Yep. The about-face on Black participation in the church is only about as old as disco (and Not a Reaction to the Civil Rights Movement, Just Another Revelation).

Whenever I read the crazy shit that passes for Mormon dogma, my gut instinct is to think “Is this what got edited out from the first draft of the Handmaid’s Tale?”

Yep, Biden is definitely to blame for the worldwide recession caused by the long term disruption to global supply chains brought about by a pandemic that started (checks notes) before Biden was in office.

the GQP has essentially declared war on women AND children with their bullshit the last few months; if the Dems have the stones to vigorously rub the GQP’s nose in this, they’ll be fine.  “Don’t vote for these guys” isn’t as compelling as “here’s why you should vote for us” but the Dems don’t have much choice, and if…

The culture warification of everything led us to this deeply stupid end. The right wing weirdos have been waiting for anything to lead a backlash against women who speak out about abuse. The Depp stans are useful idiots for the right wing MRA anger that women are being listened to in any way. 

Inhumanity kills people. Whether you are a right-wingnut who takes a gun to a school and shoots kids OR a forced birther who takes away the rights of people to their own bodily autonomy ... you are inhuman scum.

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. The NRA should simply tell the secret service to ban people, not guns, from the hall. Problem solved.

I like James Acaster’s take on the whole ricky gervais comedy attempts.  Skip to 2:30 for the meat, but also don’t because James is brilliant.

His entire political platform is “avenge my failure, kill my enemies”, rather than, you know, actual political ideas and a platform of constructive goals to improve the lives of his constituency. It’s like he doesn’t even know what job he’s applying for.

When have JJ Abrams mysteries ever paid off? That’s his whole shtick

I still think they need to find someone to be a “Kevin Feige” for at least the creative side. Jon & Dave seem ideal for the position but they seem either unwilling to give it to them or maybe they don’t want it.

Primal Quest is currently available through a DriveThruRPG bundle called RPGs for Reproductive Justice, raising money for the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF).

Seems as good a place as any to post The Official Dr Emilio Lizardo ranking of all the books nominated for best novel by either the Hugo (H) or Nebula (N). I have divided them into groups and ranked them from least good to best. None of them are bad, unlike in recent years where I feel at least one book has been…

Geophysicist here. I work specifically in airborne EM systems like the one used. Very cool project!

Long story short: if you are a parent, and your child will be upset or scarred for life or in any way altered by seeing two women kiss -- especially animated ones, but just in general -- then you are a bad parent and have raised your child to be a bigot like you. If you have not raised your child to be a bigot, then…

As the parent of two kids, six years apart: They are not scared, confused, upset or anything else by LGBTQ people.

The first time my youngest asked, around first grade, it went like this:

“Why are those two women kissing?”

“They’re in love. Some couples are a man and a woman, some are a man and a man and some are a woman…

Jesus. Leaving out the fact that she goes on and on and WILL NOT SHUT UP and let us just enjoy the seven (well, six, really...Hallows was weak) good books she wrote, what is it J.K. thinks is going to happen if trans women are called women? Is her vagina going to fall off? Will we all suddenly become sterile?

I wouldn't say "happen to". Objectively horrible people and the conservative viewpoint are drawn to each other like filings to a magnet. Some causation there.

I’m imagining every low level shield agent wrote a memoir about Rogers after his death. Just look how many royal books based on the smallest of tibits we get.

Once again, Doom Patrol gets snubbed and left off the year’s “Best Of” list.
While season 3 wasn’t quite as spectacular as the previous two seasons (and seemingly rather abruptly resolved the wasn’t-originally-supposed-to-be-a-cliffhanger ending of season 2, which was cut short because of COVID) it did have plenty of…