reads can come in all shapes and sizes, is what I’m saying 🖤🖤🖤

Drop 3 recs for the #transrightsreadathon ! The Dawnhounds by @understatesmen.bsky.social The Voice of Wild Places by @noahhawthorne.bsky.social The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by @nikostratis.com

I mean, seriously. Devoting your one wild and precious life to punishing trans children for the crime of existing? How fucking low. How fucking vile. How fucking *evil.*

My physical copy of “The Alignments” by @pretensesoup.bsky.social arrived, along with some goodies, including this amazing sticker. Read the first book, “Dionysus in Wisconsin” on the rec of @swordsjew.bsky.social and fell in love. Can’t wait to complete the series with “Renaissance” next month

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

Paging @davidebybc.bsky.social

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Physical copies of @authorkaraj.bsky.social Reanimator Mysteries have all finally made it safely across the border and into my arms; I loved the too much to only have e-copies. The Ginger Menace will guard them while I make space in my shelves. May I suggest them for the Trans rights readathon?

Favorite games of all time. No real order after the Mass Effect trilogy (yes it’s one game and no, it’s not cheating.) My two great hopes are a remaster of LoZ:TP and valve finally making L4D 3 @bioware.bsky.social @supergiantgames.bsky.social @blueprincegame.bsky.social @valvesoftware.com

The immense popularity of “Calvin and Hobbes,” often called “the last great newspaper comic,” can risk obscuring its many inspirations & antecedents. In both style & content, the strip is very well-versed in the rich history of comics and often pays tribute to its influences. 1/12 #CalvinAndHobbes

So this is torture, right? Why is anyone still pretending that the United States government is not engaged in a widespread campaign of torture?

The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose

Please back this, so I can get my Big Bundle of Books. Only needs $45 more to be funded, and I can vouch that three of the books are excellent! (I’m sure the others are, too, I just haven’t read them yet… because I am waiting for the kickstarter)

In my grade 10 class, some boys were talking about course planning, and career goals. They had all these beautiful dreams based on their interests and passions, like economics, but then would say, but I can't do that because it will all be Al soon. It was all I could do not to cry. Fuck AI

LOOK LOOK LOOK! This series is brilliant. Please read it!

And then we use this to guide our voting and government policy. What could go wrong

Good excuse for me to post this again:

The idea of AI being alive is something the techlords need to believe because it's the culmination of their religion. For the last many decades I've been aware of their shit and it fueled a lot of my academic writing, but it's worth repeating that everything they do is just to make slaves.

Fucking love the library. Step 1: see this amazing post Step 2: find book about the coffin texts to learn more Step 3: check the library! of course they have it. Hold placed! Step 4: call tattoo artist

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

You should get this! One of my fave books of the last few years, and such a pretty edition!

Everyone should read Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social for more about this worldview. There are people actively hoping for the “end of the world”.

Yay!! Time to start making my reading list 🏳️‍⚧️

AI is such a scam investment, I can drink three gallons of water and give you terrible advice, where’s my $60 billion?

February was a struggle month for reading, with a couple DNFs. BM and HM were comfort rereads (though first time in audio). Two standouts: The Reanimator’s Fate was an amazing conclusion to the series. The Dawnhounds is so inventive an engrossing and I can’t wait to finish the trilogy!

Just bump the stars up to 5, and this would be very similar to my own glowing review (though add in great representations of autism and trauma). I read the final book in the series this month and it managed to break through a pretty brutal reading slump. tl;dr read this book!

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

Once again.

children are dead, Mark.

Gorillaz "The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God".

All the artists credited in the YouTube caption. This is how you do it

Seeing this take a lot. My counterpoint- I think people forget that Jacob Tierney is so deeply deeply Montreal (he bleeds NDG), just cause he has an English name. And it’s not “The Metros” - it’s “Les Métros.” Just like it’s not the Canadians, it’s Les Canandiens

Can I suggest also… second act breakup? Many of Kj Charles’ books put the relationship crisis earlier, and then the reunion happens so they couple can face the larger crisis/threat as a united front. Obvs only works if you have more plot than just relationship, but magnificent when done well

Canada should not have an AI minister. We should, in fact, be banning generative AI immediately while the dangers of chatbots and the like are comprehensively reviewed. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

The “AI” we’re being peddled is really just the infinite monkey writing Shakespeare theorem, but now we’re forced to ask “how much is it going to cost to feed and clean up after that infinite monkey?” And in both cases, the amount of shit being flung is truly staggering.

5 authors by whom I’ve read at least 5 books: (Had to narrow this down to authors by whom I’ve read at least 5 books in the past year - I read too much) @kjcharleswriter.com @pretensesoup.bsky.social @authorkaraj.bsky.social @jordanlhawk.bsky.social @quicunquevult.bsky.social