Chris Sims's "What is unacceptable about that? There’s nothing unacceptable about that."

I'm just going to cut to the chase:

If sexual harassment is such an intrinsic part of your community that it can’t be taken out without “turning it into something that it’s not,” then just as a rule of thumb, it probably should be turned into something that it’s not.

If your community can’t introduce a baseline of respect for another human being without being destroyed, then your community should probably be burned to the ground and have salt spread on the ashes so that it’ll never come back.

As pointed out in email: Vida's 2011 Count

VIDA counts the rates of publication between women and men in many of (the USA's) writing world’s most prestigious literary outlets.

My bullshit meter exploded when I read this so-called Neil Armstrong quotation

Cut for the usual racist nonsense:
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My mind is blown

Apparently power failed up in Waterloo and yet there was no riot, people did not die in heaps and Waterloo at last report had not collapsed in an anarchy terminated in a glorious return to feudalism. Has SF given me unrealistic expectations?

Good to know

I can have a moderate nosebleed and not be aware of it until hours later, when I look in a mirror. Ideally, would have liked to have noticed before I went out shopping.

The awesome thing about Canada is people were too polite to mention it.

YOU HAVE ALL FAILED ME

WHY DID NOBODY INFORM ME THAT THERE IS A Worst Cooks in America SHOW? IT CAN HARDLY BE OTHER THAN AWESOME (although a canadian version would be even better. I MUST SEE THIS SHOW.

Wednesday Night Icons: Hari Visits an Island

As the light go up on the characters, most of them, the ones with powers, are on an island. The bad news is it's an island in a pocket dimension. The worse news is the pocket dimension is occupied by the surviving supervillains bottled up by Dynamo Rose decades ago, a group of blackguards subjected to years of harsh Darwinian selection.

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