Steven Genise
@stevengenise.bsky.social
Writer and editor in Seattle. Words in MYTHAXIS, BLUE EARTH REVIEW, FUSION FRAGMENT, MILK CANDY REVIEW. Subs reader for Split/Lip Press. He/Him
It's incredible that I can buy Microsoft Office in 2019 and then on July 13th of 2026 they can decide actually you're just no longer allowed to use it. Now you need to pay $100 per year. This should be illegal. The product works just fine, even if they no longer support it with updates.
This year the NCAA champion women’s crew would’ve finished 5th in the men’s event, so at least in collegiate rowing, if you are not in one of the top 4 fastest boats in the country there are plenty of women beating you
Micah@rincewind.run · yesterdayit's the old serena williams tweet in action, that there is a physical difference between the top tier of male athletes and the top tier of female athletes gets taken by far too many delusional men as "I can beat a woman at anything" no, you cannot beat a decent athlete of either gender at anything
This is 100% correct, and you can’t fake it. As a medieval historian, I see so many people try to outsmart this trap by talking about “trade” or “taxes,” but because they didn’t really learn it they modernize things far too much and in ways that flatten the world and make it less interesting!
David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.
As someone who coaches youth girls sports for a living, amateur and especially youth sports is one of the most important and sacred things in this world, but no individual sport or performance matters AT ALL. It only matters because of who you become while playing, and who you let play with you.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d agothe obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.
I mean idk about 3 albums, but from 2002-2005 the Mountain Goats had a banger FOUR album run of All Hail West Texas, Tallahassee, We Shall All Be Healed, and Sunset Tree
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️⚧️💗🏀💗
Scapegoats are emotionally cheaper than systems. Blaming the left asks nothing of you. It feels good and righteous and right. Asking whether your institutions and your party failed you requires dismantling beliefs you have spent your lifetime building. That is emotionally expensive.
In the order I read them. When I buy them they go on the TBR shelf, and then when they graduate from the TBR shelf they go into the first open spot. I can find anything in the entire library but ONLY I can find anything in the entire library
Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?
As long as you identify yourself directly and personally with the cultural objects you like you will find critique intolerable, regardless of the quality of the critique or the object
I think the thing that non-Americans don’t really get about our health insurance is that even if you LIKE your coverage, your company can just go with a new plan that is both worse and more expensive. Our insurance bill is going up by 400/mo with worse terms and there is nothing we can do about it
This is the real life modern version of Barry Keoghan in Banshees of Inisherin
🌿@kxdyn.bsky.social · last wk.hello bsky, can someone who is an esteemed expert of hetero culture please explain to me — what in the f’ck did i just watch??
“There is a good side to this terrible movie: I am making BANK” Incredible. This review is a banger from start to finish. I haven’t seen the movie yet so maybe I’ll disagree with her conclusions, but either way this review is SAVAGE and fucking ROCKS.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
New ancient Roman fire department just dropped
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last wk.Garbage trucks could soon be spying on you. Officials in Cape Coral, Florida, recently considered equipping sanitation trucks with AI-powered cameras that would photograph properties as crews complete their normal collection routes.
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
I love that my wife’s company is changing insurance providers for the 3rd year in a row, and now we’ll lose the PCP we’ve had for a decade, as well as our new baby’s pediatrician, and our dentist. But at least it costs more!
WOW. New announcement from Seattle CMs Strauss, Hollingsworth, and Foster saying they will fund universal school meals starting in the fall after all by using the general fund. Hard to see this as anything but a realization of the high political price they paid for their votes yesterday.
Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet
Jordan Kurella@jordankurella.com · 2w agopost the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
If they can build a data center overnight, then they can install a solar farm overnight.
Rax is right and also: these are the same projects. these people are so interested in reinforcing gender expectations to the point where they're medicating people in support of that. if one's experience of gender diverges from expected masculine norms, there are forcing functions. this is one.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3w agoit's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent
these people love to mock anything that smacks of gender studies but then in turn in these wide-eyed and empty takes and expect to be taken seriously
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm going to become the Joker
Kingdom of Heaven has perhaps one of the biggest deltas between the quality of the theatrical release and the quality of the directors cut. Theatrical release: rushed, incoherent, islamophobic. Directors cut: Ridley Scott’s magnum opus
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 3w agoKingdom Of Heaven Director's Cut Steelbook (4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital) available on Amazon ($39.78) amzn.to/45wkXcK #ad
They couldn’t Horst Wessel Charlie Kirk so they’re trying to do it to *checks notes* Lindsey Graham??
Ben Miller@benwritesthings.bsky.social · 4w agogirl WHAT
Popularism and populism both derive from the same essential impulse, which is to construct a synthetic version of The People that will cure democracy of the need to adjudicate between competing claims.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4w agoI’ve said before, many times, that basically every stripe of American politics believes that everyone else is just deluded or acting against their interest for some reason, instead of having genuinely held principles to the same degree as their own ones
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
