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2024-08-09 14:33:14

A sitcom about robots running a department store called Are You Being Servo-ed

2024-08-08 10:19:16

Someone on my flight into Scotland was watching a Toy Story film and how is it that I never before realized that the toys in these movies are basically Weeping Angels???? They can only move when a human isn't observing them
#doctorwho

2024-08-07 18:25:27

Shameless self-promotion ahead....
I really think you should have a self. Selves are great. Selfhood is one of the best kind of hoods there is and you can absolutely wrap yourself up in it. That said, you should have self-awareness to go with your self.
...end shameless self-promotion.

2024-07-28 19:59:36

Really good breakdown on how KOSA *will* make the internet worse. Please call your Senators!!!!
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/26/the-kids-online-safety-act-and-the-tyranny-of-laziness/

2024-07-27 04:23:07

Makes me so happy to see that San Diego Comic Con is going on and I'm NOT THERE

2024-07-25 23:39:50

I've posted this fundraiser before, but... this is a lovely trans woman in the Bay Area (whom I've hung out with and appreciate a lot.) She's fallen on hard times due to illness and some other horrible circumstances — please donate whatever you can spare right now. <3
https://www.gofundme.com/f/DWORD-0x62696C6C

2024-07-23 17:52:57

I've been traveling and am very jet-lagged, so my latest newsletter is a grab bag of tiny rants:
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/a-grab-bag-of-mini-rants/
Topics include: an annoying thing about Fake A.I., Doctor Who, the Flash movie and time travel... and why you need to call your reps about KOSA.

2024-07-23 17:12:26

It's happening again!!! They're trying to put the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) up for a vote:
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4787769-schumer-to-bring-kids-online-safety-bills-to-vote-this-week/
As I've written in the past, KOSA is a censorship nightmare that'll drive LGBTQIA+ folks out of social media spaces and suppress any content that Republicans think is harmful to kids.
Please call your reps NOW, especially your Senators. If you have a Republican senator, tell them you're worried this bill will impose an unfair burden on small businesses.

2024-07-19 14:30:48

I see people talking about gender fluid all the time. Just be careful! A lot of gender fluid is made with pure spirit essence and if you consume too much of it at any one time, it could liquefy your entire practicum. Make sure to mix your gender fluid with something neutral, like ambi-elixir. DO NOT paint your face with gender fluid or your face will equi-liberate anyone who looks at it.

2024-06-30 23:18:41

Pssst.... I have a newsletter!
It comes out once a week. It's free. I noodle about science fiction, pop culture, queer stuff, my personal stuff, the meaning of life, etc. It's usually pretty interesting.
Please tell your friends to subscribe!
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive

2024-06-27 20:01:50

The phrase "I am entertaining doubts" is so weird.
For one thing, doubts are so hard to entertain these days — they have no attention span.
Doubts will just blatantly whip out their phones and check their email while you're trying to amuse them. Doubts have seen everything twice.
I blame TikTok.

2024-06-19 16:46:43

Here's my latest book review column at the @npub1lyq…c6u4 These three books feature characters who struggle to save their communities and themselves in the face of injustice — and they all punch way above their weight class.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/4enXj5X

2024-06-19 03:42:16

Whoever said you can't have both guns and butter was a fool.
Obviously you just make a gun out of butter — make molds for all the gun parts and freeze some butter inside them. Afterward, you can eat the murder weapon.
Why must I be the one to think of everything?

2024-06-18 16:21:18

I love hearing authors read their own work. Author readings are the lifeblood of book culture -- i miss bookstore readings and spoken word events. So in my latest newsletter I offer some tips to help authors do a better job with reading out loud 📚🎤🤩
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/let-authors-read-their-work/

2024-06-17 17:56:56

MY CAT: Catching this toy is too hard, I'm bored, make it easy to catch.
ME: (Makes it super easy for cat to catch toy)
MY CAT: Behold my great triumph! I have vanquished the greatest opponent that ever cat faced. The struggle was mighty but I was mightier! Witness my glory!

2024-06-14 00:45:24

The proper name for tennis is "big ping pong"

2024-06-05 17:31:59

Hey did you know I have a newsletter? I DO! It comes out once a week, it's free, and it's my most provocative thoughts on pop culture, SFF, queer stuff, or my own life experience. Topics have included #DoctorWho, writing, internalized transphobia, and the truth about "cancel culture". I would consider it a personal kindness if you would subscribe!
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive

2024-06-04 03:39:42

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@npub1hyk…3p33 So glad you're writing that!

2024-06-03 19:17:06

I have not one, not two, but ELEVEN hot takes about #DoctorWho. Feel the scorching heat of my bite-sized opinions about the greatest TV show of all time!
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/doctor-who-has-wasted-so-many-story-seeds-from/

2024-06-02 06:19:58

The first scene Gatwa shot, he claims, is a pivotal point in the new series – “the final scene in episode five. People will remember that scene.”... Gatwa remembers thinking: “You have to dig deep and pull out something that will blow everyone on this set away – and I bloody well did.” Ncuti Gatwa leans back, and lets out that laugh again. “I heard someone say: ‘That’s why he’s the Doctor.’”
Ncuti Gatwa on "Dot and Bubble": https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ncuti-gatwa-interview-2023 #DoctorWho

2024-05-30 03:37:47

SUPERMAN: I only date people with the initials L.L. Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris....
LEX LUTHOR (adjusts his corsage and waits for the phone to ring)

2024-05-29 16:57:19

ICYMI: The so-called "Culture War" is just military-grade psychological weapons trained on our own people in peacetime. I learned so much from this conversation!
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/theres-no-way-you-can-talk-back-to-a-gun-on/

2024-05-26 22:59:31

Mirror universe sex tourism must be a huge problem in the Star Trek universe. Literally everyone wants to spend their weekends hooking up with the evil versions of themselves.
#startrek

2024-05-24 17:48:18

I was utterly heartbroken when Folio Books closed. It was a wonderful store that foregrounded SFF and romance, and punched way above its weight class. Irreplaceable. Or so I thought!
Now some of the former owners are starting over in the same space. Please support them if you can!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-an-independent-bookstore-in-noe-valley?attribution_id=sl:8c9d3c51-0458-4a68-bdd6-7a711bb637cf&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

2024-05-24 07:43:20

Q: When Aquaman wants to be submissive, who does he visit?
A: A findom.

2024-05-21 16:33:36

We love to believe in meritocracy, because it feels comforting to think the world is fair and talent/dedication are rewarded. But three recent science fiction stories do a wonderful job of exploring the wishful thinking behind this idea.
My newsletter: https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/three-great-science-fiction-stories-about/

2024-05-19 04:09:19

Meet the nuance, same as the oldance

2024-05-19 01:46:37

A good title for an erotic thriller would be Criminal Negligée

2024-05-08 01:15:02

They're trying to sneak the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) into must-pass legislation because they know it's a terrible bill that will censor the internet and silence LGBTQIA+ people. I know we're all tired, but *please* call your reps again and ask them to put a stop to this terrible bill!
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3QzeZRG

2024-05-07 21:56:43

As a journalist, if I wrote a piece about a marginalized community that I don't belong to, in which I suggested that I know what's best for that community, and some members of that community reached out with corrections... I wouldn't automatically rule out the possibility that I'd made some mistakes

2024-05-07 04:32:57

There's a lot of Discussion lately about prologues and whether they should be allowed.
My nuanced take:
I like potato prologues and cheese prologues, but don't like the kind with meat in them.
I like boiled prologues, but not fried. Also, YES to apple sauce, no to sour cream.

2024-05-02 03:43:49

You know what would make me interested in another Tron movie? If they got a kick-ass trans composer to do the soundtrack again

2024-05-02 01:50:35

I'm seeing trans-medicalism and trans respectability politics rearing their heads again lately. (I get it. People are scared.)
But I wanted to re-up this piece I wrote a couple years ago about why I'm proud to be a Bad Trans Person.
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/im-proud-to-be-a-bad-trans-person/

2024-04-25 19:33:08

I was thinking about the end of that one #StarTrek episode where Spock mind-melds with Kirk and makes him forget his dead android girlfriend. And... what if that happens at the end of every adventure, and we only see it one time?
What if Spock mind-wipes Kirk every time they come back to the ship? Maybe this is how Kirk stays so chipper and able to go blow up another god-computer. He literally can't remember all the shit he's dealt with before.

2024-04-24 03:04:32

I just saw that Trina Robbins passed away last week. She did so much for comics, and was such a wonderful presence in the field. I was so grateful to get to get to know her — she always had such thrilling stories to tell and was so generous.
She will be missed.

2024-04-22 17:00:36

Just a heads up: voting for the Hugo Awards is now open!
We've decided to make all three books in the Unstoppable trilogy available in the Hugo voters packet. So if you haven't gotten to these books yet, and you want to read about queer joy, space battles, defeating fascism, and serious debates about the ethics of violence, then now is your chance!!!
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/315/933/148/268/764/original/1ea8e883f6e0cf42.jpg

2024-04-18 06:04:52

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

2024-04-15 16:24:51

It should be illegal to send anyone an email

2024-04-09 14:47:24

Star Trek: Discovery is hands down my favorite #StarTrek of the 21st century. It's not even close. In my latest newsletter, I explain why I love this show so much, and why it embodies everything that's great about Trek.
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/star-trek-discovery-is-my-favorite-21st-century/

2024-04-07 16:32:07

You sometimes hear people talk about a "thigh gap."
This is a leftover slogan from the Cold War, when Soviet athletes boasted thighs that could crush a dozen grapefruits, and there was widespread concern the U.S.A. was falling behind.

2024-04-05 21:07:48

General Tso outranks Colonel Sanders, so it makes sense his chicken tastes better

2024-04-04 17:26:38

The Silver Surfer is one of the most boring characters in Marvel Comics. My theory is that people love him because:
1) He starred in an utterly gorgeous 1978 graphic novel with some of Jack Kirby's best cosmic artwork. Great art can make even the dullest character seem cool.
2) Surfboards are neat.

2024-03-27 16:23:40

The wonderful X-Men podcast Graymalkin Lane just interviewed me about Escapade, the trans mutant hero I co-created for Marvel a while back. This was such a deep, thoughtful conversation.
It's on their Patreon page, but it's *free* to listen to for everybody!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/escapade-with-101154368
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2024-03-25 21:55:22

I havent seen "Dune" yet but I'm wondering how it connects up to the sequel, "Brigadoon".

2024-03-25 21:48:17

I made a meme, I'm sorry
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/158/522/271/279/819/original/91b9d44a55429155.jpg

2024-03-25 19:54:43

There's probably a good reason why people in the Navy don't tell each other to "Fall in" the way they do in the Army

2024-03-23 19:26:34

I'm on my way to Rockridge for the Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl.....
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/146/642/876/802/443/original/c7d082ece945019e.jpg

2024-03-22 19:20:44

There are people that everyone is nice to because folks like them and don't want to hurt their feelings
Then there are people everyone is nice to because they have some social power and a short fuse, and can cause a lot of drama if they get upset.
If you see people being nice to you, it's worth wondering which type you are.

2024-03-22 18:34:53

The Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl is TOMORROW. Starts 1 PM at East Bay Booksellers near Rockridge BART. It's simple: 1) we eat chocolate. 2) we visit indie bookstores and buy books. 3) ends with a nice reading.
Rain is supposed to stop by noon tomorrow!!!
DEETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bookstore-and-chocolate-crawl-rockridge-tickets-774982161507?aff=oddtdtcreator
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/140/775/446/702/051/original/3011cdf968346c84.jpg

2024-03-22 16:26:38

The Moon franchise has varied wildly in quality and I'm not sure how airtight the continuity is at this point
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/140/272/354/333/458/original/9c34ec4fa2b76660.jpg
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2024-03-18 21:05:28

I'm at the dentist and I got stuck wondering what a distributed dental of service attack would look like

2024-03-17 04:14:54

There should be a federal law requiring companies to send you a notice via email every time they deduct money from your account. Like, if you subscribed to a service ages ago and forgot about it, you should get a monthly heads up. ("Hey, we just took another $15 from you. Just FYI.")

2024-03-13 01:52:09

Feels like a huge missed opportunity that none of the many articles about how the coronavirus kept mutating and spawning variants ever used the headline "Covid's Metamorphoses".
(too soon??)

2024-03-07 07:37:55

My favorite bit in Jung Sheldon is when he turns to the camera and explains that we kill the gods when we discover that they are mere puppets of our own broken cognition and to achieve true self-knowledge requires sinking to the level of instincts and archetypes.
Cue laugh track.

2024-03-04 23:40:32

If you're in San Francisco (or really anywhere in one of the Super Tuesday states) *please* vote.
No, your nomination vote for president (probably) doesn't matter this time. But there's tons of other important stuff on the ballot.

2024-03-02 03:29:08

This beautiful new sticker design was a wonderful surprise and a great reward for doing my civic duty. If you live in San Francisco, please vote in the next few days. The billionaires are counting on you not paying attention.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/023/966/958/111/665/original/48dd51068eb13eff.jpg

2024-03-01 17:40:25

Just saw that Locus Magazine named PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS their "top pick" among young adult novels from 2023. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/021/645/309/243/737/original/bc9b7ef652d02842.png

2024-02-27 18:29:48

Email I just received:
"I write to ask if I may send you a carefully thought-out and prepared, four-page synopsis, of a science-fiction book/movie idea which, I believe, could, if taken up by a Pro writer, result in a best-seller sci-fi blockbuster book, leading, in turn, to a blockbuster movie."
Never actually gotten one of these before. I thought they were mythical.

2024-02-26 18:41:49

People who claim private companies are more efficient than the government have never tried to talk to their insurance company

2024-02-25 04:19:36

Hi! A member of my local community, who is a really cool person, has fallen on some hard times. She's been sick for ages, and has finally gotten into stable housing. But now she needs help with food, medical bills, cat food, and other necessities. Please help if you can!
I've met this person and know that she's for real.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/DWORD-0x62696C6C

2024-02-23 23:11:13

Nex Benedict could have become famous for their art. Or their activism. They could have been known for starting a business that made people's lives better somehow.
Now their name will only be known because of what hateful people did to them. It's monstrously unfair.

2024-02-19 01:20:36

Andreea Kindryd was a production assistant on the original Star Trek in the 1960s, and was heavily involved in the civil rights movement. She became one of the first Black women producers and befriended Octavia Butler. She's just published a memoir, From Slavery to the Stars.
https://www.andreeakindryd.com/

2024-02-18 03:59:35

Listening to 80s music and it's amazing how many songs are basically about men's inability to express any feelings whatsoever, and the notion that this *might* cause relationship issues.

2024-02-15 22:46:06

ICYMI the Kids Online Safety Act, which pretends to save the children but just censors the internet, is BACK. They claim it's been fixed, but it hasn't been.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/15/senator-blumenthal-pretends-to-fix-kosa-its-a-lie/
* call your senators! *

2024-02-12 20:52:43

"YouTuber" ought to be a title for a caricature artist who will draw your likeness as a potato.

2024-02-08 21:43:59

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@npub1asa…n9sr @npub1yz3…ddf5 @npub1tmu…nrgq the landfill in my old hometown opened a lovely swap center where you could bring your unwanted stuff and someone else could take it home. It was amazingly cool and staffed by volunteers, mostly retirees.

2024-02-07 18:42:06

Writers really aren't competing with each other — we're all in the same ragtag caravan crossing a scrubby wasteland, where we occasionally help gas each other up

2024-02-06 02:43:10

Hey, you might remember a trans geek friend of mine who was forced to leave her housing in a hurry. She's now settled in a new place, but still needs money for pet food, meds, and a few other basic necessities while she applies for disability. Please help!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/DWORD-0x72656e74

2024-01-30 03:58:06

I made a gif because Monday
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/842/888/308/030/710/original/0eee31c89e000c90.mp4

2024-01-26 20:58:51

This interview with Senator Blumenthal about KOSA is interesting: https://slate.com/technology/2023/09/senator-blumenthal-kosa-kids-online-internet-safety-ai-regulation-congress.html
He claims KOSA won't stop kids from finding queer content if they want to find it, but will prevent "algorithms" from serving it to them against their wishes.
My guess? He doesn't understand algorithms.

2024-01-25 04:49:24

Finally watching How to Train Your Dragon, and...
I love how the movie is like "Dragons are basically cats. They're playful and cute and curious and easily distracted."
ME: Go on...
MOVIE: "...and that means they're easy to train!"
ME: ?!?!?!?!?

2024-01-25 00:27:06

"Tech billionaires accept that sacrifices will have to be made — but they’ll be shouldered by the poorest and most marginalized people on our planet, not the wealthy and powerful."
https://disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-self-serving-vision-of-the-future/?ref=disconnect-newsletter

2024-01-24 19:55:09

Everybody loves Star Trek, BSG and the Mandalorian. But here are TEN amazing space-based TV shows that never get the love they deserve! (My latest newsletter.)
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/10-space-tv-shows-that-dont-get-enough-love/

2024-01-24 17:51:35

Folks, I'm hearing that the Kids Online Safety Act is back on the agenda. The Senate is holding a hearing with tech CEOs tomorrow, in an effort to get this bill on the Senate floor.
Time to give your Senators another call and tell them this bill would silence LGBTQIA+ people online.

2024-01-23 15:55:06

When I was a kid there were posters everywhere that said "LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY," and I remember being intensely grateful that they had provided a decent third option

2024-01-21 06:46:12

🎶When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say OW OW OW OW
My blood is spurting everywhere
OW IT HURTS 🎶

2024-01-20 19:41:52

ICYMI: I have a newsletter! It is free and comes out once a week! I am really hoping to eventually reach 1/100th as many subscribers as your average reactionary centrist bro. I write about pop culture, politics, geek stuff, and my own life. It's fun, I swear!
https://buttondown.email/charliejane <3

2024-01-17 21:57:36

Oh wow oh wow.... I had no idea this could even happen. NEW MUTANTS: LETHAL LEGION, my Marvel miniseries full of gay feelings and heists and trauma and trans heroism, got shortlisted for a GLAAD media award alongside some of my fav creators. ICYMI the trade paperback collection came out yesterday...
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2024-01-17 04:40:13

The fun thing about revising a novel is the way you keep lurching between "this book is so great and it's just what I meant to write" and "oh god this is all utter garbage what have I done" — and then back again!

2024-01-15 17:15:10

Director Matthew Vaughn caused a stir a while back when he said he wanted to direct a Star Wars movie — but only if he could reboot the saga of Anakin and Luke. In my latest newsletter, I explain why Vaughn is right and we should reboot #StarWars!
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/reboot-star-wars/

2024-01-14 02:49:30

Hey, if you live anywhere near the Western Addition in San Francisco and you like pizza, *please* order from Little Star on Divisadero as often as possible. They're still in business in that location, but they're struggling and need a ton of support to stay open. 🍕💘

2024-01-13 22:20:45

The other day I was saying to myself "nobody would believe the intensity of the reality-distorting moral panic around trans people if you put it in a story." Then I was like, "someone should write that as an opinion piece. And then I realised... I already did??"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trans-people-america-17321419.php

2024-01-13 21:46:47

I do not understand why Trader Joes doesn't capitalize on Shark Week by renaming itself Trader Jaws.

2024-01-10 02:37:11

Sometimes I'll be chatting with my mom and she'll just come out with things like, "Well, property is theft, so people who shoplift from Walgreens are really just stealing from the thieves."

2024-01-08 21:05:13

If we refer to the best songs as bangers, the other songs should be called "mash."
e.g., "the new Taylor Swift album has four total bangers, but the rest of the songs are just mash."

2024-01-08 18:57:57

Billionaires are trying to tighten their grip over San Francisco (and loosen restrictions on the police)
https://48hills.org/2024/01/the-billionaire-plutocrats-set-their-sights-on-controlling-sfs-democratic-party/

2023-12-28 19:30:19

The trade paperback of NEW MUTANTS: LETHAL LEGION comes out January 16! I packed so many feels and laughs and bonkers action setpieces into this story about a therapeutic heist. It's the funniest, silliest story about trauma and how sometimes "the only way to heal... is to heal."
If you pre-order from @npub1u9v…03lq, I'll sign, personalize and doodle in your copy.
*AND* Folio and I will both donate to the TGI Justice Project, a wonderful organization, for each copy sold.
https://www.foliosf.com/book/9781302952419

2023-12-27 18:25:04

My latest newsletter is about the attempts to evict Bluestockings, and the new laws that require maximum cruelty towards unhoused people.
And I talk about why we want to judge unhoused people for their behavior, and how it's part of our American disease.
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/the-real-reason-we-want-to-punish-the-unhoused/

2023-12-27 02:41:33

For the night is dark and full of otters

2023-12-26 20:43:02

Frozen broccoli is just nasty

2023-12-26 01:49:07

A good name for a beefcake calendar of firefighters would be Thirst Responders

2023-12-25 21:25:34

I can't help noticing that it's true about box office coverage...
Media outlets had a noticeable undercurrent of gloating when discussing "The Marvels" tanking, whereas with "Aquaman 2" it's like: "oh, well, at least it won the weekend."
Sigh.

2023-12-22 21:35:02

The right’s war on ‘housing first’ lands in Middle America
Missouri last year outlawed camping on state property and punished cities that build permanent supportive housing. In Springfield, Mo., thousands now roam the streets with nowhere to go.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/475Rp4h

2023-12-22 07:55:16

Which classic TV theme tune is best sung entirely with the lyrics "meow meow meow"

2023-12-21 19:30:10

I am very sleep deprived and in related news I just wrote a song called "I'm Gonna Lick Every Spoon In Your House". It goes:
You did me wrong
You will regret it
I've got a tongue
That's out for vengeance
I'm gonna lick every spoon in your house
I'm gonna put every spoon in my mouth
And put it back

2023-12-18 20:15:59

Slept badly last night bc I accidentally left the radiator going in my bedroom and I got dried out, and basically I think heaters should occasionally sing "The heat is onnnnn" in a Glenn Frey voice to let you know you left them on. (Thank you for coming to my TED talk.)

2023-12-18 18:03:49

My latest newsletter is about how to put a stop to all the review-bombing on Goodreads. Those fake one-star reviews hurt marginalized authors disproportionately and they shouldn't hold so much power. Plus I explain why I like Goodreads and why I find it so useful.
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/how-to-fix-goodreads/

2023-12-18 02:44:41

"The story of car bloat—the continually expanding size of the typical American automobile—is one of carmaker profit, shifting consumer preferences, and loophole-riddled auto regulations. It is also a story of hidden costs: to the planet, to taxpayers, and to the American families whose lives have been shattered by a crash that could have been avoided, or at least mitigated, with a smaller vehicle."
https://slate.com/business/2023/12/cars-trucks-suv-sales-electric-safety-risk.html

2023-12-14 17:31:46

If you're a Substack publisher who is bumping up against Substack's ambition to boost far-right (and anti-trans) voices, lemme just say that Buttondown is lovely and easy to use, and they give amazing customer service.

2023-12-14 00:42:33

The Star Trek show I want is about a starfleet ship that's studying stellar phenomena or whatnot, and then they get a message that Starfleet is going to war with the Breen or the Gorn, or maybe some Breen-Gorn alliance. (Gorn-Breen?)
And this vessel is like, "Nah, sorry. We've got science to do."