You all remember that "I sexually identify as a attack helicopter" short story a while back, that some people thought was transphobic, but which was intended by its (closeted trans) author as a radical exploration of the idea of gender as a technology? We should call the tendency of some scifi stories to be "double read" like that the "Tiptree effect"

Philosophical question for you. A scottish toddler drops a shoe, and it lays in a gutter all week, but it stays clean. At what point has the shoe become garbage?

Me to myself while looking at my bedroom floor: "Man, I'm such a dusty boy."

Statue of the Greek goddess Hebe, who got fired from her server job for dropping one goddamn plate.