So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

6/14/2026

I go to the barber, I say "my son would like a haircut", they do not question me about whether he is my son on either point. This has worked perfectly so far. You just don't give anyone a reason to question you? If I say he is my son it is so unbelievably rude for someone else to go "um are you sure?".

But yesterday the barbers apprentice looked at him and asked if he is getting a woman's cut, and instead of arcing up and explaining trans theory and respect for kiddos gender to someone who I knew heard me the first time and had clocked him, I just channeled the spirit of a Christian Mother In The Toy Aisle and said "well, he is a boy so no, he will have a boys cut".

My original ‘celestial’ Gale cosplay, designed for this year’s Cosplay Met Gala at Katsucon (theme ‘Starlight and Sorcery’).

I wanted to go for a classic wizard feel - swooshy robes, draping sleeves! - and so the actual structures are fairly simple, with the detail coming out via textures and embellishment. I designed it around circles and curves to invoke celestial bodies as well as the Netherese orb, with the straight lines of the constellations providing contrast. As with all my cosplays, I wanted it to feel like clothes, not a costume - each piece able to stand on its own as a full garment; while together they are a story, each layer progressively lighter-weight as distance from the body echoes a journey towards the heavens.

First is the shirt - rich, heavy, almost constricting, bearing the weight of the embroidered orb across the chest. The forearms are bound with silver threads like strands of the Weave, the same thread that I used for the outer constellations.

Next the robe, a loose-woven blend of dark blues and purples, glimmering with metallic threads for a night sky effect. The hem is adorned with silver-trimmed circles representing the ‘endless worlds’ Gale desires to visit. The hood, sleeves, and skirt are lined with a brilliant two-toned fabric that recalls the shifting colours of an aurora.

Shirt and robe are confined by a narrow yet solid belt bearing the symbol of Mystra, meant to represent, quite literally, her ‘boundaries’. Matching pauldrons of leather and aluminium are embossed with constellations (I just really wanted to do more metal embossing, mkay?).

Over it all drapes a sheer, free-flowing mantle in the colours of the Outer Planes, glittering with hundreds of star-like beads and displaying numerous constellations. On the back is a tableau of actual Faerûnic constellations, including Mystra’s Star Circle, while the front features invented constellations meaningful to Gale’s character, such as magic missile, the Crown of Karsus, and a tressym.

By line 84 she conceded she probably had autism. Highlights include: “I can’t wear nail polish or my nails can’t breathe”, “I follow eight baseball leagues in five countries, is this a special interest?”, “T-rex arms: I thought that was normal.” The spreadsheet was listed as a symptom.

My other coworker Astrid was handed a list of about 54 rows and two columns one of the behavior one of explanations of things she had done that her also extremely autistic coworker had made after working with her for three hours.