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Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;
Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.
To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.
So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.
I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.
They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.
In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.
Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'
I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!
This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.
Patagonia is suing specifically for trademark infringement, and they're suing for the sum of $1. If they don't sue, then that means they could lose the trademark. They aren't trying to "silence" them or prevent them from using the name, they're specifically protecting their company trademark. They'd have to sue *anyone* who was using such an obvious knockoff of their logo; in this case it happens to be a drag queen.
you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated
Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.
... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here
If you get a soda out of a vending machine and it has a Coca-Cola label but it's actually a knockoff made with ditchwater, that's obviously okay because Coca-Cola is a huge corporation and it's thus fine for someone to violate their trademark.
You can hate Patagonia all you want, but the lawsuit is about anodyne trademark law, not specifically that a drag queen is involved.
and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?
...the trademark part.
right, okay, I forgot that she's singlehandedly putting Patagonia out of business by using a silly joke name
if Patagonia loses their trademark, which they would if they didn't sue and win (again for one dollar), there would be no assurance against people putting a Patagonia label on amy dogshit
well I hope Amy Dogshit enjoys wearing the label I think she'll look very nice
Oh my fucking god y’all bootlickers are driving me crazy.
I’m a law student specializing in Intellectual Property, which includes Copyright and Trademark. I’ve studied these subjects and the law is clear that everything y’all said about Patagonia “losing the trademark” if they don’t sue Ms. Pattie is absolute bullshit.
Trademarks are only lost if they are abandoned by the user or if the product made by the company becomes so ubiquitous, everyday, and common that people start calling all types of that product by the trademark name. This is called genericide, because the trademark has become so generic, it is no longer an indicator of one singular source. Think Band-Aid or Thermos; we use those terms to refer to the generic products they’re associated with. We call pretty much all sticky bandages Band-Aids and all containers used to keep things warm in Thermoses.
What Patagonia is doing is actually closer to suing for trademark infringement based on tarnishment, which means the infringer is using the trademark name in a way that makes the company look bad or associates the company with things like drugs or pornography. Queen Pattie Gonia is someone who raises awareness for climate and environmental activism. Nothing about Miss Gonia’s use of the name tarnishes Patagonia’s brand.
The only possible argument the company has is that Miss Gonia’s queer identity could be seen as not “adult-friendly” but that very quickly slides into homophobic and moralistic territory that will absolutely be shot down by the court based on First Amendment rights. People are allowed to use “not safe for work names,” based on caselaw that states that “labels that are disparaging or morally offensive” are a violation of free speech because it’s people’s choice to say and use those names. For example, an all-Asian band applied for the trademark name “The Chinks” because they were taking the racially disparaging name and reclaiming it. The Trademark Office attempted to refuse to grant the band’s trademark, and when the band sued, the Supreme Court sided with the band.
That got off on a little bit of a tangent, but the long and short of it is this: Patagonia has absolutely no basis for a trademark name. Any IP lawyer would say the same. The reason Patagonia is getting away with a frivolous suit like this is because they know their target is a member of a vulnerable minority. Miss Gonia is 100% correct that they are trying to bully her because they know she doesn’t have the money to withstand a years-long expensive lawsuit.
It’s because of idiotic bootlickers who kiss companies’ asses like this that big corporations can get away with hurting independent creators. Patagonia does not have any chance at winning, but they know that just by filing and announcing their lawsuit against Miss Gonia, they are putting pressure on her to give up. If this lawsuit goes on, even if it doesn’t make it to court and just goes to a judge for a quick summary judgment, Miss Gonia would still have to pay for a lawyer to defend her and lawyers cost more money than the average person has. Miss Gonia would win, but because Patagonia set the damages for $1, even if she did win, she’d still end up in debt because in America, the typical rule is that each party pays for the cost of their own attorney’s fees. The only time the opposing side would pay your lawyer’s fees is if you have a contract with them that says so, and that’s usually only used in contracts between businesses or high profile individuals.
What Patagonia is doing is capitalizing on society’s hatred for queer people and anyone resembling a trans woman. Miss Gonia is a drag queen, not trans as far as I’m aware (though please do correct me if I’m wrong) but it’s not like a big company cares to differentiate; they’re just mad that a queer person is using their name in a way they don’t like. Patagonia knows that this particular population has been facing harsh discrimination in society currently. By siding with them, people are actively harming the queer community. Don’t pretend to hide behind trademark law to cover up your prejudices.
The complaint can be read here:
A while back there was a tiktok going “Ooo this is the best restaurant and I’m not telling you where it is ;) you’re going to have to guess ;)))”
And another guy stitched it with a whole breakdown of her most recent posts to go “The day before you posted this you posted another video saying you met this celebrity and he had just posted that he was in this city. You also posted a video in a hotel room and after searching up hotels in this city, we can tell it was this hotel because the wallpaper in your video matches the wallpaper in pictures on their website. By looking up restaurants by this hotel we can tell you went to this specific restaurant” and he was right
And people called him a creep, but I think we should take this as a moral lesson to lie about ourselves online more. I’m actually a talking dog and I live in a Montreal poutinerie
Poutine should not be prepared on french fries! French fries are designed for dipping, not being eaten with forks. The proper potato for poutine is tater tots or home fries.
Every time I get reminded of Minority Report, I get annoyed. I liked Larry Wilmore's show, but movie is also annoying. There were really two problems with the system set up in the movie:
You're arresting someone for a crime they haven't yet committed and effectively sentencing to death. I mean, sure, they're just "on ice" or whatever, but if you never release them, they're effectively dead. It makes more sense to just remove them from the situation and give them treatment of some sort.
You cannot base your entire justice system on three people that have no time off and spend an unfortunate amount of time seeing murders and other crimes. If it takes three people to keep the system active, then you really need at least 54 pre-cogs to make sure everyone has the appropriate time off, work hours, sick days, and vacations. If you have no method of getting 54 pre-cogs then you've got maybe one generation of the system working.
Chris Pine as Captain James T. Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Commander Spock in Star Trek Beyond (2016)
I expected that last panel to be "try to take over the world!" and now I'm just imagining Jim/Spock with a Pinkie and the Brain flavour.

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you know what? I want dragons with ontogenetic niche partitioning.
niche partioning is a concept from ecology wherein groups within a species expand into different ecological niches so they're not competing with one another, right? so for example, sexual niche partitioning happens when sexual dimorphism means that one sex eats different things / occupies different spaces / etc. as another within the same species. you have one species that occupies multiple niches within the ecosystem.
ontogenetic niche partitioning is when this happens as a result of developmental changes. paternal care tends to obliterate this partitioning--hard to have your juveniles eating something different from your adults if the adults are feeding them!--so we just don't see it very often in mammals or birds, but it's quite common in other species, especially invertebrates. for example, a caterpillar and a butterfly are examples of classic niche partitioning, even though every butterfly will occupy both niches over the course of its life. you don't have to have a big fancy chrysalis transformation to engage in ontogenetic niche partitioning, but those transformations are a pretty big sign that it's happening in a given species.
anyway, it's most common in vertebrates among fish, lizards and snakes these days, especially monitor lizards, where juveniles will occupy a different (often arboreal or otherwise sheltered) niche from adults and hunt different prey until they get big enough that the juvenile niche. there are some good reasons to think that some dinosaurs might have engaged in ontogenetic niche partitioning, especially the bigger species, too. we think sea turtles might do it, although that's hard to say because we don't know very much about sea turtle development once the hatchlings go back to the sea.
the neat thing about ontogenetic niche partitioning is that it allows a given ecology to host a much larger population size for a given species than would otherwise be the case, because the total space occupied by that species is spread across a lot wider niche space. this is especially relevant for, say, a large carnivore that eats livestock.
basically, what if dragons are just the very oldest, reproductively mature members of their species, and the common wall lizard or whatever is just a juvenile that might or might not survive long enough to reproduce? imagine if dragon eggs are very small with big clutches of little insectivorous hatchlings that are eaten by anything that comes by, any of which might have the potential to become a great fire-breathing monster if it lives long enough.
imagine that dragon society. do people know that the hatchlings and the dragons are the same species? (they might not: there are real examples of people mistaking ontogenetically niche separated groups for independent species in their own right.) if dragons are sapient but the sapience takes time to develop, what does that say about the nature of sapience itself? how does a society work and transfer wealth if you remove parental care?
so many possibilities.
I kind of like the idea of combining this with cow birds. A dragon's young can mimic any species, and will get raised as that other species. Maybe it kills any of the other young, maybe it doesn't.
At some point, it gets the urge to start building a hoard, once the hoard it large enough, it cocoons itself. What it was raised as and the nature of the hoard both impact the dragon it develops into, and that's why there's so much variety in dragons.
it is NOT. There's a Website called wikibiases just for that. If you go to any topic that isn't European you'll find PLENTY of mistakes. Because Wikipedia is eurocentric! It is not better then textbooks (some textbooks at least)
Wikipedia is only “more reliable than most textbooks” if the textbooks are all extremely outdated lmfao. Even if there are good sources, the information written in the actual article CAN still be incorrect. I have also seen tweets, blog posts, and opinion pieces used as “sources” for important information which is ….. questionable at the very least.
It is a known fact that there are Wikipedia editors with biased motivations who have been rewriting articles mainly related to indigenous people and Jewish history to push a few specific narratives. Some of these articles have been locked with incorrect or biased information in them preventing people from correcting them.
The stuff on Wikipedia is also way more basic than what would be in a genuine respected textbook. Go to the library. Go on the internet archive. Read primary sources and find more than one source. Learn to discern bias or wording that frames things in certain ways. Humans are inherently opinionated and it’s important to avoid confirmation bias.
The lack of media literacy is a MAJOR problem right now and as terrible as AI is that doesn’t mean wiki sites are *good*. Please just use your brain. Some of this is sounding like “big textbook is lying to me” conspiracy brain stuff.
and does this person think the people writing the textbooks do not also skew towards autistic pedants lmao
Well, for a long time Texas Board of Education has been one of the largest purchasers of text books in the US and kind of set the standard that other states would have to use. And they were very conservative. And then you add to that private school text books that teach creationism and young earth...
Of course, there's plenty of misinformation on Wikipedia too. There are malicious editors who don't like the world as it is and would like to pretend thing were different.
I wouldn't be confident making a claim in either direction.
I do tend to be suspicious of art that really lauds and worships the idea of being an artist. Like yes, art is cool, I think it's valuable, there's a reason I make it. But let's not get overly self congratulatory here
I think it's okay to love what you do, and even celebrate that. But there's a line that gets crossed sometimes where the art goes... "unlike all of those stupid people, who just dont get it." And it's like... hey... who are you making this for, exactly?
reminds me of that "artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, mattresses are our canvas" post or however that goes. always makes me laugh
also relevant
I get you, but then there's something like "Jug Band Music" by Lovin' Spoonfuls and it's disconcerting about lyrics saying "Jug Band music will save this person's life!" and the definitively not jug band music playing intoning "Then perish"
Conjure Muppet
Level 5 Conjuration (Warlock, Wizard)
Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 ft
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, 10 minutes
You conjure a spirit from the Muppet Show or Sesame Street in an unoccupied space you can see within range. The spirit lasts for the duration, and looks like a Muppet of your choice. When the spirit appears, you can make a melee spell attack against a creature within 5 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes 1d12, 2d12, 3d12, ah ah ah damage. Plus your spellcasting ability modifier.
I've seen two different mock-ups of Muppets as a race. There was one that broke the muppets up into the "Full body puppets" like Sweetums and Big Bird, "Hand Puppets" like Cookie Monster and Swedish Chef, and stick puppets like Bert and Kermit. The other one was Muppetborn, which breaks the muppets up as "monster" "grouch" and "animal".
Moustache twirling is how you maintain a curly moustache (as well as wax), it's about the same as running a comb through your hair. It's villainous for the same reason that primping and preening is: Hygiene is evil.

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I'm about 90% sure that this isn't the case, but thanks to Animaniacs, I seem to think of Apocalypse Now! as a Jerry Lewis movie.
English has some extremely specific words like "defenestrate" but then there're words like "fine" that have like six unrelated definitions.
I have terrible news for you about "good."
Set is a fun word too.
OP noted in his tags that at least words like set tend to have some kind of throughline, but with "fine" you've got "thin" and "a monetary penalty" which have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.
I did neglect to read the tags but I disagree with the sentiment. "A collection of elements" "hardened" and "an egyptian god" don't have all that much in common. (Though two of the three might share a root word) and personally, I find an interaction of mathematical set and a musician's "set list" entertaining.
While small particles and a monetary penalty might seem unconnected, they do share the same root. When you get all the small particles out, you're done sifting, finis, it's over. When you pay the penalty, finis, that's the end of it.
Admittedly, fine meaning middling is a weird one.
English has some extremely specific words like "defenestrate" but then there're words like "fine" that have like six unrelated definitions.
I have terrible news for you about "good."
Set is a fun word too.
"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "lazily inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.
No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.
I think I'd want to film in New York, like unmistakably New York, but say it's Toronto or Vancouver. Honestly, any other city could work too. Have all the dialog and accents be accurate to the city it's supposed to be. If it's San Diego "let's get to Imperial, we can take the blue line from here to UCSD" and then show them getting on the subway.
That was so cute
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I think this is also what a tea drinking pony would look like.

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I think it's definitely worth picking up a copy of Paul Kidby's Designing Discworld.
really not loving how ubiquitous the term "the Epstein class" is becoming because the vast, vast majority of people named Epstein aren't pedophiles or shady money launderers, but they sure are Jews
Part of the reason why I hate the term is that Epstein actually faced charges and went to jail. The people that are being referred to using that term have more protection than Epstein.
It's like calling institutions that are "Too big to fail" Enron class.