The gender today is the smell of vanilla and sound of a hissed warning.

My friend the brilliant author Rachel Pollack is coming to the end of her life. She won the Nebula, World Fantasy and Arthur C Clarke awards. She is a world renowned expert on Tarot, and her books on Tarot are still regarded as the good standard. She created the first trans superhero, in Doom Patrol in '93. I will miss her very much when she goes. I am writing this at the request of her wife Zoe, to let her friends know that the end is soon, and to let the obituarists know too.

8 years of missing you, Dad. This photo makes me laugh because it’s so decidedly un-Pratchetty. We’re looking in the same direction & there’s hugging (ish.) It’s the kind of pic that, in a movie, one or other of us would look at wistfully before tooling up to go rescue the other one #GNUTerryPratchett #speakhisname

Really, REALLY hating the shitty techbro garbage #Discord keeps trying to push on its users with little to no consent beforehand. No, I don't want your fucking crypto. No, I don't want my shit to be scraped and fed to an AI. No, I don't care that you claim this shit will be opt-in only, because YOU'RE ALREADY DOING IT.