Pete Kruger

And I must say, as an autistic person who has experienced this MANY times throughout my life... being told you "should have known" something you literally didn't know is one of the most exasperating and defeating things to hear.

Oh my god, THIS.

*John stabs a guy one last time*

"Well, I guess I'm all right."

@scalzi.com I'm curious to get your thoughts on the propriety (or lack thereof) of an author choosing to interact with someone who posts something on social media that they did not like the author's book.

I would say launch him into the sun, but that requires more delta V than out of the solar system and there's no call to be wasteful with propellant and reaction mass.

The piece had been up for more than a year at that point and had never been a problem.

After they succeeded, they started to just mass report everything I wrote. Things that weren't at all controversial suddenly started getting hidden for BNBR violations and I was threatened with a permaban.

The commenter took the piece over to 4Chan and Reddit and got a bunch of his buddies to mass report *my* piece. 8 separate times over 6 weeks, it was determined by the mods NOT to violate BNBR, until suddenly they changed their minds and hid the answer and gave me a temporary suspension.

One of the final straws was when I reported a Christofascist who did NOT like a piece I wrote explaining how Jerry Falwell came to be, and had commented threatening to come to my house and burn it down with me inside. Mods: "thank you for your report, we determined this does not violate BNBR."

I used to have a moderately decent following on Quora back before that turned into a hellsite. Part of why I quit was over its Be Nice, Be Respectful policy. I had no inherent problem with the policy itself, but by the time I just gave up, enforcement was utterly arbitrary.

Churches build communities with communal brick ovens A handful of churches in Minnesota are building outdoor community brick ovens to serve the faithful with fresh bread and wood-fired pizzas as a way to build community.

www.mprnews.org/story/2015/1...

I forgot MPR interviewed us about it!

When I was in law school, I helped our church build a wood fired bread oven. There's something really community-building about standing around handing out fresh baked bread to anyone who wants it, and it's a lot of fun firing it up and making stuff for it.

Duluth checking in!

Ferengi shouting "females!?"

There will never not be a time when they say this that I don't just keep flashing back to these guys:

I have never seen numbers like this! Holy moly!

I keep saying: if your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to take it away.

Live look in to the Senate Democratic Caucus this morning.

Surprising literally no lawyer who actually knows anything about the Supreme Court, yet still surprising every member of the general public.

this deal is so bad we’re getting the “your mother and i are so disappointed in you” routine from no less than human porridge matt yglesias

Fuck this shit. 40 days we have held on here for what. For WHAT. Millions still kicked off insurance with nothing better than a pinky swear they can vote on it a month from now? Chickenshit.

It is not, no.

TBF if you're my age, we were told to by default question literally everything on the internet, so glad to see our children are getting it.

I've seen your burritos, man.

Working for this administration I would imagine it's just washing down handfuls of Xanax with high proof bourbon straight from the bottle.

Which of the universes you've created is your favorite?

I bought one and it is actually quite delicious. I'm sure I have just eaten a lethal dose of Blue 5, but I can't argue with the taste.

Wat

The extrajudicial murders will continue until morale improves