Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled September 16, 2024Amber Thurman was only 28 when she died. A routine procedure - a D&C - would have saved her life, but Georgia has made performing a D&C a felony, punishable by up to ten years in prison. Pro-life kills women. https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
- Untitled September 14, 2024A ridiculous lawsuit - the Death Game plotline is so common it's a genre unto itself. It's as if someone claimed Spider-Man is a Superman swipe because they're both about muclemen in tights who fight crime. Yes, they have a lot in common, but genre tropes shouldn't be copyrightable.
- Untitled September 13, 2024Today in D.C., "A Soldier's Journey" by Sabin Howard - part of the WWI memorial - was unveiled. And the 58 foot wide sculpture is comics! It has a single main character and tells a story sequentially from left to right. (Thread) @scottmccloud.bsky.social
- Untitled September 13, 2024I'm glad Bautista is feeling good, but what I'm mostly impressed by is his lunchbox collection. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled September 13, 2024Good post by Noah, about the odd double-standard between how the media and party treated Biden (driven out after a disastrous debate performance) vs Trump (no one even suggests he should drop out after a disastrous debate). https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/everyone-knows-trump-is-less-fit
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On atheism
On Saturday the 17th February 2001, I realised I had no faith in women’s magazines or God. I was at the hospital – I wasn’t sick – I was visiting my best friend (she’ll be known as Betsy for the … Continue reading
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A Likely Feminist
I don’t think Tulisa Contostavlos is a household name in New Zealand (or the US). Certainly the only reason that I’d heard of her is because I spent last winter developing a my knowledge of British comedians, discovered the awesomeness … Continue reading
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Scarlet Road
I have seen this trailer posted on tumblr and blogs a few times: Scarlet Road Video from Paradigm Pictures on Vimeo. Something about the way it was posted as an awesome exciting and sex positive feminist trailer bothered me, but … Continue reading
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A day of protests and babies
he weather forecast had been ominous. But it was the perfect winter day – the sky was blue, the sun was shining, the sort of day that they made up the slogan ‘You can’t beat Wellington on a good day’ … Continue reading
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Why is this wrong? Because grammar
I am only going to respond to half a sentance of Dita De Boni’s ridiculous article about slutwalk, because life is too short to pay attention to the rest. She says: I can’t see the value in putting yourself out … Continue reading
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#thingsfatpeoplearetold
Sometime on the weekend I started seeing tweets like this (summary from Brian: @mymilkspilt: Your body sends a bad message to your children. #thingsfatpeoplearetold @red3blog Apr 9, 2011 10:20 PM GMT @TheRotund: @mymilkspilt Your chronic illness would disappear if you … Continue reading
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