Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️

Just found out about a fanfic wherein John Brown is Isekai'd into a standard harem-anime fantasy setting, becomes outraged at all the slavery this entails, so launches a holy war on all these slavers in his newfound environment. My only concern is the story can't possibly be as good as the premise.

The cover of the paperback is shown at the left of a bright yellow card bearing the text “One of the most interesting books I read this year”. The quote is from the Guardian’s best book’s summary of 2018.

It’s the middle of LGBT History Month so a good moment to remind everyone that my book, Trans Britain — a modern history fashioned from the observations of generations of contributors — is still going strong in paperback and eBook form in its ninth year. It’s […]

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you come on the king, you best not miss

friends, I am in no way kidding when I say this might be my masterpiece for the year

Why couples are flocking to White Castle and Waffle House for Valentine’s Day Every February 14, these two beloved — but also widely mocked — budget fast food chains lay out the tablecloths and take reservations. Io Dodds meets the married parents, wild young lovers and small-t...

EDITOR: hey how's that fast food story going?

ME: ...god. my god. it's so beautiful?? to be human, to be alive on this earth. the spectrum of our romances is impossibly broad; yet at heart we all just want to love and be loved.

EDITOR: what

ME: brb crying

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Charles Entertainment Tingle

although doing all these repairs this evening has definitely made me better appreciate how fun it would be to be the one disassembling too 👀

RIGHT??? it is the dream

A very large Bluetooth speaker, partially disassembled with the top of it lifted off so that you can see the circuit board and wiring inside. Nothing has been disconnected, suggesting that it would still work perfectly well, just in this weird state of mechanical vulnerability

me and who

“sex is whatever lets us keep the transgenders in their box”

Thank you! Just popped you a quick follow up question

Ach my bad! Getting confused with all the folks I’m contacting. That works too, article is about both stores. Saw your email — thanks for your help!

@theratkingscrew.bsky.social Hello! Hope all's well. Not sure how actrive you are on X nowadays so I'll ask here too — could I interview you for @the-independent.com about your Waffle House Valentine's Day date a few years back? Deadline 12pm ET tomorrow. Thanks for yr time! x.com/TheRatKingsC...

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You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you'll have sore boobs for a while NGL and you'll probably cry a lot, oh and people will be awful! But also it'll be pretty good, honestly. Much better orgasms.

To be recorded is the death of your life as a First Person experience. The camera makes it Third Person forever. That's why the act of recording film is called "shooting"

wait can someone please explain the gamergate connection

This seems to vindicate my theory that Americans in 2024 were willing to entertain “mass deportation” because they were wildly wrong about how many people actually fit the category “people I personally think deserve to be deported”.

Because surely Trump couldn’t mean deporting innocents. Right?

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**

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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Today is the 10th anniversary of this gif of me showing how to make games on TV.

The problem with this narrative, which is everywhere, is that it presupposes that if Trump had simply asked to be able to station more troops in Greenland, the Danes would have said No.

Not sure how many of my followers are in Australia, but I feel moved to share this out of solidarity with my people*

* girls with self-hosted servers whose storage is measured in tens of terabytes†

† only 20TB for me so far 😳

Oh yeah this was a massive fucking scandal over there! Possibly one of the all time most damaging computer snafus (although I admit this is a crowded field)

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Scenario: a friend or family member is having surgery with an overnight stay and you are going to be their hospital advocate. Here is your packing list:

- a change of clothes for you both
- all their meds in original bottles in case the hospital pharmacy can't source something they take

Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.

“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do.

ME: How are you supposed to do it?

MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck.

BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.

oh man, some time I gotta tell you about my gender questioning self quant routine back in the day