nicole

Just finished Cassandra Khaw’s The Library at Hellebore. Hyper-violent dark academia lovingly complicated by its non-linear unspooling. It’s a bit of a mess (See Also, Every Character Depicted Therein), but I loved the heck out of it.

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Ron Gilbert

If you work for a company owned by an evil and horrible company, you work for an evil and horrible company. Stop deluding yourself.

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Doc Impossible

@BioWD Ehhhh, it's more complicated than that. Gotta remember that this genders based oppression is almost exclusively Western in origin, and largely became A Thing worldwide (in Europe too, tbh) in the great colonial push of the 16-1700s.

And that gender diversity was used as the pretextual justification for the racist colonial subjugation of the global South.

A loooooot of the worldwide reaction against trans people these days is a very understandable cultural memory/terror of what white Europeans did to their ancestors, and why.

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nicole

I went to San Diego Comic-Con this year, and while I didn’t cosplay, I did theme my outfit.

I failed to get my Supergirl WoT comic signed, though—ten years of SDCC and I still couldn’t follow all the hoops and queues. Oh well, super hopeful for the movie next year!

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Pauline hauled me out to Ezra Furman at the Great American Music Hall last night. The Ophelias opened. Both were tremendous shows. Afterwards, a brisk stroll through the saddest artery of the Tenderloin ending at the edges of the Transgender District.

No fainting this time!

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nicole

Fainting at a Nine Inch Nails concert wasn’t on my 2025 Bingo card. 🤣 I blame the red and blue, three-dimensional death beam they fired into our eyes. @pauline and Aaron did a marvelous job of guiding my on-again-off-again consciousness from the arena. All in all, still a really fun night. 🥰

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kottke.org

Philip Bump on the results of a recent poll. What Makes an American? Three in 10 Republicans Say: Being White. pbump.net/o/what-makes-an-amer

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Uncle Duke

quack dealers

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nicole

Pauline held a small dinner party, and somehow managed to fit me on the guest list. I love a good home-cooked tagine. 🥰

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Got called in last minute on Friday for an art museum assist by @pauline. It was my third visit to the Ruth Asawa exhibit at the SF Museum of Modern Art, and I still found myself enthralled for hours by the artist’s mastery of space and vision.

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I finished the core Ancillary Noun trilogy of Anne Leckie’s Imperial Radch series. I couldn’t get enough of the space opera coziness, and immediately dipped into Translation State, another novel set in the same universe.

Translation State was a delightful read: the stakes are simultaneously personal and galaxy-spanning; the core dilemma is a body horror that evokes aspects of puberty and transition. Cannibalistic kindergartners, biological essentialism, and serialized television drama, oh my.

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When in doubt, go for a walk. “Walking won’t solve everything. But it won’t make anything worse. That’s more than you can say for most things we do when we’re stressed, tired, or lost.” fabiansjournal.bearblog.dev/wh

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nicole

I feel slightly dumber for having read this.

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In no way is she a good dog, but I still love her visits.

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I have a birthday visitor today!!

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Danielle Foré

Happy pride to anyone else who before they came out was like, “Oh I’m just a really good ally. I really care about those gays and their rights. It just makes me so mad how they aren’t treated equally. I’m just really viscerally empathetic”

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nicole

Had a nice art day yesterday with some queers at the SF Museum of Modern Art.

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jonathankoren™

“The bill passed the House by a vote of 58-32.”

We’re so fucked. #weird

fox8live.com/2025/05/30/louisi

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