Running Double

A COVID-19 test with a negative result, photographed against my hotel room end table.

I've begun the first day of @seattlein2025.org the same way I've begun all recent Worldcons — by doing my due diligence and checking I won't turn this year's gathering into a modern Masque of the Red Death. And so far, all seems copacetic. I look forward to hanging with my found family today!

Abortion bans are not about objection to abortion, but about objection to women’s autonomy and freedom from male control. The anti-choice movement often has no objection to abortions that are instigated and commanded by men.

A fun kind of person is the kind of person who thinks that because of Unite the Right, Charlottesville is some sort of Nazi haven where they all just spontaneously decided to rally, and not a place where most of the attendees came from out of state

being president is actually not unskilled labor. for more information turn any television set to a news channel

Wah wah! Why are the kids on their phones? Where shall they congregate that’s not a family basement???? There are zero all-ages concert venues, no malls and no coffee shops open to 10 that allow people to hang out. There isn’t even a Dennys open 24 hrs near me for theater nerds.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a work of sci-fi fantasy about teens who have access to a safe all-ages club and restaurant where they can see popular contemporary musicians play their new singles. Outside there might be demons.

In the last decade there has been a complete elimination of spaces that anyone under the age of 21 are allowed to occupy without risk of contempt. There are zero third spaces for teens. This shit is just the addition of gutter racism.

Related: no rightwing person for the rest of our living lives is allowed to play victim on any topic. The immediate answer is “you guys created an unprecedented police state as soon as you had the controls in your hands.”

Audience for a Long COVID conference all wearing masks

This is what the audience for a Long COVID conference looked like today. Notice anything? 😷

I think it’s cool that my city gets to be 1970s Belfast because an intern got his shit rocked by a teenage girl

The national guard in a Black neighborhood is not a distraction, okay? That’s fascism.

Yall are waiting for the “big thing” and he’s building it in your face.

Are exposed to classic novels, old sitcoms, movies & horror. Simpsons references are how my kids recognize lots of ideas when they encounter them later. I’m 45, the same is true for me! I was 9 when the show started.

You can read Lovecraft Country or Ring Shout without reading The Call of Cthulhu

Especially with sci-fi when you read “the canon” you read a very narrow slice of author. Part of the instinct is to understand who modern writers are in conversation with. I have a great answer for that: The Simpsons. Simpsons parodies, references and allusions are often how kids first…

Divorce him already, Usha JD Vance and his wife really seem to loathe each other

New piece I've been dying to write for eons now. JD and Usha Vance seem to hate each other, and barely bother to conceal it.

This is no way to live your life. But JD Vance wants this misery for everyone.

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Photo of a guy in a kayak or canoe smiling and giving a thumbs up. He has a mustache, and a blue zip fleece, and is wearing a Sierra Nevada hat.

Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added...

The story about Big Balls is perfect for this moral panic because he got his ass kicked by actual children so there is no other version than the one cobbled together by Trump and Musk.

The zoo in Seattle has a whole child-free Saturday this summer to which is said “what the fuck.”

So kids can’t be at restaurants, in museums in stores or at the zoo which is currently hosting animatronic dinosaurs.

the republican party actively encouraged vaccine skepticism in the hopes that more people would die in order to deny the biden admin credit for ending the pandemic and it more or less completely worked

Rewriting theology to reinforce the whole "empathy is a sin" crap, I take it?

My dad told me a story about having a drink with Mr Lovell at some local dive bar when this sequence was being filmed for The Man who Fell to Earth back in the 1970's.
My dad said Mr. Lovell had a lot to say about space and what he saw there...
I'll leave it at that.
Rest in peace, spaceman.

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

A billion sprinklers just so summer can cosplay as spring.

Is this what France felt like in the late 1700s?

Seems like the type of place where people plan to throw dildos.

Extremism is the belief that an in-group’s success or survival can never be separated from the need for causing harm to an out-group.

lmao this is so good for mamdani

Some good news

Crabs in a bucket.

some guy who won the Nobel for particle physics or something is going to get black bagged by an 11th grader named Bracen Walmart