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Comment on Tildes Book Club schedule 2025 - 2026 in ~books
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Comment on US Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids in ~lgbt
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentA big internet bear hug from me, Fae. EDIT: We get to be the role models that we didn’t have when we were our students’ ages. What a wonderful and special opportunity we are entrusted with. Even...A big internet bear hug from me, Fae.
EDIT: We get to be the role models that we didn’t have when we were our students’ ages. What a wonderful and special opportunity we are entrusted with.
Even when it’s difficult, it’s still worthwhile. In fact, it’s probably most valuable when things are most difficult (as they have been for a while now).
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Comment on Tildes Book Club schedule 2025 - 2026 in ~books
kfwyre LinkWhat luck! The ebook version of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, our read for this coming month, is on sale for $3 (amazon.ca included!). @cfabbro @Zorind -
Comment on US Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids in ~lgbt
kfwyre Link ParentOr, you know, gender affirming careOr, you know, gender affirming care
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Comment on US Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids in ~lgbt
kfwyre LinkThe Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice.
An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard that few laws pass.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court, said the law “censors speech based on viewpoint.” The First Amendment, he wrote, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”
In a solo dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that states should be free to regulate health care, even if that means incidental restrictions on speech. The decision, Jackson wrote, “opens a dangerous can of worms” that “threatens to impair states’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect.”
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US Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids
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Comment on The bot situation on the internet is actually worse than you could imagine. Here's why. in ~tech
kfwyre LinkAs you may know, on Glade Art we tend to take anti-bot measures very seriously; it is one of our topmost priorities to protect our fellow users from having their art trained on. We also tend to engage in trolling bots by using endless labyrinths of useless data to trap them in. These are commonly referred to as "honeypots" or "digital tar pits." And so, after 6.8 million requests in the last 55 days at the time of writing this, we have some substantial data, so standby and let us share it with you. : )
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The bot situation on the internet is actually worse than you could imagine. Here's why.
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
kfwyre Link ParentIt’s unfortunately very relevant to his lyrics.It’s unfortunately very relevant to his lyrics.
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What is something you're holding together?
You're the glue, the leader, the center of gravity, the one making it happen. Without you, it would probably fall apart, cease to function, or stop. What is it? What do you do? Do people...
You're the glue, the leader, the center of gravity, the one making it happen.
Without you, it would probably fall apart, cease to function, or stop.
What is it?
What do you do?
Do people appreciate your role, or is it invisible?36 votes -
Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
kfwyre (edited )LinkI can fully understand the desire for people to want to be able to discuss something like Harry Potter without always having to hear about Rowling's views. After all, pretty much everyone already...- Exemplary
I can fully understand the desire for people to want to be able to discuss something like Harry Potter without always having to hear about Rowling's views. After all, pretty much everyone already knows that she's transphobic by now, and also heavy-handed moralizing can start to grate over time, even when it's something you agree with or support.
Let's call this the "leave it alone, already" reflex.
People who like Harry Potter, or people who are sick of hearing about Rowling's transphobia, probably feel this pretty strongly.
What I would encourage those people to consider, however, is that queer people also have our own "leave
itus alone, already" reflexes, and they are equally if not more strained, in large part because Rowling, well, won't leave trans people alone. They are a frequent talking point for her, and she takes explicit, repeated actions to invalidate and hurt them.So, if we consider a hypothetical Harry Potter discussion topic here: it's not that some of our commenters won't just "leave it alone, already" -- it's that Rowling herself won't do the same, which is the primary driver for bringing up her behavior in the first place.
I think this can help us allocate our frustrations appropriately. Yes, it's frustrating when topics get derailed, and yes, nobody loves when someone else yucks your yum, but I'd argue that the cause of this lies less with users here and more with Rowling's continued anti-trans crusade.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - March 2026 - The Metamorphosis by Kafka in ~books
kfwyre Link ParentThis isn’t exactly about her reaction, but I figure this is a good place to put a question I’ve been stuck on: How poor was the family, actually? We get the sense from Gregor that he was working...This isn’t exactly about her reaction, but I figure this is a good place to put a question I’ve been stuck on:
How poor was the family, actually?
We get the sense from Gregor that he was working himself to the bone to keep the family afloat, but also the family could afford hired help? And continued to do so even after Gregor stopped working?
Also their apartment was big enough to have three porters stay with them?
It seems like they were more well off than Gregor might have believed. I’m not sure if this is one of those “different time/culture” things and I’m misjudging the situation, or if the family’s wealth is actually intended to be something that makes Gregor’s situation and sacrifice all the more sad (as in, he didn’t need to work so hard and feel so much pressure, because the family was doing okay financially).
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Comment on Olympic committee announces a broad ban on transgender athletes and athletes with differences in sex development in Women’s events (gifted link) in ~lgbt
kfwyre Link ParentTo add on to this thread: The reason that trans people in sports is a salient issue for many is because it creates a perception of unfairness, and most people want things to be generally fair. If...To add on to this thread:
The reason that trans people in sports is a salient issue for many is because it creates a perception of unfairness, and most people want things to be generally fair.
If someone is legitimately concerned about fairness (and isn’t just hiding transphobia behind a pretext), then it’s worth sharing with them that, in 2026 alone, there are over 700 bills targeting trans people in the US (and this isn’t counting the hundreds more from previous years).
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Comment on Rigging bingo: Creating seeded randoms in JavaScript in ~comp
kfwyre LinkThis isn’t just hypothetical on @Wes’s part, by the way. It got an actual, unintentional real-world test from me! I had to use the seed function to recreate my bingo card after accidentally...This isn’t just hypothetical on @Wes’s part, by the way. It got an actual, unintentional real-world test from me! I had to use the seed function to recreate my bingo card after accidentally deleting it while distro hopping…
…twice. XD
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What’s something you’re putting up with?
You don’t like it, but you can’t necessarily change or fix it, so you’re stuck with it and have to, well, put up with it. Tell us all about it.
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure Schedule: April - September 2026 in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentI can recommend this. I played through Aria of Sorrow last year via the Advance Collection and it was great. Worked perfectly on Steam Deck, and it even has some emulation features like save...I can recommend this. I played through Aria of Sorrow last year via the Advance Collection and it was great. Worked perfectly on Steam Deck, and it even has some emulation features like save states built right in.
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Comment on RetroDECK is more than emulation: an interview with the devs in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentAsking out of curiosity: what don’t you like about EmulationStation? (I personally think it’s great.)Asking out of curiosity: what don’t you like about EmulationStation? (I personally think it’s great.)
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - March 2026 - The Metamorphosis by Kafka in ~books
kfwyre Link ParentAgreed! The story feels like something you’re looking at without glasses on. There’s a faint, fuzzy shape that’s quite familiar but not immediately recognizable. Depending on how you look at it...It's open to a wide array of perfectly valid interpretations that are influenced by the reader's own direct experiences with, or witnessing, similar circumstances in their own life.
Agreed!
The story feels like something you’re looking at without glasses on. There’s a faint, fuzzy shape that’s quite familiar but not immediately recognizable. Depending on how you look at it and what you’re thinking about, you can get several different plausible possibilities for what it might “actually” be.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - March 2026 - The Metamorphosis by Kafka in ~books
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentNo, I think you’re right on the money! I did a ctrl+f to check, and “daughter” isn’t used up until the final few paragraphs of the story. Up to that point she had been labeled as “sister.” I think...No, I think you’re right on the money!
I did a ctrl+f to check, and “daughter” isn’t used up until the final few paragraphs of the story. Up to that point she had been labeled as “sister.”
I think it’s a confirmation of her transformation as much as it is a dark acknowledgement that Gregor is both gone and forgotten.
(Note: this might vary depending on the version of the story. I’m using the Susan Bernofsky English translation. If we have any German readers here, I’d love to know if this is the case in the original text.)
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - March 2026 - The Metamorphosis by Kafka in ~books
kfwyre Link ParentThe “swapping” of Gregor for Grete makes the ending dark in a really understated way. Gregor worked tirelessly to support his family to the point that it might have been the cause of his...The “swapping” of Gregor for Grete makes the ending dark in a really understated way.
Gregor worked tirelessly to support his family to the point that it might have been the cause of his transformation. He eventually gets discarded by the family, and as soon as he’s out of the picture, Grete’s role changes from “sister” to “daughter” and her parents note her nascent womanhood.
It really feels like Grete is next in line for what Gregor went through, being forced into a narrowly defined lane centered on the parents rather than her own wishes.
I think this is why Gregor continually emphasized that he wanted to pay for her to study music and was sad he missed the opportunity to do so. I don’t know if he was necessarily conscious of it or not, but it seems like that was his way of wanting to break Grete out of the suffocating expectations put on her.
I also think it’s why we see Grete be so kind and thoughtful at the beginning of the story. She, like Gregor, was going above and beyond to try to support her family, planting the parallel for the two characters’ paths.
And Kobo, Bookshop, Google Play Books, Apple Books, etc!
There’s a chance the deal is limited to the US and Canada. If anyone outside of those countries can confirm the sale for us, I’d appreciate it.