It's So Fucking Snover

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

I don't think Americans appreciate but to Australians your creatures are just as exotically cute and/or terrifying as ours are to you. every Aussie I've taken to America has been infatuated with squirrels or possoms or armadillos or racoons, and completely terrified of bears.

every criticism of effective altruism seems to value the lives of africans at ~0. its like arguments about vegetarianism but vastly crazier, because it's yknow. it's human children! theyre not even that far away! you could take a plane and go see them! EA matters, a lot!

the thing that bewilders me about a lot of fantasy readers is that they read about settings and plots featuring imperialism, war, and slavery and then call the inclusion of violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation "edgy" and "gratuitous" and it's like what did you think was happening. why were you under the impression that you were going to get a cozy story about fascism or something. far be it from me to criticize anyone for not wanting to read about torture in their spare time, and there are certainly cases where heavy subjects are poorly executed, but is it not equally insulting to sanitize them for a feel-good adventure.. like no one put a gun to your head and forced you to give your fantasy novel an enslaved protagonist. sometimes writing is supposed to make you feel bad

My incredibly bleak philosophy of compassion is that we should all pity each other horribly and practice an according amount of kindness.

Happy Pride

Bad things happening to the economy does, in fact, directly translate to real human suffering, and it's disingenuous to the extreme to pretend that it doesn't mean anything.