I like Jessie Gender. I will heartily recommend her videos in general (though admittedly, I don’t much care for the strictly Star Trek content). She is a kind and forgiving voice with a flair for intellectually dissecting conflicts. Sometimes, however, too kind and forgiving, as with her recent video on the too-much-discussed Dave Chappelle.
The “audit” in Arizona has not gone to wingnut plan.
The final report was set to be released Friday, the result of a monthslong partisan review funded partly by taxpayers. The draft circulated Thursday night, showing the results of the review’s chaotic hand-count of all 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix. The tally in the draft document showed a net gain of 360 votes for Biden over the official results.
Over on our Discord server, user “Hemi” was struggling to decipher the illustrious Jordan Peterson’s book, “Beyond Order” (which, as an aside… isn’t that just a chilling title?). [Read more…]
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ASCEND.
Failure is our nature [Read more…]
… and made something beautiful with it. Video:
Nazis for Trump attack the US Capitol.
Heltery Skeltery
Right-wing conspirators
Breached the perimeters
Dangerous chumps
Faking emergency
Launching insurgency
Undemocraticly
Following Trump
Commentary as follows: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?!!?
I just found out, quite randomly, that Monica Roberts of TransGriot has died.
Monica Roberts has passed away and TBLG media will not be the same.
Roberts, 58, was best known on the internet for her award-winning blog, TransGriot, a website that covered transgender news before there was much trans representation in major TBLG (her preferred order for the letters) publications. Even up to this today, several writers and editors at LGBTQ Nation checked her website daily to see what she had to tell the world.
I have no detailed commentary about this. This is a monstrous loss of a tireless advocate and teller of sorely needed truth.
I encountered the following shorn-of-all-credits bit of delight on Facebook:
… and being me, had to continue it:
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A FB friend posted a thing that is popular in feminist circles. Well, a certain kind of feminist circle anyway. “Emma Clit”‘s comic “You Should’ve Asked” raises some good points. Have a look: https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/.
Thing is, I think it missed some points too. It’s not that it’s incorrect per se, but rather that it takes a strictly cisheteronormative woman’s point of view to the exclusion of all else, which is not inherently a bad thing except that here we have a whole comic essay where the what is hard to argue with but the why has been glossed over with a handwavy “They don’t care, because they were raised to not care.”
Is that true? To some extent, surely, but that seems heavily simplistic to me. [Read more…]
Oh how I have been anticipating releasing this! Other than the music, this video is all me, from the writing to the voice work to the animation to even the custom software that actually runs the animations!
I am especially interested in what the locals might think of this, as it seems like it might be the sort of cynical humor that slots nicely into the worldview around here.