There are some weird choices in here. Skimming the list I can see a few things I’ve read that surprise me. Fable by Adrienne Young is just a fairly generic YA fantasy thing for example, I can’t think of anything in that that would bother anyone. Victor & Nora: A Gotham Love Story is a melancholy backstory of a Batman villain, this is insane. I see a Catwoman book in there too, but it’s by Sarah J Maas and everything of hers appears to have been blanket-banned. I’m assuming that was included because Harley and Ivy are in it and they’re probably bi in that universe.

How were these books chosen? Was it just a ctrl+f for words they didn’t like? There are some things missing that I’d have expected to see based on what I read back in high school, but I was more of a public library kid than a school library one because that’s where you could find the good stuff.

I finally finished The Way of Kings which I’ve been reading since last July. I love a good slow burn and was enjoying reading a chapter a week or so, but I couldn’t put it down for the last dozen chapters, it got so damn good. I’m taking a couple of weeks off work soon, so I might wait until I get back before I start the next one.

For tonight I’m in a bad mood so I think I’ll stick with something quick and dumb like Kissing the Coronavirus to cheer myself up a bit. Or skim through an old comfort read like The Lies of Locke Lamora.

“I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,” he admitted.

Well, at least the advertisers know he meant it when he literally told them to go fuck themselves. That’ll help, I think.

I need to take notes. Hang on, let me get my crayons.

Do you listen to the Weekly Planet by any chance? I’ve never seen this before, then they mentioned it in the latest ep a few days ago and now it’s popped up.

Welcome to the club, Take Two has been on my shitlist since they tried to sue modders or whatever the hell that was back in like 2017. I barely even remember why I hate them any more, I only remember deciding to boycott.

Looks like Eurogamer’s a bit behind, it’s been a month since the negative Steam reviews started flowing in.

I work a minimum of 24h across a typical Saturday and Sunday to get that Tuesday off.

The first security job I ever worked was for a rich girl’s 21st birthday party at her house, my main duty was making sure nobody went to the stables and bothered the racehorses. I heard one of the kids say that her dad owned 2 Toyotas & her mum owned a Subaru, and I thought maybe they’re not so different from me after all because my parents have the same cars. Turns out she was talking about owning the car dealerships.

I haven’t listened to any legal podcasts since the uh… change of host on Opening Arguments a couple of years ago, and I’ve been avoiding US politics as much as possible for my own sanity because I’m on the opposite side of the world & I’ve been bombarded with it daily since about 2015, but this Strict Scrutiny sounds interesting.

It really is. I got into it during book 3 and listened to most of the original run, but this is the firs time I’ve gone back for a relisten. I put it on while my gf was in the car so it’s turned into our driving radio whenever we’re together.

Thinking about it, I’m reading the exact same stuff I was about 6 months ago, just later in each series. The Way of Kings, Dresden Files, Incryptid, In Death and Alex Verus. Maybe I just need a change of scenery.

For podcasts it’s The Weekly Planet - comic book-related media news, Knowledge Fight - basically Infowars fact checking, My Dad Wrote a Porno - a guy reads his dad’s erotica to a couple of friends and it’s impossibly funny, The C Team - a weekly D&D game from a few years back, The Duke and Duchess book club - the reason I started Stormlight Archive, and Dead Meat - horror movie reviews & discussion.

It’s all to fill downtime at work, I just got sick of powering through 2-3 audiobooks a fortnight and struggle to get immersed in video games when I’m not relaxing at home.

I’m also reading The Way of Kings, which I started back in like July. I’m in more of a podcast phase at the moment, I’ve finished one book so far this year as opposed to the 20 or so I’d read by this point last year 🤷‍♂️

Never heard of this, what is it?

He’s whitewashing Jones, they’ve worked together a lot. There’s a podcast called Knowledge Fight that goes into detail on the Alex Jones Show and examines exactly how and why he’s lying about things, they have a thousand multi-hour episodes and still can’t cover everything he does because he puts out so much crap. They went back through the months following Sandy Hook episode by episode to look at how Alex’s narrative changed over time.

Greenwald has popped up on the show a lot. I don’t remember the specific interview you’re talking about but I am sure I know exactly how it went. That whole documentary was bullshit, it just presents everything Alex says as fact and doesn’t examine any of it. Every appearance Jones has made anywhere recently has been him spouting the same points to defend himself and nobody ever pushes back because he’s not going to work with someone who actually wants the truth. It’ll be just like when he was let back on Twitter and was in a live conversation with Musk, who just allowed him to lie to his face when previously he had refused to let him back on the platform over this stuff, because controversy and attention is how these people make money.

Greenwald may be right here because he seems to give a shit about this topic, and he may even have been a decent journalist once, but I can’t trust anything he says or does ever again.

Exactly. If I ask someone for a source on something I feel is wrong it’s because I specifically want to know the information they’re working from. If I look it up straight away and send them a link that says they’re wrong straight out of the gate they aren’t even going to open it.

Throw in a little sweet chilli aioli or something to dip it in and I’d be happy with that, it looks like a pretty satisfying crust.

I’ve had several people comment on the way I tie my shoelaces. I can’t even remember how to do it the “normal” way, but I use that knot that takes about half a second where you make both loops at once and pull them through each other.

I think about that kid every time I’m sitting there eating a whole cake straight out of the box without even bothering to slice it up or anything.

Which is uh… not often >_>

I think that was Injustice