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Attention Snowflakes

I’m still on hiatus. Feeling much better, but felt that this required a small post just to clarify my position. If you catch yourself bemoaning how over-sensitive and easily-offended people are these days, and how nobody got offended by politically … Continue reading

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The Tolerant … Left

Day 6. 50 pages, 22,353 words. Last week one of my ranty blog posts wound up with a cute little story and sub-thread in the comments, about an activist named Elin Ersson who had interfered with Swedish deportation practices in … Continue reading

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Homo

Yesterday I had the joy of explaining to a six-year-old that “homo” wasn’t an expletive or an insult, and using it as one makes you sound backwards and stupid. This was a moderate issue for a couple of reasons. First, … Continue reading

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Interlude: Meanwhile, in Australia

Lazy bit of screencapping for my Saturday blog post. I give you “Screenshots That May Or May Not Be Taken Out Of Context”. Hint: Not taken out of context. I mostly wanted to throw this into the vaguely public eye … Continue reading

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Marriage equality in Australia: Fallout

Here’s an interesting angle on the results I happily shared the other day. A Facebooker by the name of Carrie Hou shared the following post and I thought it was worth copying here: Can white lgbtq/allies who haven’t stepped a … Continue reading

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Queermisia

It’s been a busy week and we had a lot of excellent debate (and some excellent shouting and exquisitely-crafted strawmen and towering mesas and buttes (dare I say it, Not Homophobic Buttes? Looks like I dare, fuckers) of moral high … Continue reading

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My favourite jerky is kneejerky

I don’t have much to add after yesterday’s post. I feel better for having gotten it down in writing and I regret absolutely none of it. The process of encapsulating my thoughts was important, and the resulting discussion was even … Continue reading

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Against Bigotry

Busy day, but I had a chance to watch this interesting video on YouTube. Nothing, obviously, that the enlightened and wonderful people on my blog wouldn’t have seen before … and yet, at least for your ol’ pal Hateboy[1], the … Continue reading

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Guess I really do need to draw some fuckleheads a picture

The following educational series of illustrations was brought on by, but is not intended in criticism of, my esteemed lanttumies[1]. It’s just a long-boiling reaction to the bullshit that gets dropped in my inbox on an almost daily basis. [1] … Continue reading

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Easter Long Weekend Four Horsemen of the Trigger Warningocalypse Spectacular, Part Two: Terrorism

Day 79. Word count withheld. Today I’m going to talk about militant extremism and radicalism; acts of terrorism; mass murders; suicide bombings; the cultural and historical and religious impetus behind these acts; the self-feeding cycle of violence and vengeance; the … Continue reading

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