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You only gave us rights because we gave you riots: thoughts on Pride
I've had three partially-written blog posts about Pride sitting here in the queue for a few weeks, but kept changing my mind about which direction I wanted to go with it. Then over the last few days I've seen several more iterations of a question that drives me crazy, and some related stuff appeared on a couple of my usual news sits, which made the ( Read more... ) -
Sunday Funnies, part 37: What QQ
Another in my series of posts recommending web comics that I think more people should read.
(The rest of this post is at FontFolly.Net.)
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Weekend Supplement 6/22/19: the spectrum from unreasonable to wonderful
This is not a usual Weekend Update. I changed the format of my Friday posts a few years ago for several reasons, one being that to include all of the links I gathered in a week took a much longer time to assemble the post than if I limited myself to a smaller number. This week was the first time since 2017 that I had significantly more than five ( Read more... ) -
Friday Five (awesome church sign edition)
It's the third Friday of Pride Month, and rainbows are bursting out all over ( Read more... ) -
Sunday Funnies, part 36: Kyle’s B&B
Another in my series of posts recommending web comics that I think more people should read...
(The rest of this post is at FontFolly.Net.)
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Don’t let the revenuers rain on your parade, or lessons learned from my great-grandfather
I’ve written before about the reality that some of us didn’t have great fathers. Some of us had such bad and abusive fathers that events like Father’s Day make us relive some of the trauma. I envy the people who have great fathers-and would like to point out that when we tell the stories of our bad fathers, that just proves how wonderful great dads ( Read more... ) -
Friday Five (mass anomaly edition)
It's only the second Friday of Pride Month, and yet this weekend is the third Saturday. Wow ( Read more... ) -
Friday Five (homophobes self-own edition)
It's Friday! Not only that, it is the first Friday of Pride Month! Happy Pride Month ( Read more... ) -
It’s okay to like things that make you happy: my review of Good Omens
First, I have a few confessions to make. Even though I have been a squeeing fanboy of Terry Pratchett’s books for decades, and a similarly enthusiastic fan of Neil Gaiman’s writing for a similar period of time, I hadn’t read the novel they collaborated on, Good Omens, before this year...
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If he talks like a bigot, acts like a bigot, is loved and supported by the other bigots…
Saw this list on tumblr at Join the Political Revolution. The original has links to news stories for each of the events.
It’s Pride Month…
…so let’s get a couple things straight about Donald Trump and LGBTQ rights...
(The rest of the political post is at FontFolly.Net.)
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