“After all, Babylon 5 is the story of an Earth with an increasingly fascist president surrounded by crony capitalists and who is secretly conspiring with its enemies while he uses the organs of the state to further his own petty ambitions. The show, both at the time and in retrospect, was dismissed by critics who said its use of McCarthyism as a key theme was backward-looking.”
@mlawton @sebastianhahn @pfernandes Season one does a lot of world building, and the series really shines when you binge watch it because it rewards people who pay attention to what is said. And some of the speeches are just fantastic. We will probably rewatch it when we’re done with Battlestar.
It takes months of love and care to make an empty building come alive, but only three days to tear it all down.
This week, the gothic signage and queer absurdist art commissioned for Divine Playhouse had to be removed and placed into storage, as volunteers whitewashed a vibrant mural that had been painted on its walls.
After sitting empty for a year, Sydney’s St John the Evangelist church – which was deconsecrated in the 1930s – had been resurrected as an LGBTQ+ inclusive arts space, opening on 8 July with a year-long permit.
For just three days, Divine Playhouse existed as intended, hosting an opening night party, a queer comedy night and a disco.
But a day after religious groups gathered outside to protest its opening and called on the New South Wales government to withdraw its $100,000 arts grant, the venue’s landlord ordered the promoters, Heaps Gay Events, to cease “engaging in offensive trade” or risk eviction before terminating their lease a few days later.
Heaps Gay had until 5pm on Friday to vacate, which gave them three days to clear a space that had been months in the making. Their lawyers, meanwhile, are exploring whether they can sue for damages and make a sex discrimination claim.
“It’s not just about Divine any more, it’s about censorship,” the promoter and founder of Heaps Gay, Kat Dopper, told Guardian Australia.
“If we were to walk away, these groups will just get stronger and more powerful and louder.
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Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. Much of the att…
In 2024, her estate donated the house to the local nonprofit Literary Arts, which is in the process of converting it into the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. locusmag.com/2026/08/ursula-k-…
Ursula K. Le Guin’s longtime residence at 3321 NW Thurman St. in Portland, Oregon has been added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its “significance to Ameri…
If you run a WordPress-powered blog, either on wordpress.com or on an independent hosting service, you can turn it into a Fediverse account that people can follow from Mastodon etc. More info about how to do this (and lots of questions answered) at:
kinda funny to see white people realizing "oh my god, other white people are still insanely racist?" like yes, the non-white population of america could have told you this one but nobody listens lmao
Tl;dr Anyone have a decent queer-friendly florist in Portland, OR who delivers?
I was just about to call a flower shop in portland to send a get well bouquet to my eldest when fhe unmistakable stench of AI-generated slop began emanating from one of the photos.
I probably would not have notice so immediately if the photo wasn’t immediately next to a similar one of their storefront. Apparently someone wanted a photo for a “pet-friendly” arrangement, so they fed a photo of the front of their shop into the slop machine and added dogs and cats and a bird. Except, in doing so, the output not only changed what is in front of the store, but also showed loads and loads of non-pet-safe flowers.
Look, I get that you CAN do shit like this with gen AI, but SHOULD you? Well, not if you care about people bringing you their custom.
A German court has acquitted a woman convicted of comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza with those of Nazi Germany, ruling that her posts constituted protected political expression.
Online ads provider Adform was hacked. At this stage if you are not using Ad blocker on mobile or desktop then it is just matter of time before something bad happen to your device. this.weekinsecurity.com/online…
For:
* Browser - Ad blocker (Many paid and free options like ublock origin/ublock origin lite)
* DNS - Ad blocker (PI Hole)
* Browser - All script blocker (NOscipt or something like this)
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