For many on the internet, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is an annual tradition full of people tracking word counts and complaining about writer's block to their friends. Some time back, an organization took the name and founded a website to provide trophies and writing resources and forums to make the complaining easier ( Read more... )

On the internet, there exists a group of people that argue that any artist who takes commissions should be willing to draw porn for them. They're willing to pay, and any artist who won't accept their commission just because that artist does not want to draw their favorite subject is a liar and a hypocrite who just needs to 'grow up' or 'get over it ( Read more... )

I have a Tumblr account these days, and I regularly see people spitting venom at various people and groups- Elon Musk is a current favorite target. 'Terfs' is a common one. But the list is long, and I don't even follow that many other people. It's just the common culture. It's considered okay to say horrible things about people, to curse them. I ( Read more... )

Two things can simultaneously be true about Twitter ( Read more... )

Saw a poll on Facebook asking if people liked or disliked gender reveal parties ( Read more... )

This morning, the biggest outrage on my mind was Hillary pretending not to know what "wiping a server" meant, when discussing her email and national security.

Boy, did that change.

The latest video about Planned Parenthood is out.

( Cut tagged. No graphic images, just discussion of a difficult subject. )

I suspect that just about anybody who might read this is already familiar with the people forced to bake cakes and take pictures for gay marriages, and the bills in Kansas and Arkansas designed to prevent that kind of coercion in those states ( Read more... )

A lot of pop psychology has taught us that if you think a "bad" thought, then you are a bad person, no matter how you act. That the fact that you don't act out every one of your thoughts is a kind of psychosis, a self-delusion ( Read more... )

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/print/Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/opinion/25douthat.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

If choices do not have consequences; if all choices lead to the same result, then we are not truly free to choose.