End of Pride, beginning of Pride (or Wrath) - late June 02023

Greetings. Let us begin with how a single person convinced Major League Baseball they wanted to rename the list of injured players to the "injured list" rather than the previous name, the "disabled list." As Elias Abarbanel-Wolff pointed out, through his own experience, and the experience of many other disabled athletes, disabled people can play sport perfectly fine. And so, with some letters written to MLB, Eli was able to get the change made, and our baseball language has become better for it.

For something that is much less serious, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at least jokingly agreed they should have a cage match to settle differences between them. The general consensus among the viewing populace seems to be "yes, let them fight it out, but regardless of who wins, make sure neither of them can leave the cage once they've entered." With the hope that it would make the world a better place.

The Supreme Court of the United States chose not to invalidate the power of state courts with regard to elections matters and give state legislatures unlimited power to arrange elections in the manner of their choosing.

The celebration of Juneteenth, the day in which General Order 3 was issued in Galveston, Texas, and brought about full enforcement of the end of slavery through the use of Union troops in places that refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation, is a perfectly good story all by itself, and needs none of the myths and embellishments that have sprung up around it to be a compelling and useful story.

( Inside: libraries, books, the OTW and its currently most prominent critics, and more! )

Last for tonight, The god of Arepo, a story in which small acts for small gods produce wonderful things. Which itself was illustrated into a graphic novel form of the God of Arepo. There's rhythm to the language of the prose form, and beauty in the illustrated form, so enjoy both, if you like.

And the significance of the 25th of May, both for Towel Day, the memorial of Douglas Adams' death, and the Glorious 25th of May, which may have changed some in observance since the death of Sir Pterry, and how both of them might eventually return to being silly fandom things that have serious significance behind them. (And, perhaps, hopefully, reasonably-priced love and a hard-boiled egg that you may need the towel for.)

(Materials via adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

AO3 Output: January-June 02023

We did it! Another six months of material, published and viewable.

( Let's get going with the latest material )

There we are! See you again in six months.