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Is there a word yet for the sort of pain you feel when you watch media from a more optimistic time and reflect on the media landscape that produced it? Because I saw a play tonight that I can only describe as Obama-era in the most Hamilton way possible.

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Wait, the stupid parade isn't even going the full length of the mall? In over an hour? And it's going to have mules? ...heh, okay, that is not going to satisfy his envy of North Korea's coordinated displays. 51st.news/dc-military-...

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Nearly three hours later, I am still too keyed up from DMing a game to go to sleep. How do people do this on a regular basis?

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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

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Do they think they'll be greeted as liberators?

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Truth emerging from her well is no longer enough, we need...

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Hm. I guess I should watch Spaceballs at some point?

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Good!

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This is absolutely true. We used to say, in the writing group I was a member of twenty five years ago, "Good enough isn't good enough." Or the mantra I developed when I was trying to sell my first novel: (1/2)

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Every time one of my colleagues uses "action" as a verb, I die a little inside.

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🏳️‍⚧️🌈✨ All my Trans Pride critters~

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To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced local immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

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Rereading Murderbot novellas and eating soup dumplings may just be an ideal afternoon.

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The king plays croquet and eats grand meals while the peasants starve and a plague tears through the land. The Count plots against him and rallies loyalists to his side! They have waylaid the royal tax collectors and claim to hold the funds in trust, but are clearly hoping to overthrow the throne.

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Geologists! "They're in serious peril!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKr3...

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Imagine seeing 10s of thousands of people picketing Tesla for MONTHS and thinking... "we should def court the white supremacist Nazi that those people are protesting."

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I've never actually been to Pride, but there's a literal painting on my wall of a friend and I at that fountain. It's not just the center of the neighborhood, it holds important cultural status for generations of queer folk in and around DC. Closing it for Pride would be deliberately hostile.

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Thread, up and down. This is what I meant the other day about how the term "AI" muddies conversations. There are ethical uses of machine learning and other technologies that get called "AI." In counter-abuse, machine classification is an essential tool.

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Finished another model kit. This one lights up! I am pretty delighted with it.

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If being a loved one to someone means they treat you worse not better Means you are required to survive them not feel safe with them And harm is about you aren’t making them feel you are worth kindness They did not do the best they could , they did the best they thought you deserved

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I haven't seen this come up on here before, so hey, did anyone need another data point of evidence pointing out that discrimination against trans people is the point of the wedge to wider LGBTQ+ discrimination? Because here's a court using the "biological binary" to strike workplace protections.

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I've had actual arguments with people about "Separating art from the artist." There's no separating this. Like Idk what to tell you, but trans people should be more important to you than like dobby the elf or whatever

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TTRPGers, a question: how many dice do you know for certain are waiting for you to get up the stamina to either move the couch or get down on the floor and go fishing?

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Just cat things #art #cuteart #cat

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Gods, can you imagine? "Congratulations on winning the track meet, the President is now personally pissed at you." All the might and power of the American government at his disposal, and this is what he spends his time on.

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Periodic reminder:Substack profits off Nazi pages bc they don't want to be "in the censorship business,"but they also won't host adult content,so they ARE in the "censorship business." They just think Nazis are better than pornographers. This is why I will never give Substack a single shiny nickel.

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...so I bought an old $5 Anne McCaffrey paperback at the con because I was nostalgic for the cover art, and it turned out to be a signed first edition. I am. SO CONFUSED.

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