… and made something beautiful with it. Video:
Impossible Me
To Be The Impossible Being
… 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!?!!?
As a fun little experiment for Halloween, some bloggers here are writing a story in a chain form.
This story starts at The Bolingbrook Babbler. Previous section at Freethinking Ahead.
In the distance down Highway 1, a set of headlights flicked into view. That had happened plenty of times during the evening, but this was the first since the sun slipped below the horizon and also the first that caused all of the pickup’s occupants to tense up. Mateo lifted a pair of field glasses to his eyes and peered toward them.
“Is that them?” Connie and Kyle asked in unison, then gave each other a disconcerted glance. [Read more…]
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.
TEN THOUSAND YEARS…. will put SUCH a crick in your posting schedule!
But I have a treat for you! I think it is, anyway. Say hello to my first parody music video!
As announced over on Pharyngula, our very own Spider Professor ran a stream today reading and reacting to the comments on his previous video on trans people and the complexity of defining ‘sex’. Crip Dyke, Sarah, and I joined him for this, and here it is:
A small confession: Barring a couple of not widely viewed D&D game videos from a few years ago, this was actually my first livestream! I would like to think it does not seem like it.
There is a video circulating about how to minimize one’s exposure to viral contamination from groceries by a Dr. Jeffrey VanWingen. Most of us have seen it by now, I’ve shared it elsewhere, voyager posted it over on Affinity, and so on.
It’s good. It’s also not good. I don’t really blame the doctor for this, we’re all if not in the dark, at least ‘in the dim’ about how to deal with all of this. So here’s that and some more information and my best guesses. [Read more…]