The Chronicling of Some of It - Late April 02025

Let us begin with the garderobe of the Internet, 4chan, going offline after being hacked thoroughly by a rival garderobe.

A bookstore owner in Chelsea, Michigan, got the community to come out and help move the books from an old location to the new one. The volunteers formed a human chain and passed each of the books in stock down the line from the old space to the new one. The community did the owner a solid and showed that having a community around you is one of the best things for anyone.

On the importance of a sport bra, and the things that it actually needs to do to be effective, none of which necessarily have to do with how it looks to an observer.

I fear for the slush pile of an imprint that believes that young men just can't find anything they want to read, and is so inviting a focus on young and middle-aged men's writing about being young and middle-aged men, mostly because I think it will be sorely disappointing to many who believe themselves gatekept by all the women to find out that no, really, friend, the novel is not actually that good.

Pope Francis is dead at 88 years of age, and we can only hope that his successor continues to take the Catholic Church in many of the directions he was pulling them, toward greater tolerance and more Christian behavior.

The toady currently in charge of the Institute for Museum and Library Services is now demanding information from IMLS grantees to prove they're using their funds in ways defined by the flurry of executive orders against accurate history, the diversity of people, and acknowledging that the world is set up to benefit rich white men and that other people may need structural assistance in defeating that impediment, as well as asking how they're using their funds to teach media literacy (which they don't want, either.)

( An awful lot of bad decisions by people who are also potentially pretty bad inside )

Last for tonight, A previously uncatalogued Mozart work has joined the others, and many a person lined up to hear the new single.

Porn addiction does not appear to be a thing. What does, however, appear to be a thing is that people with high religiosity (and thus a high likelihood of being told that the use of porn is badwrongevil) have worse negative self-image, and accompanying issues that come from that, from the moral conflict about using porn when you've been forbidden to.

A speech from someone who became a therapist to the autistic community because they were having trouble finding competent counselors for their own autism and the related demons that come from being neurodivergent in a conformity-enforcing world, and all the ways the process of becoming a therapist has failed them and failed other counselors by not giving them the opportunity to properly relate to the people trying to get something out of therapy.

And Mr. Oliver on Last Week Tonight about the considerable amount of bad faith and active cruelty being performed over a mostly nonexistent panic about trans women in sports.

(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, little_details, 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.)

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