This part of his interview with NPR was very sweet: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742815262/fired-over-too-much-tupac-a-rap-loving-bureaucrat-from-iowa-says-he-hopes-not

Someone recommended that I watch Truly Madly Deeply “because it’s the funny version of ‘Ghost,’” and after watching it that description proved both technically accurate and spiritually a howling deception. I cried myself sick at that movie.

Yeah, Chasing Amy counts, but I kinda don’t count it anyway because I hated Ben Affleck’s character so much by the end of the movie.

Other romcoms in which the couple doesn’t stay together, in other words endings that I hated enough to remember the movie:

Another highly relevant book cover: How to Suppress Women’s Writing

“your experiences, your relationships, your tastes, your family history, your language, your sense of who you are and how you got here. For those who come from marginalized or minority ethnic groups, there’s simply no opting in and opting out when it’s convenient.”

If I were seeking fertility treatments after all these reported cases, I would only use a female fertility doctor. But I’d still be paranoid that some random lab tech dude with a god complex would sneak in his own sperm. Gross.

Reminder that the National Network of Abortion Funds can always use your support and can connect you with US funding for abortions in your area!

One of the big uneasy literary questions that haunts me is the death of Alice B. Sheldon (AKA James Tiptree Jr), who died by suicide the same hour that she killed her husband Huntington Sheldon as he slept. It may have been a mutual suicide pact—but it may not have been. I don’t know how much the story that it was a…

CO-SIGNED

Anyone who claims they would not consensually bang a loving slimy Venom symbiote is a lying liar. 

I anonymously submitted a friend’s Livejournal posts to Fandom Wank because I was so annoyed by her nonstop Harry Potter shipper posts.

On the other hand

From the Mariah Smith Twitter thread:

In her Twitter thread, Mariah Smith makes other claims of unethical behavior by the journalists involved toward Sarah Lawrence students and other people involved. Jezebel linked the Twitter thread but didn’t elaborate.

She now has a young son! She adopted the kitten in the video.

Gizmodo Media Group was just sold to a private equity group, soooo.… 😬

“You’ll need to keep the sink running since they don’t hold water” sounds terrible for the environment too. 

“You’ll need to keep the sink running since they don’t hold water” sounds terrible for the environment too. 

If Beto wanted to actually fucking HELP instead of just get more power and attention, he’d run for Texas Senator in 2020 against Cornyn, who doesn’t even have the name recognition and national attention that Cruz did. Instead Beto’s throwing away his shot on a Presidential bid and leaving the progressive Texans who…