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Broadly the most interesting stories left to tell in Star Wars are

1) Reconstruction in canon

and

2) Droid Personhood

and KOTOR 2 touches upon both (latter minimally and in restored content) but they're themes largely untapped in the broader saga. What does post-war look like?

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Hello does anyone want to fund my one woman startup to make sure 25 tech bros don't blot out the sun

“They can’t do that! The ADA protects you!”

People love to say this when you tell them you’ve been discriminated against or mistreated for being disabled

Just because someone technically shouldn’t do something, doesn’t mean they won’t

Dealing with discrimination is a part of being disabled

In Marvel comics, Thanos & Deadpool are both attracted to Death (depicted as Grim Reaper vs. conventionally attractive), but it's presented as odd, thus furthering your point

Insufficient is the gentlest way to state it. They should be trying to destroy that shit instead of making it more palatable, more normalized. We shouldn’t be experiencing this shit at all; making them seem like regular cops is NOT gonna fix shit.

Engaging in malicious compliance to teach interfaith political organizing during the Civil Rights Movement and reading Letter from a Birmingham Jail to highlight King’s criticism of southern white Christians for abandoning their Black co-religionists.

I've always wanted to be president so I could force the revival of a racist but entertaining martial arts movie franchise

Postscript to an Open Marriage: On Lily Allen’s West End Girl by Jean Garnett November 20, 2025 – “Whatever else it is (frequently delightful, well crafted, et cetera), West End Girl strikes me as a rather neat, crowd-pleasing, bias-confirming presentation of nonmonogamy that c...

The idea here is that a woman’s resentment of male mistreatment amounts to a childish demand for “emotional safety” (I’d call it respect) & that a more mature, enlightened approach defers to male sexual entitlement. I thought we were past this kind of thing. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...

Anyway a reminder, as always, to my straight women friends that the competitive masochism schtick is optional and you can stop doing it at any time. 💘🙏🏻

The managing director of adafruit doxxing customers is certainly a look.

Not the look of a successful company with a future in the community, but a look nonetheless.

There are many, many Larry Summers in all fields of academia, we just don’t see their emails.

The impact of sexual harassment is not just the trauma of the incident, but also the potential retribution of thwarting career advancement by the harasser in power.

On the plus side, I’m on a history of medicine kick and can recommend both “unwell women” by Elinor cleghorn and “period” by Kate Clancy - both intersectional and trans inclusive! Avoid “all in her head” by Elizabeth comen, which is what that quote is from (and it gets way worse from there)

you get a lot of force dropping 5 to 6 feet at a time, i imagine they'll pop off on their own if it's done right

They learned that they'll barely even get a slap on the wrist or uninvited from parties 🤮

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Destabilize The Entire Western Hemisphere And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't

it is happening again theonion.com/this-war-wil...

How to Topple Maduro And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.

I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

“I had been exposed to any number of exceptional Black people with great voices for justice and freedom and equality ... So this thing is kind of organic. It isn’t something that I decided one day, ‘Black people are oppressed’ or something. I already knew that.”

Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati

it's wild to watch this happening in a situation where we've had no prior military engagements with the country or recent attack to even drum up a public desire for vengeance. nothing at all is going down but Trump is clearly trying to push Iraq 2.0 on the country.

Is there any point, when you’re threatening to break a judge’s car windows so you can detain the teenage Supreme Court intern he’s driving home for protection, that you’re like huh, maybe I’m the bad guy?

If you’ve ever seen a baby struggle to breathe, you know it’s just brutal to watch. Or, in the case of a Trump administration demonizing safe vaccines and making immigrants fear to go in to the doctor, a perfectly fine policy outcome

Lest you think killing kids by spreading anti-scientific conspiracy theories is an institutional decision, let me be very clear: it is my decision!

Restricting the availability of puberty blockers to trans kids but allowing them for cis kids is a blatant violation of NZBORA (1990) and the Human Rights Act (1993).

This will undoubtedly end up in court - very quickly as the subject of a Judicial Review.

Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum acceptable policy.

you would think that a new york times columnist writing regularly about the fact that the vice president pals around with neo-nazis would prompt literally anyone to do some reported work. but nope!

Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

Saying "ICE, Border Patrol, and DHS must pay for their grave sins against the country" would have made people nervously look at their feet and shuffle away at a party a few years ago but now grandma will do shots with you if you say this stuff.

It continues to bother me how much Leopold II, one of the most evil men of all time and a ghoul on par with Hitler, is so completely ignored

Pretty certain it's Highlander rules