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Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Anyway, Wendy Carlos is still alive and that's wonderful 💜

This image and caption on the Wikipedia page for “Deely Bobber” is filling me with life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deely_b...

"We need to make personal control over your media cool again. If you go home with someone and they don't have a Plex server, don't fuck them" —John Waters, probably

The essayists are getting sharper, I think.

if you've never seen this and think it's made up or doesn't happen enough to Be A Thing, i encourage you to more vocally than you're used to doing correct a cis person you know who considers themselves "a good person," and see how they react

I saw a little girl (6?) in a Dalmatian dotted sun dress and dog ears. She noticed me and proudly yelled "I'm a dog! Arf! Arf! Arf!"

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

art of 12 Angry Men, an all-timer

I was talking to some very smart & friendly cis lesbians the other day, and even they didn’t know: there is really no such thing as “trans healthcare.” There does not exist a pharmaceutical or treatment that is “just for trans people.” None. Pass it on to your cis friends! They just don’t know!!

I describe things SO OFTEN as "like a French Stewart ass pair of shoes" and every time I have to stop and remind myself not everyone has read the "Please stop roasting my goddamn shoes" thread, my favorite Twitter thread of all time

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

Jesus, praying, in his "take this cup away from me" moment: "It's just, I don't want to be that guy who goes around being like 'I am literally the son of God.'"

HAPPY PRIDE, EVERYBODY old.reddit.com/r/ladyladybo...

the basic premise of yuri is that you have two girls, right. and then they take a bath together

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

i got the idea what if roll and rockman were the same person happy pride shes genderfluid #rockman #roll #megaman

Imagine you’re a therapist for a young trans woman who just recently came out, and you find out your client’s father purchased an entire social media platform for the sole purpose of abusing her

Good morning, it’s pride month!

Apple ][ forever

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Sometimes iNaturalist photos crack me up. Others melt my heart. Here is a blurry carpenter ant who dislikes paparizi and a queen looking for a place to hide in a harsh world. Amazingly the first photo can be identified, because of the hairy gaster. The queen […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

-Wile E. Coyote

Meal-Morial Madness, the best video game charity marathon that you might not yet know about, is in one week! I made a video saying why this event and Feeding America is so important to me: youtu.be/uzRmaO-dHgk

I do some freelance academic editing and one of the things I offer is checking the citations for existence and making then conform to the correct style sheet or style guide. I understand why it's a needed service and if you have money to support your tenure bid, PLEASE hire someone like me.

I’ve said it many times, but it’s worth repeating: Ramona Quimby is one of the greatest female characters in literature, up there with Emma Bovary.

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Invasion

God forbid a woman be a renewable energy innovator

LEVEL 1: The text supports a transgender reading of the protagonist. LEVEL 2: The text supports a transgender reading of the author. LEVEL 3: The text supports a transgender reading of the reader.

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

Last week @dodecahedron.bsky.social made this when I was feeling very bad. I want y'all to have it, too. Has alt text and everything, ready to copy, download, quote, etc. Because it's true! Be excellent to each other.

Dental hygienist Karen Hoyland, 34, delivered the devastating news with her standard chipper nonchalance but was shocked and disturbed by the gravity of her patient, 27-year-old Emma Bernard’s, response.

Copy editors, who needs them, exhibit A this morning in the NYT

💭 "dodecahedron" is japanese for "bigass hedron"

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I really like the most popular cat names in china

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

it's so fun how a cishet white guy will be abhorrent and then all these other cishet white guys show up to be like "you are all being really mean and unfair, he's never treated ME poorly"

LOL

Here's another watercolor I made for myself a few years back. Big hearts to everyone it might resonate with. 💜

My 14yo and I were having a conversation about apes and monkeys when in a serious scientific fact voice they say "Monkeys are so silly that what horses consider play, monkeys consider business."

Anyway, please read it. I worked really hard!!! This is a real labor of love: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

A reality show where a team of crack investigators track down online trolls and bullies and force them to confront their victims in person.

Why are you trans? (Wrong answers only.) *holds flashlight under chin* Hetero cis men, beware. If you watch too much lesbian porn...YOU BECOME ONE. If your first reaction was "ooh that would be fun actually"...uh oh!

me and my friends getting "left behind" by AI