Yep, I think you're exactly right!

I was unclear, what I meant is that Kushiel is a bad choice for "rec me a romantasy like acotar" and an underrated choice for "rec me sff political drama like asoiaf but preferably less sexist," which is often the same person in different moods

I mean, I rec Kushiel with its various caveats to romantasy enjoyers too! But anecdotally my friends who are like "what if asoiaf but make shorter, add More Gender, and give women agency?" read Kushiel and like it, and the ones who want romantasy or YA either aren't interested or bounce quickly

lol I semi-regularly rec Kushiel to people but absolutely not as a modern romantasy.

Frankly asoiaf is A better Noun of Nouns and Nouns to comp than acotar

Murderbot: pack faster you fools!
Gurathin: pack faster you fools!

Murderbot: I'm totally fi- *keels over*
Gurathin: I don't need a medba- *keels over*

Murderbot and Gurathin, mutually: omg everyone please stop listening to the suspicious asshole, you're gonna get killed??

Gurathin: *is harassed by LBB, visibly takes psychic damage*
Murderbot: *is harassed by LBB, system reliability immediately crashes*

Gurathin: what if I just sat down and died
Murderbot: what if I just sat down and died

I showed up at my friend's house after school and they were like, wanna play this game? Mary Magdalene is a robot with a giant anti-spacewhale boob laser.

To which the answer was obviously 1. absolutely yes and 2. what

tbh the most likely "danger" is that the protests will large enough to overwhelm cell towers and leave people without coverage for a couple hours, which is only fatal to the late-stage terminally online and somewhere between inconvenient and disorienting for everyone else

signed, an extremely normie protester whose main contribution is bringing extra water bottles because people underestimate how dehydrating it is to walk around on hot concrete shouting slogans in full sun

the part of Diablo 2 that everyone hates (complimentary) is Duriel

...or maybe that was just my experience playing an incredibly squishy 100% cold damage sorceress

Sometimes, there's a difference between the product that you personally want and the most popular product, and that's just called having taste (good taste or poor taste, take your pick)

On this I gotta hand it to Newsom, once activated he's the one Dem I'd bet on in a chest-thumping online meme war.

Dude has that psycho come at me bro energy that mere posers like Elon lack the genuine (as opposed to affected) arrogance to pull off.

(this skeet is for the three qu yuan appreciators on bluesky)

Also, this tweet is still up (link in alt only for proof it's not doctored)

Like if you really want you can look up the murderer/rapist's wikipedia page. This is not the kind of thing you find on "a news website based in Indonesia."

In the most innocent possible wide-eyed stupidly naive interpretation of this ten seconds of research, even blithely believing his lies about where he got the CSAM, this is a person who downloaded and distributed CSAM produced by a convicted murderer and rapist of infants.

Anyways, the actual policy orgs seem to be doing good work. By their definitions, I would be happily pro-Abundance!

I just don't want to be associated with the noxious pundits in there, and wish people would, if not kick them out, at least stop acting like they have any authority.

Like sure it's guilt by association but...what do people expect when they actively seek out opportunities to associate with that block?

I haven't read the Klein-Thompson book yet, so what I've heard is mostly "but why Hanania," which does unfortunately bias my opinion!

Accurately or not, I read between those lines and think, ah, this movement has a reactionary centrist "anti-woke but make it more palatable" instinct based on the pundits it likes, its main perceived enemy is the left, and its open to crypto.