That would require the Liberals to actually be in any way progressive and not neoliberal but we're okay with LGBT and women's rights.

Honestly, it's way simpler than that. Social safety nets help people of colour more than white people because people of colour, especially Black people, tend to suffer higher rates of poverty due to the well documented generational wealth gap. Helping Black people is antithetical to Southern conservatives. Everything else is just window dressing.

This is very common among people with abusive parents. I'm so sorry.

Highly controlling behaviour like this is emotional abuse. You're an adult, you can dress however you want.

I want to say it could be Victoria?

You just know that those would be some sappy dates. It doesn't matter what they're doing, be it getting some cheap pizza or hanging out in a park, Chloe goes all out for Max.

Oregon was founded as a whites only state, and they've had to be dragged out of it kicking and screaming.

Critical Race Theory is a college level law class, and an obscure one at that.

I don't understand the anti-mask stuff, it's so fucking trivial.

Yes, but Joe actually listens to people who know what they're doing instead of needing to be the smartest bestest most perfect man in the room.

Haha, always happy to see you posting your stuff! Can't wait to see who's works you'll post about once Recursion is done!

Mastercard was demanding all content be manually reviewed, even live streams. That's just not doable at scale for anything.

Considering that I'm like 150k words deep into Prism at this point, hella yes they are!

If sex workers don't have to operate in constant fear of the law, the dark side won't come with it. The problem is that because sex work is criminalized, sex workers need to operate in ways to avoid the law, which allows human traffickers to also use those avenues because the sex workers can't raise a fuss about it.

If sex workers didn't have to worry about losing their livelihood and facing criminal charges for calling it out, they would do so.

When is it ever fine?

Fingers crossed it's not a red marker.

I mean... it's about as safe as them.

My recs for this week are:

Rocky Road by that_one_internet_lover

Summary: It was just supposed be a simple ice cream date. But then there was a man with an angry red aura.

My take: A fantastic glimpse into what might be with True Colours. Alex and Steph are adorkable, and it's actually pretty great to see Alex standing up for herself and Steph. If the game is half this good we're in for a treat.

Do Something About It by Ghost in the Hella

Summary: Kate wishes Chloe would stop just looking at her lips wistfully and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ALREADY!

My take: Ghost writes amazing PriceMarsh and this is adorable and hilarious. Chloe being so much of a gentlewoman that she can't recognize how much Kate wants her to kiss her is fantastic and this is worth a read.

It's the only major route between northern Afghanistan and Kabul, the Soviets built a tunnel through the mountains so it's basically the only way to move serious amounts of equipment through the mountains without air lifting, or people and goats quite literally carrying that equipment over the mountains.

It'll depend on who holds the Salang pass.

Ottawa's cycling and pedestrian infrastructure really needs some more love. Especially having more and better bike lanes.

I love how they're cast in warm vs. cool tones. Max is having an inspirational, hopeful and creative moment, so she's in warm tones.

Alex is starting her new life, and the world seems full of promise, so she also gets warm tones.

Chloe is being self destructive and rebellious in the face of depression and despair, so she's in stark, cold tones.

I still remember the old Daemonhunters codex, where you could totally give stormtroopers thunderhammers. That was hilarious.

If they hadn't made a 14 word tweet with 88 characters, maybe they could have the benefit of the doubt.