“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott 'Barbie' because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”

#Barbie
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/barbenheimer-takes-on-the-online

Suppose I say summer

-Raymond Carver, “Hummingbird”
(For Tess)

From “A New Path to the Waterfall” - completed in the last weeks of his life and published posthumously
#everynightapoem #poetry

“…because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.”
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being (trans. from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim)

Ave atque vale, Milan Kundera (1 April 1929-11 July 2023), and safe travels.
#everynightapoem #MilanKundera

🥵Via Laurie Garrett:

You might want to rethink that walking tour of Italy this summer (and of Spain, Portugal, Greece, the Balkans, southern France....)
Nearly 120 degrees F in Italy

Bill McGuire:

European heat record (48.8C) could be smashed in the next few weeks.

Could this be the summer European temperatures break 50C barrier?

This would be truly astonishing - and terrifying. #ClimateCrisis

https://theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/10/italy-heatwave-temperatures-european-record-forecast

Working on a blog post: Listing #Mastodon benefits that try to avoid nerd shit

- No ads = no incentive to tolerate hate and abuse for the sake of ad revenue
- Healthier moderation - Vast majority of the Mastodon network has blocked the far-right hate trolls and communities
- Use any apps you want
- Find a community that shares your interests, engage with the global community—only if you want
- Communities set their own rules around accepting new members, sensitive content, etc.

What else?