The fascists love to demonize queer ppl for "making everything about sex" or "making their gender their whole personality" but every time I go to a queer event I am struck by how precisely they have this backwards. Cis society is profoundly sexualized, and literally every interaction is pre-coded with assumed gender. In a queer space, you purposefully never make assumptions about who someone is or what they're up to, so interactions are much *less* coded by gender and *less* intronsically sexual
I won our beginner's game of Xia: Legends of a Drift System. It reminded me a lot of Twilight Imperium and Eclipse, but I liked it better because you don't have to take and hold territory.
Since we were playing a short game, mostly with the goal of learning the rules, I took a lot of chances. I blind jumped 4 or 5 times (only once suffering any consequences), turned outlaw, jumped through a defective gate, and shot an undefended opponent out of the sky. Booyah!
An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.
Video credit: Usherwood et al.
Source: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/223/3/jeb214809/223686/High-aerodynamic-lift-from-the-tail-reduces-drag
@futurebird "But what if the staff was on fire?" you ask. Well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6X5mxb3Xrc
@futurebird On a related note:
@doctorwhom @RustyBertrand That's weird -- I can't.
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Wow. It's got to be bad when a bunch of Republicans vote to expel one of their own.
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/01/1215899764/george-santos-expulsion-house
There will be a sci-fi megagame in Portland, OR on Jan 20:
Less driving but more deaths: Spike in traffic fatalities puzzles lawmakers
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