Iheartchaos:

Philosophy cut to the bone

All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need ... fantasies to make life bearable.

No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meet the rising ape.

Tooth fairies? Hogfathers?

Yes. As practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies.

So we can believe the big ones?

Yes. Justice. Duty. Mercy. That sort of thing.

They're not the same at all!

Really? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act, like there was some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged

Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point?

My point exactly.

Such an awesome cosplay, inspiration for the expo next year perhaps?

if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

I can't wait until the police knock on this idiot's door in a few days time, wish I could be there to watch

We may have domesticated dogs but cats have domesticated us

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

28 April 1948 - 12 March 2015

G: Send the message on to the next Clacks Tower.

N: Do not log the message.

U: At the end of the line, return the message.

“A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.” ~ Going Postal

How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

Vulture

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.

srsly tho this is absolutely a thing that dudes do all the f***ing time

like where if he knows a girl doesn’t necessarily want to give him a hug, he will trap her in this position in front of witnesses where she has 2 options- both of which are undesirable for her, while simultaneously desirable for him

if she doesn’t want to hug him, whatever she does, it will suck for her.

she can 1. say nah and be the fucking asshole in front of other ppl or 2. forsake her corporeal boundaries and allow unwanted intimate contact

it’s a f***ing trap

This has to be one of the most awesome things that could be achieved with minecraft