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@shallanelprin

Here be rage about injustice, sci-fi/comic nerdiness, kpop ranting, & FE web dev geekery. Bi/ace, she/her, white. Kitty’s name is Milo

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"This stuff doesn't work anymore. Nobody cares" is explicitly nazi rhetoric, which ought to surprise nobody at all coming from Ryan Grim

02.03.2026 16:02 👍 650 🔁 122 💬 17 📌 2

The only gay people the Atlantic has ever thought might need protection are effeminate gay "boys" who they've decided need protection from the trans agenda, and historically, that's not what gay kids actually need protection from.

This fear lives only in the minds of straight cis journalists.

04.03.2026 17:30 👍 335 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 0

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

04.03.2026 19:14 👍 2910 🔁 563 💬 187 📌 13

I need fashion people to stop trying to make barrel jeans happen, they’re hideous 😫

04.03.2026 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The pay is better on many of the alternatives, too.

03.03.2026 05:53 👍 35 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Insane.

The anti-trans movement wants an absolute right of parents to control their children, from the kids' religion to their gender. The state must obey the parents.

Except when the parents want to affirm their children as transgender. Then the state can do whatever the fuck it wants.

03.03.2026 02:19 👍 785 🔁 218 💬 8 📌 4
TtH • Twisting the Hellmouth • Buffy Crossover Fanfiction

If you like Buffy crossovers, maybe check out tthfanfic.org in this time of #AO3 being down

Or quantumbang.org if you like fix-it fic (pretty limited fandoms, no RPF, pretty small site since it’s a yearly bang challenge not an archive)

03.03.2026 04:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

02.03.2026 17:31 👍 442 🔁 420 💬 6 📌 13

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

02.03.2026 20:44 👍 16529 🔁 5126 💬 1 📌 63

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:

you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

27.02.2026 18:10 👍 1108 🔁 709 💬 7 📌 11

if GenAI doesn't collapse soon, i might have to stop serving some of my services (code forge, public docs) publicly. A partner of mine used to host lists of links to various interesting places, that she had to take down because bots kept slamming the backend, and no countermeasure works well enough.

27.02.2026 18:10 👍 93 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

there's not really a point to this, i just wish non-tech people knew: every part of the web has become worse because of GenAI. Millions of SEO-optimized sites packed with cognitive asbestos. Companies taking down our services scraping every word they can find. Hardware is too expensive to buy...

27.02.2026 18:10 👍 162 🔁 39 💬 0 📌 1

acab is perhaps the greatest understatement of the 21st century

02.03.2026 22:15 👍 45 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0

can’t wait for people who decided in 2018 that Star Trek was “too political” to be given the reins of the franchise

02.03.2026 22:23 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

02.03.2026 20:39 👍 8061 🔁 2216 💬 121 📌 70

When I said birth control was in danger people said I was catastrophizing. But here we are, wait until they come for the right to own property. It's a fantasy where only wealthy white men have rights. No one else

25.02.2026 16:21 👍 185 🔁 79 💬 2 📌 1

Please block that garbage content aggregator if you haven’t yet. Even when the Tennessee Holler isn’t lying, they’re stealing from actual journalists, and they have no accountability.

25.02.2026 15:36 👍 717 🔁 302 💬 12 📌 4

They're doing this to rewrite the narrative and paint themselves as the friendly neighborhood police force.

It's #myNYPD all over again.

25.02.2026 16:25 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Wait I’m sorry, what is this argument? I can withdraw consent for vaccines after “doing my research” online but I can’t be trusted to give informed consent for birth control based on the existence of rare side effects literally every person with a uterus knows about?

25.02.2026 16:19 👍 212 🔁 46 💬 3 📌 2

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.

These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

24.02.2026 18:38 👍 2631 🔁 1097 💬 32 📌 17

I’m in a “See something, say something” training (designed by federal law enforcement mind you) and all I keep thinking is ICE is doing literally all of these suspicious behaviors I’m supposed to report to security 🤨😒 Because they are the bad guys so they act like the bad guys

25.02.2026 15:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So, he was 40 rows back, thought nobody on stage could hear him, immediately left when he realized he'd been heard, and had been told that his tics would be edited out.

This seems pretty much completely on the BBC. They owe Jordan and Lindo all the apologies.

25.02.2026 15:57 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Do non-Black people know that racism literally kill us? The stress of it is lethal.

When my dad turned 80 this summer he remarked that so few Black men of his generation make it to 80.

Delroy Lindo is 73.

Some consideration for his and MBJ's feelings is warranted here but woefully absent.

23.02.2026 15:39 👍 1232 🔁 254 💬 28 📌 4
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BBC cut 'free Palestine' remark from Baftas – but not racial slur

The BBC have cut a 'Free Palestine' call from their 2026 Bafta coverage, despite not cutting a racial slur from a man with Tourette's syndrome

23.02.2026 10:24 👍 568 🔁 217 💬 14 📌 32

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

23.02.2026 16:23 👍 7240 🔁 1760 💬 76 📌 57

Friends, I have been teaching for barely 5 years, and this was one of the first things I noticed. That's why I try to do as much ON PAPER as possible. Same with reading: actual PRINT ON PAPER, not pixels on a screen.

23.02.2026 14:52 👍 60 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
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Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can

digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

20.02.2026 16:38 👍 1616 🔁 1672 💬 90 📌 176

This is great and I hate being this guy but @projectsaltbox.bsky.social noted this last Friday.

projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/nternal-ic...

20.02.2026 20:13 👍 1526 🔁 641 💬 26 📌 16

I'm hoping to see people who can plainly see how evil ICE is start to think maybe we should also demilitarize the police and remove their qualified immunity. Likewise if you can see how evil these profit incentivized concentration camps are, maybe you can rethink all privately owned prisons.

20.02.2026 15:29 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

“There will be no elected official who will magically save the people from having to organize.” - @eethatsme.blacksky.app

19.02.2026 22:19 👍 19 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0