"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."

"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."

Truly boggles the mind that, a mere eight decades later, we’ve decided to harden our hearts and forget everything we learned.

Australia’s most vicious attacks on asylum began with the Tampa scandal in 2001, but the gradual chipping away at those rights has been going on for decades across the West.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Jeremy Renner’s vibes are atrocious.

Same to you!

Sure. But squeezing disability accommodations is going to hurt the marginalised first, because wealthy cheaters have other strategies to fall back on.

I think a fundamental principle of the left is that we are much more concerned about people not receiving the help they need than we are about some people receiving help they don’t.

“Better a hundred non-disabled people get accommodations than one disabled person go without” or whatever.