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www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... powerful and beautifully framed argument against book banning (thx @sbearbergman.bsky.social )

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It’s June 1, so if you haven’t reserved your homosexual yet be advised that we’re into surge pricing now.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Evidently, the minister of education from Alberta is yelling at me over on twitter about my anti-book-ban article and I cannot TELL you how glad I am not to be there for him or his various legions of fools. No, thank you.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

When we remove books from schools or libraries, as Alberta is proposing, we prune the landscapes of children’s imaginations, by @sbearbergman.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Trans Jews still standing at the end of today: yasher koach. The victory condition is survival and you did it. A medal and a perfectly ripe fruit salad for everyone. I love you. Try to get some sleep.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Can whoever is responsible for such things take their foot off the NEWS pedal please? It’s just too much.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Counterpoint: my grandfather, who was UDT for weeks before D-Day and arrived to Omaha while the tide was still high, who earned a purple heart and a silver star with a bronze cluster that day, was a progressive who backed every equal rights movement and would have hated this paskudniak Miller.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Today I was asked to briefly describe what my focus would be on a panel about, roughly, why the current fad for book bans is harmful. I am posting my response because I think this is the best I have ever done at distilling it to one paragraph:

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Today I was asked to briefly describe what my focus would be on a panel about, roughly, why the current fad for book bans is harmful. I am posting my response because I think this is the best I have ever done at distilling it to one paragraph:

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Strangely, I am not noticing a lot of outcry from the “you can’t just change your name” crowd that they’re just going to call Pope Leo by his birth name, nor any sign that they won’t respect His Holiness’ new pronouns, Your Holiness/His Holiness.

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Today someone remarked that I had been a queer activist longer than they’d been alive. Anyway, you kids get off my lawn (come up on the porch, I made limeade).

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Just had to text my husband, with whom I share a Kindle library, to let him know that I was downloading a book called “How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids” for work research and to not be alarmed (he’s used to me, but it seemed kinder this way).

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A question for the medically-knowledgeable smartypantses: when you feel like you’re about to vomit and you don’t, but something feels sort of thick and swollen in your throat a while, what is that? Like, physiologically, what is happening that feels like that? And what’s the best way to clear it?

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Is it troop movement or troupe movement? Are we managing a battalion or the company of Pippin? Do I pack a whistle and a clipboard or a whip and a chair; can wordspersons weigh in, please?

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New interim guidance from the UK "Equality and Human Rights Commission." Trans people are effectively banned from all bathrooms. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

submitted 45 days ago • 129 comments

Proposal: stop calling it AI and start calling it what it is: a large-language model, or LLM. It has no native intelligence. LLMs produce answers that SOUND LIKE what a knowledgeable person might write, based on the (often stolen) writing of knowledgeable people. You still have to BYO intelligence.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

As someone married for 16 years to an autist, with an autistic kid - both of whom are clever and kind and interesting and talented; both of whom I adore beyond measure or reason - I would like to cordially invite RFK Jr to go fuck himself with a rusty bucket of rabid weasels.

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The 2SLGBTQ- positive kids press I founded and run, Flamingo Rampant, sent books to Broadway today for No Book Ban’s activation at John Proctor Is The Villian, giving away challenged and banned books. So glad to be there with Metatron’s Children!

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Tuesday reminder that the Nazi playbook was in fact modeled on the colonization of North America (including the fact that some soldiers found it “morally exhausting” to have to individually execute innocent people and so mass incarceration and murder were “easier”?) link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I would like to be treated like a wealthy Victorian lady and taken to a seaside retreat, fed on benzos and consommé, with all upsetting topics banned from my hearing for a few weeks, until my uterus stops wandering or whatever and I am ready to come home. Nvm a ‘digital detox’; who is booking this?

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

I’m not saying that I’m anxiety cleaning, but I am saying that today I steam mopped the kitchen floor and powerwashed the mats in my car, and tomorrow I have a date with the downstairs baseboards. Also this week I am getting a haircut and the dog is getting groomed, so… draw your own conclusions.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Hello, I would like to be mutuals with people who have one of these, thank you:

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

submitted 61 days ago • 10 comments

I just ran a little clinic on how to use the self-check-in kiosk for three senior citizens (not travelling together; they all self selected into my 6:30am skillshare) in the Green Bay, Wisconsin airport. They were all VERY excited to learn, and my hands were fondly patted many many times.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

s. bear bergman is an amazing storyteller, so glad i got to see him weave together the story of jacques lafargue. also always great to see @helenofboyd.bsky.social and @rachelcrowl.net out in the wild.

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

I made a choice when I started publishing books that I was not going to send them to people who had doubted me or done harm, only to people I wanted to thank, largely because the moral superiority I feel for having chosen this is just a squeak greater than my natural pettiness.

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