Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom in The Producers (1967)

MSNBC covered this story yesterday. Unfuckingbelievable

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Replaying those hard levels as an adult and doing them first try…

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

My pareidolia is so strong I immediately saw a tall figure in a blue and white robe or gown BEFORE I scrolled to see that OP also had and drew it. Or are we not outliers and everybody else sees it.

At first glance I thought it was a sculpture. At second glance I thought it was a sculpture in a really weird place. I scrolled down and wondered why someone had drawn the sculpture of a figure as a figure, then I scrolled back up and realized 'debris'.

This is the kind of messaging you really want to be seeing from the global hegemon

@sirfrogsworth Is this that John Oliver episode you were so happily praising recently? Are you feeling even the slightest hint of embarrassment yet?

Years from now, when all this is behind us, people like you will be forced to reckon with just how fucking stupid you were to support it. And I hope the shame you feel then is equal to the disgust and anger I feel right now.

Shewon.org is a bullshit site that makes no effort to put their data into context. It's a fancy self reported spreadsheet put together by volunteers who have very little experience in data collection or statistical analysis. They have a grand total of two graphs on their website.

That is some "I have been using Excel for a month" nonsense right there.

They are an agenda driven site who are specifically trying to represent their numbers in a certain way. That is not how data analysis should work. There isn't even an attempt to represent the data in a neutral fashion

They claimed over 900 medals were lost at the time of the report mentioned on the show.

But they don't give you any indication of the most important question regarding that figure.

Out of how many opportunities?

What percentage of total possible medals does this represent?

They are only documenting when trans people win first, second, and third place. Don't you think that needs to be compared to how many cis people win first, second, and third place?

I mean, a single Olympics had 1050 medals given out.

Let's assume they are accurate and most of their data is from 2019 forward. Since 2019 there have been about 125/year pro women's running events in the US alone. That is 2250 first, second, and third place awards. For a single sport. In a single country.

They have 22 sports listed in their fancy two whole charts. If all "sports" have a similar number of competitions, that would be nearly 50,000 possible first, second, and third spots available to win. So the 900 medals would account for about 2 percent.

But it gets worse...

They also include high school competitions.

There are roughly 8 million kids playing in K-12 sports in the US alone. Even if they are limiting data to worldwide high school, college, and pro sports, then that 2 percent turns into a fraction of a fraction.

"In the US, USA Track & Field sanctions over 8,000 high school track and field events each year, and about 1.1 million athletes compete in high school outdoor track & field annually."

Track and field competitions usually have 4 events per meet. That would be 96000 first, second, and third place opportunities in a single year in a single country.

And 576,000 since 2019.

Imagine what that would be worldwide.

900 medals?

So fucking what?

And I noticed they said nothing about competitions in which gender plays no role in the skill required to play the game.

This is some bottom-of-the-barrel data stuffing.

What biological advantage does a trans woman have at poker?

Maybe they can start including DND and Magic the Gathering or fucking Checkers.

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

Can you swap their heads ?

omg you can

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

A fun writing exercise:

We're all familiar with "they would not say that" and "they might think that, but there's no way they would/could express it like that" and even "They have absolutely not done even a bit of the mountains of therapy they'd need to even think that, let alone say it"

So consider: due to some magical circumstances (being rotated in your brain) your OC, blorbo or whoever is actually getting psychoanalysis. What would the doc come back with? Deleterious patterns of behavior? Inherented neurosis? A genuinely diagnosable condition?

Articulate, as precisely as possible, what the fuck is wrong with your guy, and how it's fucking them up.

I could make a fairly cogent argument that Brandon Sanderson has been doing this with his Stormlight Archive characters with excellent results.

I’ve been trying to leave Rome for a few weeks now, but all their roads have this weird design flaw

Hotelius Californium…

such a dulce et decorum place…

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

Here’s one thing about Mel Gilman: they never miss.

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