your harry potter fandom is killing trans people. full. stop.

"Libraries should be open late as an alternative to the bar" is going around some groups I'm in again and I just Y'all can't convince enough people to fund libraries to be open during the day with reasonable pay and expectations Where do you think you're finding night shift premium pay money

WRITE!!! BAD!!! FICS!!! people really need to realize that the only way to write good fics is to write bad ones. the only way to get less AI slop is to be okay with the bad human fics. the only way to have fun and learn is to get really comfortable with bad writing.

Whoa that’s wild!!

Then why did he unwaveringly stand with Israel through his presidency and fund their oppression of Palestine. That’s on top of doing his own war criminal shit against muslims in the Middle East. Fuck Obama. Fuck Bush. Fuck Biden. Fuck Trump. War criminals, every last one.

The counterpoint is that I’ve only ever wanted Plex to stream my private media, and they made it so bad at doing so that I switched to Jellyfin last year.

GOOD! Now let’s also prioritize reducing car use overall. More rail. More bike lanes. More mixed-use and walkable suburbs. Less sprawl. Fewer roads.

We could choose another way but instead we choose, time and again, dead kids.

Oh gosh, yes! My favorite! "Whoa, what are you, sick or something!?" Nope, just trying not to be, you giant turd.

I get a lot of people acting like I must be dangerously sick… while they’re raw dogging everyone else’s air without a care in the world.

You remember how weird people would get about not being able to see other people’s kids smiles when schools had mandatory masking?

I don't mean to dismiss the very real and acutely serious danger this poses to immunocompromised folks. This makes it even harder for people who already struggle to exist in society because of systemic barriers. But I've also seen how easily people dismiss anything thats "just for disabled folks."

Focusing on immunocompromised people makes it easier for the general public to dismiss masking rights as a fringe issue. ANYONE can suffer serious long-term health effects from COVID, regardless of underlying or pre-existing health conditions. Masking is public health for everyone.

Every now and then I'll chat about Dungeon Crawler Carl with someone and learn that a lot of folks don't see the (to me) VERY obvious political overtones in the book. It's wild!

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to censor ourselves before they even have a chance to do it. We will not do that. We will confidently put resistance politics out there into the world to go along with the movements of people who are actively trying to fight against these systems.”

Solar canopies above crops produced clean energy while reducing heat stress, boosting summer yields by 20% and improving barley quality in field trials.

Since two tech writers have made annoying announcements recently: I cover tech and don't use Twitter. There's no need to. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. They just want to be there

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

There are some Hispanic ICE agents out there too. It’s wild!