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150yds is an easy shot with a rifle, the kind any army recruit (or in the usa, most hunters) could make after basic training. Source: my dad, who did his National Service in the 1960s with a Browning. I assume modern rifles & sights would make it even easier. Don't believe conspiracies. Sigh

I can absolutely support the complete overthrow of the WSFS/Worldcon constitution while decrying the overthrow of the US constitution.

Because one is a fan convention with a governance problem.

And the other is a real thing that affects real people.

Hugo Award opinions don't cause deportations

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D'ya ever think how wild it is that a small panther can live inside your house? A tiny lion, only domesticated in the loosest sense, can show up one day, and it's your boss now? It's an entire predator, instincts honed for the hunt, and now it has its head down in your glass of water?

Photo of a large black cat. He is crouched over a plush toy of a nerve cell, and his mouth is open to yell.

He is at it* again.

(Bringing me his one neuron and screaming.)

Every feminist I know supports their sisters, cis and trans, and their non-binary siblings, concerned with domestic violence, public safety, equal pay, employment protection, access to healthcare, and other discrimination issues. Obsessing over who uses which loo isn't feminism. It's bigotry.

Petition: Commission a public inquiry into the impact of the UK exiting the European Union Given that it has stated its aim of growing the UK economy, we think the Government needs to quantify the effects of exiting the European Union as soon as possible by setting up an inquiry.

Petition: Commission a public inquiry into the impact of the UK exiting the European Union petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Mamdani can be your number 5! But if you don’t want Cuomo the strategic choice is to put Mamdani somewhere on your ballot.

Guys it’s not enough to just not rank Cuomo; you should also rank five candidates who are better than Cuomo — and, realistically, rank Mamdani since he’s the best positioned to defeat Cuomo

29.3°C in Kew. First of May. ffs

Watching all the people so happy to see the sun and feeling like Sarah Connor 😩

#ActNow #ClimateActionNow

🌡️ Un épisode de chaleur précoce concerne le pays cette semaine, avec une hausse progressive des températures, qui sera particulièrement marquée au nord.

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Hear me out….

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My anthropology professor brought up that Bonobo chimps are our closest primate relatives, genetically speaking.

Mina, I yearn for the bonobo-inspired matriarchy.

Our cover this week.

Before there were trains there was ship autism

Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue Former Substack writers who exited the platform in early 2024 are making more money on Beehiiv and Ghost thanks to their fixed pricing models.

Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost.

I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.

Writing a chatgpt prompt is not a skill, nor is it transferrable. As OP said, we don't teach courses on microwaving. The only thing about genAI we should be teaching are the reasons why we shouldn't use it.

“A.I. makes art accessible.” Art has always been accessible. There was like a six month period where I drew all the sketches for my comics with a lined notebook from the grocery store and a random green marker.

Makes me love Booker even more. ❤️

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Oh god, my less than zero interest in Dune means that I thought when you all said "Butlerian jihad" you were talking about some aspect of Judith Butler's writing that I was unfamiliar with.

Personally I think the Commonwealth countries have suffered enough under power mad colonialist dictators and also pretty sure nobody wants him

I am reading an essay called Male-Male Desire in Pharaonic Egypt (by Alex Clayden) which is actually pretty good but I just need to draw attention to this little gem of a pick-up line nfr.wj-phwj = kj "How beautiful are thy buttocks!"32 rhazade-waterbender Attention, followers: you now know how to write "nice ass" in hieroglyphics.

I was late to work today because I decided to try and read the full essay

Big win overnight for the coalition that won the reinstatement of tens of thousands of wrongly fired feds — & that we are proud to be part of. Judge reverses his earlier ruling and finds that unions have standing to bring their claims in fed court & are not “channeled” into administrative remedies.

"Some say that children like my son should learn to cope with the world “the way it is”. I’d ask those people to recall when in their adult lives they have been forced daily into an environment they find uncomfortable, even distressing, with 30 of their peers, and told they must learn to cope..."

Comic book cover showing Captain America punching Hitler. Text reads, "Smashing thru, Captain America came face to face with Hitler..."

The response was entirely positive, so let the Nazi Punch of the Day begin. It seems appropriate to start with a classic. This is from Captain America Comics #1. The cover date was March 1941, but from what I've read, it was on the shelves several months earlier.

#NPD #NaziPunching

We are knee deep in fascism and people are, in March (damn near April) 2025, starting substacks to… resist fascism??

You can’t do it. IT CANNOT BE DONE.

You can’t resist fascism when you pay 10% of your revenue to the Nazi bar which then literally pays revenue to Nazis. You’re buying Nazis drinks.

“I already have lots of subscribers”

YOU CAN MOVE THEM TO YOUR NEW PLACE. IT IS VERY EASY.