Tin Can and Chill

@snarkers.bsky.social

Queer. Watches queer media and SFF and queer fiction and generally tries not to be an asshole. Often talks about BL/GL. Faves include Mew and Moonbyul

Idk lol "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. I knew what I was doing was illegal. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour." is pretty fuckin legendary

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

Mangione was charged with two federal stalking counts and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.
thene@thene.bsky.social · last wk.

i am working on a very, very long blog post that could really have fit into a skeet: When someone posts that "this website/journal article/etc proves my dramatic claim!!!" and then does not link to the website, journal article, etc, it is because it does not in fact prove their dramatic claim.

There’s this podcast about video games my partner shared with me and they were talking about this game and there was this part where they were talking about this game creating a safe space for women and how one of the off shoots of that was when men wanted to be included, (1)

The other day my partner and I were talking about just call out culture and fan culture and they were like “I think the problem is when people get so obsessed with rules over what’s at the heart of it all-being kind to other humans. So it becomes you broke a rule, BANISH THEM”

Bridgers' third solo album is her account of a time in which she retreated from the public eye, reeling from the effects of fame, a complicated love life and the sudden death of her father. n.pr/4zkieBm

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I do think one of the most caustic trends in how people engage with media right now is people needing to fully agree with every aspect of the character at any given time in order to let themselves enjoy it