T.C. Aurelius

I've enjoyed seeing everyone's random memories of their interactions with Walter Koenig. "met" is an overstatement, but we were in the same room once and he seemed sad and grumpy and I'm glad he was either having a bad day or my perceptions were incorrect. I did not try to talk to him.

They're afraid that allowing negatives to be publicly placed in the White Bucket would make people think badly of the White Collective, and like, maybe you just shouldn't have a White Collective.

So I'm not gonna quote that stupid bullshit thing from RFK, but have you noticed that white supremacists insist that white culture is superior because they're individualists and Asians are collectivists and then they pull this shit? White supremacy is a form of collectivism. It's just a shitty one.

I really appreciate this service he is providing. A digest of my friends' greatest Bryan Johnson hits? KEEP IT COMING.

What should be happening is that borders should be getting easier to cross. We all lose to some degree when they get more difficult to cross.

I didn't know the Cheesecake Factory was a real place until I moved to Columbus. We didn't have those in Youngstown. We just had the Red Lobster on 224.

Next person to compare me to Thompson gets dropped into an active war zone on three kinds of drugs (and also dmt) and told to file by tomorrow at 0600 He defined gonzo by which was meant too high to fucking function, not boots on the ground

"just ignore them" is not a crazy idea anymore. it works. it works *too* well even. and I believe there is a situation room at every social media company right now trying to address this

I literally can't get my correct gender marker on my corrected birth certificate (X) because my state driver's license can only be F or M, which functionally means I'm not allowed to vote because my IDs don't match which is a felony, but somehow being nonbinary isn't part of my trans oppression?

Koenig taught me the difference between "everyone's the hero of their own story" and "villains should be sympathetic." Bester was an advanced class in how to portray evil with depth without losing moral clarity or portraying horrific behavior as justified or sympathetic.

I watched Babylon 5 at an impressionable age when it was in reruns. Walter Koenig's Alfred Bester has left an indelible mark on who I am as a writer and how I think about writing villains.

This, except I'm 5+ years older.

extremely urgent Bring Back Shame bat signal, special Buckeye edition apnews.com/article/elec...

This whole attack line has reminded me that for years there was no bottom to the GOP and as long as you doubled down, you’d get your presidency and your SCOTUS seat. Vivek is just following the established model.

recently LilAware texted me a photo of a pastry cube and said "is it about my cube?" and i broke the grinch's echocardiogram

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

I'm rewatching Babylon 5 with Partner, who's new to the show, and last time he saw Bester come on screen, he threw up his hands and yelled, "This asshole again!?" Do you know how good of an actor you have to be to elicit such a strong, instant response? Just a master class in acting.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

This is what I've been trying to talk about with people I know who object to all of the candidates in some races. It's far better to have someone read their whole ballot, vote for downballot candidates and measures, and skip some of the races at the top of the ticket than it is to not vote.

The fact that the Ohio Democratic Party is going out of its way to silence and censure any dissent from the caucus shows pretty clearly they know it will cost them votes within the party. They just don't care about as as much as they do about potentially winning over a guy in a truck.

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

Ever notice "abusers can grow and change" uniformly comes from people who haven't actually checked if someone grew or changed? It's like a magic wand of sentiment they wave over harm.

I've donated to a few candidates before and so my name is on lists of folks who can be persuaded to open up their wallets for dems in close races. And it's true! I can! The magic words are "trans rights are human rights and I will not dignify weird creeps' obsession with teen girls' genitals."

No. Talarico is not like El-Sayed. Not at all. When El-Sayed hires a GOP policy advisor that wrote the policies attacking Black women? Then you can compare the two. But hey, 500 likes of mostly white people, agreeing with other white people, that Black Texas voters have nothing to complain about.🤷🏿‍♂️

A few leaves wind up as mulch for my garden beds, some go into my compost bins as brown matter, and the rest just get raked into big piles under my pine trees to break down. It’s amazing. Do it.

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

parents, please check your kids' Halloween candy this year. I just found a single plum floating in perfume in a man's hat in this Snickers bar

Okay so last night someone boosted a hide and seek comic where one of the first panels was something like "we broke the one rule" and now I can't find it in spite of a ton of scrolling and searching Anyone know what I'm talking about and if so can you give me the link?

“One of the lessons I learned as a young journalist covering earthquakes in California is that the places identified as having the most damage from a natural disaster are not necessarily the worst-hit places. They’re often the places that are the worst hit and still have the ability to communicate.”