Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow)

“The Ducks are going to have their way to-niiiiiiight”

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus Today in “Things that ‘AI’ has ruined”: No, I won’t be able to show up to your book club’s online/offline gathering, and the reason for this is simple: I, and li…

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.

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I have edited some very good reporters who were also SPECTACULARLY BAD writers and let me tell you I would still one million billion times rather spend the time to translate their garble into English than trust an LLM to accurately report the news

Facts.

Nah babe you want my money back you're gonna have to go full Tar-GAY

Wild how they somehow manage to scrounge the missiles from between the couch cushions but the crayons and cancer treatments are never lurking around in there.

Our teachers have to crowdfund to buy classroom supplies, universal healthcare is an unaffordable pipe dream, but somehow we have unlimited ammunition for endless wars.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

We don’t kill people for sucking! We shouldn’t kill people for anything really!

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Sitting at my son’s dance competition watching girls in this age group compete and I have no words.

Lance Armstrong
Oscar Pistorius
Balloon Boy’s parents

John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame’ (EXCLUSIVE) John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.

The more I read about what happened at the BAFTAs, the more clear it becomes that everyone involved was set up to be victimized by the awards and the BBC. The racism is matched only by the ableism.
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My cousin worked a season at the Sonnenalp hotel in Vail and came home mostly having learned to loathe rich people. Everyone got stolen Sonnenalp cups and saucers for Christmas that year.

Let's just say there's a reason I grew up cross-country skiing and not downhill skiing (and the reason was Anchorage's many miles of groomed public ski trails and thriving gear resale economy)

Now he's going down a rabbit hole. A child's day pass at Vail is $225.

Day. Pass.

Seth just looked it up -- child's annual season pass at Alyeska Resort outside Anchorage is $725. Probably middle-of-the-road, pricewise.

I have real questions about that chart. Like the fact that the "registration" cost for snowboarding is approximately the cost of a single lift ticket at a major resort.

She is PURE JOY! Yay Alysa ! 🏅🎉

#alysaliu #kidlitart #illustration

Helping my daughter's class get costumed for their production of Peter Pan. A Lost Boy comes up to me, stroking the fur hat they brought from home.

Them: "Don't worry. It was humanely harvested."
Me: "Kid, I'm from Alaska. We don't judge. I have a coat made out of seals."
Them: (Backs slowly away)

In the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.

It would be an interesting historical hunt to find examples where making people deliberately ignorant about any particular topic actually caused an improvement in personal or social well-being.

The typical result is unexpected bad outcomes (cuz they're ignorant) and willful abuse of others (ditto).

Handmade, photocopied, cut-and-paste flier for a 1990s show by local high school band Citizen Bane in Anchorage, Alaska. Features an image of Tupac Shakur with a thought bubble reading "Some People Think Worms Are Pretty" and clippings reading "Changed the course of history" and "modern rock Live!"

Handmade, photocopied, cut-and-paste flier for a 1990s show by local high school band Citizen Bane in Anchorage, Alaska. Images include the "nuns with guns" photo familiar to Rage Against the Machine fans and a Frank Zappa quote: "You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."

Gotta have a bunch of these on the walls.

We had these! You got them as part of a deal at Burger King.

Shhhh don't get him started on three-pointers

You know how he gets

Bruh I was a cross-country skier I am just here for the outfits

Seth: "So they get more points for doing jumps later in the program?"
Me: "Idk."
Seth: "That's why they have the clock?"
Me: "?"
Seth: "Because it's bonus time?"
Me: "YOU HAVE A FRIEND WITH A FIGURE SKATING NEWSLETTER AND A LITERAL COMPUTER IN YOUR POCKET TO CONTACT THEM WITH."
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