We were the kings and queens of promise

It also has some interesting medical implications. Does it mean that liposuction is now illegal, because that adipose tissue is healthy? Does it mean that removing appendixes in those going on big expeditions where appendicitis could mean death (such as to the ISS or Antarctica) is illegal, because the appendix is currently healthy? Does it mean breast reduction or mastectomies for those who need them for back pain, or who have very high cancer risks, is illegal, because the breast itself is healthy (nevermind the back or the potential future cancer). Heck, does it mean the safe margin taken when removing a cancer is illegal, because the margin around the cancer wasn't itself cancer? (although you don't know that until it's reviewed under a microscope)

#this is very much a time when cis people in idaho need to practice malicious compliance#bc everything in that comment IS technically illegal under that bill#it also makes donating a kidney or part of your liver a technical felony#same with skin grafts#oh and also blood draws#including blood sugar tests for diabetics#bc TECHNICALLY the blood isn’t diseased#it’s either the pancreas (type 1) or the inability of the liver & muscle cells to uptake excess glucose to store it as glycogen (type 2)#where the disease actually occurs#(and in peripheral tissues like limbs & eyes if diabetes isn’t managed properly)

I can actually think of an alternative explanation: small print press. He’d put out orders for various rare books with the traveling merchants who’d come through town, and every so often they’d turn up with one and he’d set about printing a hundred copies or so, then sell the fresh new copies to merchants heading towards various university towns like Avignon, Grenoble, Toulouse, etc. He’d likely keep a couple copies of each book for himself, generating a library, and might wind up with all sorts of books he couldn’t profitably make copies of to sell to the universities, like fairy tales.

If you combine these ideas, then you wind up with a bookseller who was training Belle as an apprentice for both small press publishing and money laundering, only to watch his very promising student be swept away by some rich guy the whole town was trying to kill twenty minutes ago. He admires her hustle, but it leaves a gaping hole in his succession plan.

GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

Add the author’s reply, cowards!

I scrolled through the notes on this post and my favorite has to be one mockingly accusing Madeline Miller (a Latin and Greek teacher with a Masters in Classics) of needing to do research and she wasn’t a real writer like them.

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Honestly, the first time I saw this tweet, I laughed my tits straight into the ocean.

The thread is perfect as it is, but just in case

Saw someone asking "so do you endorse giving puberty blockers to five year olds?"

For historical context, this is about making a panel for the AIDS quilt, a memorial project which began in San Francisco in 1985. Due to the stigma surrounding both homosexuality and AIDS during this time, victims of the epidemic were often cremated and disposed of or buried without ceremony, their bodies unclaimed by their families or origin or held by hospitals rather than released to same-sex partners.

not me realizing that people are…defending alex jones? for “calling out” ye west? you know that he didn’t “call out” ye for being antisemitic, right. he did it because ye was being Too Obviously Antisemitic. ye killed his plausible deniability.

“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

Reminder that Snowden is still on the Most Wanted list for his bravery in leaking information that the NSA assumes EVERY resident and citizen of the US is potential terrorist and is therefore subject to investigation/wire tapping/tracking/spying without any prior notice or publicly viewable warrant.