Totally in agreement, and I have a little trouble with the way the term “cosplay convention” is being thrown around. A lot of these conventions are not specifically tuned for cosplayers, and while they may have events and panels specifically about cosplay, they’re fandom events for the whole fandom. They’re not made…

“There’s still shit on it.”

Destroy everything you touch, fuck the rules, and retire to your private island.

This bitch prescriptivist. YEET.

1:2 odds or better he doesn’t know the Hanoi Hilton wasn’t an actual hotel.

HR Pufnstuf was on a life-long coke bender. “Can’t do a little ‘cause he can’t do enough”, indeed.

I worked a con 2008-2010 where the then-owner of the convention refused to remove people from convention space who were witnessed assaulting convention staff. In one case, this involved an act of sexually-based violence by a group against one person, with over 20 witnesses in one of the largest events at the…

These are largely the same people who believe in the Lost Cause and Clean Wehrmacht.

This is exactly the problem I have with a lot of the gun control debate. Without properly enforcing the laws on the books, the right is never going to accept so much as a single word of new regulation; meanwhile, even some Democrats are more than happy to just shrug about whether it’s worth it to ensure those laws are …

It’s times like these I’m glad I don’t have a Twitter account anymore - I’d get banned for being too impolite while dragging her.

Bombe de terre.

“You have been condemned to the blade. Lean in, please.”

Japanese can be read left to right like in English. It also can be read in vertical columns going left to right, top to bottom.

There’s a difference between “trying to quit smoking cigarettes” and “trying to quit nicotine altogether”.

Let’s not forget that women have been tied up, duct-taped, sexually abused, had their wrists slashed and were left for dead near the border. Who could have done this? Cartel? Coyote? Secret Mexican Muslim Terrorist?

The idea that there’s such a thing as a legal, permitted strike is ridiculous. Strikes are supposed to be disruptive direct action by labor to force the hand of the capital class into negotiation. Letting the overclass dictate when the workers are “legally allowed” to engage in this behavior is absurd.

They remind me of the drivers on the street that runs in front of my neighborhood who stare at their phone, following the incorrect (lower) speed limit that Waze lists and flipping off people who pass them.

There’s been an issue with circular reasoning before in regards to these claims of “national security”. It goes something like “We currently bar X group from working in this agency. If a member of X is employed here, they could be blackmailed based on being X and have to choose between compromising national security…

A simple transcription error!

This is the same zero-tolerance bullshit that leads to kids getting suspended for getting bullied.