Dorian

*stares in Southern California*

"We believe in decentralized self-moderation...NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

"We are shutting down the follwer labeler but this has nothing to do with Bluesky mods having a crash out when it flagged all the racists and transphobes they follow."

Cmon.

There is never a bad time to wear a Dolly shirt.
That being said, if Dolly does die, I'm pretty sure that kicks off The Event.

Looks like I'm going to have to explain to a bunch of people the difference between CHIPS, ABA, and SWIFT again, and why, yes, it is actually important that we send out a nine digit number to the system expecting a nine digit number and we can't "vibe code" that shit.

Treasury / accounts payable / accounts receivable

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

A ★★★★ review of Carry On Teacher (1959) Is it sentimental? Yes, it is extremely saccharine, but it's also briskly plotted and very funny, though much of it is very of it's era. It's a delight.

My ★★★★ review of Carry On Teacher on Letterboxd boxd.it/biIH3F

At some point, even for the most tech bro brained, you have to wonder if having literally everyone yelling at you all the time is worth it to keep around a guy you already changed the rules to keep around.

Every day it's a new person from Bluesky leadership taking a turn to say that they take harrassment and negative user experience seriously, and yet, the literal one guy they could toss out of here to prove it...remains here.

Shelved by Genre is the show.
I mostly like it and Just King Things but this is raising red flags about the quality of their research.

"This a weird digression with funny animal aliens."
Yeah, Alan Moore definitely isn't drawing comparisons between his work and an earlier comic that discussed environmentalism and fascism, he'd never do something like that in a subtle way.

It makes me SERIOUSLY reconsider other podcasts by these guys I've listened to.
I dont expect an average person to be familiar with Pogo, but if you're doing a *critical analysis of Swamp Thing* maybe get a copy of a Kelly book from the library.

"Why are these characters using such florid language?"
Because that's the cadence of Walt Kelly comics.
"Why is the spaceship called Find The Lady?"
Because it's a pun on the pun of Churchy LaFemme.
"Why do they look like Bone?"
Oh fuck you.

Had to pause listening to a podcast episode because the hosts were bagging on the "Pog" issue of SWAMP THING in a way that made it clear they had no fucking idea what Pogo was, other than a comic strip, in a way that makes the entire discussion suspect and meritless.

Newsom is a NON-VIABLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. None of the quippy clapback posts mean a goddamn thing if he is willing to throw the queer community under the bus at any opportunity he gets to do so.

Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question: Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers? Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’ expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important, the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception of se…

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Both Bari and MattY quit their jobs and pretended they were fired so they could promote their substacks. Neither have ever been cancelled or interesting

Okay, that's a fair cop...

I am not understating how horny for Sal Mineo this is...

Vinegar Syndrome has WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? for 50% off today, and that is a banger of a feel-bad film. Looks gorgeous, written by DOOM PATROL creator Arnold Drake, and EXTREMELY horny for Sal Mineo being only part of its queerness.

If someone with "former FBI" in their bio is telling you the "correct" way to protest, absolutely do not do that.

Oh my God, look at this rando dipshit going on and on about why stealing and non-consensually sharing nudes from multiple users isn't that big of a deal!

*Finger to ear*

I'm being informed that he's the head of Bluesky Trust and Safety.

These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ.

Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.

@lizzieohreally.bsky.social

That was ret-retconned with a "are you nuts, the rebels disintegrated all the debris" aside in another comic, because even Star Wars comics writers knew it was sour grapes too far.

It is 2025, there is no excuse for you to be wilfully naive about how news organizations compose headlines and select photos.

"But its contextualuzed in the article!"
They absolutely did not choose that as the lead photo in order to provide context.

So CNN used a photo from LA over 30 years ago to illustrate this article and I'm struggling to see any possible justification for that other than propaganda purposes.

A ★★½ review of Carry On Nurse (1959) Some nice gags, but it really is just a collection of gags with some card-board characters and a sheen of "niceness" over some mildly risqué jokes.

My ★★½ review of Carry On Nurse on Letterboxd boxd.it/bieHPf

A ★★★ review of When a Stranger Calls (1979) First act is an all timer. The rest? Well, that first act was really good.

My ★★★ review of When a Stranger Calls on Letterboxd boxd.it/bicjjP