John Scalzi

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

With regard to the events of the last week, I'll note anecdotally that I saw far more vicious comments on Threads than here, and neither of them were a patch on what I saw on Reddit, which suggests to me Bluesky is just a convenient punching bag for the right, blame-wise. This is not news.

Just got home. I figure some of you might need a timeline cleanse at the moment.

EXCUSE ME PUT SOME GODDAMN RESPECT ON "MISS YOU MUCH" ONE OF NEW JACK SWING'S FINEST EFFORTS

Oooooh, cool

"Kith" is the word to describe people who you are close to (friends, neighbors) who are not necessarily related to you genetically. Thus the phrase, "kith and kin." And yeah, a lot of them you might call "aunt(ie)" or "uncle" or "cousin."

YES this is an important distinction

I hate that I can follow her logic for interviewing Dan Brown - it's to have someone an "average" person would have heard of in the story, even if their utility in actual reportage is tangential at best. She's trying to sexy up the news, which doesn't need to be sexy, it needs to be informative.

Oh hell yes

Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something

YouTube recommended a PragerU video to me and I have never once slammed the "Never Recommend This Channel" button so fast

I'm aware of it but as far as I can tell it doesn't have a substantive impact on my sales. I'm well enough known and my marketing is pretty good. Also, people have been doing this shit even before AI; Amazon was filled with "books" scraped from Wikipedia for years prior to this nonsense.

Krissy is feeling her October-themed t-shirt