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I don't think anyone will be surprised to learn Harry Potter fans have priorities that are in complete opposition to real people and culture. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remembered as a solitary genius by straight people whose entire experience of him is that awful biopic, maybe. Queer mathematicians I know think of him as a sociable role model who was charming at parties.

A lot of people are just posting his article where he said he wanted to shag kids, which isn't fair. We should also remember him as a virulent racist who had several IPSO complaints upheld against him and who cheated on his wife, impregnating a 22-year-old he then assaulted.

If you're based in the UK, be aware that the eligibility for a Disabled Persons Railcard is expanding in September, and you might now be able to get one even if you couldn't before. www.disabledpersons-railcard.co.uk/eligibility-...

Were people who play videos on public transport never taught manners? Is politeness a code of conduct which, like chivalry, is now seen as old-fashioned and irrelevant? And if so, what comes next?

Was not at all surprised to learn this morning that the humans in Thomas the Tank Engine speak Sudric, a Goidelic language family conlang. Of course a guy who builds a world of trains included a conlang.

The BBC asked the White House if they considered American women in the military "low-T". The White House refused to acknowledge women in the military existed.

A weird part of reaching your 30s is that sometimes, your friends' parents will start dying of old age.

I go to at least half a dozen hospital appointments every year, and have done so for my entire life. Every time they ask me to hop on the scales, I answer with a cheery, "No thanks!". No argument. No justification. That's skinny privilege.

Don't have to worry about coordinating your mask with your outfit if the whole con, including parties, is online! I've already got my ticket and will be in my PJs for at least half of it.

This is something I've chatted about with friends before: even in SFF, there's an acceptable way of structuring stories, and anything outside of that is lucky to get a look-in.

It's so hot right now that on my morning commute the lads who'd usually be in shorts and football shirts had already changed into their Friday robes.

Humans tend to assume that their fellow humans have broadly similar basic skill sets to themselves. It's why so many people who know how to evaluate writing have been shocked by the slopocalypse.

"What's this lady feeling?" OK, her eyebrows are drawn together, that could mean anger. Or confusion. Sometimes it means someone's concentrating if their mouth is in a neutral setting. However, she's a model in a photo set. She's probably been asked to make a particular expression.

The USA is the only eligible country to never have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The current administration's move to bring back child labour is part of a longer cultural history of refusing to recognise children as a protected class.

The problem with researching new cities as travel destinations is how many comments and reviews are written by suburban Americans whose issues aren't with a particular city but with cities as a whole. (They never realise this.)

Just went to a talk in which the speaker said "a square meal" came from plates being square, "cut from the same cloth" from medieval use of tablecloths, and "pumpernickel" from pain pour Nicole.

An elderly lady in this café is talking about how, with her husband's death, she feels she's finally old enough for casual sex. And has been having it frequently in various combinations.