CBrachyrhynchos @CBrachyrhynchos

On top of the frustration in trying to create working win 10 install media, gitea decided to stop accepting ssh.

I suspect some of the people who turn illness into some sort of noble moral fight, battle, or war, have never really dealt with the realities of shit, urine, puss, lymph, and blood. (For that matter, I suspect many have never really dealt with the realities of war either.)

http://www.metafilter.com/168355/Lying-to-ourselves-about-mortality-is-what-separates-us-from-cats

Bright Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EZCBSsBxko

Feels like Shadowrun without cyberspace or the Mayan prophesy.

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Contrary to popular belief, the legislation nullified by Obergefell did not primarily exist to criminalize a largely non-existent institution of same-sex marriage. That legislation was created to support already existing practices of discrimination in law, services, housing, employment, and education.

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Tumblr social justice wonks who raise the de facto/de jure argument, almost exclusively to dismiss biphobia, really need to read more:

Ida Wells: Who completely nailed the fact that criminal but permitted lynchings were a form of economic control.

Radical feminists: Who for all ther flaws nails the premise that the ubiquitous threat of rape, again criminal but permitted, are a form of social control.

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When governments do endorse hatred with legislation, it's typically in support of systemic discrimination and violence as an already routine practice.

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The problem with the de facto/de jure distinction in looking at oppression is that many forms of mass violence against minorities are illegal or unsanctioned by the letter of the law, but tolerated in practice, examples include:

* Relationship abuse and rape of women.
* Lynching and economic violence against African Americans.
* Mass medical discrimination against gay men, especially during the early years of the HIV epidemic.

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Pyre trailer: Really ambivalent about the vocal recordings in the trailer. But I'll probably pick it up just for Jen Zee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jBbq6c9EEQ

Hu-mons on Star Trek say at the drop of a hat, "We used to ... in the 20th century. But we don't any more. We're better than that."

LGBTQ rights are desperately overdue for this treatment.

"Most Directors would have been content to use a large sound stage, but Kubrick insisted on shooting on location. One anonymous source, claiming to be a member of Kubrick’s film crew for the moon project, has claimed that the Director insisted on shooting on the Lunar surface “Because he wanted to get the light just right.”"

https://www.quora.com/Even-when-proof-exists-that-the-moon-landing-was-a-hoax-why-do-school-textbooks-continue-to-glorify-the-Apollo-mission/answer/Patrick-Germain

Skyrim Headcanon of the day: The theme song really is Super Chicken transcribed into Dragon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tSxhCnzIwE

Those signals would have been nearly impossible to fake from ground-based or low earth orbit transmitters.

One of my arguments against Apollo hoax conspiracy theories is that the United States and Hungary were doing Earth-Moon-Earth relay transmissions as early as 1946, followed by commercial users and amateurs in 1953.

So by the time we got to 1968, there were hundreds of independent radio operators around who could receive and confirm Apollo telemetry from the moon.

Take a nap SDO, you're drunk!

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2017/07/19/20170719_1024_0171.mp4

"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Is the Year's Queerest Movie"

-- https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/7/19/professor-marston-and-wonder-women-queerest-movie-year

"With Bearly a Lady, I’m hoping to build on that canon. Zelda McCartney is a complicated character, for all that she might sometimes appear like an airhead. She’s been out for a long time; this isn’t a self-discovery story. Instead, the book, which goes into some dark places between the lines, interrogates the idea of expectations, labels, and toxic relationships."

-- http://whatever.scalzi.com/2017/07/19/the-big-idea-cassandra-khaw/