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There's posh!

Good thing the admin is All In on fighting anti-semitism on college campuses

I swear the past six months have just been a constant "excuse me what no i mean *what* seriously WHAT THE FUCK" on an endless loop

I just want to remind you all that states where book bans are common, like FL, TX, SC, TN, IA, UT and others, are home to many people who do support the freedom to read and the First Amendment. It does no good to write off these states and their people, who still deserve our support.

Rewriting history. Classic fascism.

Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...

Assigned Media tracked down every single queer author who withdrew from the Polari Prize after they longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF, and linked to all their books.

These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.

But as I travel’d hither through the land,
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators

Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators

DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

(4th grade. I've never recovered from Platonism.)

I've always assumed that Dorothy's mother was Emily's sister, and she and Miss Gulch had a History

All this will do is help abusive parents have more control over their children. Books are sometimes the only escape/safety for some kids and now these trash adults are taking even that bit of hope. Horrible.

You shouldn't care because it might happen to you someday. You should care because it is happening to others RIGHT NOW.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

I submit that there is no good justification for drain flies.
Not ONE.

Louder for the people in the back: paying taxes is a patriotic act because it is a way of caring for your community and your country. Every billionaire has benefited from the public good: our roads, USPS, airports, public schools. Billionaires in America should pay back our investment in them.

I mean, there's a whole-ass song about it:

"We know every inch of the way
from Albany to Buffalo-o-o..."

just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society

The only people saying there are no protests are:

-Trump admin
-corporate media
-people who are terminally online that don't go to protests

Slice about 1/2 inch thick. Salt each side liberally and let sit. Press out extra water. Brush generously with good olive oil. Broil or grill.

The more I read about LLMs, the more I am reminded of ... hoverboards.

Since the 80s, many of us have longed for our cool hi tech toys.
But instead they sell "hoverboards" that are nothing but knockoff segways that catch fire & put you in the hospital.
And now "AI".
Same as it ever was.

US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.

These Americans served with honor for more than a decade. Put their lives on the line. Trump fired them, just for being who they are-and now is denying retirement benefits our nation promised them for their service.

Treating troops this way is dishonorable, unfair, & harmful to national security.

Then I come here and see people posting "anyone got a line on the gender composition of servants in aristocratic households in the Seleucid Empire?" and someone inevitably answers "Oh, let me hook you up with my pal from grad school"...

I sometimes think of the very old aphorism AKICIF (all knowledge is contained in fandom) which celebrated the way a society of mostly neurodivergent oddballs could serve as a living encyclopedia of niche information.

tip: don't dump your deepest thoughts into chatbot servers run by technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass even a basic consumer internet privacy law

✨️ The First Fifteen ✨️

Not even in the top 500 most impeachable things that Trump has done in office, but I can't get over how he's defacing monuments to republican virtue in order to turn them into symbols of decadent personalism. Caligula-ass government.

I broke my foot, but was basically okay.

Ellison immediately took charge of the situation: "Get this woman some first aid!" he shouted. "No, get this woman a doctor!" "No, no, get this woman a LAWYER!"
(He was very nice and stayed with me until the con team showed up.)