As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

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Isabelle Allende's The House of the Spirits was the first book that made me cry (like, a lot) and absolutely taught me that you can really put your reader through something if you like

One thing I appreciate (in light of reading this excellent article) about Doctor Who is that the primary antagonists - Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans - all used to be people, but at some point chose to become monsters. They are not just an alien threat, but what we humans could be if we're not careful.

Hells yeah, the eye is back! Who else is on Team Eye

People are dunking on this, but I do think there is a kernel of a point here: if you kill James Bond, shouldn't that... mean something? If he's just gonna be back a few years later as if nothing happened, doesn't that kinda encourage viewers not to care about anything that happens in those films?

Btw you can still donate to support queer writers in Tāmaki Makaurau! So many cool writer's involved in this thing!

the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.

In case Alex's post is too subtle APOLOGISE TO TAMATHA PAUL THIS INSTANT YOU COWARDS

This is an empirical and appalling measure of how far victims have to go for accountability from the senior ranks of the police, it is literally now evidenced that you need an 'I'LL DO TIME' online-harassment-case level of vengeance-seeking. It shouldn't be like this.

Spoilers for Welcome to Derry, but: I am very much enjoying the whole "let's sic The Shining on Pennywise and see what happens" thing.

This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to. She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.

putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?

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That the Free Speech Union's conference audience is applauding the suggestion of basically banning non-Christian religions should pretty much put an end to their being taken seriously by media as a voice for principled free speech advocacy. But it won't

I particularly hate the suggestion there's some sort of grand bargain in which trans rights are given up in exchange for _______. No one is offering such a thing. No one would change their vote to Dems after that. The argument exists solely to justify throwing trans people under the bus.

I can't emphasize enough that Auckland CBD will look like dogshit even if you brutalize a few unhoused people.

If you see this and wish to post four female characters you love

She smiles and says "I will always love you"

Predator Badlands is kind of a masterpiece of setup and payoff. The kind of functional script that Hollywood often seems to find a bit challenging to produce these days. Also "the Predator has to team up with someone for a difficult hunt" is a slam dunk of a premise, amazing it's never been done.

If I have an actual deadline then I will set myself some goals. If I'm just writing for myself then it'll just take as long as it takes.

A new draft of what I'm currently calling Kinley Martin and the Cloven Eye is all done as of this week and is in pretty good shape. Probably about ready for someone else to look at and spot all the problems I haven't yet.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

I've spend so long working on revisions to things, I forgot that how labour intensive a first draft can be. Five pages worth of new material actually takes it out of you a bit.

Not for me. I prefer to set a certain amount of time aside to write and if I produce a lot of material, great! If I don't, well, I probably made progress in other ways. Sometimes you have a problem to solve that's going to take time and fixing it is as good as producing a certain amount of words

Who are they planning on working with exactly? All the Trump friendly celebrities are, like, 80 years old or Zachary Levy.

Btw you can still donate to support queer writers in Tāmaki Makaurau! So many cool writer's involved in this thing!

Went and got a measles shot since there's some ambiguity around whether I got one or two doses as a kid. They said I should just go ahead and get a second one in four weeks to be safe. So if you've been uncertain about whether you need the jab, you really may as well!

When on earth in any of the films are they called "Yautja"? Where did that even come from? Cos' if it's just some comic or whatever, I need people to cut that nonsense out. (and Xenomorph isn't even a name, it's just a faux-scientific way of saying Alien, there's no reason to not just say Alien).

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

We're spending six million dollars to get some restaurants a good review

New Zealand has the highest youth suicide rate of all the 38 countries in the OECD #nzpol

I mean this is true, but I cannot emphasize enough how much I loathe that in order to sell art these days you first have to sell yourself. I do not actually want my work to be the extension of some online persona. Hate it, utterly.

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

“our new audiobook series features an inclusive range of actors from cis-identifying biological females to afab-exclusive nonbinaries“ buddy, just say “wombyn” this is taking forever

The girl Sea Devil has a human face and no beak because, as biologists know, females of all species are born with lips for kissing.

The implicit message behind all AI is: "you are useless, you couldn't even send an email if it wasn't for our products. Be thankful we exist to make you basically functional."

Pretty sure the Democrats decided a while ago they were absolutely down with being a puppet opposition and are really mad that people like Mamdani are fucking it up for them

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Oliver Reed in Gladiator, Noel Coward in The Italian Job, Leonard Nimoy in Transformers: Dark of the Moon...

"happy potter is just part of the culture now just accept-" no. fuck off. lots of things were "part of the culture" that just are fucking NOT RELEVANT anymore. stuff that DIDN'T fund a bigot's plans for genocide even.

Oh my god they're gonna get the machine that can't tell how many fingers you have to try and guess what sort of junk you've got and then, presumably, arrest people accordingly. I don't think even the most demented sci-fi author could have predicted this future.

I don't actually need another project to work on but I bashed out two pages of something over the weekend and annoyingly I think I could write the whole thing right now

Also Harry Potter adults really ought to be ostracised and I mean that with my whole chest because if you can casually support it then that means you’re cool with supporting its creator against trans folks so please go house sort yourself into a bin where you belong.

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Good thing: I've lost 7kg since the start of this year! Bad thing: literally most of my clothes don't fit anymore Good thing: I now get to go buy new clothes! Bad thing: despite this obvious justification I still feel guilty about spending the money