I'm in @mcsweeneys.net today writing about The Big Game
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Cambridge University’s women-only Newnham College will continue admitting trans women despite recent backlash and a U.K. Supreme Court ruling.
Read more: https://bit.ly/48p0c5z
#cambridgeuniversity #newnhamcollege #uk #unitedkingdom #transwomen #transrights #transgenderrights #europe #Transnews
"women naturally want to do womanly things because god created us with womanly desires in our hearts"
I mean how can you argue with such a well written sentence like that? A+ grade, easily
![[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreidzblpxefncqr2c73v7myen325wvtk767i7rw4zcc32c3hj4gzv5a)
[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]
A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" predicted this in the 1970s.
It was only a matter of time.
It was obvious that the backlash to Discovery was a kneejerk reaction to it not being a TNG era style show with some bigotry thrown in there too.
Ironic that it’s SNW, which has regularly been praised because it wasn’t Discovery, that caused this reevaluation.
After it folded, Bitch Magazine's website was taken over a a tradwife blog. Business as usual, I guess.
Woman's World Magazine! Boy, does that take me back.
GUY1: I feel like my AI girlfriend is the only one who gets me.
GUY2: right, like how is chatting with a bot different from a long-distance relationship?
GUY3, WHO MISUNDERSTOOD WHAT THIS SUPPORT GROUP WAS FOR, TRYING NOT TO CALL ATTENTION TO HIS BINDER FULL OF STARSCREAM PORN: yeah totally
The reason I don't like Firefly is that it is embarrassed to be space opera. Also the complete lack of Asians in a supposedly Chinese-dominated society. And the weird thing where sex workers are supposedly respected but also looked down upon by the narrative. And the cult around it.
seeing upcoming scifi books like "cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family". In the future, we can just feed Becky Chambers to AI & get these clones in a week
please treat 9/11 with the respect it deserves
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If the publishers are going to talk about it, why is everyone acting so hush hush?
It made a pop culture reference! It had actors that most people tolerate! Such kino!
Tech bros identify as perfectly rational logical beings and they see code as rational and logical so they identify more with code than they do with genuine human beings who aren't the same as them.
In conclusion, "John Campbell's human-centrist (with human meaning white male American) worldview revived for the Internet" is unsurprisingly, not a genre that attracts the most talented, thoughtful, or original writers.
That, and if you thought the planet-of-hats deal was bad enough in mainstream fiction, you should avoid HFY for the sake of your blood pressure. Apparently, in the future, human culture is 99 44/100% American. (The rest is cribbed Hitchhiker's Guide and Monty Python.)
It's the most Reddit of genres, in that you can tell it was written by a geeky 20-something white guy with minimal knowledge of biology.
"This paper cut- it did not kill you? On Weenie IV, office-supply related injuries are the second most common cause of death. Fascinating."
Thinking about how "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" fiction right now. The version of humanity presented in HFY is militaristic, defined by strength and biological superiority. In contrast, aliens are shown to wonder at the most basic of things- freezing flavored liquid and eating it as a snack, for example.
An exploration of modern sexism through the media? Count me in.
![A Poem on Spring.
— — — — — spring,
— — — — — sing;
— — — — — May,
— — — — — gay.
— — — — — flowers,
— — — — — bowers.
— — — — — hats,
— — — — — rats!!
["rats!!" was italicized]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rykdmiisbjdf4ooel7bxlrfu/bafkreiavngf2tyya5zngsg52e6ymfcnprpdrm2g74d7hh36a657o4hsvwq)
A Poem on Spring. — — — — — spring, — — — — — sing; — — — — — May, — — — — — gay. — — — — — flowers, — — — — — bowers. — — — — — hats, — — — — — rats!! ["rats!!" was italicized]
Newspapers being deluged w/cliched, formulaic Spring poems by amateurs & less discriminating papers publishing them were perennial jokes in the 19th century press.
Here's one from the humor magazine Tid-Bits, April 17, 1886 - here mainly needling rote composition w/tired rhymes.
#Poem #PoemSky
Screenshot: Jellyfin impresses with a catchy and clear interface
Learn how to use @jellyfin.bsky.social with your Raspberry Pi to build an energy- and space-saving media server for your home theater
www.makerspace-online.com/raspberry-pi...
#Jellyfin #RaspberryPi #Docker #Linux #OpenSource #application #HomeTheater
Jellyfin > Plex.
* OPEN-SOURCE, not just "free with ads"
* No "premium" service to push on you
* Not Reddit's new obsession
A tumblr thread by cryptotheism: 1. "My utter disdain for the 2010s era of Nerd Culture eternally evades me. I cannot articulate the trail of slime it leaves in my thoughts." 2. "There's something beneath the simmering misogyny and lobotomized consumerism and hair-pin reactionary politics that I can't quite pin down. I haven't been able to pin it down for years." 3. "It's the reactionary politics but it's not the reactionary politics. My aversion is simultaneously deeply material and deeply petty. It was a culture that I was forced into, but never felt comfortable inside. I wore the label of Nerd like the apron I wore at Starbucks. Begrudging utility. An inevitable consequence of the autism. Social camouflage."
4. "You know what it might be? Not to get all CATCHER IN THE RYE about this, but it all felt so phony and performative. There was a sense that most people didn't even like the things on their graphic tees. You watched STAR WARS because you had to. You familiarized yourself with comic books because you didn't want to feel left out. Your opinions about the things were also irrelevant. Deeper discussion of Thing took the form of hype-cycle praise, or brainworm-inducing forum arguments in which the only goal was to prove that you had memorized more facts about the thing. Yet at the same time, genuine passion was looked down upon. Genuine, strange, love was maladjusted and naive, the realm of basement-dwelling autists and mouth-breathing sperglords. Real nerds would never stoop to infodumping. At least we aren't like *them*. At least we aren't *that kind* of nerd. No! We're handsome, jacked misoygnists just like the people who haven't bullied us since 1991." (cont'd.)
From tumblr
source: https://www.tumblr.com/cryptotheism/725111479574167552/you-know-what-it-might-be-not-to-get-all-catcher
"The Orville" fans are like the Borg if it was solely composed of Funko Pop collectors.
That's about 128 cubic feet- so enough to fill a closet or flood a small room.
Some cooking in DS9, a dedicated cafeteria in Voyager.
It's all fucking PR. Ignoring female SF authors in favour of the most creepy + misogynistic romance plots with fantasy flavouring is in no way feminist. And as a woman, I'd much rather be fighting dragons than getting kidnapped and raped by a pointy-eared creep.
Keep independent cinema alive!
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Speaking of Storygraph AI Recs, apparently Native American rep is a "trope" that I may be unfamiliar with, like werewolf romance.