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Books, Boardgames, Theater, General Nerdery, and Miscellaneous Sex-positive Queerness. Trying to find and share the little happy things in daily life, to help us cope with the horrors.
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And just to be explicit, in these people's worldview, disabilities are seen as an illness.
There are a vast number of people in the U.S. who are otherwise reasonably intelligent but they profoundly believe to their very core that if you get sick, you must've done something to deserve it. This is why our health care system is so berserkly cruel.
I blame John Calvin.
I blame John Calvin.
December 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And just to be explicit, in these people's worldview, disabilities are seen as an illness.
That moment when I thought I had missed a big hangnail because there was dried blood gathered up against the nail bed (not unusual when the weather is this dry)... But then realized it was actually chocolate from the rather messy hazelnut croissant I had with breakfast. 🤦♂️
December 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
That moment when I thought I had missed a big hangnail because there was dried blood gathered up against the nail bed (not unusual when the weather is this dry)... But then realized it was actually chocolate from the rather messy hazelnut croissant I had with breakfast. 🤦♂️
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It drives me nuts when a terrible person dies, and we are all supposed to pretend they were great, like telling the truth is somehow uncouth.
Brigette Bardot was a truly despicable racist, homophobe, bigot, and lifelong supporter of fascists. Acknowledge her work, I guess, but don't celebrate her.
Brigette Bardot was a truly despicable racist, homophobe, bigot, and lifelong supporter of fascists. Acknowledge her work, I guess, but don't celebrate her.
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It drives me nuts when a terrible person dies, and we are all supposed to pretend they were great, like telling the truth is somehow uncouth.
Brigette Bardot was a truly despicable racist, homophobe, bigot, and lifelong supporter of fascists. Acknowledge her work, I guess, but don't celebrate her.
Brigette Bardot was a truly despicable racist, homophobe, bigot, and lifelong supporter of fascists. Acknowledge her work, I guess, but don't celebrate her.
::looks back at myself in my early 20s::
Yeah, that tracks.
Yeah, that tracks.
If you think teenagers are drama, wait until you hear about early 20-somethings.
December 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
::looks back at myself in my early 20s::
Yeah, that tracks.
Yeah, that tracks.
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“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
Nothing says "Christmas" quite like mosquito bites!
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Nothing says "Christmas" quite like mosquito bites!
The best iteration of this meme I've seen all day. 🤣🤣
Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost
December 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The best iteration of this meme I've seen all day. 🤣🤣
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
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Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.
December 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I've been in a rut with reading for a while - I've paused like 3 books cuz I wasn't feeling 'em (but still want to finish eventually, so didn't DNF).
Anyway, after seeing numerous recs, I picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Y'all.
This is what I needed.
I blew through 30% of the book just today.
Anyway, after seeing numerous recs, I picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Y'all.
This is what I needed.
I blew through 30% of the book just today.
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I've been in a rut with reading for a while - I've paused like 3 books cuz I wasn't feeling 'em (but still want to finish eventually, so didn't DNF).
Anyway, after seeing numerous recs, I picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Y'all.
This is what I needed.
I blew through 30% of the book just today.
Anyway, after seeing numerous recs, I picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Y'all.
This is what I needed.
I blew through 30% of the book just today.
So much this.
GenAI is trash, built on fraud, and should be fired into the sun along with the billionaires supporting it.
LLMs are incredibly powerful and USEFUL (when deployed smartly).
Conflating the two only benefits the grifters.
GenAI is trash, built on fraud, and should be fired into the sun along with the billionaires supporting it.
LLMs are incredibly powerful and USEFUL (when deployed smartly).
Conflating the two only benefits the grifters.
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
So much this.
GenAI is trash, built on fraud, and should be fired into the sun along with the billionaires supporting it.
LLMs are incredibly powerful and USEFUL (when deployed smartly).
Conflating the two only benefits the grifters.
GenAI is trash, built on fraud, and should be fired into the sun along with the billionaires supporting it.
LLMs are incredibly powerful and USEFUL (when deployed smartly).
Conflating the two only benefits the grifters.
My first JoCo was 2019.
When I walked into the cruise terminal on embarkation day, there was a massive banner hung over the check in desk. I don't remember what it said, but it was welcoming and nerdy.
That's when I knew.
When I walked into the cruise terminal on embarkation day, there was a massive banner hung over the check in desk. I don't remember what it said, but it was welcoming and nerdy.
That's when I knew.
A question for our returning cruisers: When did you first KNOW that you were a JoCo Cruiser? Was there a moment? Was it on the ship or elsewhere? Tell us about it!
Photo from JoCo Cruise 2025 by Bill Ulleseit
Photo from JoCo Cruise 2025 by Bill Ulleseit
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My first JoCo was 2019.
When I walked into the cruise terminal on embarkation day, there was a massive banner hung over the check in desk. I don't remember what it said, but it was welcoming and nerdy.
That's when I knew.
When I walked into the cruise terminal on embarkation day, there was a massive banner hung over the check in desk. I don't remember what it said, but it was welcoming and nerdy.
That's when I knew.
A thread worth reading.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
A thread worth reading.
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I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.
Stopped and got Taco Bell after my haircut this morning.
I have a consistent habit of over-ordering there, and then feeling ill after eating too much.
As usual, I over-ordered today. BUT UNusually, I restrained myself and left one taco uneaten, and now I don't feel gross!
Yay for self control! 🎉
I have a consistent habit of over-ordering there, and then feeling ill after eating too much.
As usual, I over-ordered today. BUT UNusually, I restrained myself and left one taco uneaten, and now I don't feel gross!
Yay for self control! 🎉
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Stopped and got Taco Bell after my haircut this morning.
I have a consistent habit of over-ordering there, and then feeling ill after eating too much.
As usual, I over-ordered today. BUT UNusually, I restrained myself and left one taco uneaten, and now I don't feel gross!
Yay for self control! 🎉
I have a consistent habit of over-ordering there, and then feeling ill after eating too much.
As usual, I over-ordered today. BUT UNusually, I restrained myself and left one taco uneaten, and now I don't feel gross!
Yay for self control! 🎉
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Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
December 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
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“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” yeah well I took an edible and a bunch of Benadryl and the voice of the Great Lord of the Dark said shut the fuck up Brandon
December 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” yeah well I took an edible and a bunch of Benadryl and the voice of the Great Lord of the Dark said shut the fuck up Brandon
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he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
"Zaslav will receive $30 million in "Golden Parachute' compensation along with $537 million in equity for a total of $567 million in a transaction-associated pay."
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
Warner Bros. Golden Parachutes Revealed: What David Zaslav and C-Suite Will Get In a Deal
The CEO stands to gain $567 million if a deal is sealed to sell the WB empire while longtime lieutenant Gunnar Wiedenfels will see $144 million in cash and stock considerations if a transaction close...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut
Jason Reynolds is running against Mark Warner in the 2026 Dem Primary.
Time to donate to his campaign, I guess.
Time to donate to his campaign, I guess.
Jon Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jack Reed (RI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Chuck Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA), & Sheldon Whitehouse (RI).
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Jason Reynolds is running against Mark Warner in the 2026 Dem Primary.
Time to donate to his campaign, I guess.
Time to donate to his campaign, I guess.
Felt inspired me to watch this tonight, and while doing so unlocked a forgotten memory of seeing Jason Mraz in concert on Halloween in ~2005ish, and for the encore the whole band came out in random costumes, and played Big Bottom (complete with a double-neck bass).
Today in The December Comfort Watches: This is Spinal Tap. Because it's one of the funniest movies of all time, and I think Rob Reiner would want us to remember to feel joy, even, and especially, when surrounded by sadness.
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Fifteen: This is Spinal Tap
For more than two weeks, I had it on my schedule to write about This is Spinal Tap today, December 15, 2025. The day before this, director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer were (allegedly) m…
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December 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Felt inspired me to watch this tonight, and while doing so unlocked a forgotten memory of seeing Jason Mraz in concert on Halloween in ~2005ish, and for the encore the whole band came out in random costumes, and played Big Bottom (complete with a double-neck bass).
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Scroll back up to read the whole thread, but this is the cruz of it.
Bluntly, Section 230 is almost literally the law that the entire internet rests upon, it makes it possible for user generated content to exist on the internet, it’s incredibly important, and genuinely we must defend it at all costs. This place literally would not exist without it.
December 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Scroll back up to read the whole thread, but this is the cruz of it.
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"Draw me like one of your French radishes"
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Draw me like one of your French radishes"
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This is, uh, not a smart move. Section 230 has its flaws, but repealing it without having an *extremely solid* plan in place to replace the protections for free speech it offers is tantamount to banning the LGBTQ+ community and others from public online spaces.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is, uh, not a smart move. Section 230 has its flaws, but repealing it without having an *extremely solid* plan in place to replace the protections for free speech it offers is tantamount to banning the LGBTQ+ community and others from public online spaces.