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You may recall the case where Lynne Freeman sued Tracy Wolff for writing a YA set in Alaska where the male lead was hot and broody, just like in Freeman's book. This litigation went on for three years before a judge finally read both books and said there was zero infringement.

tl;dr LJ in the Aughts had become a place where Russians were able to organize outside of state control (servers in CA!) until inevitably a Russian banker with "alleged" Kremlin ties bought it. now the servers are... in Russia. And people have been sentenced to prison for blog opinions.

Tornado spotted up the road from us, so we dutifully corralled the fur babies and piled into the downstairs bathroom. Biscuit hates being trapped in an enclosed space for any length of time...

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

They do what now

Excuse me while I burst into singing Bohemian Rhapsody to drown them out... Who's singing along?

I know there’s rules about fluids in airplane carry-on luggage, but are there any rules about carrying 200 sets of earplugs? 🤦‍♀️

Ahahaha oh I shouldn’t laugh but ahahaha 😂

It’s definitely a disruptive activity.

one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon

From when Paul the Trombonist accidentally texted his wife with voice transcription on while practicing:

i knew that i had made it when my mom adjusted my blouse to cover my bra strap and stared at me like i was a slut

Granted, I'd pay extra for a flight where no one is allowed to speak to me unless it's the flight attendant offering me snacks.

An old favorite: which Muppet or Sesame Street character represents which figure out of Old Norse mythology.

Just a word here to say that empathy is good.

The genitals police should recall that it's illegal to photograph people in public toilets in the UK, as well as just deeply gross and creepy. It's perverted behavior on their part - transphobes want to do the things they falsely accuse their targets of doing, which is to make toilets unsafe for all

Gold octopus ornaments from Bronze Age Mycenae, some 3,500 years ago. Probably sewn onto a funerary garment or shroud. Grave IV, Grave Circle A. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 by me #Archaeology

It used to be possible to add notes to a song in iTunes. Like I had even the whole lyrics on some of them. All I want now is the option to add why I have it. “Used in a Fanvid about Eraserhead”, “[anime I didn’t much care about other than the music] ED2” and so forth.

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one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people