Janie Larson

One thing that was helpful to me was seeing that racism is a spectrum and not a binary. You can still be racist if you don’t belong to the Klan and use the N word. You can work on being closer to the good end of the spectrum.

Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing | Moira Donegan The latest tranche of files expose how he was viewed as a sexual svengali – and an expert on dodging the #MeToo movement, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan

I wrote about the powerful men who sought out Jeffrey Epstein for dating advice and went to him to help navigate their own sexual misconduct scandals after his 2008 conviction on child sex abuse charges.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Young Anton Chekhov, the playwright, looking super hot in his 20s

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Everywhere he goes he causes problems.

Husband is going out of town for a week so I am making a bunch of crusty bread to have with cheese and Irish butter.

tucking my string cheese behind my ear like a cigarette while i work so my cat doesn't steal it

society in general needs to learn how to be wrong again.

like... nobody can accept when someone points out what's wrong with their opinions. nobody can accept when the politician they're supporting does something bad. no one can admit they made a mistake.

they always have to be right.

Here is a thing:

There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.

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When I got my current pugs I was shocked to discover they were completely different than my previous pugs. I am now somewhat realizing that dogs have their own personalities and it’s not just the breed that determines their personality. 😅

One thing I deeply appreciate about AMADEUS is it's one of the few films that accurately depicts the creative process (being clammy, pale, and sitting in your bed).

We have not had a normal nomination process since 2008. People are pissed after multiple cycles of not holding white collar criminals accountable for even an armed insurrection against the country. Our someone up promising Nuremberg trials and people will vote for them.

2024: It’s clear the oligarchs are rigging the election for Trump and Biden can’t win, so he pulls out at the last minute and shoves Harris in front of the trolley. He additionally saddles her with his losing team and strategy to make sure she fails.

2008: Hillary thinks the nomination was stolen from her.
2016: Everyone colluded to clear the decks so only Hillary could get the nomination.
2020: Everyone was terrified of another Trump election so they chose a bland unobjectionable placeholder candidate.
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Trump's FBI raid in Georgia is potential model for getting search warrant to seize 2026 ballot boxes, says @rickhasen.bsky.social.

"Once those ballots are out of control of election officials we’ve lost chain of custody."

On the pod Rick illuminatingly explains all:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...

I asked a lefty in 2024 who they wanted and they refused to answer me. They said anyone that they would find acceptable would be unelectable. They were pretty condescending about it too. 😒

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:

In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

When I was a journalism major I wanted to do radio but we only had TV news in our department. I would be dragged from outside in the rain and shoved in front of the camera out of breath and sopping wet for my audition and then be told they were going with the Ken doll in my class instead. 😑

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

He can never be happy because he cares more about other people thinking he's cool than being happy. he's so incapable of joy he pays people to play games for him.

I know this is a profoundly unoriginal take, but this is why Shakespeare is still awesome: the times change, but people don’t. When performed, rather than read, his work is a portal demonstrating the unity of humanity across time and space. There is comfort and tragedy in that reality.

Before I became a programmer I was trying to launch a video production company called “What Would Janie Do” but everyone assumed I was weirdly religious. I was a decade too early! 🤣

My ex-husband was friends with someone I am convinced was a money launderer. My ex kept berating me for not making oodles of money on innocuous things like his friend was and the money he was making in the way he said so made absolutely no sense. 😑

PROFESSIONAL ANIMATOR: i do hate Adobe basically deciding to kill a format BUT on the other hand i always kinda hated flash/animate as a program BUT on the other other hand, no other animation program has REALLY fully figured out the vector animation workflow like flash did. yet. so its complicated

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm. Essential reading, now more than ever.

Violating hospitality is one of the oldest proscriptions across so many cultures.

He plays Odysseus in Troy and I think he’s one of the few characters to canonically survive the Trojan War. 😂

in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich