this is reminiscent of the moral panic against trans youth, which started out on blogs for parents who didn't want to believe their own kids were trans. some of those parents went on to write books, create organizations, & position themselves "experts" on the issue

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Somewhat under the radar, the UAE is one of the world's worst human rights violators, and is plundering Sudan for gold whilst funding and arming the RSF, who use mass rape and starvation as a weapon of war. "Dubai Chocolate" is a propaganda campaign by the Emirati government,

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The flies arrived in Cambridge this morning—healthy and happy! So nice to see another successful shipment! And great to draw one of our all-time-best customers out of retirement long enough to recreate our first order! Here’s to another 40 years of the BDSC helping to make fly genetics happen!

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One of the more memorable moments of my writing career is doing a big time skip between books 1 and 2 (a period of about two years), which made the romance in book 1 no longer definably Young. some readers were very turned off by this!

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Grownup stuff is scary and has consequences, kids stuff exists in a cozy wonderland with guardrails and protections built in. You can see how it metastasizes into something unseemly very quickly.

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