Val Quainton - curmudgeon

You don’t have a right not to be made to feel uncomfortable by things - including (and perhaps especially) creative works of fiction. The moment you think you do is the moment censorship starts. You can feel your feelings and express yourself about them. But you have no right to limit others’ freedom to do the same.

sure you don’t owe anyone anything, but still giving a little kindness and patience can go a long way

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

An ableism that sometimes really pops out of people is allergies (+including gluten free either due to intolerance or esp celiac). Like people can be pro disability advocacy but then be like ew people are cringe allergic to stuff and make.it up for attention and are weird because of it and im.like hey man what

theres a big conspiracy theory going round that you can be horribly flawed and also genuinely loved. crazy if true

And now I’m left muttering: “Why is it sly? Who did it fool? Whose wallet did it make off with? Who did it sneak up on and pinch in the middle of the night…?”

It does frustrate me how woman-led media isn't allowed to just be mediocre. If it's not so good that its goodness is undeniable, it's abominable trash that's a threat to western civilization

so it turns out that chemical runoff from ai datacenters is causing chromosomal defects in sheep populations, causing something like 95% of affected sheep to be born female

that's right: ai is to blame for the ram shortage