There have been some high-profile cases of men going into women’s bathrooms to sexually assault women. Republicans have a tendency to categorize these men as trans, though I’ve never read of a case where one actually was. (The closest I know of was a case in Canada where a female-passing person assaulted women in a…

Step 1): Turn off Adblock.

These arguments about live-action porn always seem to me like something from another planet. The concept of “porn” in my social group is someone writing a story about Captain America having sex with Iron Man. I keep having to readjust to the idea that there are people who watch other, real people physically having sex.

The Republicans are the ones with “family values,” so they’re the ones people care about when they cheat. The equivalent for the Democrats was when Leland Yee took time out of anti-gun campaigning to attempt international arms smuggling.

I have no idea how to get through to people who’re against providing minority members with the support we ask for. It’s like having one arm and trying to explain to a two-armed person that there are things he can do that I can’t, only he keeps insisting that I’d grow another arm if I just tried harder.

Idoru by William Gibson.

“I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It’s covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only…

I’ve seen the comments section on Gizmodo. I’ll take an echo chamber over that.

I’ve heard it’s a lot easier when you just rush your fastest units around and play capture-the-flag. Killing every enemy is for chumps.

It never ceases to amaze me that people who think the laws of nature destine them to rule also think they must constantly protect against those who would subvert the laws of nature. Gravity is a law of nature, because gravity is a law that can’t be broken and doesn’t need anyone to defend it. If you need to protect…

Just how much money did they blow on this? I’d hate to see their budget go to waste like Mighty No. 9

That guy whose dad created Stormfront talked about how he used to call himself a white nationalist and hate when other people called him a white supremacist. In retrospect, he thinks he was a white supremacist, and so were all those people he hung out with who insisted they were white nationalists.

Hey, I’d rather have the military running the country than Donald Trump. They’d have fewer conflicts of interest, for one thing.

That whole child molestation thing fell through, though, so unless Ivanka has something she’s not telling us . . .

Life in Aggro feels very religious. This world is the learning ground, and then the “real world”/afterlife is the reward for the learning. I would certainly hope this game has NPCs, though, because there are people whose lives I think aren’t worth the lesson in being made to live through.

I thought I was a terrible player because everyone else I played against could hit me while bobbing and weaving, while I had to stand still and slowly adjust in order to hit things. Maybe I missed the true source of the problem . . .

I’m looking forward to seeing this image make a comeback.

As I always like to ask, who is this “destiny” person anyway? What goals do they actually have, and if they don’t want the villain to win, why did they let the villain rise in the first place? (Side note, but one of the great things about Thalia’s Musings is that it actually asks these questions. Destiny is petty,…

While we’re at it, I’d love to call a moratorium on stories about people who’re destined for heroism because their ancestors were heroes. My ancestors were alcoholics with a tendency towards mental illness and suicide, so I’d very much prefer not to believe that heredity is destiny. Besides, casting aside logic and…

The best way I can sum it up: the alt-right are people who spammed cutesy pictures of an anthropomorphic personification of winter as part of a magic spell that was supposed to cause a colder winter in Europe so homeless refugees would freeze to death. They do not operate on human logic.