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@PatrickHen1776 @allie__voss No, it would just mean more men getting poisoned

@allie__voss Ending no fault divorce laws would go a long way to healing the divide among the sexes.

This is basically my take It’s not going to be solved by “repeal the 19th!!!” or “end no-fault divorce!” any other bumper-sticker style policy change It’s a mix of values and economic development, and only the values can go backwards

@tayylorwood @TrashPandaGirl When's the last time you freaked out because a janitor was in the bathroom? This is a much better disguise for a rapist, but if you saw a janitor in the bathroom, you'd (at most!) walk out and look for another bathroom, not act like you were about to be attacked

@TrashPandaGirl It’s more about people claiming to be trans when they aren’t just to enter the women’s restroom. We have these rules for our safety, it’s not made up just to cause problems for trans people. Women are not safe, allowing any man that “claims” to be trans in is insane

Here's the part that many transphobes won't admit (although a lot of the honest ones, especially on twitter, will): No. They don't want <her in the men's restroom or >him in the woman's restroom. They just don't want either of them to EXIST.

@NotebookRosary @LauraRbnsn Do we have casting for all of the other professors?

@LauraRbnsn The biggest issue with Snape is now we have a Harry who is intensely suspicious of and insisting his only black teacher is actually evil and spends ~6 years hating his guts

Also, because it's another subject of discussion: I actually really like colorblind casting, especially in stagier productions where the suspension of disbelief is really high. Denzel can be Macbeth. No one cares that some "historical Thane of Cawdor" wouldn't have been. It

@alltoochenford @boom_tentpeg #warnings_list" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#warnin…

@boom_tentpeg My one and only complaint is that there should be a way to report something as missing a major tag (for the triggering/“depraved” stuff) because there are the occasional pieces that are deliberately untagged and I wish there was a way to report that. Not realistic maybe but still

The Zoomer hatred of AO3 - a very popular fanfic archiving site - is pretty hilarious. Basically, AO3 was created by Gen Xers in response to a massive adult fanfiction purge on LiveJournal. Its entire mission statement is to avoid moralistic censorship. And many Zoomers, as the New Puritans, periodically get into these spirals of mouth-frothing moral outrage about how it allows for all sorts of immoral (fictional) content. So, when they's a donation drive, they try and browbeat people into not participating. (While still using the site, naturally, because this sort are ungrateful parasites of the highest order.) But AO3 always surpasses their donation targets, and I suspect at least some of those donations are made out of spite towards to pearl-clutching scolds. Revealed preferences in action. I can't say I don't understand where some of this outrage is coming from - while most of the content there is harmless, there's a small pool of truly depraved stuff. But the nonprofit who runs the site explains their reasoning as wanting to avoid a slippery slop. And now that Zoomers (and some Millennials) want to report otherwise perfectly innocuous content for featuring characters visiting Israel or whatnot, you can see why the Organization of Transformative Works hold so firm. They'd rather some truly heinous (and generally very unpopular) works get put up than have moralizing TOS that can be abused by bad faith actors. Naturally, they accuse the OTW of being "Zionists". For the crime of having principles that resist their totalizing moral outrage, presumably, and definitely not because one of their co-founders (Naomi Novik, a very accomplished American fantasy author who got her start writing fanfic) is half Jewish.

@Ripamaru @d_h_sanders She got more votes than Trump

@d_h_sanders Or..... Hear me out here.... Democrats didn't nominate a candidate they knew to be deeply unpopular.

Trump was not inevitable. The elections he won were extremely close. It's likely none of this would have happened if James Comey and a handful of major media editors had acted differently in 2016.

@Shinealigh87093 @HannahEBeachler What discrimination? She's not impugning his character or calling for his exclusion? She's saying that the BBC's response was inadequate If his tic were physical and he'd punched someone in the nose, would you demand they never get medical treatment or tell anyone who hit them?

@HannahEBeachler Grace is certainly not how you are handling something you do not deeply know. Sometimes being a Black Woman isn’t enough clearly and you are showing discrimination of the nature you are defending your feelings with. Not good enough unfortunately.

I keep trying to write about what happened at the BAFTAs, and I can't find the words. The situation is almost impossible, but it happened 3 times that night, and one of the three times was directed at myself on the way to dinner after the show.

@dlwiest @MissZindzi If your recipe site doesn't have a skip to recipe link or a print recipe (without all of the copyrightable discussion) button, they're not primarily designed for people who actually cook recipes and you should pick a new site

@MissZindzi Actually sending it a recipe and saying “parse a shopping list out of this” could be useful if you’re in a hurry since they always bury the ingredients deep in the page under 50 ads

Serious question: when people say that they use ChatGPT to make grocery lists, what exactly does it help with, since only you would know what's needed in your home

@defendUSA @MichaelAlbertMD Humans are very bad at calculating risk/reward in extremely predictable ways

@MichaelAlbertMD Stop it. No one forgets bad outcomes. But they do remember the risk/reward scenario. See Nicholas P. Hulcher studies of the data.

"Growing up we all got measles and it wasn't a big deal." This is called survivorship bias. A cognitive fallacy that occurs when someone focuses only on the successful individuals in a group, while ignoring the unsuccessful ones. It's a type of selection bias that can lead to incorrect conclusions and a distorted understanding of cause and effect.

@RickD747 @MichaelAlbertMD Arsenic is completely natural

@MichaelAlbertMD Its also completely natural. It makes a child's immune system stronger. New viruses and bacteria pop up every year and you must have an active immune system to fight them off.

@athena_breast @ragdollwitch @JenosonTwit Have you tried making a skin with #000000 as the background color? Or googled AO3 dark mode site skin?

@ragdollwitch @zviltv @JenosonTwit I have sensitive eyes and the mobile web version of AO3 doesn’t have AMOLED black background afaik (hoping you’re going to flex an option that enables this) and that’s like a basic option that most fanfic readers offer, whatever the website

'AO3 needs an app and ads!' No, it will be subject to the platforms ToS or sponsor demands aka censorship. 'AO3 needs an algorithm!' No, it's not a soc med platform, it's an archiving site. 'AO3 needs to monetize authors!' No, OTW will be sued into oblivion.

@_Cratter_ @pozmonavt @JenosonTwit I like FB Reader because it syncs your library through Google Drive. If you already read in Kindle, Nook, Play Books, Kobo or Apple Books, you can upload epub files to all of them. A lot of people on Android recommend Moon+ Reader, but I've never used it

@pozmonavt @JenosonTwit Do you have any reading apps you’d recommend?

@_Cratter_ @MlleTeapot @JenosonTwit There are skins to create more white space and options (in My Preferences) to hide additional tags. You can also use a site skin to change how tags are displayed. Also (and I can't stress this enough) there's no reason to expect that an app would fix your UI preferences/needs

@MlleTeapot @JenosonTwit I think it stems from my processing issues when alot of information is in a small space its really hard for me to process, i find its the worst when theres alot of tags on a fic which so being able to collaps the tags would do alot for me but also thats just me

@athena_breast @ragdollwitch @JenosonTwit What file format do you want over epub or PDF? (You can currently download html, as well)

@ragdollwitch @JenosonTwit […] but it would bring a certain comfort to be able to download fics to read them offline without having to download them as pdf or epubs

@thecatguy23 @ngoziu It's locked

@ngoziu wait is the newsletter Patreon members only or can people read it without paying

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@Makiadi_ @MarthaAhumuza Or go to a church that doesn't ask you to believe in Jesus. Quakers, UU, Satanic Temple, Ethical Culture, etc

@MarthaAhumuza Even going to church knowing very well Jesus is a fallacy

I think the easiest way to make friends as an adult is to become a doer. Sign up for that marathon, go to that concert, hit up that quiz night. Whatever excites you. When you show up doing things you love you naturally meet people who like the same stuff and you start

2) Bookclub, theater club, art club, maker space, writers group 3) Amateur sport: softball, running, pickleball, tai chi, etc 4) Fandom: comics, cosplay, miniatures, gaming, fanfiction, furries 5) classes: cooking, fashion, auto repair, glassblowing, dancing 6) Volunteer

Places to find cool people. 1) The cool, liberal version of your childhood religion. If your religion doesn't have a cool liberal version, try Unitarian Universalism, Ethical Culture, the Oasis Network, Sunday Assembly, The Satanic Temple, a humanist/freethinker group

Identify someone you think is cool. Identify an inexpensive activity you think is cool. Ask the person to the thing. Try three asks. If they ask you to something (even if it's "let's repeat in 1 week", you can try another three times. Try w/ new person