Hello everyone! A few folks have probably seen me posting about trying to find housing for a trans girl moving to #Ottawa. I now have a fundraiser up for her! We're starting small to get her an AirBnB for when she lands. gofund.me/23e42179f

There's also the detail that for every trans person with "accepting" parents, you have to do the calculus on what that means. I know too many people who have parents who gender them correctly or Haven't Kicked Them Out and that bare minimum being passed means every other shitty thing their parents-

This is such a horrendous justification for starting a witch-hunt. You're the one who started with "just in" and are using the harshest words possible for what was an *extremely* early experiment with this stuff. You're throwing these firmly anti-AI authors under the bus for attention.

Several of these authors have spent all day having to clarify that this was 2022, that they came away from the project with a tremendous *dislike* for AI, and that they were not fully informed on what went into these models in the first place. Y'all need to stop.

Question primarily for Canadians! Are there any legal requirements for me to tell people "I will come cook food at your house for x price"? Is it regulated like with restaurants?

If you really don't want to show sympathy to Perez Hilton - which like, yeah, idk how much I can garner either -- maybe check in with folks who are triggered or in an otherwise bad state because of, yknow, the widely broadcast uncensored self harm? Instead of cheap jokes?

what kind of "people earn psychosis" nonsense is this. Perez Hilton wasn't struck with divine judgement and mental illness isn't a Fitting Punishment For Being A Shitty Person wild fucking way to think about mental illness in general

I'm aware that Perez Hilton is like one of the worst people out there for bullying but some of the "jokes" people are making are just deeply upsetting to me as a survivor of similar stuff. It's an insta-block from me no matter how valid a target you think he is.

I too would taste the forbidden sauce

I use it as little as possible, although of course it's polluted so much that I'm bound to miss stuff. Researching and fact checking is the WORST possible place to use it, though, cause, like....it gets facts wrong.

NOOO IM LIKE A WEEK OFF HAUUUUS

...would it be inappropriate to pitch Grotesque here because I swear I spend an inordinate amount of time being like "no, really, they had kink clubs, that part isn't made up"

When are we gonna give Sam Sloyan her Joffrey flowers

Starting Midnight Mass and I have no idea what to expect. I know there's vampires and religion. Oh and I'm not surprised by all the familiar faces although it's always fun to see who they're playing this time. Hi Zach Gilford!

I gotta say, even though I recognize the intent behind it, it's getting a bit frustrating hearing from people how Kind and Special I am for helping someone get out of a bad situation, not because of the folks saying it but because holy shit I should not be this far out of the norm

Six Gun Quota (Seether) Don't Know Why (McFly) Always (Saliva) You Give Love A Bad Name

#Ottawa folks we still need emergency housing for a trans gal who will be landing in Ottawa potentially within the next week.

Just gonna quietly add that Ken Jennings being a jerk to a small trans account maybe should've been a canary in a coalmine thing here

Hi all! I'm Elliott, and I'm working on an alt-world speculative fiction called the Bell, Clock and Candle series. I compare it to a couple different things but most often I think FMA, Witcher and the Bartimaeus Trilogy. #QueerWritersChat

CACKLINGGGGGGGGG MEEEEEEE

hot take of the evening: autism and adhd being lumped in with mental illnesses is a problem in LARGE part because of this whole anti-recovery vs cure narrative thing. there is no "curing" autism or adhd. you don't "treat" it. ritalin/adderall helps but it's like. it helps when you're on it.

I won't be engaging further on this topic for a while but this covers everything I think needs to be said. I fully support people struggling with intrusive thoughts and thoughts of harming others, but any sort of label or affiliation based solely on the "attraction" supposedly indicated by these-

the discussions about race in the Odyssey I think are all missing the point a little bit: that every adaptation of the Odyssey and Trojan War that I know of to date has very cheerfully skipped around the fact that Troy is in Turkey. Not Africa, not Europe, but Turkey.

the weirdest part about all this is the idea that there's some sort of shortage of word games. get a fucking puzzle book like my dad and do it with a pen if you really have to, dipshits. i got one called Murdoku the other day, it's great.

*adds this to my reading list posthaste*

around this time every year i'm seized with the desire to try get closer to my parents again followed by the crippling terror at remembering that, yeah, once a parent has physically assaulted a partner and made you (both) homeless by jerking out a promise of cosigning from under you last minute--

iiii am behind on bills so actually if anybody can spare anything/buy some books it would be very very appreciated @.@

jacob anderson as louis de pointe du lac

Me: oooh satanic metal-- Them: it's about the evil demiurge YHWH Fuck off. Into the sun.

Also isn't there research saying that when people misrepresent their economic situation it's to make them look better than it actually is?