Unhinged Soapbox

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

You KNOW classic SF used the limited displays of CRT television and the static of transmitted signals the way theaters use stage makeup and lighting to make inexpensive props look great fine— take advantage of the medium! But it's hard to imagine how it looked if you've only seen Blu-ray HD restorations.

I feel like a certain amount of queer persons have fallen for the propaganda that our existence is inherently sexual, so anything that is even remotely sexual (as identified by a needlessly puritanical culture) is factually for sexual gratification in some way.

One of our event coordinators wants to do a live art session with nude models that are trans, and I was explaining to a friend that the hard part was finding a venue willing to host it. She assumed that the person coordinating was going to be a model and that this was an exhibitionist thing.

Like ... no? He's a talented artist who wants to give opportunities to trans persons.

People think our nature programs are about hookup culture. I would simply like a group of birders that is not going to put me in exile for mentioning my wife.

The bellydancing is not about sex. It is just fun for me. I enjoy it in a nonsexual way. And also like... if it was, would it be hurting anyone?

and in I’m Alive when Dan says “it isnt always about your comfort, it’s about helping your mother” and Natalie says “as always” because it has never been about her comfort, it has always been about helping Diana and she has always been left to figure it out on her own

and then in Song of Forgetting when Natalie hugs Dan, initiating contact with someone other than Henry for the first (and i think only) time in the show because she’s in so much pain because her mother forgot who she was and he hugs her back until Diana starts to remember when they met and then he pulls away and once again doesn’t offer her the support she needs because he’s too focused on Diana

and how throughout the show Natalie still acts as her mother’s protector (“that’s bullshit, she trusts you!” right before Didn’t I See This Movie, yelling at her dad when he breaks the music box, and driving her to the hospital during I’m Alive reprise) because she still cares about her so much and wishes she would get better so she can have a good relationship with her

and at the end right after I Am The One reprise when she walks in and Dan starts sobbing and she becomes the one that takes care of him by reassuring him and turning on the lights because she knows that he needs it and she’s so used to putting her own pain on hold