I’ve been a huge fan of RSS for a long time; over the last few months I’ve been think of RSS feeds more and more as a way to get around the broken algorithms of Twitter, FB, and IG’s apps & main sites. Unfortunately, because of that utility these sites often don’t have built-in RSS … Social media & RSS
From Vanity Fair, but reported elsewhere: The Trump Administration Wants to Define Gender as Biological Sex at Birth I’m upset enough about this that I don’t have anything coherent to say right now. If I mean anything to you, please work to protect LGBTQIAA+ people from the bigots in office right now. Call your reps, … Fuck Mike Pence and the Trump he rode in on
You no longer have an excuse. In 2016, evangelical and Christian fundamentalist leaders said it was okay to vote for Trump, because he would give you the courts. You’ve got them now. From here on, if you vote for Trump you are voting for A man who wants to put children in concentration camps, where … What Kavanaugh means for evangelical/Christian fundamentalist voters
A few years ago (2012 or 2013 I think?) there was a multipart YouTube series from a channel called “RedLetterMedia” that broke down all the reasons why the Star Wars prequels just didn’t work, everything from general storytelling to contradicting worldbuilding in the original trilogy. That series was punctuated with some very disturbing “framing elements” … I just watched a wonderful critique of The Hobbit movies
Whenever I start thinking about what my ideal social media platform would be, before long I realize I’m describing “my own website + RSS to follow others + email”
I’m more worried about the consequences of unilaterally pulling out of a peaceful nuclear deterrent deal – one that many inspectors said Iran was abiding by – than I was about all of President Trump’s cock-waggling at North Korea in his first 14 months. We finally gave peace a chance, and it was working, and … “The Iran Deal”
It seems strange that the NRA, chief proponents of the “good guy with a gun” myth, would appoint as president a person most famous for illegally supplying bad folks with guns.
I think I’ve figured out what bothers me about the phrases “this is not normal” and “don’t normalize this.” I’ve said for a while that if you listen to marginalized people, the things we say “this is not normal” about actually are normal, they’ve just been said and done more politely. Instead, I think we … Phrasing
And that a “fair hearing” includes “suffering consequences for the wrongs you have done” And that a “fair hearing” does not include badgering non-white politicians for their birth certificates And that a “fair hearing” does not include insisting political rivals (or former rivals) be investigated for crimes that multiple investigations from multiple branches of government … Everyone deserves a fair hearing
…and want to yell at the entire country that the solution is a ranked open primary, not closed party primaries.