For thousands of years, fermenting beer was considered a household task for #women.

By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.

Sound familiar? It should.

You see, when male brewers felt threatened, they accused the women of witchcraft. These rumors may have led to some witch iconography we still recognize today.

https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-dominate-the-beer-industry-until-the-witch-accusations-started-pouring-in-155940 #history #HistoryRemix

well HELLO there, I had some thoughts about this whole pesky AI art thing

https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2022/12/08/why-im-done-using-and-boosting-ai-art/

L - Lesbians aren’t shooting things up.
G - Gays aren’t shootings things up.
B - Bisexuals aren’t shooting things up.
T - Transgender people aren’t either.
Q- Queer people are safely on the list.

It’s radicalized right wing fascist MAGAs that are shooting things up.
Republicans are a bigger and more widespread threat to children.

#lgbtq
Speak up now, because they may come for you next.

#politics

Author friends, of which I know there are several here: Today (11/28/22) is the start of the Whatever 2022 Holiday Gift Guide, and today is specifically for traditionally-published authors, with tomorrow being for indie/self-pubbed authors. So if you're interested in promoting your work to my site's tens of thousands of daily readers (plus additional promo on my socials) these are the days. The link for today's post is below, and all the details you need are there.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/11/28/whatever-holiday-gift-guide-2022-day-one-traditionally-published-books/