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That and the attempts to force AI despite few people wanting it and LOTS of people trying to figure out how to get rid of it. This isn't a desired technology. This isn't like when people lined up in excitement for iphones; it's like when the phones all came loaded with unwanted U2 albums.

Tulipmaina all over again.

Everything old is new again. Again.

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

It’s not like it’s exactly UNUSUAL to find LGBTQ people involved in opera/musical theatre, ffs.

If there were a bunch of other LGBTQ characters in the books & this was just a surprise heterosexual ally whose nontoxic masculinity got mistaken for queerness, then ok.

But there aren’t? This was it?

But asking me to read the camp opera floof as a closet heterosexual (not even bi or pan! STRAIGHT!) is as pointless as it is jarring.

Because, look, there is NO LACK of heterosexual representation already in this universe. They’re everywhere.

Why can’t Thara have a queer besty, ffs?

Like - I’m sanguine about them not getting together, because Thara has been deep in mourning ever since The Goblin Emperor, and has only very tentatively accepted even platonic friendship; I can absolutely accept that he simply isn’t *sexually attracted* to camp opera floofs.

Still salty about this absolutely BIZARRE authorial volte face in #TheTombOfDragons.

To suddenly start frantically insisting NO HOMO!!! about someone you’ve queer coded for 2 1/2 books is just…why?

He could have an unrequited crush on the protagonist. He could just recognise ‘family’. But…

"All I've done is ruin a once thriving social media platform, took an unofficial unelected government position to destroy infrastructure resulting in millions of deaths, and am currently destroying the environment to make a Yes Man from Fallout but with big anime tiddies. Why don't people like me?"

Americans have absolutely no idea how the EU works and that has become painfully evident over the past week.

Mulder saying "both claim to have been abducted by aliens"

Scully looking So So tired

That's it. That's the show.

Also: why does the Scottish protagonist have a French accent?

Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.”

Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…

Venezuelan drugs are the new weapons of mass destruction.

okay why is *this* making Helen chatter in my head?

I am SO CHARMED by Elsie (and also by her kinda-acquaintance Flounder, who is also an eloquent button pusher).

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…wow, I think I’m basically arguing that Andrew Tate has built his life around LARPing at the Omegaverse?

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Or, I suppose, that all that Omegaverse stuff out there these days is a recent way of women* grappling with the power dynamics of the patriarchy & rape culture?

(*mostly women.)

To these men, uxoriousness is indistinguishable from letting another guy top you, because it’s all a failure to embody the role of domineering patriarch.

(Fucking another guy, otoh, probably doesn’t count as “gay” so long as you’re topping.)

His ideology is not a new one.

It’s just raw Patriarchy 101, really.

It is RELENTLESSLY grim, joyless & destructive, & it’s also how Trump & Musk see the world: unending competition with other men over resources/trophies, with women & children categorised as resources/trophies rather than people.

They need better vocabulary.

Because they’re parsing sex as an act of physical dominance: as rape. Not intimacy. And all human interactions as zero sum dominance games.

Within that patriarchal rape culture mindset of person v thing-that-is-fucked, “gay” = “not the top” = “the loser” = “woman”.

I don’t watch “I’m a Celebrity…” but ngl, I’m delighted that it has introduced Magnificent Floof & Logophile Tom Read Wilson (aka the thinking woman’s Joyce Grenfell) to a much wider audience.

(He remains my personal headcanon for KJ Charles’s Daniel DaSilva.)

and I think even more from Qobuz

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I've had the experience of some media (The Best Years of Their Lives comes to mind) that are the origins of tropes so often copied later that the original now seems like nothing but a cliché

Dracula is not that, it somehow remains fresh despite being RIGHT THERE to be copied all this time

It is at this point that I earnestly recommend the graphic novel “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”.

Not to film. Fuck the film. But the comic 110% grasps that Mina Gets Shit Done.

When the question began to be discussed as to what should be our next step, the very first thing we decided was that Mina should be in full confidence.

FINALLY our heroes who are not Mina make a good and wise decision

Good work, bros, leave it to her

Eating the people who operate your transport one by one so it comes into port derelict and by chance seems kind of short-sighted? Does Dracula just have very bad impulse control?

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It has begun. My page one impression is that I also really enjoyed Chicken Paprika when I took the train from Vienna to Budapest and if I had my own fiancée(?) whose job it was to cook for me, I’d get her the recipe.