If you had asked me more than four or five days ago, I would have told you that, at least for me personally, Bluesky (follow me!) was beginning to approach the levels of usefulness of pre-Nazi Twitter, but had yet to even come close to pre-Nazi Twitter in its ability to be funny.
This JD Vance couch-fucking shit has absolutely put that concern to bed. It’s been going on for days, and it’s still funny. It may literally never stop being funny.
This might not be true, but I’m pretty sure it is: every single time in the history of the human race someone has asked “But where’s the ______ for white men?” that person has been a racist asshole. This fact made me at least a little nervous about trying to find out if there was, in fact, a White Men for Kamala Harris group. Why was I wondering so specifically? Well, in the last few days we’ve seen a number of other identity-based groups getting off the ground, and White Women for Kamala Harris broke Zoom, and damn it, I wanna play too! And frankly, given that white men are the other guy’s biggest demographic, I think it’s probably perfectly reasonable to suggest that those of us of that persuasion who are very much not in favor of the fascist felon and his merry band of dipshits should be loud and proud of it.
I’m happy to say that White Dudes for Harris is a thing, and our Zoom call is Monday at 8:00 EST, and Pete Buttigieg is gonna be there, and if you’re also a white dude you can sign up for it here. And you should. We’ve got some numbers to live up to, dammit.
The more I hear about Josh Shapiro the less I like him, and Bloomberg is claiming that the Veepstakes is down to him, Mark Kelly, and Tim Walz. Of those three, I am 100%, unreservedly, whole-chestedly, full-throatedly on Team Walz. Let’s do this right, damn it.
You have at least one book review coming and possibly two, but just in case I don’t get to one or either of them: R.J. Barker’s Tide Child trilogy is really damn good, and unless it utterly fails to stick the ending– I’m about 100 pages out– Rachel Caine’s The Hunter is an absolute return to form on her part and I’m happy as hell to see it.
Also, despite previous reservations, I may actually be seeing Deadpool and Wolverine in theaters tomorrow, marking my first in-theater Marvel movie since 2019. That will almost certainly receive a review if I manage to actually get out to see it.
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I am done being interested in or surprised by the methods men use for sexual gratification (as long as it isn’t illegal/abusive to other living creatures), especially men who are anti-woman. Not that I was ever particularly interested, but I am pretty sure it happened that fateful early November day in 2016 when I decided I was d.o.n.e. DONE with the patriarchy.
I haven’t founded the Lorena Bobbit Justice League yet, but I did start knitting my childless cat lady sweater. Officially it is black cat/Halloween-themed, but I am delighted to embrace the childless cat lady aspect..
If Harris chooses a rich white guy as VP, does that make him a DEI hire? (I understand why the right thinks DEI is an insult and why they are afraid of leveling the playing field, but part of me wants to throw it back at them.)
Book related: Are the books The Bright Sword, These Deathless Shores, andor The Night of Baba Yaga on your shelvesreading lists? I am most interested in These Deathless Shores, a gender swapped origin story of Captain Hook. I suspect that it might be another origin story I didn’t know I needed, like the film Cruella.
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Why does WordPress delete slashes? ////
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A better question is why it let me put them in, and why it kept those four. I don’t understand either.
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I put in a bunch as a test. It kept one direction and deleted the others. And/or will remain intact andor will post without the slash (which i call a backslash), all run together. Formatting issue? Html issue? WordPress is weird and persnickety.
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1) I went ahead and put your slashes in; hopefully they stick;
2) He is absolutely a DEI hire, and so is Vance;
3) No, but let me know if you like them. 🙂
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My current reading (Babylon next) is Mike Wendling’s second book on the Far Right.
https://www.plutobooks.com/author/mike-wendling/
He is a BBC journalist, reporting from the US on Digital affairs. Look him up – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wendling
In the interests of transparency I should say that he is a close friend of my American son-in-law.
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I’ll check him out, thanks!
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I won’t go into details because of my job, but I live in PA and don’t think Shapiro should be picked.
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Feel 100% free to not answer this, but I think it’s general enough that you will: this sounds like a “not fit for the job” issue and not a “we don’t want him to leave PA” issue. Is that fair?
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Pretty much. Given the choice between Doug Mastriano and him, he was the obvious choice. But…. Yeah.
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