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Many of the voices who for years ridiculed the safety concerns of Black, brown, Indigenous and queer students are notably silent as an iron-fisted university leader sends in cops in riot gear to arrest college students for passionately engaging with political life and taking a stand on an important moral issue. If our richest universities, cosseted by tenure and plumped with their ample endowments, cannot be citadels of free speech and forums for wrestling with the most difficult ideas, what hope is there for any other institution in our country?

Columbia, Free Speech and the Coddling of the American Right

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Whenever anybody meets Brad Pitt, they always ask him the same question.

EVERY SINGLE TIME. It's all anybody can think about with this guy.

"Are you Pitt the Younger or Pitt the Elder?" He's sick of it, can't say I blame him.

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It's been a long day's journey into night and I've been exploring the existential tragedy of the human condition like a dog

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Random thought…

If the word "gravity" is permanently changed to "mavity" in the #DoctorWho universe, then is the leader of the Tractators now known as the Mavis?

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

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WE A'RE SO BACK

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Screencap redraws for fun

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Science fiction has some amazing stories about the danger of fascism — so why haven't we listened? Why did Hitler become a funny meme on YouTube instead of a cautionary tale?

And why are so many people so keen to censor books that challenge their worldview?

Please listen to this one.

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I just read the latest Marvel: Voices infinity comic featuring Escapade!!! I'm so excited to see other authors continuing her story and further cementing her place in the MU, and I can't wait to see where she goes from here!

This was the most wonderful surprise — I had no idea this was in the works, and I found out when someone saw it and emailed me this morning. I’m just overjoyed. I really really want other people to write her and put their spin on her, and I love seeing her get to have a whole life in the Marvel Universe!

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People always think the Human League are singing "And many fantasies were learned on that day"

In fact, they are singing "many fantasies were learnèd" — stress on the final syllable. These were erudite, well-researched fantasies, backed up by a lot of footnotes.

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I really did not expect to be looking at a comic book and crying today. This was just so beautiful. Escapade stars in the latest installment of Marvel Voices Infinity, written by the incredible Anthony Oliveira with art by Cara McGee and colors by Carlos Lopez and lettering by Travis Lanham. Hot damn. I loved this so much, it was perfect.

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I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

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For years, I watched *every* terrible comedy where a boy becomes a girl, or vice versa. Now, I give quick "reviews" of all of them.

I watched these mostly godawful "fish out of gender" movies so you don't have to!

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I just told my cat, "Buddy, you did real good like John Gielgud" and I am pretty sure the reference went over his head

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Just a reminder: I have a newsletter! It's free and usually a pretty quick and zippy read about politics, sff, queer shit, pop culture or my own writing life. I have been publishing once a week for ages now.

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Literally

So, here's the thing.

You are irreplaceable.

It's not some touchy-feely squidgey kindness and love thing. You are, literally, not possible to replace.

You are not rare, you are literally the only one of you that will ever exist. There is nothing and no-one available to step in and take over what you are doing, and there never will be.

If you stop existing, everything that you were going to do in your life will now never be done. The birds you would see will never be observed by you. The thoughts you have on whether Valjean and Crowley would split a Hawaiian pizza will never occur to anyone else. The fondness you have for your nephew, the tattoo you are going to get in six years, the scritches you are going to give to every dog you meet -- none of that happens. None of it, without you.

I am not a squishy emotions person. I am a facts person. And the fact is, somewhere out there is a kitten that you are eventually going to meet and foster, there is a cousin's friend that needs a couch to sleep on while they get a new job in this trans refuge state, there is a neighbor's garbage can that needs to be pulled out of the street, there is an entire unfathomable universe of YOU that will never happen without you to make it happen.

Maybe you look ahead and see the footprint you leave on the world and you think, ehh, that's no loss to anyone.

How dare you.

How dare you deny the rest of existence the right to judge for ourselves whether you will be missed. Whether your absence is a loss. How dare you decide on behalf of people not even yet born whether or not they will love and respect and value you.

You are literally irreplaceable. So is future-you.

Stay alive to find out what happens next

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