I'm watching Todd Phillips & Scott Silver's Joker (2019).

At 1 hour and 7 minutes we see Arthur Fleck, just after being punched hard in the nose by Bruce Wayne's terrible father and shortly before becoming the Joker, walk up to a bathroom sink, plant his hands on its edge, and lean so far over that he's looking straight downwards.

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I just heard on the news that Amazon fulfillment center workers in the US are on strike at 7 locations.

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Walabio steered me to his group The Skeptics’ Guide to Equestria, which led to a 2016 story by Super Trampoline titled Feeling That Way.

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One of my side projects for the past year has been studying the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting system's hate crime statistics.  I'm not nearly done, but I thought that, given how many people on fimfiction are quite worried about hate crime right now, I should give some basic numbers on the frequency of hate crimes by category, so that we have some idea where things stand today.  I don't expect the FBI hate

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EDIT: I've had an astonishing amount of hate directed at me for writing a post against hate. I think this was because I wrote that the left and the right are basically the same. I didn't mean that they're equally right or wrong on every issue. But I think that for every horrible thing that conservatives want, there is a horrible thing that the left wants. For every insane religious belief conservatives hold, there is an insane religious belief the left holds. For every lie told by

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I've been studying the FBI's data on racial hate crimes.  One thing I noticed quickly is that blacks are much more-likely (16.5x) to be victims of racial hate crimes than whites, and more-likely (2.5x) to commit racial hate crimes than whites.

This surprised me.  So I thought about it, and realized it's what we should expect.

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Bandy has done it something again. I would have said "it", but every time he does it, it's a different "it". Save the Records, Rainbow Dash Reads the Manual, and now Haute Couture, are all brilliant experimental fictions, each in a different way.

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These days, I "read" books mostly on audio. I wear one earbud all day, and press "play" whenever I'm walking from one place to another, or doing laundry, or dusting, or anything else that doesn't need much of my cortex. I get thru maybe 10 times as many books as when I read them.

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Scribbler, Webshoter, Neighrator Pony, Greg F, MuseScript, Wixi2000, and Maya Wolf read my "Happy Ending":

It has a happy ending!

I like the art by benybing that they used! But it is misleading. That doesn't happen.

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Hat-tip to TheMaskedFerret for pointing this one out:

The Storm That Is Approaching

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