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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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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@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.

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!

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!

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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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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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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