"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

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you ever see a post where it's actually legitimately kinda fucked up how hot it is

Ophiderom@ophiderom.bsky.social · last mo.

A fae asked for your consent instead of your name and now it's noncon even when you jerk off.

Self-promoing my zines on itch! Why? Because August has been a rough month for me so far and I could use some cash. All my zines are donation based (starting at $5) and are generally queer/f-ggy/trans. The next few posts contain a link and summary of one of my zines! bignastyhomo.itch.io

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OMG, Happy August 5th Day: Teehee! www.wsfa.com/video/2023/0...

Full Video: Viewer records as Montgomery riverfront brawl begins

A passenger on the Harriott II Riverboat was recording when a confrontation turned into a fight involving multiple people.

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There are trans adults who never had to go through the wrong puberty. There are trans teens going to prom as their real selves. There are t4t couples raising kids together. As much as they are trying to destroy trans existence, especially trans kids, we've come so far and we aren't going back!

Please scream inside your heart@greeneyedsoandso.bsky.social · 3h ago

Being queer. I know things are hard right now, but sex was illegal in many states, marriage didn't exist, AIDS was a death sentence, being out in high school was unthinkable

My go-to.

Suzan Eraslan@saturnexalted.bsky.social · 3h ago

Hey hive mind-- I'm Going Through Some Shit and would love some beautiful, fun, brightly colored, gorgeous movies that work better than drugs to help me escape. Hit me with your favorites for this. Nothing gritty or sad, please. Violence or horror are OK if it's like this movie:

Remembered as a solitary genius by straight people whose entire experience of him is that awful biopic, maybe. Queer mathematicians I know think of him as a sociable role model who was charming at parties.

Proud Changemakers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@proudchangemakers.bsky.social · yesterday

Alan Turing is often remembered as a solitary genius obsessed with numbers and logic but mew analysis of an unpublished short story written by him, Pryce's Buoy, paints a picture of a man who was comfortable exploring his homosexuality through fiction. Read more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan...

Saw a post saying "I don't want NSFW accounts to talk about voting, just let me jack off" Buddy, NSFW artists and sex workers are being constantly attacked by a government of nonces trying to distract from their own crimes by pinning the blame on porn. They have the right to speak up about this.

#bugsky (is that a thing?) I have an indoor potted plant that occasionally shows evidence of being eaten (leaves chomped) and recently a small stem cut clean off. Weeks pass between these incidents. I have no pets. No other plants have this problem. What's eating my plant?

I am banning SFF writers from writing panic attack scenes. None of you write them well and all of you are writing them the same way. Stop it. I am sick to death of seeing the same scene over and over again in so much literature.

In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

The BABY is supervising CONSTRUCTION outside What would they do WITHOUT HER

This is of course referring to bathroom discourse. I saw a video of what could have been a trans man in the women’s bathroom, with outrage from the comments. Everyone saying “he’s not trans bc he’s not even trying to look like a woman” completely ignoring that trans can go the other way too

Comms open!@moleart.bsky.social · 5h ago

Why do cis people hear the word “trans” and automatically think “woman“. Cishets think the only way to be trans is to be a trans woman. They don’t even realize trans men exist. It’s so frustrating

No, I will not “get to the point.” Every conversation with me is a journey that takes as long as it takes. Now get in the trunk and let’s go.

eighty MILLION dollars on political ads there are hungry people in this country

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 12h ago

This level of spending actually makes me deeply angry. Let's never do this again in a primary ok

Texas isn't a red state. It's a state held hostage by gerrymandering and voter suppression. Hell, earlier this week they announced they're shutting down half the voting centers in Tarrant County (that's Fort Worth, 2.2 million people) and kicked everyone out of the hearing who wanted to comment.

John DeVore@johndevore.bsky.social · 4h ago

This is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.

I mean, yeah, the loss of it would have no negative impacts on my life whatsoever (because i don't fucking use it) and myriad positive ones. That's why I'm anti-AI in the first place.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h ago

I have one answer.

One of my more openly villain (positive) aspects is that I react to this kind of nonsense with the single word "weak," said with utter contempt. Those who willingly, enthusiastically use "ai" are weak-willed, ego-rotted scum. They deserve to be shamed for it.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h ago

I have one answer.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways to not have a conversation with my parents.

Wip of ~him~

frog forcing himself to like a book and the sentences in it no longer make sense because he can no longer pay attention

Alas, every single one of these is still available. On the plus side, choice of colors! Artologica.etsy.com

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d ago

Ka-boom! Listed artologica.etsy.com

Argh, I forgot 1 cup of dry quinoa makes 47 cups of quinoa after cooking. Stupid grain math.

Here is how I make these. It's a long process

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d ago

If you want to see the whole process, start here and go up the thread

I saw a bunny today and almost cried. They are still out there! I can make it at least one more day.

Julia Gulia 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@jrobb773.bsky.social · 3d ago

Part of my summer depression is that all the wild animals are in hiding except for like 2 to 3am when the temperature briefly dips below 85 degrees. I get it but I miss them! I just want to see a little bunny in the yard again.

I would be thrilled to have a google that worked again! To find recipes that I know real people made and tested! To not have these intrusive ass bots condescendingly asking if they can summarize things for me, as if I'm not a grown ass person who's been reading and comprehending text for DECADES.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h ago

I have one answer.

Work simply doesn’t understand how much less I want them to know about me. If I could make them put a signed check inside a PO Box I rent in another city, I would. I don’t like you; stop trying to be my friend.

I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.