uncertain delights

£1000 for trans kids?

🏴‍☠️🫡 ofmd fans are legendary for generosity! Donate at the link below & RT to spread the word:

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and here's a screenshot of @happybirthdaycon.bsky.social's post explaining how to report your donation so it counts toward the #happybirthdaycon🦄 total:

YouTube video by Hank Green RFK jr. Loves This Vaccine (He Doesn’t Understand it At All)

Great video from @hankgreen.bsky.social about RFK Jr's bizarre "universal vaccine" comments youtu.be/QTXFcrmwSDs?...

if there’s not already a podcast covering the frankly astonishing number of spy novels in the world written by people who used to be spies who you’d think maybe weren’t supposed to be out here breezily talking about that stuff, we should start one. I would smash that subscribe button so fast

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I figure I am fair game for Dadness, and it's the music of my youth too 😂

New Orleans is Sinking - Tragically Hip

The Polari Prize issued a statement saying it believes its longlistees can hold “different positions on substantive issues.” This is like long listing a racist with authors of color then telling everyone it’s a mere “different position on a substantive issue”. Trans people are a fact. Not an “issue”

Cheering for you!

10 questions you should ask your interviewer The way some job candidates handle the portion of the interview where it’s their turn to ask questions has always surprised me. A lot of people don’t have many questions at all — which is ill-advised ...

This particular article has been useful to me, although it's about questions for you to ask them, but poke around on her blog, maybe? She's got lots of sane, kind advice.

www.askamanager.org/2018/11/10-q...

FWIW this was introduced in the senate, not parliament. It’s a good idea to tell your MP you’re opposed now so they’re primed to be against it in case it makes it to parliament, but MP’s aren’t discussing or voting on it now www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en...

Age verification is a privacy disaster. Let's NOT follow the U.K. down the road of "upload sensitive personal data so you can view Wikipedia!"

The car-is-a-dick metaphor usually gets at least a tiny bit of plausible deniability. Congratulations buddy, that's the worst anyone's ever done it!

More trans girls in sports. More trans girls in crafts. More trans girls in art. More trans girls at the book club. More trans girls at the ttrpg association. More trans girls at the birdwatching club. More trans girls at the model UN. More trans girls absolutely everywhere society is taking place.

Gender is a performance and I'm in the lobby checking my watch.

Cursed.

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Soup. Soup I never noticed it. Now it is 100% of everything I am looking at.

Nah, babe. I mean, I hear your feeling and the feeling is real and distressing and I am sending you a hug about it. But I also gotta disagree. Those are the brain raccoons talking.

Listening to Network Effect (the Murderbot novel) again and have spotted what might be coincidence or might be references to a) Aliens and b) Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day. Nobody tell me if I'm wrong, it's too funny.

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The texture of this one is great. So many sensory details.

Five Stories by themainthings, a short reconciliation story--I like the way it feels so tightly closed down and then blooms all the way open at the end.

archiveofourown.org/works/38265352

I want to link some early stories! O happy living things by tiptory:

archiveofourown.org/works/37989100

Oh my GOD yes this.

Honestly it sounds very nice. That kind of kind, honest, fun ending without putting claw marks in it by holding on when you shouldn't? That's a kind of grace I aspire to.

I made a noise only dogs can hear. Look at this fool in the bathtub.

This is not acceptable.

The legal principle, enforced by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), is not something that should even be on the table for "funding cuts."

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

My favourite thing about this line is that even though it's short there is a distinct crescendo.

Your semi-regular plug for Dr Nerdlove (www.doctornerdlove.com) who is *amazing* at offering compassionate, practical advice that is not shy about calling out toxic masculinity and implicit misogyny and working to decouple masculinity from both of them.