misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

(Review) Miles Morales, Vol. 1: Straight Out of Brooklyn http://jakebe.com/2019/08/14/review-miles-morales-vol-1-straight-out-of-brooklyn/

if your reason for not being on PrEP (the pre-exposure prophylactic medicine that almost entirely prevents HIV from taking root in your body) is that it's too expensive, you should be aware that you are entitled to receive it 100% FREE OF COST to you via Gilead's "Advancing Access" program. Not only that, it's so easy to sign up I literally did it in line at the pharmacy when they told me I'd have to pay $3k for my script pickup.

There is no reason for you to pay ANY MONEY for PrEP.

Go sign up today: https://www.gileadadvancingaccess.com/copay-coupon-card

“Did it hurt?”

“Did what hurt?”

“When you fell from heaven?”

“No, but I chipped a nail clawing my way out of the pits of hell, and my ears are still ringing from the wails of the unrighteous, and my nostrils sting with the odor of sizzling human fat, lo I beheld a pale horse and he that sat upon him...”

when am I gonna get a zillion dollars to digitize myself into a glowing avatar of sheer thought and willpower made real, this is bullshit

teaching that MIDI note 60 is middle C as a reference point:

- 60? least memorable number ever
- that's like 261.32whatever Hz, what even is that
- middle?? no one has been able to afford an 88 key keyboard for centuries

teaching that MIDI note 69 is A4 as a reference point:

- 440 Hz baby, that's a tuning standard
- i'll remember it until i die
- ehuehuehuehue

enby rapper critiquing being misgendered by recording a diss track under the name mx. sir-a-lot send toot

HERE WE ARE

I should probably be making food instead of putting googly eyes on the appliances

BUT

A lot of people don't seem to have noticed this, but you know the "popular baby name" lists from the U.S. Social Security Administration?

The site offers built-in tools to play with the top-1000 lists for each year, but if you click around, they actually let you download national, state-specific, or territory-specific year-by-year lists of /all/ names that occur at least 5 times in a given subset: https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/limits.html

Now, there are limitations on the data that make it less than perfect - see https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/background.html - but this lets you play with the other 20-30k names they have in their public records. Which can be really fun.

hey: do you like communism, giant robots, complex considerations of gritty-but-optimistic future worlds, near-godlike artificial life, and the human scale impact all these things have? get you a copy of LANCER, because ~it's free forever~

https://massif-press.itch.io/lancer-core-book

Today's "Dear Ally Skills Teacher" - "#13: Can I do anything about my rude, sexist, racist boss?": https://dearally.com/2019/08/06/13-can-i-do-anything-about-my-rude-sexist-racist-boss/ - raises a really good point:
====
I really feel for you, and for everyone who is under the power of this awful rude, sexist, racist boss! I picked your letter to respond to because it illustrates a common question I get: “How do I act as an ally (when I’m not actually in a position to act as an ally)?”

It’s true that you are a white person in Europe, and that your boss is engaging in anti-Black racism. But when you look at the whole picture, you aren’t in a position to act as an ally, because your boss has a lot of power over you. You need a job, and he controls whether you have that job. Even after your trial period is over, he can make your job miserable for you and, presumably, fire you /with/ notice. In addition to the power he holds over your working environment, he is also older than you, he is a man and you’re a woman, and he is well-respected in your industry.

I can’t give you any advice on how to act as an ally because you aren’t in a position to act as an ally. [...]
====
The article goes on to discuss ways to reframe the question of "how do I remain loyal to my principles" for the situation, things that the letter-writer could do, and remind her to be conscious of when she /does/ gain power so she can act then ... but this is something that doesn't get enough emphasis, I think. Privilege /can/ confer power, but it can't /always/ confer power.

That chorus at the end of Shadow Man's tune before the loop always hits me so hard. Blows my mind for like 10 seconds and then it's gone again. The orchestration is really low key but there's a lot of power in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usl7cw6VnLU

In the push to support trans kids (something that’s always needed, btw), there is often an overflowing amount of narratives of trans adults testifying that “they always knew.”

I just want to remind all the people questioning their gender that some people always knew, but some of us didn’t. *I* didn’t. And it’s ok to be only figuring it out when you are older.

I was 35 years and 221 days old when I finally figured it out. Others have been older.

It’s never too late to make the connection.

I like big bucks and I cannot lie,
You other cervines can't deny
That when a boy walks in with a flagging white tail and antlers in your face you get

wait that's NOT how the song goes?