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Jude Ellison S. Doyle in conversation with Katherine Cross Join us for an evening of trans/feminist theory with Jude Doyle author of DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? Doyle will be joined in conversation by Katherine Cross.  About the book:

DILF is about to hit the Pacific Northwest. Tuesday, January 27 at 6:30 PM, come see me and @quinnae.com at Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon. Details here: literary-arts.org/event/jude-e...

We’ve had radio for over a century at no point did anyone say ‘I wish I could watch the people in the radio studio’

Podcasts are an audio medium! I don’t need to watch people talk into a microphone

I'm so sorry

Alcibiades famously defected from Athens to Sparta, Sparta to Persia, then from Persia back to Athens but got killed on his fourth attempted deflection (Athens back to Persia again)

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

The girl who outed me at 15 and who was also really good at cornering. (And who told me that our mutual friend, on whom I had a massive crush, was finding the way that I acted really weird so I would probably be better just not walking home with them or doing the shared extra curricular)

Sleeping in the Light is a very good finale. Which should not be a surprise given how good the rest of the show is but it is nice.

I do wonder if a lot of it is just that bloody hell, some people are really easily led and default to a crowd with a total absence of critical thinking. Which is very depressing.

Like... it's not making anything worse for everyone and it just means I don't have to try and do vocab 101 while someone Has A Speculum Inside Me

Yes! And as the guy who has had to have somewhat delicate procedures done while the clinicians are clearly *having a mild panic attack* about which words to use, it's just easier for all of us if there is a leaflet somewhere with guidelines.

Too much wailing by people who aren't them in the latter

(And yeah loads of this stuff was "we want to avoid bad outcomes for trans and NB patients, who are more likely to be wary of medical settings anyway, and some inclusive language might make a difference there)

Right back in the day the first time I came across the term was when people were writing an up to date edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves in about 2009/2010. Our Bodies, Ourselves is the sort of work where because of tone and audience it is *useful to have considered this*.

(Also I think the way that the internet collapsed into Social Media didn't help. Things that made sense to discuss perhaps overly intensely within an actual activist group or on a feminist blog were suddenly able to Go Everywhere)

Dogs don't like being shown a lot of windswept places where they could be chasing a stick!

Also I am genuinely pro increased diversity and a lot of the problems came from people making generally sensible points i.e. "do all gynae services need to be absolutely draped in pink and feature the word women 3 million times" but then it sometimes being taken up as a cudgel by people

(And I should probably be charitable and say that the people who liked having a cudgel were often probably scared and unhappy and worried about fucking up, so went all in. But honestly they were sometimes just vilely horrible to a degree where I find it hard to care)

Yeah I wonder a lot if part of it was the people who will find *a* thing to use as a cudgel leaping on wokeness. And it did, often, I think means that fairly good hearted people got really afraid of saying the wrong thing while people who liked having a cudgel prevailed.

They are next showing the dogs Wuthering Heights. Show the dogs a light comedy if you must take them to the pictures!

Thought Emily Watson's performance as Mary Shakespeare was a really, really beautiful supporting role. As was Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew.

Even if some of it fell flat or was overdone

As a fan of historical fiction which acknowledges that people in the past were often quite fond of their families, their spouses and their kids I have to come out in favour of Hamnet I am afraid.

Yes I too am baffled by this

I have, at least, found that they advertise the dog friendly screenings separately so I am unlikely to be surprised by dogs

Very true. I notice that people do not generally hold puppy obedience classes in the cinema

(Also people drop chocolate in cinemas and dogs cannot eat chocolate and for some reason this in particular is worrying me)

The back of a Wi-Fi router, with all the ports filled with caulk, save for one that has been carved into to try and get a connection

Here's a flashback to 14 years ago, when my housemate fell out with another housemate, changed the Wi-Fi password, then filled the router with caulk. Simpler times.

Elvis' big problem, I think, is that there had never been an Elvis before so nobody knew what to do with one.

Completely. If the dog does have separation anxiety I really don't feel talking them somewhere with all the above things will help.

Yeah. Even if the dog wants to be around lots of other dogs it's not in an an environment where it can play with them, and if the dog has separation anxiety it is almost certainly not going to enjoy "random dark room with noise and bright lights and strange dogs"