Rowan MacBean
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Thinking about that tweet from Foz Meadows that said the most dangerously emotional people in the world are men who are so obsessed with being rational they confuse their feelings for logic repeatedly.
February 18, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Thinking about that tweet from Foz Meadows that said the most dangerously emotional people in the world are men who are so obsessed with being rational they confuse their feelings for logic repeatedly.
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historian here!
Yes
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before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
historian here!
Yes
Yes
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Humble Bundle is doing a Discworld bundle to benefit an Alzheimer's organization that supports both families and research.
These are the books we need in times like these.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
These are the books we need in times like these.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026
Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!
www.humblebundle.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Humble Bundle is doing a Discworld bundle to benefit an Alzheimer's organization that supports both families and research.
These are the books we need in times like these.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
These are the books we need in times like these.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
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she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season
February 17, 2026 at 10:13 PM
she should have been allowed to kill one guy per season
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Killing a French vampire with bread is painstaking.
June 28, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Killing a French vampire with bread is painstaking.
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Reminder to our allies abroad:
War is when your government tells you who your enemy is.
Revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
-PM Aurora Maccormicki
War is when your government tells you who your enemy is.
Revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
-PM Aurora Maccormicki
February 18, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Reminder to our allies abroad:
War is when your government tells you who your enemy is.
Revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
-PM Aurora Maccormicki
War is when your government tells you who your enemy is.
Revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
-PM Aurora Maccormicki
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February 18, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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I wish my parents would stop inviting The Ladies from Up the Road to eat with us without warning me. I went downstairs at 11 and was told they would be here at 1. NOT ENOUGH WARNING! I love that my parents are nice to these ladies but they seriously drain all of us and I need time to prepare.
February 17, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I wish my parents would stop inviting The Ladies from Up the Road to eat with us without warning me. I went downstairs at 11 and was told they would be here at 1. NOT ENOUGH WARNING! I love that my parents are nice to these ladies but they seriously drain all of us and I need time to prepare.
New pet peeve: people who, when they are 15% or less into a book, complain about not understanding. Keep fucking reading! Your questions will probably be answered! Jesus fucking Christ, not everything needs to be immediately spelled out!
I had no idea how common this was until joining PageBound… 🙄
I had no idea how common this was until joining PageBound… 🙄
February 17, 2026 at 11:14 AM
New pet peeve: people who, when they are 15% or less into a book, complain about not understanding. Keep fucking reading! Your questions will probably be answered! Jesus fucking Christ, not everything needs to be immediately spelled out!
I had no idea how common this was until joining PageBound… 🙄
I had no idea how common this was until joining PageBound… 🙄
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Colbert hitting the 'What are you going to do? Fire me early?' stage.
deadline.com/2026/02/step...
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February 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Colbert hitting the 'What are you going to do? Fire me early?' stage.
deadline.com/2026/02/step...
deadline.com/2026/02/step...
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you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”
every time someone says something like "there weren't trans people when I was a kid" or some shit about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is "motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975"
February 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”
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Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
February 17, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.
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This is LOVELY.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSm...
Yellow - Coldplay (Transgender Duet With My Past Self)
YouTube video by Dylan And The Moon
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM
This is LOVELY.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSm...
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February 17, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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Chat, is this real? (But I'm asking a French cat and it pretends not to understand with Gallic insouciance.)
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Chat, is this real? (But I'm asking a French cat and it pretends not to understand with Gallic insouciance.)
The elastic in my favorite sleep shorts has died 😔 They were men’s shorts in pastel colors with a unicorn print and they were glorious. RIP.
February 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The elastic in my favorite sleep shorts has died 😔 They were men’s shorts in pastel colors with a unicorn print and they were glorious. RIP.
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a bit rude that @philnobilejr.bsky.social would do *this* to us and that people would mistake my smoldering ash for mist
February 16, 2026 at 7:09 PM
a bit rude that @philnobilejr.bsky.social would do *this* to us and that people would mistake my smoldering ash for mist
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Every Wednesday I go to yoga with a retired gay man and then we go back to his house and eat the dinner his husband cooked for us while we were out, and when I told them some of the stuff the UK government are doing to trans people they literally said "it's happening again!"
HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Every Wednesday I go to yoga with a retired gay man and then we go back to his house and eat the dinner his husband cooked for us while we were out, and when I told them some of the stuff the UK government are doing to trans people they literally said "it's happening again!"
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They definitely shouldn’t look up what a helot was and what function they played in Sparta…
February 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
They definitely shouldn’t look up what a helot was and what function they played in Sparta…
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i can’t think about deer anymore without thinking of this tweet
February 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
i can’t think about deer anymore without thinking of this tweet