reminder that something like 232,000 (per a peer reviewed study) of the US Covid deaths were Delta-wave vaccine refusers. These dupes were sacrificial pawns the conservative movement weaponized in order to sustain the pandemic and try to damage the Biden economy in 2021:

I am increasingly sick and tired of businesses trying to force me to install their proprietary apps! My phone is full! Let me print my boarding pass at the airport! Let me get a posted paper schedule for the con! YOU ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN 5,000 PICTURES OF MY CATS!

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This panel has been removed from the schedule. So yelling and snark still work, I guess.

WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN! 🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS MEN ARE MEN! 🏳️‍⚧️ ENBY ARE ENBY! 🏳️‍⚧️ PASS IT ON!

Trans kids: you are loved, you matter, you are valid. Our government us just full of losers.

Republicans say they’re targeting just criminals and gang members. Bullsh*t. They’re targeting anyone who “looks illegal," and it will only get worse. They need to make their 3,000 a day quota no matter what. #MAGAKidnappers

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

Do not give this woman a dime of your money. 1. Do not watch the new show. 2. Do not stream any of the movies (yes, that includes Fantastic Beasts) 3. Do not buy any of her books. She has a pen name Robert Galbraith. www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

*taps mic* Hey Millenials! You know what we're not gonna do? We're not gonna fucking watch that new HBO Harry Potter show because R*owling is a reprehensible human/transphobe/acephobe and we're not giving her money. Okay? OKAY?! Yes, I mean *you*. Also read a different book. Hell, *write* one.

Victim complex

Why TF do I have to give explicit consent for cookies every five minutes but stealing my writing to feed the slop chatbots is opt-out?

(I will be shocked if this hasn't been made already ...) #Hermitcraft #HC10 #HermitcraftSpoilers #ZombieCleo #Grian

And to be so very clear, JKR has openly stated that the money she makes from Harry Potter (in all its forms, right now) goes directly to conservative and specifically anti-trans causes. Do not financially engage with Harry Potter. Don't even engage with it for free. It's a Faustian IP, do not.

Women being filed in YA when they're not is a major problem in speculative fiction, a genre with candy-colored covers and concepts that appeal to kids. It just gets parents mad at us when they give their children our books and assume a safety we never promised.

Some ore snatcher suspects ... #Hermitcraft #Hermitcraft10 #Cubfan135 #ZombieCleo #Goodtimeswithscar #JoeHills (old-ish art previously posted to Tumblr and Reddit)

"Right now, trans people—and trans young people, especially—are facing an attack on their rights and well-being. And [Harry Potter author] JK Rowling is one of the loudest voices leading the charge against them." bookriot.com/open-letter-...

So basically the same people who say racism no longer exists in america did this thing where they started using dei as a euphemism so they can get black people fired from jobs

Almost 20 years ago, a doctor on TV was asked, "Isn't 12 a little early for a kid to be deciding to transition?" And her response was, "It's old enough for them to decide that it's not worth living anymore if they can't." That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.

Folks. I am still telling jokes on the internet like a doofus. I want to explain why I am telling jokes like a doofus when people, especially marginalized people but also everyone else, are being slowly pulled apart by the most ghastly people imaginable. The answer is, for my mental health. 1/

Washington State friends: There’s a bill proposed to outlaw gender affirming care for minors in Washington. It's currently open for public comment. Please go add your voice. app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1038

Started talking to a friend about why I don't like Xander and ended up loudly declaring that Buffy/Faith should have been canon. XD

As long as everyone washes their hands, I’m good.

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

Subway is owned by a private equity firm that raised the prices on their $5 footlongs up to $14. Now the price back down to $6.99. It was never about “inflation.” It was a private equity firm using inflation as an excuse to price gouge customers. Always expose corporate greed.

Brie says hi.