Why is there a picture of a giant turd for the story?

The pic says it all, ‘wellness’ is a steaming pile of - er, a stack of rocks. 

I’m not sure what it says about me that my brain immediately interpreted the lead picture as a hand holding a silhouette of a big pile of swirled poop.

I mean, okay, so this kid was in danger. Maybe this is quibbling too much about a salient point; the fact is that the parents never seemed to consider that the child was around a dangerous combustion. If there is a small explosion, which are the components used to generate combustion? Could they damage or harm someone…

While gazing at your bride unblinkingly with an unnerving smile.

Gah, The Police are so fucking awesome that way 

Literal dog whistles...

Jezebel’s complete lack of self-awareness is ... unsurprising.

This is why I said governors should have exempted churches from large gathering restrictions.  Just avoid the martyr complex bullshit and skip straight to the martyrdom.  Let’s see how many of them really believe in the magic they claim makes them superior.

Wha...what did I just read? Am I now officially an old as a Millennial? I recognize all of the words, but not in the order in which they’re placed.

You realize that coat-hooks may be stiff, but are generally small.

I think the issue is the cover, rather than the article. Jezebel, perhaps correctly at heart, didn’t show the cover again, but did when they bagged the story originally

Even if Spella’s post hoc explanation is crap, the two central questions would still remain: is there a significant distinction from being on the cover and being inside the magazine (but nevertheless associated with that article); and is it reasonable for Brewer to have believed that, despite volunteering to be…

I think the issue is the cover, rather than the article. Jezebel, perhaps correctly at heart, didn’t show the cover again, but did when they bagged the story originally:

It’s not to everyone’s taste, but it’s so nuanced. Hamlet itself, is of course, an ancient story, rooted in Norse folklore, and there are similar legends in several other cultures, but I did a deeper dive, and there is also a little known Norse myth about a grindstone. She does her research!

So YOU respond to an open call to be featured in a very famous and widely circulated magazine, you talk to the writer extensively, not on the basis of anonymity, and even participate in a photoshoot for the magazine. You post said photo on your instagram (twice), saying you look hot in it. Then you say the magazine…

Respectfully, I strongly disagree. Ye Wenjie would not have done what she did, and in the manner that she did it, (or even been where she was) except for her experiences in the Cultural Revolution and with Chinese government policy that followed in the decades after: those are central plot elements.

I always tell people that the Ancillary Justice/Radch Space series is really about identity, colonisation, and other “big” themes, but wrapped up in a pretty space opera package.

Have you read The raven tower? 

Anything Leckie writes is amazing. I read her latest novel “The raven tower” a few months ago, and I’m still talking about it to anyone who will listen.